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From: jayward@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AMIGA DEMOS: Europe VS. USA
Keywords: demos
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Date: 26 Apr 91 16:37:57 GMT
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jon@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:


>About amiga demos:

>There are a lot of them.  They have been getting more and more complex.
>They are becomming competitive!  And *most* of the solid-vector/wild copper/
>blitter-mania demos are all coming from EUROPE!  

>Why is this?  Is this a cultural thing?  Demos from the States tend to be
>of the 'movie' genre or 'showanim's.  This type of demo is entertaining,
>but (hopefully) doesn't display the talent and mathematical ingenuity that
>Americans like to claim they possess.

>It just seems to me that from the evidence I've been shown,

>-- Europeans tend to walk on the wild side of coding,
>   while Americans are happy making their nifty utilities and short movies.
>-- Europeans tend to display more graphic, production, and music
>   talent than Americans do in their code.
>-- Europeans seem to get the 'head start' on computing, seeing that the
>   average demo-writer in Europe is still in his teens.
>-- European demos are very creative.  Some demos are very entertaining.
>-- European groups are competing -- who can make the coolest demo!?


While were making such generalizations...  Ever notice that American demos
always seem to work correctly on whatever configuration you are using and
for the most part seem operating system friendly while our counterparts
across the pond ALL seem to have 512k one drive machines :-) :-)


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