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From: rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Badge Killer Demo Contest
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 20:47:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 20:47:04 1987
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Summary: Maybe next year...

The Badge contest was held last night, with 30 entries, and over 150 judges
present.  

Winners are to be announced Monday or so. 

My personal favorites are Alan Hastings' car.demo which is the first
four (critical) scenes from his latest videotape offering
"Apocalypse Real Soon Now".   Those who have not seen it, I
won't be the spoiler... someone else can do that.  The other favorite,
and seeminly by many present as well, was "RGB", (author's name
escapes me), an instructional video (lesson #8 I think) about what
can happen to you if you watch too much TV.

For the RoboCity News, in August, I had written a crystal ball gazing
attempting to predict which neat features of the Amiga might possibly
at last be shown off by the contest entrants.  It did not quite happen
that way.  Yes, the entries were interesting and entertaining, but it
would have been even better had it been obvious somehow that the entries
(with appropriate software/hacking) could not have been done on any
other computer.  There were three of the 30 that did address Amiga-only
capabilities, one called Halfbrite-Hill that showed the ghost of
Fred Astaire dancing as a 32-color (half-brite) ghost against
a 32-color background (by Kevin Sullivan);  
the second demo of this nature was
"ripple.demo" that put a continuous wave effect onto the Workbench
"in the grand tradition of Leo's viacom demo" (author?);  
and the third demo
that was doing a 3D wire frame animation using standard system calls
seemed to surprize folks somewhat (Matt Dillon).  
Oh yes, and a 26k of object code demo from Mark Riley that did
a nice 3D starfield/planet flyby effect. 


But I must say that I do look forward to the next contest, during which
someone might really do something that actually takes advantage of
the Amiga's built-in capabilities and won't appear as a me-too on
some other computer's demo disk at the trade fairs, simply because
it cant be done. 

Yes, I too was too busy with lotsa other stuff... did not enter.
Maybe next year.  (sigh).

Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap