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Display : PAL& According to the text on these&disks this will be the last Kefren's&demo to appear on non-AGA machines. If&that's so then at least they've left
the baby Amigas on a high note.& Desert Dream is a two disk affair.&The opening part is a nicely produced&vector movie with pyramids and a melon&taking centre stage. That gives you&enough of a hint as to the possible&plot. It's this part of the demo that&will still be remembered after all the&flashy effects that follow are long&forgotten. A well told story, no&matter how simple, (and this one's&VERY simple), will always leave it's&mark. No state of the art coding here,&just perfect timing of graphics, music&and sound effects. An impressive
opening.& What follows has no story at all&but is just the usual series of demo&effects nicely hooked in with the&music. Stand-out pieces include a&spinning box with a Desert Dream&graphic on, a real-time expanding,&contracting and rotating picture, an&animated 3D sine wave (I think) and a
clever use for a circular saw.& While all these effects are nice&enough in themselves they are&something of an anti-climax after the&opening scene. This is the same&problem Hardwired has. Great intro and&then a series of unconnected set&pieces. Moving up to AGA won't solve&this problem. It's all in the design&and, dear I say it, art, or the lack&of it. Demos and abstract art should&have a lot in common but coders seldom&seem to be able to pull it off. I'm¬ a great believer in the left-&brain, right-brain theory but perhaps&there's something in it after all.&Maybe the coders should produce the&code and give the artists in their&groups control over it's output? Demos&certainly need something to pull them&out of the numbers hole they've dug
for themselves.& But for now Desert Dream's up there&with the best of them. The music also&deserves a mention with it linking in&with the graphics throughout the demo.&There's also an easily found hidden&part for all you curious types. Not a&classic demo but very polished all the&same and worthy of a place in any
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