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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Badge Killer Demo Contest
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 20:47:02 EDT
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In article <4466@zen.berkeley.edu> bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
<"Wavebench" uses the beam-synced graphics co-processor (copper) to 
<do work it's magic.  This is one of two of the demos that really could not
<be ported at all to the other computers.  The rest would just loose color,
<speed and grace.
<
<The other no-port was the "demo shower"  (I forget the name, and forgot to
<snag a blank judging form after the contest.)  This one fired up a bunch
<of demos and moved the screens in a waterfall pattern.  The demos
<were all written to run stand alone, until this sadist by the name of "Mike
<Myer" decided to run them all at the same time.  Worked, too.

Thank you. I wanted to point that out to Rob after his posting, but
decided that it would be a bit - well, "That would be wrong."

Likewise, Bryce failed to mention that he was a great help by providing
demos (boing and fields) that worked under 1.2 with expanded memory.
And boy, did that need expanded memory; it used nearly all the CHIP
memory as CHIP memory.

The name is "bully." Not only do I think it's a bully demo, but it
pushes other demos around. And I suspect that was the demo that Tom
wanted to rewrite. It started life as something else, and has
vestigal code all over the place. I'll probably rewrite it when I get
the time.

Finally, I have to disagree with Bryce. Both demos used magic hardware
in the Amiga, but both could be done in software given the right
software. For Wavebench, I think the only "right software" is NeWS.
The hard part would be getting performance out of the software
anywhere near as good as the hardware on the Amiga provides.

	<mike

P.S. - did Tom really misspell my name? I hadn't noticed...
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