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à Crash in Hell Demo
ä(For ST, STE and even Falcon!) à
ÇThis particular demo is something unique... A demo that not only
works on three significantly different machines, but one which has
a different type of soundtrack for each.. It even autoboots
without any 'artificial' assistance on the Falcon, a rarity
indeed.. A previously unknown French crew, üAbstractÇ, are
responsible for this demo..
From that point of view, äCrash in HellÇ is a major technical
achievement, but what of the demo itself??
The demo is basically a smoothly put-together collection of nice
but not-too exceptional effects.. As the demo is coded primarily
as an ST/STE demo, on the Falcon,only slight enhancements are
apparent in the main code... The Falcon gains a DSP-replay module
soundtrack and some faster and more expanded effects in the early
3-D sections of the demo.. It also loses a couple of screens, one
of which is STE-only..
The demo starts with a smart logo, and some fast-zooming letters
to announce it..The early part of the demo consists of several 3-D
line vector objects which change and transform smoothly on the
Falcon.. One very fast object being a cube within a cube, which
suddenly expands out into the whole screen.. Patterns of Synergy-
style dot-vector objects follow, and like the Synergy demo, these
have chasing phosphorescent effect 'shadows' and look very nice..
Compared with the ST version, the Falcon objects seem to have more
dots and move very smoothly... A rotating dot-vector 'Falcon 030'
logo rotates, zooms right up to the screen, then appears to pass
through and contracts back into the distance..
A series of shade-bob effects follow, owing more to the ST than
the Falcon, with no discernable enhancements.. These go on for
some while.. Some nicely shaded small sprites appear and sprawl
about the screen in a sineous fashion.. Then some gold-coloured
bobs follow for a good old-fashioned 3-D vector-bob object type
demo.. This part appears to be very quick and smooth on the '030
again, and cleverly uses the screen borders as an inflexible
boundary so objects seem to 'wrap' onto it..
Missing on the Falcon is a distorting fullscreen using a scaled-up
picture, presumably, the compatibility of the ST and Falcon
drifted apart at this point... (As a general point of interest,
the Falcon makes a poor job of any ST-coded plasma effects, it
looks like large scale ST-coded distortion is related to that??)
The other 'missing' screen is an STE-only one, and looks like
another large-scale distorter, but this time using the STE
hardware..
The last main part of the demo is a large picture of a weeping
alien cosmonaut, and a large 'traditional' horizontal scrolltext..
An end-credits screen then follows, detailing who did what on each
screen, and showing a small pictorial representation of each
screen... This idea has been seen before, but on a couple of PC
demos... Also at this point, the tune changes, and ST owners with
1 meg or above get their vesion of the module as well, losing the
soundchip tune..
The final endpart is a greetings screen with just a scroller and
very poor picture of a sunset(?) at the end.. And that is that, as
they say..
So what else??
üRatings:-
Graphix:-Ç ü78% - ÇMostly well done, the Falcon versions resembling
a super smooth STE with a few extras.. The 3-D was pretty good,
generally up to standard for a contemporary ST demo..
üSonix:-Ç ü85% (on Falcon) - ÇThe area of most choice.. From a pseudo-
16-bit DSP replay on the Falcon, through to SID-Chip effect
soundchip music on a standard STFM.. The tunes are pretty good as
well, and almost all original works as well..
üGee-Whiz:- 75% - ÇThe huge surprise is the fact that the coders
have taken the trouble to get the demo to work properly on as many
systems as possible, with a substantial nod in the direction of
the Falcon Owners out there... Otherwise the demo is competently
put together, but with nothing hugely brainblasting.. (One or two
bits ämildlyÇ brainblasting though.. I personally liked the 3-D
stuff in the first two parts of the demo..
üOverall:- 80% - ÇNot too bad to start with..ü ÇAs someone in Abstract
has obviously got a Falcon.. Let's see what you can do with it
guys!!ü Ç
(C) CIH March '93..
