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From: scream@brahms.udel.edu (Darren Amato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Amiga Demos
Message-ID: <20668@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:29:26 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware
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My roomate and I have been collecting and watching amiga demos for 4
years.  We feel that we should start contributing to the massive list of
amiga demos out there.  Unfortunatly we don't know how to go about
doing this.

We both have assembly language experience and some C knowledge.  I
know that some of the demo greats such as:

Anarchy,Crionics,BudBrain,Cryptoburner and Scoopex do not have internet
accounts so we can't contact them directly.  If anyone can put us in
contact with these programmers please E-mail me. 

We are interested in how they started learning about the internal
workings of the amiga and how they started learning how to program.

I also have a few questions about demos:

1)  Are demos like Phantasmogoria, Crionics Mega Demo and BudBrain Demos
all pure code?  What I mean is, did they sit down in front of an amiga
and start typing straight assembly code into an emulator? 
( They must be using some types of software tools)  I find it hard to
believe that someone can sit down and write a 1 Meg Vector Rotating,
super human scrolling, etc etc demo from pure assembly or C code without
any help from a software tool.  Of course I could be totally wrong and
these people could just be amazing programmers.  But I don't know??

2)  Why don't Americans make any demos?  I've only seen European demos.

3)  Is there any program that will emulate PAL mode on a .5Meg agnus?


						-scream@brahms.udel.edu