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From: daniel@hexagon.se (Daniel Deimert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: union demo 2
Message-ID: <3333@hexagon.se>
Date: 7 Apr 91 16:09:51 GMT
References: <8216@crash.cts.com> <7871@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <40919@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: daniel@hexagon.se (Daniel Deimert)
Organization: Hexagon Computer Club, OErebro, Sweden
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In-Reply-To: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com

In article <40919@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
) 
)These demos are great, but..  is anyone involved in creating the demos
)also involved in creating anything useful..?

  Actually, many of them are (even if they were not at the time they
made the demo): A few examples could be The Exceptions, The Carebears,
and S.Y.N.C.  (I believe TEX and TCB are working at Thalion GmbH.,
Germany.  SYNC have written Audio Sculpture--we all know what that is,
don't we?)
  Of course, there are even more people NOT working yet, since the vast
majority of these demos are written by youths less than 20 years old.

  The simple truth about the scrolltexts is that everybody knows
everybody else in these circles, and the scrolltext is a good way to
boost your ego.  For example, your friends in school might be impressed
if you in the scrolltext claim that you're trading pirated software with
13 famous cracker groups all over the world.  I know, since I've got to
deal with a lot of people like this in the store, even if most of them
have Amigas. And you should see the ads for different groups' HQ BBSs
at Fidonet here in Sweden. "Always the Latest Warez", they claim.

Piracy on the ST is getting better here in Sweden I think (less of it,
that is ;-).  On the Amiga things are getting worse, though.  As an
example: When we recived the new game "ELVIRA" from Accolade noone would
buy it.  Everyone had been playing it for months, they said.  Compare
this with the Nintendo market: Whenever a new game is released, we have
*already sold* all the cartridges we expect to get, even before we get
them!  Games won't be a success for a home computer until the CD-ROMs
are real cheap.

Hope I didn't tire you,
Daniel

-- 
Daniel Deimert, daniel@hexagon.se or ...!sunic!kullmar!pkmab!hexagon!daniel