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- From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <1979@lysator.liu.se>
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- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
- References: <BxLLGL.uF@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <MKNIP.92Nov13142322@superman.hut.fi> <1992Nov13.142612.8928@daimi.aau.dk> <1992Nov14.153146.4287@crash>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:53:03 GMT
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- tfinn@crash.cts.com (Aaron Grier) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov13.142612.8928@daimi.aau.dk> pjunold@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Joachim Unold) writes:
- >>Not true. You can easily do smooth scrolling under VGA using pixel panning.
- >>No prob at all. Coding a 8-way scroller under PC can be done too, without you
- >>having to update/move the whole screen. Only few PC coders know it, coz they
- >>are still accessing the hardware thru lame highlevel libraries/languages. I
- >>guess it's time for some amiga freaks to takeover in the PC world.
-
- >Please do! And take some friends with you.. I think there should be demos
- >made for every computer ever made! :) (Timex Sinclair 1000 anybody? Joke..)
-
- If Timex Sinclair is the same as ZX Spectrum here in Europe (which I'm quite
- sure it is), I must say that there exists some demos for it, but most of them
- only run on the 128K version that came in 1986. Most demos I've seen for it
- really sucks, but some of them are impressive. I have made a few bad
- ones, and started on a good one (after I got more demo experience on the Amiga)
- but I doubt it will ever be finished.
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