CNCD/Reviews
Comedy Iceland (1993, .02, ECS Intro)
Review by Glenn Lunder
This one's a small, simple, but nice BBS intro for 2000 A.D.'s Finnish board Comedy Iceland. It's a one-screen intro, but still quite OK. The bouncy, cool tune by Heatbeat lifts it a lot.
tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Cubes at top didn't fill properly, otherwise 100%.
Aquarium (1993, 05.08, ECS Trackmo)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Not a very good one, I'm afraid... It's a short trackmo without too much to shout about. It's too AVERAGE for the most part, with neither the gfx, music or code ever really coming alive. The only sign of innovation was the broken glass vector cube, I haven't seen that before. Still, it's just a vector cube variation.
tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: At first it crashed. Then I tried kicking down, and it worked. Then, just for fun, I tried it without kicking down, and it worked again! Why? Haven't a clue...
Morbid Visions 3 (1994, early, ECS File Slideshow)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Quite good slideshow detailing various Finns' adventures at The Party 3. Entertaining and good. Without KillAGA, keyboard control does not work.
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0, -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Uulima (1995, File)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Ok? I don't get this one... It's just a few lines of text and a weird face spinning a couple of times. It's all over in 30 seconds, and sort of leaves you wondering 'is that it?' 121k for a spinning face or two, a tune and some Italian hardly seems right. The only credits say 'CNCD with Andy'...
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Closer (1995, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 3 disks)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Whoaaa... This signals a new age in the way demos are made. Instead of the old effect-effect-effect demos, this is more a journey through (chunky!) landscapes and colors. The biggest drawback, I feel, is the music. It's not really a TUNE as such, it's more just music made to suit the demo, without an identity of its own. Wasn't that flower picture by Kube used in RAW #8, albeit in lower resolution?
At The Gathering 1996, CNCD released a PC demo called "Inside" [04/96] from much the same team as this one. Given the name, I suppose it's a sequel of sorts... Anyway, if you (like me) have a Pentium gathering dust in your bedroom (any room will do, though ;), it's well worth a look!
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Killer (1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB Multifile)
Review by Glenn Lunder
"Killer" opens with a totally red screen to the first bars of the music... and keeps it there for long enough to let everyone think something is seriously wrong with their graphics displays! And, it would appear, they are perhaps right... I do not know what it is, but I cannot get this demo to do anything but display that red screen and play the music on my system. I've tried clean boots and everything, but nothing seems to help... Anyone?
tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
