Ambrosia/Reviews

Freaks Don't Care (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro)

Review by Glenn Lunder

It's an OK intro, this. There's some OK effects, like a zoom-rotator with 'jerky' zooming and an OK voxel routine. The chiptune is functional, with a very good tune for the end part. It's a remake of an actual tune that was on the charts. My gf recognized the tune as being called 'Jimmie Dean', but couldn't remember the name of the group. Very good.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

Rynkeby Morgenmild (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro)

Review by Glenn Lunder

Another good TP5 intro from Ambrosia, this one gives us a texturemapped motionblurred cube and some fractal roofs and floors as its main attractions. The boom-boom-boom generic techno is a major drawback, though. The opening Rynkeby logo is awful.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

4K (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro)

Review by Glenn Lunder

Nothing much to this one, except that it features actual music - unusual for a 4k intro. The only effect is a dottunnel, and we've seen that a million times before.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

Ard (1996, 05.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile)

Review by Glenn Lunder

There is one thing about Ard that draws it down a lot; The fact that the entire demo is presented in that 'ghosted' mode, that apparently saves a lot of rastertime on c2p routines. There's just one drawback with this: IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK HALF AS GOOD AS SOLID ROUTINES! Other than that, the demo has an altogether average feel to it. The code is OK, I guess, but the graphics and music are so average it hurts. The whole thing has a 'rushed together' feel to it, made further evident by the fact that this demo was released out of competition at TG.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.