Contraz/Reviews
Prikkmannen (1995, 14.04, 4k Intro)
Review by Glenn Lunder
To the sound of a 'techno soundtrack' (and I'm being VERY kind here now!) a white, smiling dot-man is spinning and zooming in and out on a blue background. And that's it. Not exactly impressive, but I've certainly seen worse too.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Contras (1995, 14.04, ECS 64k Intro)
Review by Glenn Lunder
This has a definite amateur feeling to it, most of the effects are copper- or linevector-based, and neither the graphics nor music is up to scratch. An early, immature release from a group that should have waited a little more before releasing anything.
Inspection of the binary file reveals this was made using AMOS.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Skjeggspir (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro)
Review by Glenn Lunder
A little limited this one, just an OK tune and a logo that spins onto the screen. Average.
Domination (1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB File)
Review by Glenn Lunder
This seems to rely more on its scanned Arnold Schwarzenegger imagery than on its effects. There are a few reasonably advanced effects, but at this speed I'd rather be without them. The best thing about this demo is Nirvana's great picture "WOW", which came second in the graphics competition at The Gathering 95. It would have deserved to win IMHO...
Coolest thing in the demo: Arnold pointing a BIG gun at the screen, with the text: Anyone mention PC? Funny, then, that they list two PC coders on their memberlist... The compoversion had a few bugs, so a bugfixed and improved version was later released.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Had to manually decrunch it with xfd before running in order to have enough mem!
Born Fat (1997, AGA 4k Intro)
Review by Glenn Lunder
They've managed to squeeze in quite a bit into this 4k'er; not only is there sound (calling it music is stretching it a little :) but there's also a LOT of effects here, from bumpmapping variations to a tunnel you travel through. Not bad at all!
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
1 Week (2001, .04, AGA 16MB 64k Intro)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Well, this isn't really a review, since I can't see this intro on my machine, because it lacks an fpu =[ What was I thinking when I thought I'd never need one? Anyway, apart from the FPU, this intro requires an AGA Amiga (020+ obviously), and 16MB fast. It's not really comfortable on anything below an 060-50, according to the the accompanying readme file. Be sure to use setpatch before running.
