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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- References: <1dg7r7INNjil@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov7.203516.9849@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1dhp99INNqn5@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov8.050234.20202@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1dj1sqINNetk@gap.caltech.edu> <jbickers.0i1k@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1ds2b3INN1ht@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Date: 14 Nov 92 13:30:55 PST
- Organization: TAP
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- Quoted from <1ds2b3INN1ht@gap.caltech.edu> by keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider):
-
- > > necessary on the target platform for quality results. If you're
- > > willing to give up quality because of the portability myth,
-
- > Have you ever seen the "Quicktime" things for the Mac (and others)?
-
- And others? What, other than a Mac, plays a Quicktime animation?
-
- > I'd call some of them pretty amazing. They aren't quite as optimized
- > as the Amiga machine code demos, but they will run on almost any platform.
-
- Honestly, I don't know of any animation format that runs on almost
- any platform. And of the few animation formats I've seen or heard
- about, the playback routines are usually in assembler (except when
- they are in hardware :).
-
- > Pretty amazing to me.
-
- Well, Imagine is pretty amazing. Hell, even Excel is quite
- amazing. It's a different kind of amazing to demos, though.
-
- It's like the difference between plasma and what the PCs seem to
- call plasma. The latter is a cheap effect, the former is very
- slick.
-
- > keith
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