[] SENIOR DADS RETURN

Heroes of the Fried Bits III 96ktro competition, "The Senior Dads", who have already built up a cult following after their revolutionary "Anal Tuck" demo are working on a new Falcon demo. Main coder, "Nonce", commented "its like some pictures, but different". We can't wait.

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[] SENIOR DADS HIT THE NET

The very foundations of the information superhighway were left shaking yesterday as the Senior Dads announced they would be setting up their own World Wide Web site. Described by dsp coder, doddering git, as "senior - in the extreme" it draws net surfers into a senior world. All dads demos to date can be download from this site, including the new 69ktro.

Reporters!! Ha, can't trust them can you?!?!? We don't remember making those quotes to Maggie!! Anyway, they still were good to us with their review...

Perhaps if there was one jaw-dropping, technically stunning, aurally astounding, genre-defining demo released in 1995 it was "Anal Tuck" by The Senior Dads. It was a demo that took the Fried Bits III convention by storm, tossing away all the traditional conventions of demo coding and replacing them with line a calls. It was breathtaking - the Dads had changed the face of demo coding with a single call to the Gemdos print line routine.

The work of Nonce and Jessie will go down in the anals of history. There were those who said it couldn't be bettered, that sequels would be pointless - how can you improve on perfection? But once again the Senior Dads have confounded the critics by releasing a demo of such quality, such ambition that people have been driven to worship it.

Over the last couple of years demo effects have become more realistic. Natural phenomena like fire and smoke have been emulated. Flatshaded polygons have been replaced with better lighting models such as Gouraud & Phong shading. Texture Mapping has created life like environments. But one elements of nature has remained relatively anonymous - water.

The Senior Dads are experts at passing water and quickly realised its potential. But they also had the temerity to take a non standard water situation - that of irrigation - and give it the true colour treatment.

You can almost hear the DSP straining under the weight of the parallel instructions as it creates the irrigation model. Look at the screen and you will not believe the sight in front of your eyes. They also manage to scroll messages up the screen (using the 68030 in parallel) and decided to use GEMDOS calls for the scroller so the demo would run on the forthcoming Microbox.

The music is recorded with a new technique "phase 4 stereo" and really sounds like it is coming straight out of the speakers! Outstanding.

The demo ends with the standard end scroller that has become somewhat of a cliche, but the Dads push this into a new dimension by adding insights into their world and messages to friends and enemies. The senior dads don't seem to rate EKO's 3D world system very highly as they have created their own 3D world system using line A calls which will be compatible with all past and future ataris. Smart move.

The other amazing fact about this demo is that they managed to fit it into 69K (another ironic art statement). Their coding is compact as it is creative.

So another winner from the Dads, and they promise us more. How can we refuse to submit to their bid for world domination?

Review by Nonce/S.D.

DODDERING GIT (aka "Nonce") SAYZ:

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