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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: The DEMO question
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.021833.2522@cs.umu.se>
Date: 29 Mar 91 02:18:33 GMT
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In article <2109@pdxgate.UUCP> bairds@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Shawn L. Baird) writes:
>jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>
>>    They don't get around enough, then. The best I've seen so far has
>>    been the Wild Copper disk too.
>
>>    What IS state-of-the-art in terms of effects etc nowadays?
>
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>Unfortunately, European demo coders don't seem to be interested in the
>issue of compatibility very much. All that is really necessary is to use
>CIA timing when needed and to reduce some of the complexity of certain
>areas which depend more upon the longer frame rate of PAL machines. This
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If you want to show someone what you can do when stretching your system to its
utmost you simply can't worry about ntsc machines. The simple fact is that
there are no ( or very few indeed ) good american democoders so naturally n.a.
is ignored where demos are concerned.

Regards, Jorgen
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