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THE BEASTS CREW STRIKES BACK... SOMEHOW...
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Hello together, today I want to check what developments The Beasts Crew has made
in their productions as they're still releasing intro by intro with a quite
spectacular regularity.
I think I don't have to loose to much words about this small group from Spain
that was formerly active but unknown in the late eighties and strangely came
back to life 2 years ago to flood the Atari scene with loads of damn old looking
intros. But meanwhile their first releases were just revamped screens, they're
now doing them originally, now, here in 2oo4 and 2oo5!
Ok, here we go again, since my whole ST equipment burned away somehow (arf!) as
I did some testings last time, I just can use the STEEM nowadays, sorry for that
but believe me, having 4 damaged ST's laying in the cellars doesn't makes me
really happy, even though using STEEM is much easier.
Ok, here we go!
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THE BEASTS CREW INTRO # 11
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Woah, they still seem to have no inspiration for some better titles for their
stuff and somehow this seems to be no good sign...
This 6o KB intro starts with a raster filled screen, followed by some static but
with rasters underlayed pixel "waves", a small bending scroller with a yellow
duck swimming around on it. Furthermore a big jumping horizontal scroller is
making his way over the screen... and... that's it! Upsi, I forgot the music, a
TBC typical tune, beep, poing, beep, brrr, blip, blip... help!!!
What to say? Not much, as any word is wasted time. The horrible thing is, that
every intro by that group looks quite similar. They obviously know how to code,
and so it isn't understandable that they're always stepping on the place... To
say the truth, within the time it gets damn ugly... Space bashing! Rescued!
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THE BEASTS CREW INTRO # 12
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Rescued?! Title giving madness reached part 12 now! What a rush.
First interesting bit, this intro comes along with nearly 1oo KB, so is there
more to see now?! Unfortunately not really...
The "Intro" starts with a cruel pixel colour full screen with a flickering TBC
logo in the middle of the screen and some strange YM beeps and noises... Arf...
But, after pressing space in hope for the desktop, the screen turns black and is
followed by another screen! Argl! A TBC megademo or what?! Or Multipart thing?!
At the second screen we get some kind of 2 little overlayed chessboard scrollers
and a bending vertical blinking scroller. Whoa... all with the same minimized
style, as well as some cruel old schoolish beeping music...
And we go on like this, another screen filled with blocks in the ugliest colours
and the cheapest fill styles as well as a flickering scroller that speaks about
more than 16 colours and such stuff... and we get those horrible noises again...
Bashing space doesn't ends this torture but makes way for some 8bit-middle-80ies
look-a-like screen with cruel pixeled grafix in cruel colours, some rastered
sprites that flying around on the screen and a colourfull text displayer... This
starts with "This is TBC!" Yeah, how right if this means Tuberculosis... in the
brain maybe... I still don't know what I did wrong that I get that tortured here
and bashing space again didn't offers an escape...
...as the screen gets filled up once more with strange styles and blocks in very
strange colours together with even stranger noises, this is a digital nightmare,
if you ask me... and the space bar gives way for the next one, pixeled fire work
with some more melodic noise core... somehow the best screen seen here...
And they still go on, again damn ugly colour full scenery, rastered and what
else, a small logo showing a bat and... noises... Urbs... and Space is no way
out really as we get another one, showing some kind of shaded sprite forms or
something, reminding very far to the matrix intro... ;)
And now for something completely... similar! Screen -9- goes on like this, very
oldschoolish, blocky, senseless, with the same scroller as screen 3... what a
damn cool idea! I wonder why they're showing off that ugly stuff again and again
as everybody knows that the ST can display a few more colours with some tricks..
and if... then they look much better as this horrible palette!
After bashing space, again... I closed my eyes and suddenly I found myself back
on the desktop, very lucky that my eyes survived that torture and that my ears
are still alive, too.
Don't ask me about the sense in doing such screens, they even didn't rocked
about 15 or even more years ago and are hardly 16bit style... Hey, TBC, if you
ever read those lines, please do me a favour, use a proper music editor just
like the lately released ones instead, so I can at least listen to the musix...
using a real painting tool may do wonders as well and just checking what others
do, too... knock, knock, the first days of the ST are over, haven't you checked
this? Have you ever seen such rubbish within the last 15 years?! Oldschool does
not mean crap in every point, but here I really wonder if this is really the
stuff I would call oldschool...
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TS INTRO # 1
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Wow, they broke the devils circle with renaming one of their intros, even though
it doesn't sprays much inspiration around. TS means THE SPACEWALKER and is just
the nick of one of their members, better, the coder.
This one is a Xmas screen for Christmas 2oo4, shows us some pixeled grafix of
very mediocre style (can we call this style?!), a "Happy" Christmas logo in very
ugly chosen colours, a rastered background, some dots snow and finally a very
hard to read (as all letters are steady turning) scrolly, not to forget the
cruel music...
If you compare this with other usual Xmas releases... I wouldn't say light years
ahead, but I seldom have seen such an uninspired and ugly screen... The message
is nice but somehow I have the strange feeling that the sun in Spain has burned
some eyes, ears and brains away, as this is pure torture...
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That's it for the round up... I wonder what we get next, TBC 13 or TS 2?! Or
even LMAA 0815 or JC 666 or SEX 69 or what else...
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PS... If you don't know about LMAA... that is german and stands for Lick My Ass!
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