THEMATIC SLIDE SHOW
ONE
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Here comes a production from unknown French crew The Coolest Paradise.
Basically this is a gfa coded slide show that won't work on Falcon (at least St
Cooper told me so :). Unfortunately things dont get started easily : first the
zipfile turns into a classic MSA and then you realise that your harddrive won't
be of any use here.
Once you've gone thru the previous process, reboot your ST(or STe only ?)
and let's rock baby ! As Paranoid also reviewed another slideshow, this time
done by SATANTRONIC, comparison will come in naturally.
The intro is almost reduced to nothing : a plain screen with no sound and
just a white 8*8 font that looks nice enough tho. The real pain comes from the
background that will switch to blue then red and green and... blue again...
Reminds me of that time when people started fearing for their kids sanity :)
Really you should *NOT* be epileptic or you're gonna die right in the middle
of the so called intro. All texts are in French btw :) Fortunately the only
needed key is 'space' until the real show starts, so let's skip this painful
part.
This first issue of the thematic slide show, as others are to follow, is
dedicated to French female singer Mylene Farmer. This fierce red haired woman
is known for her great videos that look at lot like real movies (and surely
cost a lot of... euros !). You can easily compare her to Madonna when it comes
to the money put into videos or concerts. As far as fame is concerned I don't
even know if her name sounds familiar or totally unknown to any of you.
Back to the show itself : it starts with a 12,5Khz sample of a Mylene's song
of course. It sounds nice but will eventually loop several times before the end
of the slide show :(
Next follows the first picture : here I have to say that all piccies feature
a lot of colors more precisely 32,000 flickered colors according to its author.
Quality is here as pictures are considered but of course this slide show is a
bit slowed down due to lame floppy support.
All pictures are nice but don't show the slightest part of naked body :(
Hey isn't it what slideshows are about ? :) Okayyyyyy... Once you've watched
about a dozen of these pictures the machine seems to freeze. Hello ? Anybody
home ?? Of course, at that stage of things I had to reboot.
Well instead of summing it up into three lines, let's try to sort out plus
and minuses and try to compare these to Satantronic's own production :
PLUS :
* real great pictures quality while Satantronic pictures just sucked
* nice sampled sound tho it loops (same comment)
* first slideshow seen in many years (nice effort from Satantronic too)
* a step forward from a French newcomer (same as above)
MINUSES :
* it's a slide show and of course... nothing more. On that point
Satantronic showed originality tho their slideshow isn't great.
* no real artwork (that's when slideshows can prove really interesting !)
* the floppy requirement will bore you to death !
* watch it once and then clean up that disk (no one will ever watch it
twice, let's face the truth).
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