Appendix/Reviews

Review by Glenn Lunder
This is fun and original! This one opens a small intuition window in which it prints some text and a spinning vector cube. Is this a first? I see no reason why it shouldn't work on ECS machines. tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

Review by Glenn Lunder
When it starts you think 'that's a fast, but oh so small envmapped phong torus'. Then it grows... The routine is fast (at least in the first, uncomplicated parts), I'll give it that, but it's hardly the fastest or even the best ever. This and the fact that it (and variations on it) are the only routine in the intro makes it a bit limited for my taste. The music's OK, a lot better than most in this kind of thing. The graphics are functional, but not GOOD. tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.

Review by Glenn Lunder
This is Informer's first ever release not to be compatible with an unexpanded A1200 - in that it requires an FPU. This means, unfortunately, that it can't be run on my hardware =( tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.

Review by Glenn Lunder
Not a bad intro at all, I was actually very very surprised that I was able to run it! You see, the text files that come with it claim it requires an FPU, though the intro ran fine without it on my machine! Effectwise, there's nothing new here. The phong feels relatively smooth and fast, but then the objects here are far from advanced. Above average. This intro was distributed to Aminet with two versions of the executable; one which was the 64k compo version, and one which is slightly bigger, because of better textures. Music is fine. Fastram required is less than 4MB, but the exact amount is uncertain. tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.

Review by Glenn Lunder
Nice visuals help "Useless" a lot, even though there's only two effects in this 4k'er. The first effect is a nicelooking tunnel. It's hard to describe, but we travel into the tunnel, then out again. The second effect is a variation on the flame theme, with fires shooting out from a circular sun. Not bad! Then the show finishes with a reprise of the tunnel effect, only with a new palette, and the show's over. A good 4k'er. tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.

Review by Glenn Lunder
This is an announce-tro for Flapjack's comeback after two years, and his wanting to restart his long-running chippack series "Psychol". 13 issues were previously released under the labels Convex, Erotic Design and finally Appendix. This is good news for the scene, naturally, and we're certainly looking forward to seeing #14! =) The intro itself is very nicely designed, with cute kittens and an ok appendix logo at the start... It leaves you expecting greatness from the pack, that's for sure. Nice, short, and fun. And with a non-annoying chiptune, for once ;) tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.