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- From: Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
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- Message-ID: <Paul_Trauth.110j@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 02:36:01 CST
- Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.
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- In a message dated Sat 7 Nov 92 19:56, Keith@cco.caltech.edu (keith Allan
- wrote:
-
- KA> Once you realize that portability and not size and speed optimization
- KA> is the emphasis, you will see why no one really bothers to write
- KA> demos anymore. Again, what is the use writing such a thing (other
- KA> than to practice your machine code on a single machine) when it will
- KA> be useless in but a few years?
- Aesthetic gratification?
-
- I find demos to be, when done well, a sort of computer art. I mean, you've
- got graphics, you've got music, you've got slick algorithms producing
- spiffy effects... It's a multimedia exTRAvaganza! And all done for, well,
- for the hell of it.
-
- KA> So, you can have your machine code, making the neatest demos around.
- KA> But don't come screaming in here when you find that your demos aren't
- KA> compatible with the new chip set or another new hardware feature.
- Who's bitching about demos dying on the AGA? Nobody in this thread...
- People are only bitching about C= not releasing the info we'd need to push
- the AGA as hard as the old chipset's been pushed.
-
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody writes in assembly. Portability is the wave of the
- future. Everybody should write things that are useful. If it runs too slow,
- just buy a heftier CPU.
- You know... this kind of attitude is /completely/ in opposition to the
- attitude of anyone who's going to be writing a demo. If you think demos are
- a thing of the past, and are written with utterly wrong ideas about
- programming methodologies... what the hell are you doing reading this
- group?
-
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