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From: c506634@UMCVMB.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
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Subject: AMIGA DEMOS: Europe VS. USA
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Date: 23 Apr 91 22:22:17 GMT
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In article <20691@brahms.udel.edu> jon@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
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> About amiga demos:
> -- European demos are very creative.  Some demos are very entertaining.

Oh, I really should know better than to respond to this but what the heck.

I strongly disagree that European demos are more creative.  In fact the
problem with a good number of European demos is that they are NOT creative.
If I see another block of smooth scrolling text or another star field I'm
going to scream!

American demos tend to be people who are primariliy artists.  Long on
creativity and interesting subject matter.   They use primarily canned
annimation systems.  Becuase of the limitations of such systems the
implimentation comes up short.  There just aren't enough frames, there just
isn't enough memory to do everything.  You get the feeling like: Wow! This
is cool but it would sooooo much better if it were done on amiga 4000 with
32 meg of ram.

Most European demos are done by people who are primarily programmers.
Using tightly optimized assembler and going directly to the hardware they
achieve truly amazing implimentions.  Everything is very smooth and fast.
The trouble is not nearly enough effort is put into chosing the subject
matter and the imagary.  Too many have a very "flat" look and use the same,
simplistic plan.  A single view point view point where stuff moves arround
gets old after awhile.

The really good demos achieve a ballance between these aproaches.  I happen
to like Walker II.  Lots of good imagary.  Fairly smooth action.  All this
comes with the penalty that you need 3 meg to run it.

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