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Peisik - Textulation ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [ 8 o] 76.67
tAAt - Molypoly - Noisy Dust ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [ 8o ] 75.00
BITS - BITS5038∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [ ooo ] 50.00
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/_____/ BITS - BITS5038 /___________________________________________________/
∙ Ah, another year - another BITS production. It's not entirely clear but you
advance between scenes by pressing a key. This is the best bits production to
day, with some fun scenes and strollers. The zoomer (not really a rotozoomer)
made me smile. Regrettably, the music wasn't up to par to the rest of the
production. Dosbox (or alternative) required.
∙ Some nice ANSI art from BITS, and some nice lettering and fonts. Scrolling
speed can actually go in reverse which gave me a chuckle. Probably the best
production graphically from BITS... could BITS actually be improving?
However, can't give more than 50% if you're not going to put any time or
effort into the music. Even a classical tune from Bach is better than random
stuff sent to the adlib registers.
∙ Is it getting better each year or is BITS an acquired taste? Actually more
content than it seems, so it's better to loop through scenes many times.
The scene with the BITS logo falling down leaving a vertical trail, with the
noise in background is actually quite nice. And generally speaking, we could
say it's one of the few "real ascii" demo in recent times, as in "not passing
through a bitmap converter".
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/_____/ tAAt - Molypoly - Noisy Dust /______________________________________/
∙ Minimal design with great synchronization. The waveform effect was
particularly nice. A bit repetitive, but overall a nice production with
design. Peace out!
∙ Custom buffer-to-textmode/ascii routines get a big thumb up, handwipe
transition gets a thumb up, and some of the colors were minimal but nice.
Thumbs down for recycling effects (and old ones at that) repeatedly in the
demo to fill time. Music was meh.
∙ TextFX shines again! Very good use of the sub-sampling. The whole thing is
very very legible. I especially liked the distorsion/interference thing.
Color-wise, grey on black is a little boring, It could have been a little
more extravagant.
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/_____/ Peisik - Textulation /______________________________________________/
∙ I really enjoyed the old school vibe of this, but it ended far too quickly.
Some great old-school effects are represented!
∙ Nice emulation of old-school effects, nice color pallette. But, way too short
(unfinished?) and thumbs down for using a generic buffer-to-textmode
conversion process.
∙ Cool music, nice retro vibe. Few scenes but a good level of polish.
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