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• musicdisk Windows Awakening: Part2 by ALLien Senses [web]
• Wow. These are amazing.
  
  I'd say the Battle of Ostilliam and Magic Collegium are the best on here... they're going into my playlist rotation.
  
  About the only cricism I can offer is that the horns in particular sound very fake, especially on Fields of Erinor. That, and "Magic Collegium" conjured (ha) up a very different picture- crumbling Celtic ruins with jesters, peasants and animals running about while scholars/wizards wander the grounds.
  
  Oh, the bonus song is also awesome, though the fiddle doesn't match up so well with the voices. You're clearly good at smooth Celtic-sounding music.
• rulezadded on the 2006-11-16 04:09:48
• musicdisk Windows Awakening by ALLien Senses [web]
• Wow. These are amazing.
  
  I'd say the Battle of Ostilliam and Magic Collegium are the best on here... they're going into my playlist rotation.
  
  About the only cricism I can offer is that the horns in particular sound very fake, especially on Fields of Erinor. That, and "Magic Collegium" conjured (ha) up a very different picture- crumbling Celtic ruins with jesters, peasants and animals running about while scholars/wizards wander the grounds.
  
  Oh, the bonus song is also awesome, though the fiddle doesn't match up so well with the voices. You're clearly good at smooth Celtic-sounding music.
• rulezadded on the 2006-11-16 04:08:39
• demo Windows High Voltage (win32) by Inquisition [web]
• They just don't make 'em like they used to.
  
  It looks very 1998-ish... but a pretty cool example of that.
• rulezadded on the 2006-11-11 18:49:08
• demo Windows MoViT by MoV
• Since the guy didn't get his own music and models, I guess this is just a code demo-
  
  in which case, the code and animation were very nice. In true demostyle, the whole thing's far, far too long for what it has, though.
  
  Also, I only got this to run properly when selecting 'other'. With nVidia selected, the image would hold for one second every second, forming an unintentional overlay effect. I'm guessing it's not supposed to be there.
  
  If it is, I retract my statement about pretty.
• isokadded on the 2006-11-11 18:47:52
• dentro Windows Halloween 06 by Fearmoths [web]
• Suitably creepy, nice music, but cut out just when I felt something scary was about to happen. The pictures in there were appropriately twisted, but having seen it once I now realize it never paid off...
• rulezadded on the 2006-11-08 23:56:51
• 64k Windows Nested by Resident [web]
• The bad:
  - music was midi (or midi-like)
  - low/few polys
  - flat colors
  - clipping errors
  - opening scene was 2000-era ugly
  
  The good:
  + the musician used midi well (well enough for me to forget it was midi, anyway)
  + the effects were actually interesting
  + the whole thing felt like effort had been put into it, as opposed to something just thrown at the screen
  + the demo continually exceeded my expectations based on what I'd seen so far- it got MUCH better as it went along
• isokadded on the 2006-10-31 06:12:30
• 256b MS-Dos Demoplex by Digimind
• <stunned silence>
• rulezadded on the 2006-10-28 01:32:00
• demo Amiga AGA Requiem by The Black Lotus [web]
• Thumb up for
  * The awesome music
  * The excellent graphics (especially the stained glass windows and the wall in the opening part)
  * The foggy hillside
  * The burning mansion (at least, that was my interpretation)
  * The super-detailed tree
  
  Thumbs down for
  * The grayscale star in the bowl
  * Something about the ghostly girl drifting around looked awful inanimate
  * The scene right before the ghostly girl where (at least in the vidcap) the framerate was almost too low for that kind of movement
  
  I'm seriously not seeing where everyone says this is mediocre. I like this better than Ocean Machine. That said, I still think Lux Aeterna Luceat Eis should have won the compo.
• rulezadded on the 2006-10-23 09:00:43
• demo Amiga AGA lux aeterna luceat eis by Ephidrena
• Very creepy music- sent shivers down my spine, reminded me of the music that accompanied the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Ligetii?)... As for the visuals, they're fairly primitive: Blocky, sepia-tone, few colors, low-poly figures, very slow movement... but they match the music very well.
  The visuals were also fairly stark and surrealist, especially the haphazardly stacked impossible building- the pole holding it up especially reminded me of Salvador Dali.
• rulezadded on the 2006-10-23 07:40:45
• 64k Windows Form Factor by f0x & Lost Soul
• Whoa. It's like Die Anderung in 52k.
  
  A bit too much blur, a bit too low resolution... but I feel like I might have nighmares about that (I assume it's supposed to be Prometheus) guy on the rockface. For some reason I really didn't want the camera to go anywhere near him.
• rulezadded on the 2006-10-02 08:03:22