旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� 컴� This text comes from IMPHOBIA Issue X - June 1995 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� NAID DEMO REVIEW NAID took place in a suburb of Mont- real, Canada over Easter weekend. There were ten entries in the demo competition. All delivered the message that America does have people who can code well rounded and original demos. The demos reviewed here have been re- leased and can be found at ftp.cdrom. com /demos/party/naid/1995 if the demos have been relocated by the time this diskmag comes out. FIRST PLACE: Opticron : Tome of the Impossible by Craw Productions As an attendee of NAID I was able to see all the demos presented. After se- eing all the entries I walked away feeling this one was the best. And what do you know, so did the judges. Soft music, decent graphics and most of all ORIGINALITY helped this demo stand out. Craw presents us with the credits in sync with music and the building of a picture--B/W which placed in the gra- phics compo. Out pops a book shelf which we scan horizontally until we come to OPTICRON. The pages of this book turn and tell us a story. Vectors and other interesting effects appear within the pages of this book. The story finishes, the pages reverse and the book closes. It and other books from the bookshelf fly into a sun which glows brightly. Don't look to this demo for new and amazing effects because you won't find any. What you will find is a soothing demo which literally tells a story. THIRD PLACE: FLIGHT BY: Kosmic Run this demo on a 386DX40 like I have and you'll probably fall asleep--okay, it's not as bad as SUPERUNKNOWN but it is very slow. A GUS with IRQ < 7 (Doom GUS problem sound familiar) and EIGHT megs of RAM will help this demo run properly. "Vote for our demo or we will crush your head!" Is a phrase used in this demo with a person's head (Wayne? from Wayne's World) bouncing around on the screen. There is also a "techno" section, landscapes, ICE vectors, a glenz face and best of all MORPHING. The long and quick MORHPING section likly helped this demo place third. The code was too slow and most routi- nes throughout the demo have been seen before. Great (of course) music and quick morphing are what keep this demo interesting. THERE WERE a few other demos that did not place in the top THREE that were very good. So, let me voice my opi- nion on these next two productions. UNKNOWN PLACE: Technon BY: Core This demo wins my vote for the closest thing to Project Angel by an American group. Yes, this demo is 80% vector objects: spaceships flying around va- rious scenarios, a vector spider and the for the finale the CORE vector world. Even ran excellent on my 386DX 40. An amazing production by two people from the United States. Give these guys a decent musician and a graphics artist and they will be the next "Renaissance" of the US. UNKNOWN PLACE: EDEN BY: Psychic Monks Ever read the book 1984? Well, this demo has "George Orwell" and big bro- ther all over it. Maybe some would even go so far as to compare it to Pink Floyds "The Wall." This demo is all B/W graphics with "words" which keep being cycled on the screen. Stuff like "Power, greed, death" and messages like "Master life in the video temple" make this quite a strange demo. The music by Necros al- so adds to the industrial feel. If you have ever seen movies like Era- sure Head or Metropolis and enjoyed them then this demo is a MUST have. It is kick ass in my book. Numero Uno in delivering a powerful message. Conclusions: Though not yet released I recall Da Cheeze Brigade's demo having the most "Europeanish" feel to it. Perhaps that is why it was voted #1 by the public. I as well as the others in attendence were surprised at the overall quality of demos released at NAID -- all were good and some were excellent. Perhaps the future holds more ORIGINAL demos rather than demos with effects. I sure hope so, especially here in the US where one eye watches the TV while the other watches the computer monitor. -Pallbearer/Hornet/Toxic Zombies