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From: jlehmann@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jonas A. Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Let's Prove a Point!
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.193049.6097@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 19:30:49 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Okay, there has been a LOT of talk here about how miserable demo coders are,
how poor they know how to program the amiga and how un-OS-friendly their
demos are. Why don't we instead try to SHOW them that it can be done rather
than just talking about it. 

I offer to upload a DEMO (complete "real" source) coded by some 
kiddie programmer with all files needed for it to run (in PAL?!).

We on Use/InterNet take this file, convert it to ....

- Run on any Amiga
- Run without killing OS or preventing Multitasking
- Make it work equally well on NTSC and PAL (sound, gfx)
- Convert all absolute programming to relocatable
- Remove self-modifying code
- Make the code look nice (commenting, style)
- etc etc .. I run out of imagination :-)

e then take this final version and have someone with contacts distribute
it to the people who actual code like this, to show how poor they really are.
It is EASY to talk, it is TOUGHER to act.


	Is there any interest in a test like this!?



	Jonas - jlehmann@wpi.wpi.edu