Another cracker from Poland featuring some of the best
effects ever seen on any 8-bit machine and which put many ST demos to
shame! That's the truth. This is THE TOP DEMO Part III and has NINE
separate demo screens starting with good music and chrome bars followed
by a really beautiful Christmas snow scene. Next up is an incredible
four line twisting scroll, then a vertical one, all with top class
music. The most staggering achievement is a digitised dancer featuring
432k of digitised data, crunched down to around 62k, plus 6k of fonts,
3k of music and 3k of code. It all unpacks as the demo proceeds and is
an astonishing feat of programming that shouldn't be possible with such
limited memory. A really neat demo is the Video Worm written for the
author's daughter and quite delightful. More stunning effects follow in
three screens followed by the last incredible graphic masterpiece as
hundreds of coloured balls circulate around the screen in ever changing
patterns and colours. A real delight to watch. Many of these demos would
not be considered by many to be possible on an 8-bit machine, they
certainly haven't been done before, and the whole demo can stand proudly
beside any ST. Remember this is 64k, not the 1 meg many ST programmers
need! A little warning, there are one or two naughty words in the
scrolls, so be warned if you are sensitive to such language.
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