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• first name: Pauli
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• 64k Windows sonnet by Threestate
• beautiful and well thought-out, long but not boring at all. I adore it.
  
  though admittedly this is a production that's best experienced on monitor; on the big screen it didn't work quite so well - the colors looked brash and the morphing borders seemed silly (amazing how much better that looks on monitor!)
  still it was very disappointing to see some people jeer at this while it was shown. the audience at asm01 was a bunch of total idiots.
  
  anyway... if I had to think of something that bothers me here, it's the texts. are they necessary? most of the time "poetry" in demos feels like the authors don't quite rely on their visuals and try to masquerade them with text overlays. which is completely unnecessary here...
• rulezadded on the 2001-08-05 17:29:10
• demo Windows Glon 243 by Cocoon [web]
• some profound morals here!
  aww, it's so adorable, I fell in love with the little owl (can't believe the sound his falling parts make each time he gets his "punishment", I really feel bad for him!)
  
  with a neat concept and kickass animation, this is the best demo I've seen this year...
• rulezadded on the 2001-07-25 01:56:07
• demo Linux MS-Dos Hard Rox by Bomb
• As far as I remember, Skal released this on his own, and won the wired'96 demo compo...
  Some time later he was picked up by Bomb :)
  
  A hardcore coder-only demo for sure, as evidenced by the fact that it had a linux executable which was really weird at the time!
• isokadded on the 2001-07-25 00:10:48
• demo MS-Dos the washing machine by Coma
• There was also a remix which was quite different, and also very good!
  great soundtrack by Groo... don't remember if it was in the original or the remix actually, or maybe both had a Groo track - anyways...
  
  should watch these again but I suspect they wouldn't run on my current pc anyway. sigh... I've kept practically every demo I've watched since 94, but in recent years my democollection has turned into a graveyard of non-working demos, it's sort of sad :(
  hmm, maybe I should try the VirtualPC emulator on the Mac - its speed might be just right for 94-97 era demos!
• rulezadded on the 2001-07-25 00:04:25
• demo Windows Contour by The Black Lotus [web]
• the pr was fun, especially considering that no effects were done by the time those 5000 flyers had to go to print...
  so I threw some textures together to act as screenshots and hoped the demo would look something like that :)
  
  (the flyers went to print tuesday or wednesday, and the compo was on sunday... too bad the schedule was so tight, some pretty nice code got left out :(
• isokadded on the 2001-07-24 23:50:58
• demo MS-Dos sexadelic by Byterapers [web]
• well deserved thumb up!
• rulezadded on the 2001-07-23 13:31:48
• 64k Windows antimoney by Threestate
• thumbs up!
• rulezadded on the 2001-07-23 01:28:56
• demo Windows departure by Alpha Millenium Crew
• Quite enjoyable... it all feels so 1994 in some peculiar way, especially the music (I liked it)...
  But it's a pleasant watch even if teary-eyed nostalgia is not your thing :)
• isokadded on the 2001-07-23 01:00:30
• demo Windows Couloir 14 by Xbarr & Red Ribbon & Fra
• sure it's not perfect but it's coherent, original and fun - that's rare, therefore thumbs up!
• rulezadded on the 2001-07-22 16:08:42
• demo Windows I can fly by MGDesign
• Reminds me a lot of Orion's demos from few years ago (overlong 3d flythroughs, with singing..!)
  But even though the design falls short, the 3d here is in fact very good looking for the most part.
  
  But what's the thing with the extremely wideangle lenses? It really makes my stomach turn... You can be pretty sure I won't watch a demo again if it gives me motion sickness =)
• isokadded on the 2001-07-22 16:01:54