Absolute!/Reviews

Clairvoyance (1993, ECS File)

Review by Glenn Lunder

Oh yeah! This must certainly be one of the best-designed demos ever! It almost seems like they've considered the position of every single pixel in the whole demo! The Hungarian graphics genious Rack delivers some of his best graphics EVER, and even manages to beat his own amazing 'Ray of Hope 2' font with an AMAZINGLY colorful one! I'm putting it up for 'font of the year' :) And I haven't even BEGUN mentioning the music yet! Guess what? It's an amazingly cool tune! It kicks in with a groove and a danceability seldom heard. AMAZING!
The animation of the race car crashing is from the movie 'Freejack'.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

Vektor Dreamz (1993, late, ECS Intro)

Review by Glenn Lunder

This small crackintro (or so they claim...) is more a piece of weird design than a genuine Absolute production, but nevertheless... :) It seems like a small friendship production, done just to release something for the scene. There is no real stunning artwork here, and the whole thing seems pretty quickly thrown together. They mention they are all busy writing games, and have just squeezed this little prod in between their other projects. They mention that "Cream" will be released at The Party 93...guess it got delayed a little, eh? ;)
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.

Cream (1994, 09.04, AGA File)

Review by Glenn Lunder

The graphics are definitely the strongest point of this demo, with Rack turning in some amazing pictures. With better code and, most of all, better music, this could have been something really special. The way it is now, that's not the case. Still, get it for the graphics!
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

Assembly 94 Slideshow (1994, late.08, AGA Slideshow, 2 disks)

Lord stretches the concept of slideshows to the limit here, with this offering - this is basically just two disks with a copy of a shareware picture shower, and the jpg pictures themselves in a separate directory. The pictures are slightly funny, though - there are 18 of them, some showing real scene legends like Slayer/Scoopex and Cougar/Sanity! About half are from the actual event, while the rest centers around the trip, mostly together with members of Sanity.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.