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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: The DEMO question
Message-ID: <10182@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 23 Feb 91 03:51:16 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.144351.7811@vax1.tcd.ie>
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <1991Feb18.144351.7811@vax1.tcd.ie> smcgerty@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
> Q: What demo program uses the Amiga to its maximum ability?
> 

    You should add "right now" to your sentence. I hope we can't find a 
demo that uses the amiga to the max .. yet ! The Amiga is a demo machine, 
and that's why it's going to have a long live of demos, and people will 
allways find new things to do with it in demos, like for the C64 or the 
Atari 800.

     But you can still do a sort of historic of all the best demos on 
their times. Like, you start with the original Boing! or the old 
Kaleidoskope (remember the fisrt time you saw an Amiga, and it was running 
kaleidoskope (-:).... and you can go on.

     Would be interesting to do a sort of historical best of like that. 
One demo that just comes to my mind when I try to remember now, is the 
disk with all these demos from wild-copper (I think I've seen them 
somewhere where you can ftp them).

       The demos from the BADGE contest are usually very good (and you can 
find them on fish disks).
       Some people in Europe are demo-collectors, they have hundreds of 
disks filled with demos, most of them are totally borring.

       I think user's groups should be a good source for demos.

                   JNM

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These are my own ideas (not LBL's)