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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Badge Killer Demo Contest
Message-ID: <1970@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 13:44:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1970
Posted: Mon Oct 19 13:44:28 1987
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <245@dana.UUCP> rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
>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
^^^^^^^^^^^

Joel Hagen.

>can happen to you if you watch too much TV.
>
>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. 

I sure would'nt want to port the package that ran RGB to a machine
without a blitter. Ask Dan Silva how much fun it was emulating
the Blitter stuff on a PC.

>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);  

This was one of the most impressive demo's I've ever seen. However,
there is a fundamental difference between this and the Hastings/Hagen
demo's in that the latter "told a story", while the former was just
a continuous loop. After 20 seconds or so, you "get the idea", while
the "movies" take up all the alloted time to complete.

>Yes, I too was too busy with lotsa other stuff... did not enter.

Another book maybe ? :-)

>Maybe next year.  (sigh).

Next year ? How about having one of these things every six months ? Perhaps
alternating between the East and West coasts ?
>
>Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap


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