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• 64k Windows Beyond by Conspiracy [web]
• Nice music that fits to the theme. The space theme is overused but at least there is a theme, not just random polygons flying around.
  
  Some fog, some glow, some radial blur... way too fly-by. Many scenes seem like they were built with paper and glue, namely the ones where the planets are flying around (...or is it the camera that's flying ?) Liked the credits part, although I experienced some annoying "lag" spikes there. The ending bubble-scene was also too slow on the FPS side (1.4GHz/R9800Pro).
  
  To put it bluntly, this is not even comparable to the two previous Conspiracy intros. You guys can do a really lot better. Looking forward to what you are to present at Breakpoint 04.
• isokadded on the 2004-01-26 23:40:19
• demo Windows I Feel Like a Computer by Melon [web]
• This was fun to watch a couple of times, especially at the party. After that, the fun-factor rapidly diminishes. Not too rare when talking about modern "demos" of this kind.
  
  Someone please explain, how is it possible to waste 10 megabytes for just transforming flat, unlit polygons around? Ok, now I got it, it was a joke too =)
• isokadded on the 2003-08-16 13:37:48
• 64k Windows Zoom 3 by AND [web]
• What comes to the speech synth used in the intro, the people dissing it should also have an equally negative attitude towards equally external things like the sound/video drivers and the underlying operating system plus all the mechanics provided by it. These are all ready-made products by external vendors, after all.
  
  Also, you'd think that this intro was not 64k either. After installing a system that you can run it on, the total size on disk usually totals to a few hundred megabytes (talking about 'default' installations). But... didn't all the productions running on the same machine have these same preconditions? Yes of course. It's only a question of how you use (or leave unused) what you have available!
  
  After all, if you think about it, using a large ready-made graphics API (D3D/OpenGL) is actually a lot worse in comparison. Everyone does that, and with a reason. The only difference is that the usage of gfx APIs is accepted, while the use of the in-built speech synth of Windows has not even been considered publicly in that manner, prior to this production. Of course, the scale of things being considered varies along with the things you can do with them, but is there really a difference?
  
  That said, speaking less analytically, I experienced this as the definately best single demoscene production of the modern era, leaving many great productions weeping behind (not unlike many of the criticizers of this intro). I haven't yet seen this on a CRT, but I saw it where it really mattered the most. After a couple of days, I'm still absolutely thrilled. Naturally, I had high expectations but this one exceeded them by far. Zoom3 made all other productions at asm03 seem pale indeed, not excluding entries of the overall exceptionally good-quality democompo.
  
  Wonder if AND can do yet better...?
• rulezadded on the 2003-08-11 23:01:46