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 This 64k intro, produced by Expression for the Yelling Jam demo event, isn't as long as many of the other graphics demo offerings, but is, nonetheless, quite... well, insane.
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 The demo, you see, is centered around this cow-like creature (I can't guarantee that it's meant to be from this planet), the face of whom is drawn perfectly by lUnATic dRUiD, who must either be able to empathise very well with an animal (or alien) just informed that the <i>European Tour</I> is on again, or else is terminally depressed and very good at expressing it (I think it to be the former). Our <i>hero</i>'s mug is placed on the six faces of a rotating cube and spun dizily around, an effect furthered by the way his face twirls about the centre of each square, eventually spiraling into itself and folding out of itself in a sort of... insane way. We proceed to find ourselves trapped inside a closed maze, reminiscent of something out of Wolfenstein 3D, and projected into a fractal image.
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 The music, provided by Cry of <a href="TXPDemos">The Xperience</a>, is initially filled with strange whooping instruments at high pitches, which all seems thoroughly appropriate to the actions of the foreground, without actually making the track sound horifically out of tune. Skoe, the coder, is not himself reluctant to enter the entire oddity of the piece, with effects such as the edges of the rotating cube forming, from straight lines, into sinusodial curves; we'll forgive the slight hiccups in redrawing the fractal image, where the previous frame is not properly wiped.
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 Although the demo will work on a ARM 250 (but not on an ARM 2), due to the programming techniques used, an ARM 3 is recommended; it appears to work tolerably well on the lowest specification, but only just tolerably. The ARM 3 gives only vaguely discernible problems with speed, compared with my ARM 610.
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 I like this demo a great deal: it's sort of fun and strange and different and... er, insane.
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Authors: Skoe/Expression and Lunatic Druid/Expression, with music by Cry/TXP<br>
Status: Freeware<br>
Availability: Most PD libraries should have a copy, in their demo collection; it can be obtained on PDCD5<br>
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