Madness Remix

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Overall 72%

Jon Pillar 72%

PUBLIC HOUSE After a break last month to make room for the Soundtracker instructions, Public House returns with a vengeance. And a couple of demos. But no Brit special. Hee hee hee! Look, it's not my fault. Okay, a couple of Brit PD libraries have sent in lists of programs, but to date only one has actually sent a sample tape. Tsk. Erm... so I guess I'll have to dive back to my pile of PD from across the waters. (Sounds of someone diving back into his pile of PD from across the waters.) A-ha! A couple of demos from The Mad Guys and Pentagram, plus a new group called SSC. They'll do nicely. By the way, you'll notice I'm now giving demos a certificate rating as well as a score. If the demo contains bad language or objectionable sentiments. I'll give it a 'Naughty' rating. Better safe than sorry, eh? Madness Remix By X-Terminator of The Mad Guys Slightly naughty Reviewer: Jon Pillar With nary a Nutty Boy in sight, this is a rather sweet and unpretentious four-part demo. It's another celebration-of-the-scrolly demo. Part One has a smooth bitty message sliding along while a single line jumps up and down enthusiastically in time to the music. Part Two is a neatly-presented greetings section, with lurching-out-of-the-ground text and a very nice fill-in-the-logo-drawing effect. (Don't baffle us with all these technical terms. Ed) Part Three has three single-height scrollies (a bit like Pokerama, actually) with some flashing lights and whizzy colour bars, while Part Four has a pseudo-3D scrolling chessboard effect that's pretty eye-wrecking. It also has a completely horrible scrolly - the thing's been written in pidgin English with phrases like 'put yer eyez on da rite-hand site of de zkreen.' Ugh. My third complaint is the loader - it even pulls the old 'R Tape loading error' gag. How quaint. But! I like it.

Who teaches these people English, eh? Do they do this 'retoreecal' business deliberately? Is it some kind of cruel joke? Or is X-Terminator just having a private joke? Programmers, eh? I diskard them uterly.

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