Release Review for Brain State In A Box

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The Gathering 1994

·CRYPTOBURNERS -

·TO BE DISQUALIFIED?


Should Cryptoburners demo at The Gathering '94 have been disqualified for
not following the rules of the competition?

By Wolfman

"Brainstate  In A Box" was according to
many    people,   one   of   the   most
revolutionary demos released for a long
time.   The demo won the secondprize at
The  Gathering  '94 and featured one of
the  most  advanced landscape  routines
seen in a long time on the Amiga.

Brainstate in a diskbox
Many  more  people  would without doubt
agree  that this demo is a masterpiece,










that is:  If they could see it!
To  watch  the demo it's obligatoric to
have  MORE than extra 2 megs of RAM and
a  processor.  Without this, the
demo  will  only be able to gather dust
in   your   diskbox.    Also   a  68030
processor  would  come in real handy if
you  actually  want  the  demo  to look
NICE.
It  doesn't  seems  as if Cryptoburners
wanted  to  hide  anything,  that is if
you're  looking  at  the  fact that the
disk with the demo includes a text-file


telling  what  the  demo  needed to run
properly.

Why was it shown?
The  demo  did  however  compete in the
competition,  and actually received the
greatest     applause     during    the
competitions.     But   why   did   the
organizers  show  the demo in the first
place,  when  it didn't comply with the
rules in the invitation?

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Needless  to  say  that the competition
was   run  on  an  Amiga  4000/030  and
the demo therefore ran quite smoothly.

Overlooked by the organizers
Dr.       Outtasight     the     actual
main-organizer of The Gathering did not
have    anything   to   do   with   the
competitions   and   was  not  able  to
comment  on the matter.  And it was not
possible to get comments from any other
organizers.
Well,   basically  it  seems  that  the
organizers  chose to "forget" the rules
and  let the Cryptoburners demo compete
anyway.

Tough  luck  for the ones that competed
with   demos  that  complied  with  the
rules.