FUN
AND SECTOR ONE
FALCON INTRO
As summer memories start to fade away this review takes us back to a small
convention organized in Holland where some Atarians had a good time :) The
Dutchies and Frenchies also used the occasion to code stuff and present this
Falcon collaboration.
Main code was done by Earx/Fun and Zerkman/Sector One and the nice module was
composed by D-Force/Fun. No name for this intro tho. Note that it works either
on RGB or VGA whatever your preference is.
It starts with a coloured bar that goes stretching as loading is done then we
can enjoy D-Force's cool music while an overscan Mandelbrot zoomer starts on
screen. It zooms in and out and rotates after a while, what causes a major
slowdown :( Still nice looking with rainbow-like colours.
Next is a grey rotating texture in the background while flashing coloured
letters come zooming in : S C T 1 F U N. I guess you understood what that
meant. Unfortunately while the background is too grey, letters are too flashy
with some ugly pixellised outlines... The kind of elements that shouldn't be
mixed as they feature opposed palettes.
Some balls (particles or mere balls ?) form letters while a cool reverberating
effect is spawned by these balls. Very colorful but hardly readable. The last
screen shows greetings with flaming letters. When this part is done, the intro
quits.
Bottom line : this was supposed to show the result of the summer collaboration
between Fun and Sector One and as such it works fine but it's definitely not a
state of the art try : the intro has no name (thus no title screen), nor gfx
or even credits except in the textfile that goes with the intro. Most screens
are too colourful and therefore hard to read. Not a bad try but nothing more.
I hope this is just the first sign of a bigger and polished production by two
talented crews. Future will tell. Not much more to add...
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