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- From: Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Criti!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Paul_Trauth.19e6@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 17:23:21 CST
- Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.
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- In a message dated Sat 12 Dec 92 0:45, Foregone@stein.u.washington.edu (ca
- wrote:
-
- F> I don't know what that means. I assume it means that Amigas use
- F> samples
- F> instead of lots and lots of clicks to create sound. That has been
- F> established;
-
- Uh, no, the Amiga uses lots and lots of clicks; however, these are very
- *good* clicks, and there's hardware to manage this.
-
- F> I'm merely saying that it IS possible to use non-sample sound on an
- F> Amiga,
- F> but it's EXTREMELY difficult.
- Not so much difficult as extremely CPU-intensive and not really worth the
- effort. Kinda like playing samples on a machine without hardware to manage
- it.
-
- F> By the way, there were many programs for the Apple that used
- F> incredible
- F> programming tricks to make great sounds. Remember the old game
- F> Seadragon?
- No. I never had an Apple. Had a C64. There were games and demos that did
- 4-bit samples. I especially remember Rob Hubbard's themes to "Skate Or
- Die!" and "BMX Kidz"...
-
- F> if demo writers keep saying that they want to challenge themselves by
- F> creating technically impressive demos, then I have a REAL challenge:
-
- F> I DARE YOU GUYS - MAKE A DEMO WITH MUSIC AND SOUND BUT WITHOUT ANY
- F> SAMPLES!
- Easy. Use Future Composer for the music. Bingo: music without any recorded
- samples.
-
- >And you can do sound manually, too, like you had to do on older machines,
- >but there's really no reason to do so most of the time.
-
- F> Well, there are some reasons...like making programing challenges and
- F> stuff...
- Well, yes, true. Mostly people tend to use synthsounds when they're going
- for small things. But the only synthsound generator i've heard that's
- HALFWAY decent is Sonix, and nobody uses it for anything because there's no
- easily-available play routine.
-
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