By Randy/Ram Jam


1th place: THE GATE/ARTWORK

This demo has the best 3d routines actually available on Amiga. The main coder
is Azure, with the help of Tron for the voxel landscape. The graphics are done
by Fiver and Noogman, and the great musics are by SMT and Virgill.
Is really nice  to see fullscreen envmapped  and shaded objects  running on an
Amiga with 68040/25Mhz fast as on a Pentium/133Mhz, considering the  fact that
the 1x1 chunky screens are emulated on our loved machine...
But, remembering  what was  possible to do in only 4Kb, with Dawn,  now with 3
MegaBytes the result is about 3068/4 = 767 times better and impressive.
The music is really the right one for this demo: the devastating tune seems to
say:  "YOU ARE WATCHING THE COOLEST ROUTINES EVER MADE",  and the  pressure of
the demo watcher goes high. After a fly over a voxel landscape, you enter in a
zooming and  rotating hole  with  mapped gfx, then  you  discover a  field  of
asteroids in the deep space.  Then a static face made of thousands of poligons
is  illuminated  and well  shaded...  that  just before enter  the  first real
bumpmapped tunnel  available on a low  cost home computer.  Since that was not
enough, after  a morphing  envmapped donut you will  see a  "normal" envmapped
cube... what? a normal cube here? Only 6 faces? Naaaa...  from a face you will
see an human head  trying to exit...  this effect is not new,  but this is the
"final" implementation. At that point there are a couple of effects that seems
ripped from Closer/CNCD just  to show that  Artwork can  do it better: in fact
there is a surface illuminated to view bumpmapping  and a spiral very similiar
to the closer one. But the surface here is also rotating!!!
Another interesting part, especially for originality, is one where seems to be
into a big empty donut, but the shading is not standard and seems a black hole
or something like it. Offcourse the final credits part is bumpmapped!