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- C I S A B
-
- by MAC/ERD
- text by Dave Moorman
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-
- This Demo is -- first and foremost
- -- a [joke]. Or a commentary. Or a
- challenge. You will need to decide.
-
- Let's start with the joke: ERD is
- comprised of two Dudez of Stellar
- Reputation, but their full DemoGroup
- name "NTSC/ERD" gives away the tongue-
- in-cheek nature of their work:
-
- ELITE RULLING DIVISION
-
- (Note the deliberate misspelling of
- "ruling!") The name of this Demo also
- sets the stage -- CISAB is rather
- backwards, eh? And the commentary
- speaks to a truth in the DemoScene: we
- are not seeing much that is extra-
- ordinarily new or creative.
-
- This is a Pure Basic Demo. The
- Coder (hiding behind the pseudo-name
- of MAC) had to brush up on FOR-NEXT
- loops and MID$'s to pull it off. The
- bragz -- jittering across the screen
- -- are as obnoxiously cynical, self-
- aggrandizing, and badly misspelled as
- anything coming out of Europe. (No
- offense, guyz. We on this continent
- are just getting used to Huked on
- Fonix)
-
- The Coder tries to do it all --
- scrolling text, moving sprites (a
- BLOCK?!), even DYCP (Different Y
- Character Positioned) text. And let's
- face it, the results are worse than
- lame. "Camp" is probably a better
- word.
-
- Think of all the Demos that do
- almost the same things -- scrolling
- texts, moving sprites, sinus plots,
- DYCP scrolls, split screens, etc, etc.
- And in fact, they really go nowhere
- in particular.
-
- CISAB is the club-footed epitome
- of such high quality lamers -- not
- because Basic is lame, but because the
- Dudez often fail to exceed the basic
- elements of a mediocre demo.
-
- CISAB is also a challenge. If the
- Coder was a novice, and was doing
- everything he could to use Basic to
- its greatest effect -- this demo would
- be [way] cool. Not because it is
- cooler than everything else out there,
- but because someone sat down late one
- night and asked:
-
- "What can [I] do with this thing?"
-
- And whatever that is -- it is COOL!
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- DMM
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