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- From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 22:03:34 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 54
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- Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:
-
- >In a message dated Sat 7 Nov 92 19:56, Keith@cco.caltech.edu (keith Allan
- >wrote:
-
- That's Keith Allan SCHNEIDER, by the way...
-
- > 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?
-
- What? I think the demos are great. I just wouldn't want to write one.
- My whole point was to defend the fact that no Americans write these demos.
- My points were (1) there are very few Amigas in the US and (2) very few
- people write in machine language anymore. The demos that are written
- tend to be for multiple platforms (such as QuickTime things).
-
- Believe me, I think there is immense talent required to write these demos.
- I've seen some that do amazing thins yet take up very little space (and
- these together are the what everyone is trying to do--maximize functionality
- vs. size (or whatever)).
-
- However, given the fact that there are nearly equal numbers of Macs,
- IMBs and Unix boxes here (with no Amigas to be seen), please don't
- wonder too hard or long why no Americans write Amiga demos.
-
- keith
-
-