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- From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 11:04:07 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 64
- Message-ID: <1dg7r7INNjil@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Nov5.222433.7579@lth.se> <1992Nov6.060011.28572@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Nov6.093758.20621@lth.se> <1992Nov7.044209.25592@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov6.093758.20621@lth.se> d90mj@efd.lth.se (Maarten Johansson) writes:
- >>
- >>No, I don't dislike Americans and it's often stupid to generalize like
- >>that. All those Americans I know are really nice friends in fact, but most
- >>of them still don't know anything about eurodemos.
-
- >Well, that's true :). It's a mystery to me, too..
-
- Well, why should we know about EUROdemos?
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >>I know
- >>that I can't generalize too much, but I haven't seen any good american
- >>demos since EagleSoft in 1986.
-
- >That's one up on me :). I've NEVER seen a good American demo. However,
- >I've seen a couple of very small but somewhat interesting Canadian demos :).
-
- >>About one year ago I tried to start an American Demo Chart like the
- >>EuroChart by Crusaders, to make people more aware of the existing american
- >>demos. Maybe that's a good idea, don't you think?
-
- >It would be a good idea if this country actually produced enough demos
- >to make a top-ten (or a top-three... or a top-one ;)... the only group
- >I know of that has any American members is ours (gee...duh! :) Actually,
- >I heard that a group called Bloodsuckers used to have some...but I haven't
- >seen anything from them at all (so they're probably dead).
-
- Now wait. The Amiga is not a very popular computer here in the US. Most
- people have Macs or IBMs. It is not all that surprising that there aren't
- many American demos. It is not that there just aren't any GOOD
- American demos--there just aren't ANY American demos.
-
- I have, however, noticed that most of the good animations seem to be
- American. There are a few American MODs out there. Quite a few good
- American utilities, etc. These are things that can be done alone, though.
- I have never actually worked on a demo, but I understand it is quite a
- cooperative effort. I suppose you could do it alone, but for the
- intricate (and thus impressive) ones, the specialists add their
- masterpiece.
-
- I mean, how many of you guys could make a smashing demo all by yourself?
- Sure, you could do it, but it would take you quite some time. But
- with other people doing what they do best (coding, music, graphics,
- or whatever), you can churn them out at some respectable rate.
-
- But here... out of 1000 or so undergraduates, I'd say there are at most
- 10 Amigas. That's 1% at such a technically oriented college as mine.
- In the general population, the percentage is much smaller. (and the
- majority of those were bought by kids and used as game machines). I
- couldn't fathom getting together a demo group. There are only a handful
- of serious Amiga users groups across the country.
-
- You should be surprised that any Americans have written ANYTHING for the
- Amiga!
-
- Maybe we should be asking you why you don't write more Mac or IBM
- demos or applications...
-
- keith
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