$9f9|1-Retro demos



                         dun by Mammoth (again)


$dfd
Its Sumday afternoon and I`ve just spent a few hours pissing about
on me 500 beastie here in Felixstowe, been knocking up a quick demo to
prove that I can still do it.  Nowtmuch, just a scroller, some scrolling
DPLF mountains and sumballs, and it occurred to me when I viewed it that
it looked like an old Savage demo from 1989, y`know the Strange demo?
No?  Oh well it looked like that anyway.

And it then got me thinking about "Retro demos", like the music industry
going back some years and "borrowing" influences maybe us coders are
doing the same thing.  I`m not saying its a bad thing its just that in
the present climate with the Amiga would people accept a demo that we`ve
all seen before?  Is any demo better than no demo at all?

Good question is`nt it?  What do you think Kei, you`ve been in the scene
as long as me (I joined it in 1989) will any old demo do aslong as its
out there and people are watching it?

$ff0
[I'm  actually  editing  The  WORD  13 at the Carnage Internal Gathering
Party  No.8 and the feeling from the guys here is enough of the spinning
cubes  and  dougnuts!   Just  coz  a  coder  took a few days to code the
routine doesn't mean we should watch it spin for five minutes.
 After  I  got  rid  of  my  A500  I also got rid of most of the demos I
couldn't  run/patch on my A1200.  Carnage have'nt worked on an asm coded
demo  since  Goz  left  so  take a look at our new release coded by Spin
(ex-LSD)  and  tell  me  what you think.  It's the scene voters that you
should ask this question to though, not me.  Kei]

$dfd
Is there originality any more?  Who knows, its up to us to get the
ideas and develop them further.
$ff0
[There is but it's rare and usually foreign.  Kei]


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