Phenomena/Reviews
Animotion (1990, 28.12, ECS File)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Good code and a great tune arre the best parts of this demo, which managed to climb all the way to the top at the classic Dexion party. The design is decidedly old-school, with a terrible logo at the top (Havok would later join Anarchy and Sanity and make great graphics), a scroller at the bottom and some effects in the middle of the screen. The effects are all quite acceptable, and probably pretty advanced by the standards of back then.
This was presumably Celebrandil's first demo for Phenomena, since there's some text explaining why he left Fairlight. ADL mentioned it didn't work on the A1200, which puzzles me since it works perfectly fine here.
Tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Crystal Symphonies (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk)
Review by Glenn Lunder
This Scoopex - Rebels - Phenomena coproduction was placed here, under Phenomena's entry, since the second CS was a pure Phenomena production. The Partial credits are based on text information in the bootblock. This classic is unreviewable, since it refuses to work on my current machine. Unfortunately my old A500 is long since deceased, so I can't get that out to check it out either :(
Tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Won't work, see review.
Enigma (1991, 30.03, ECS Trackmo)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Azatoth proved to be a coder with a talent the like of which is seldom seen, when he created ENIGMA! Amazingly, this was only his second released demo. As soon as the first bears of the amazing title theme opens the show to a 3d starfield with overlaid credits, you sort of feel you're in for something a little special... And you have probably never been more right. Perhaps the demo with the most new ideas EVER, it set the standards for others to follow in the trackmo genre. Just amazing!
It seems Uno contributed to this AFTER he left for Scoopex, since the ENIGMA logo is signed UNO SCX. The logo in the Star Wars scroller part is signed Imbecille, though he's not credited anywhere in the demo. I only experiences one slight problem when running it, there are some graphical errors in the ligtsourced world part. Otherwise everything went smoothly.
Tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Crystal Symphonies II (1992, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Now a pure Phenomena production, CS2 still bears strong resemblances the the first edition. The fact that the same basic code has been used has perhaps a little to do with that... Style-wise, this is as smooth as it gets, with exceptional music, smooth graphics and a damn-near perfect code. Lots of options, including volume control and lots of scrollers to read. A true classic.
The tunes on the disk are 'The Sweat Shop' (7:50), 'Yummy Gap' (3:15), 'Liberation' (2:40), 'Disharmony' (3:52), 'Life-Phobia' (2:13), and 'The Search For Me' (4:02).
Tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
