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Fish 'N' Chips Demo
~~~~ THE FISH 'N' CHIPS DEMO ~~~~
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~~~~ REVIEWED ~~~~
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This is a very good mega-demo by Sewer Software. I will now take you
through each screen in the demo and give a rough description of what happens
in them all.
Here it goes!!!
~~ TITLES SCREEN ~~
Some excellent and orginal music here with a scroller going along and a
'SEWER' logo that is moving around and spinning at the same time. Nothing
amazing but I like it and it gives a good first impression.
Good title screen.
~~ LOADING SCREEN ~~
I like the loading screen because unlike with other loading screens in some
demos, you can enter the screen when you want instead of it automatically
going through. Here you have to press the space bar to go through to the
screen so this way you can read the scroller again incase you missed it.
There is a very good and long chip tune playing, it's not orginal but it
really is good and while all this is happening, there is a picture that
changes where a man is being squashed by different objects.
A good loading screen, one of the best.
~~ SELECTION SCREEN ~~
No scroller on this beleive it or not. Just a picture of a man fishing and
you scroll through the demo you want to enter by using the cursor keys.
Everytime you select a demo, something horrible happens to the fisherman
such as being struck by lightening or getting his head smashed in by a
falling rock.
A very good and orginal selection screen with some good quality, orginal
music playing as well.
~~ 3D VECTOR DEMO ~~
This screen is very good because you can wear 3D glasses and get a better
effect. This is allowed because the 3D wire frame objects that do all
different tricks are flashing between the colours Red and Blue 50 times a
second producing a very good effect when wearing 3D glasses.
There are lots of different shapes and movements and some good music too.
A good screen.
~~ TECH TRON 2 ~~
This is an impressive though pretty ugly screen. There is some good music
playing with a screen packed full of so much stuff you wouldn't beleive it,
this a very good screen and very well coded.
~~ THE BIG FISH DEMO ~~
Some nice, orginal music playing while 2 big, bouncing fish continue to
bounce infront of a moving starfield. They both are looking at a worm that
continues to look everywhere nervously. There is also an unreadable
scroller scrolling across the bottom of the screen but apart from that this
is a very good and orginal demo screen.
~~ PARALLAX ~~
This is nothing new but it is very impressive because of the continually
changing Parallax graphics.
The result is very good and the music is orginal I think.
~~ MEGA SCROLLER ~~
This is the type of screen that gets more and more boring, the more times
you see it in another mega demo. Just about every mega-demo has one of
these and this is nothing special. The font is mega, but it is horrible and
liny with an average background.
I hate these big scroller screens!
~~ THE ACIIID DEMO ~~
This is a very good and long acid sample. There is some speech and a
scroller to. There are also a load of flashing lights and a background with
lots of little spinning faces.
A good screen this one, shame it had to be Acid!!!
~~ THE DINOSAURS DO THE EAGLE ROCK ~~
This is a nice and orginal screen. You choose one of six tunes and then
watch the dinosaurs sing it. It is very well put together and even if you
don't like it, there is a nice boring scroller going across the bottom.
~~ SPRITE MANIA ~~
This consists of a 65 fully masking 32 x 32 pixel sprite formation with a
big scroller going through it along with another scroller going up. The
only good thing about this screen is that it teaches you to make a desicion,
which scroller do you pick?!
This screen is pure rubbish I think and even the music is unorginal.
~~ CRYSTAL SCROLL ~~
Good sampled sound and a nice big, bouncing scroller make this a pretty good
screen. There is also a background with lots of Fuji signs being distorted
and basically this is quite a good screen if you like these kinds of
things.
~~ MUSIC DEMO ~~
A good demo this because there are 10 of Mad Max's best chip tunes here from
the C-64. Just scroll through the list, pick your music and then settle
back to read the scroller.
~~ PIXEL PERFECTION ~~
This is an average screen with real time calculations. There are some 3D
wireframe objects spinning about with a small scroller and some very old
music playing. This is nothing orginal and not special at all really.
Sorry to be so blunt. It is very slow but it was only intended to be a disk
filler or so they tell me.
~~ EXIT SCREEN ~~
This is just a list that you scroll through using the cursor keys to see all
the credits.
There is some good quality, orgianl music playing along with a 'SEWER' logo
dancing about.
It's nothing special but it's only supposed to be a credits list!!!
~~ RESET SCREEN ~~
This is a strange screen. It is completley silent and you see a formatter
called the 'SILENT FORMATTER' come up and format an imaginary disk. There
is no interaction and I don't understand it at all.
You can obtain this demo from me by sending a blank disk and return postage.
Then maybe you could work out what it is all about?!
Strange!!!
POWER RATING:90%