assembly '03 demos rawk..

For those who are into the demo-scene, that weird 'let's see what the coolest-looking stuff we can make in realtime graphics on home computers' subculture that I was once fully immersed in (yes, I wrote the newsgroup FAQ for alt.sys.amiga.demos back when it was, uhm, still alive), you might be interested to know that the Assembly '03 demo-party in Finland has just finished, and the results and the full set of releases are now available for download.

Anyhow, you need a decent graphics card and a Windows machine to run a lot of the demos, but if you can possibly get it working try out Melon Design's 'I Feel Like A Computer', where-in the Amiga scene legends make a PC comeback with a crazy flatshaded cartoon 3D world, a weird red dog, Donkey Kong, and.. John Travolta? Unfortunately it got disqualified from competition for using snippets of copyrighted music, but it's, well, absolute genius.

A lot of the other demos seem pretty neat, but I particularly liked the winning demo-competition entry, Doomsday's 'Legomania', which updates their old Lego demos with some style - definitely worth checking out, especially for the scene where a Lego X-Wing gets built around a Lego character in real-time, brick by brick. Oh, and the obligatory Matrix-spoofing part, I'm afraid.