REVIEW: Demos are forever

by: Pauli Porkka

CD Titles: Demos are forever
For Amiga people seeking out demos this is THE compilation. This CD contains over 2000 demos ready to be clicked..Well almost. Due the nature of demos they were/are usually displayed and designed to work with yer basic A1200 and thus people with for example A4000/40, Graphics Card or non-PAL display may end up with using programs to defer their nice setup back to stone ages. Most of the demos seem to require some sort of meddling to get them working properly. This is not fault of the compilers of this CD it is just a fact of life, infortunately.

As a whole this CD covers pretty much everything released in recent few years in demo scene. Party favourites, sub 50k intros, mags, music demos and all that sort of stuff related to 'da-scene'. Demos are what they are, if you like to watch demos hours on end, then this is the one for you. I'd just wish we could put those nice Amigas equipped with 040/060, CyberGraphics and decent Audio to some REAL use and get them used in Parties so that Demo scene would finally USE them.

I have some really minor thing to complain about though. The choice of wrapping for this CD is THE most peculiar I have ever seen. It is not inside the normal plastic CD box, it was 'glued' on A4 size cardboard and it was pain in the but to get it off from it and plainly impossible without destroying the A4 (which contained the texts of the contents). Okay, maybe this saves some bucks but still. Now really, you can do better than that :).

Published By: Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe


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