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NAID DEMO REVIEW
NAID took place in a suburb of Mont-
real, Canada over Easter weekend.
There were ten entries in the demo
competition. All delivered the message
that America does have people who can
code well rounded and original demos.
The demos reviewed here have been re-
leased and can be found at ftp.cdrom.
com /demos/party/naid/1995 if the
demos have been relocated by the time
this diskmag comes out.
FIRST PLACE: Opticron : Tome of the
Impossible by Craw Productions
As an attendee of NAID I was able to
see all the demos presented. After se-
eing all the entries I walked away
feeling this one was the best. And
what do you know, so did the judges.
Soft music, decent graphics and most
of all ORIGINALITY helped this demo
stand out.
Craw presents us with the credits in
sync with music and the building of a
picture--B/W which placed in the gra-
phics compo. Out pops a book shelf
which we scan horizontally until we
come to OPTICRON. The pages of this
book turn and tell us a story. Vectors
and other interesting effects appear
within the pages of this book. The
story finishes, the pages reverse and
the book closes. It and other books
from the bookshelf fly into a sun
which glows brightly.
Don't look to this demo for new and
amazing effects because you won't find
any. What you will find is a soothing
demo which literally tells a story.
THIRD PLACE: FLIGHT
BY: Kosmic
Run this demo on a 386DX40 like I have
and you'll probably fall asleep--okay,
it's not as bad as SUPERUNKNOWN but it
is very slow. A GUS with IRQ < 7 (Doom
GUS problem sound familiar) and EIGHT
megs of RAM will help this demo run
properly.
"Vote for our demo or we will crush
your head!" Is a phrase used in this
demo with a person's head (Wayne?
from Wayne's World) bouncing around on
the screen. There is also a "techno"
section, landscapes, ICE vectors, a
glenz face and best of all MORPHING.
The long and quick MORHPING section
likly helped this demo place third.
The code was too slow and most routi-
nes throughout the demo have been seen
before. Great (of course) music and
quick morphing are what keep this demo
interesting.
THERE WERE a few other demos that did
not place in the top THREE that were
very good. So, let me voice my opi-
nion on these next two productions.
UNKNOWN PLACE: Technon
BY: Core
This demo wins my vote for the closest
thing to Project Angel by an American
group. Yes, this demo is 80% vector
objects: spaceships flying around va-
rious scenarios, a vector spider and
the for the finale the CORE vector
world. Even ran excellent on my 386DX
40.
An amazing production by two people
from the United States. Give these
guys a decent musician and a graphics
artist and they will be the next
"Renaissance" of the US.
UNKNOWN PLACE: EDEN
BY: Psychic Monks
Ever read the book 1984? Well, this
demo has "George Orwell" and big bro-
ther all over it. Maybe some would
even go so far as to compare it to
Pink Floyds "The Wall."
This demo is all B/W graphics with
"words" which keep being cycled on the
screen. Stuff like "Power, greed,
death" and messages like "Master life
in the video temple" make this quite a
strange demo. The music by Necros al-
so adds to the industrial feel.
If you have ever seen movies like Era-
sure Head or Metropolis and enjoyed
them then this demo is a MUST have. It
is kick ass in my book. Numero Uno in
delivering a powerful message.
Conclusions:
Though not yet released I recall Da
Cheeze Brigade's demo having the most
"Europeanish" feel to it. Perhaps that
is why it was voted #1 by the public.
I as well as the others in attendence
were surprised at the overall quality
of demos released at NAID -- all were
good and some were excellent. Perhaps
the future holds more ORIGINAL demos
rather than demos with effects. I sure
hope so, especially here in the US
where one eye watches the TV while the
other watches the computer monitor.
-Pallbearer/Hornet/Toxic Zombies