Shining 8 (old)/Reviews
Technomania '91 (1991, .08, Trackloaded musicdisk)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Trashcan's musicdisk is dubbed here 'The First Ever Techno Music-Disk'. I don't know if that is true, but who cares. These guys came over from the glory lands of the C64, and it shows. The design is so unmistakably C64, it almost hurts your eyes. Am I saying it's not good? If I am, I would be lying. I like the design, really, it sort of gives you a feeling of the good old days. ahhh... Well, this is a musicdisk, so on to the important stuff: Any good, is it? Well, I hate techno personally, so I guess I shouldn't really be judging this... But as far as this sort of music goes, I guess I've heard lots worse. Approved.
There is mention in the scrolltext that the loader will not work on turbo Amigas, but it would seem ECR is wrong :) I had absolutely no problems, it loaded and ran without a glitch. For those who want to rip the modules for themselves, that's not too much of a problem here. They are all in unpacked form on the disk, so all you have to do is load and search. Couldn't be easier.
Tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Twilight Zone (1992, summer, ECS Tracmo)
Review by Glenn Lunder
Ohh, it's a scrolltext-effect-scrolltext demo! That was a trend that we had a lot during the early trackmo days, before the megademo enthusiasts had warmed to the concept of the trackmo. A lot of the early trackmos were megademos with continuous music, really. Anyway, on to this one! The C64 influences are still showing, but to a lesser extent. They have abandoned most of it for the 'mediocre Amiga group' style. Naturally the coder boasts that his routines are over a year old, blah blah blah. We really don't care how old they are, as long as they're good. Anyway, this trackmo is competent, with some routines that are bad and some that are OK.
It crashed on my machine during the endpart's bonus part :) It also announces Technomania 3 'soon', which means there must have been a #2! Graphician Tomcat/Complex later joined Shining 8 himself.
Tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
