\I[Childsplay?|By Alvin|Section: The Scene of Ours]
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The Scene. An expression we all know more than well. Something we all like, and support. It's another world. Our world. But what do the rest of the world think about us and our world?
Have you ever tried to tell your friends about the scene? Those who know how to write some text and print it out but nothing more? I've tried a couple of times, with different results, depending on if the person in question was an Amiga freak or a PC owner, or not a computer owner at all.
When I moved from Finland to Sweden, I started looking for other people with the same interest as I had: the scene. After some time I finally found out that there actually were a lot of Amiga owners around me but none of them had ever heard of the scene. They had some old demos like the Iraq demo by Animators and some other stuff, but they just thought it was funny to look at. They knew nothing about those who made it or the rest of the scene. Slowly I started to introduce them to the scene. And they thought it was great! They just loved watching all the demos I had and was amazed by the graphics and the music. Bit by bit they got to know more about the scene. That's about one and a half year ago by now. Since then three of my friends has bought their own Amigas, first for playing the great games that existed and then moving on to do something creative with their machines. But still, they have a long way to the scene. They're interested, all right, fascinated by nice demos but somehow it's hard to get them into the scene. They like it though. Nothing strange about demos or so and this autumn I'm going to work to get these guys into the scene, because one of them is incredibly good at math (he made a very simple raytracing program in Amos and he also made a realtime vectorroutine that is amazing! If he learned assembler, which he is trying to do, you would probably get the possibility to see one of the fastest realtime vectorroutines you've ever seen!) and another one composes GREAT music. In other words, getting Amiga owners interested in the scene isn't that much of a problem. PC owners is another thing.
The first problem with PC owners is to get them interested in the Amiga and then show them some nice demos. However, many think their PC is so great that it isn't worth looking at an Amiga. I have a friend, who owned an Amiga but now looks almost only to the PC. Two months ago, he was an Amiga owner with no interest in buying a PC. Now he has a PC; his Amiga is broken and lies under the bed about to be sold as spare parts. I was amazed when this guys suddenly started to complain about the Amiga. I almost became angry the first time, but I've learned not to listen to his talk. Anyway, doesn't this show how much a PC affects your mind, even if you just own a shitty 286 laptop? Nothing bad about my friend though (No hard feelings, Chris???). He told me yesterday that he probably will buy an A1200 anyhow... PC:s are too expensive (Shows the power of the A1200! Cheap but good.). Anyway, if you finally get a PC owner interested in your computer they probably wonder what you can do with it, and that's when it's time to introduce them to the worldwide network called the scene. Reactions are of course different from person to person, depending on what they do with their computer, but I've seen that those I've introduced the scene to find it interesting. I don't know how developed the scene is on the PC, but I hardly believe that the PC scene is as good as the Amiga scene.
