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\2All PC-demos look the same. A space-inspired tunnel, some phong-shaded objects with millions of faces and some other objects. Well, they all look quite nice because of their fast computers. They look nice but they are extremely boring. If the PC-owners like it that way, it's their problem. We can only feel pity for them. The last sentence wasn't really true. We can't feel pity for them any more. As a matter of fact, we are trying to follow them on their way to total boredom.
The thing that brings this fact from being just pityful to terrible is that our demos doesn't run as fast as the PC-demos. They look awful. We can't continue this way. It will surely destroy the Amiga-scene. Even if the Amigas in the competitions gets faster and faster (that's a pity too), our feeble speed can't compete with the P90 anyhow, can it?
What happends if we continue to do like this? Look at the Amiga-demos from TP5. That competition really disappointed me and many with me. CNCD's demo was really good but that's just because of their really fast and nice PC-look-alike-routines. Demos like Rage's and Polka's showed us some of the Amiga's old-fashioned ways of designing demos. They are old but they are still going strong.
What to do? I have figured out that the Amiga-style is based upon the concept. The design is really important and we are miles ahead the PC when it comes to that. When I watched the PC demo-competition at TP5 I understood that the PC-owners lacks both humour and sense for estetic things (they know how to fix nice textures of course:-)). That's our big advantage. We know how to design things but that's not enough. To get the Amiga-scene living again after the slaughter at TP5 we have to improve the design all the time.
One way of doing this is to make demos with a message and/or a story. I don't mean a small message like in Polka's Twisted or Ulven. I meen a message that covers the whole production. I havn't seen this yet but I hope that we will experience this kind of artistwork very soon.
C64 has the cult-status, the C64-users really uses that. PC has the fast processors, the PC-users really uses that. Amiga has the great artists, the Amiga-users has abandoned their talent to try to enter the PC's and the C64's areas of advantages. This doesn't work. If this goes on, the Amiga-scene will die, and that faster than you can imagine...
