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"JUST MUSIX 4" by DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY
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system ... Falcon o3o/o6o, 6 MB RAM, RGB/VGA
credits .. code - evl
gfx - evl
msx - Toodeloo
- 5o5
- Cedyn
- Mr Future
- Opus
release .. o3/2k5
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Woah... at a moment as nobody thought about DHS slapped us this huge music disk
at our ears... JUST MUSIX 4... the legendary project that nearly turned into
vapour ware or something. In fact the most people surely didn't remembered that
this project was started once back in 1998, but I remember mentioning it from
time to time in the news/rumours files of UCM, didn't I? Seems that Morbus
Alzheimer already deleted some parts of my brain, but who cares anyway?
DHS created the -biggest- Falcon production so far, creating a huge 19 MB music-
demo... yes, fucking 19 MB and you must be happy if you're connected to the
Internet right away with your Atari, as copying all that stuff could be quite
annoying not using any splitters.
The demo comes along in two versions, a slimfast one for non-accelerated Falcons
and a full one for CT6o machines (and maybe some other Centurbo machines). The
slimfast one features a lower replay rate of "only" 32 KHz, no scroller and no
visual effects as the Graoumf Replay eats a lot of the CPU time. But, if you
don't care that much on a slow scrolly, you can run the other version on a 16
MHz Falcon too, I did and it worked quite ok.
The included tunes were composed by Toodeloo (he and 5o5 did the most of them),
5o5, Mr Future, Cedyn and Opus and feature various styles so that there should
be some fave music for every taste. The most of them, in fact, are quite techno-
a-like, featuring pumping base drums, 3o3 blubbering and stuff. For the ones who
like this kind of stuff it is a real little treasure, as about 2/3 of the musix
in here, and we speak of about 3o tunes (!!!), can be put into this genre...
To be precise, the works by 5o5 are some kind of outstanding again, some stuff
remembers hard to the style he used for the latest Escape demos, yummie!
The "rest" of the demo is quite unspectacular but does his job in a music demo
very well, so we get some hires grafix in intro and menu in quite dark colours.
Furthermore there is a music selector accompanied with a playtime counter. The
enhanced version features some small demo effect in the background of the music
selector as well as a scroller with the usual contents. All together no big
eye teasers but very ok to present a music demo, as the ears are the most
important things here.
So what? At first, nice to see DHS back with some lost item, that even runs on a
non-accelerated machine, grin... Furthermore we got the biggest Falcon
demo/music demo production so far with this one with a real impressive
wave of included musix, that is mostly of good quality and features
various (even though it is a bit too much techno if you ask me) styles.
At last the surroundings are quite ok for a music demo... sure, it is
not on the level of Escape's "Modulation" but does still fine.
Short... well done, if you ask me!
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