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- From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.104423.26641@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <MKNIP.92Nov6113247@blob.hut.fi> <1992Nov06.161907.20975@crash> <MKNIP.92Nov9165110@blob.hut.fi> <1992Nov09.153733.21366@crash>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:44:23 GMT
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- tfinn@crash.cts.com (Aaron Grier) writes:
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- >>> Would someone kindly define what exactly copper and blitter plus
- >>> any other amy specifics are?
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- >>Hope you got some ideas.
- >>
- >Thanks! Yeah.. the PC still has a way to go. Fact is it wasn't designed
- >for demo-making. I guess that's why it took this long. Plus you still
- >run into the "multiple-standards"... kinda funny. Well you could say that
- >VGA is a standard, as almost all IBM demos do some register level "hacking"
- >to achieve their ultra-smoothness. Sound is another matter... lessee...
- >you can choose between SB, SB pro, homade DAC, stereo-homade DAC, DMA run,
- >timer run, etc... what a mess! :-)
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- The amiga wasn't designed for demo-making either. It was originally designed
- for arcade-games. Especially fast flight simulations...
- On amiga we also see more and more of what you call "multiple-standards".
- In one way it's great 'coz you can configure your system so it suits your
- needs (and wallet :-) but on the other hand it's a NIGHTMARE for us
- democoders...
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- >I want my plasma... also that budbrain demo... that is some cool stuff!
- >especially that "it began in Africa" part. Simply awesome.
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- Yep... Budbrain has a special style... Either you like it or you don't like it
- (I guess I like it)
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- BIRDIE NAM NAM FOREVER
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- Carsten
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