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- From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.203516.9849@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:35:16 GMT
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- In article <1dg7r7INNjil@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- >
- >Well, why should we know about EUROdemos?
-
- Because they are a standard by which other coding efforts should be
- judged. Even commercial works pale insofar as coding complexity and
- efficiency go. Also, if Americans were to ever again code a demo, they'd
- be better off using PAL... you get better res, more things can be done
- per vblank... I'd take those two over a slightly-sharper-image anyday.
-
- >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.
-
- That sums it up pretty well :). It's interesting to note, however, that
- there's no reason why there aren't at least some American members in
- so-&-so groups... now that the Internet is so much more popular, this
- is likely to change.
-
- >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.
-
- Isn't propaganda terrible? :) I think it's ironic that the best computer
- is the least popular... but then, it's also true that morons are a
- majority.
-
- >Maybe we should be asking you why you don't write more Mac or IBM
- >demos or applications...
-
- I think it's because Europeans are a bit more realistic, and choose their
- computers more wisely. Not a flame (except to Mac'n'IBM of course :).
- Oh yeah... Mac&IBM demos are far less practical... you just can't DO
- anything with those... applications (and games with very little action)
- are abundant enough tho :).
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