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Three Little Elks (3LE)
SWE> Android (music sysop 'THE NOSTROMO', ex Subspace, new 06/96), Ant
(Anton Halldin, gfx swap, 05/95-09/96), Coma (Daniel Johansson,
music swap, 05/95-98), Explorer (code, 05/95-09/96), Nude (founder
gfx, 05/95-07/97), Plus8 (gfx raytrace, ex New Age, new 11/96-04/97),
Spot (gfx, ex New Age, new 11/96-04/97), Tabasco (Niklas Soerensson,
code, 05/95-12/96).
???> Orchis (org trade, new mid97).
3LE is a swedish demo group, founded by two people (one of which was Nude)
in the early nineties. For a while they were just doing AMOS demos and
having fun, and it wasn't until most of the current members met at a local
party in Uddevalla in 1994 that things started to get "serious". Their first
real demo was "Yawpcola" (95). They have since created a name for themselves
creating humorous demos, while retaining technical excellence.
Graphician Laz (ex Sunshine Productions, new 06/96) got married, had
children and left the scene. Though it is mentioned nowhere, the demo "The
Second Chance" is dedicated to him, as Nude confessed in ROM9.
Ant is a doublemember of Spiderboyz on the C64. When Orchis joined, he
became world organizer.
Much to my joy, Coma has released the 20 first tunes in his chiptunes
series "Skogens Djur" in a pack to aminet, and I'm commanding you all to
download it! Megahappy chippies with great melodies - just like in the old
days. Ahhhh....
Musician Laz left the scene mid 97.
Yawpcola (1995, .05, Demo).
Released at Compusphere 5. info: Their first REAL demo.
Passengers (1995, 28.12, Demo).
4th in The Party 95 demo competition.
Frums (Mit Kindern) (1996, 11.05, Demo).
Winner of the Compusphere 6 demo competition!
info: Written in AMOS, but not by any of the leading members...
The Tribe (1996, 25.05, AGA HD Multifile).
code: Tabasco, Explorer, gfx: Ant, Nude, Tudor/TBL (object), music: Coma.
Winner of the Icing 96 demo competition!
review: When you run "The Tribe" from the supplied icon you're presented
with a nice little intuition GUI, allowing you to select various options.
This is a very nice idea, and one that I'm quite surprised not more groups
have adopted! Anyway, you're given options to show some information, show
a small elk animation (as usual :) and select low/high resolution for the
demo. You make your selections and press 'start demo'.
The first thing that comes across your screen, after a couple of
introductory logos, is a sort of 3D scene with elks dancing around a
totem pole! This looks way cool, and we're soon on to a phong object with
'shining' parts, like in CNCD's "Closer" (12/95). Then we're shown a
(nearly) fullscreen picture by Ant, showing the view out from the inside
of a cave. This then coincides nicely with the next effect, some bump
mapping that's made out to look like it's showing a torchlight shining on
the cave walls, revealing the ancient drawings... Very nice! The last real
effect is a fullscreen face object in tones of blue which doesn't move,
but has the colors sort of floating across it. It's a lot like a similar
effect in Artwork's "The Gate" (04/96), though that looked quite
superior. The demo then ends with a reprise of the dancing elks part,
with the credits overlaid over the onscreen action.
Coma's music (Scoth.elk file :) is functional throughout, and perfectly
suited to the humorous style of 3LE. The oustanding thing about 3LE, I
always thought, was the way they were able to combine excellent technical
demos with a humorous image - not an easy task, as many attempts by other
groups have shown us. 3LE is unique...perhaps we should be glad there's
only one of them? There's not any kind of big difference between choosing
high and low resolution, apart from a dramatic decrease in speed...
[glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
The Tale of Sir Henry - Passengers II (1997, 15.02, AGA File).
production: Spot, Plus8, Coma (music).
3rd in the Icing Beta 97 demo competition.
review: This is subtitled 'the strip you never forget', and I'm almost
about to agree. This, you see, is a demo I'd like to nominate for 'most
unusual demo of 1997'. It's actually more of a cartoon strip than a demo,
which details the adventures of Henry, who leads a very boring life and
goes off to find excitement. I won't reveal the entire storyline, as that
would be ruining the demo. Go check it out yourself instead :)
There's nothing wrong on the audiovisual side, with some good music to
accompany the onscreen 'action', and reasonable and clean graphics.
Now stop reading and go download this. I guarantee you won't believe you
eyes :) [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
The Second Chance (1997, 17.06, Demo).
2nd at the Icing 97 demo competition!
