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Re: Madwizards have won the Equinoxe demo compo
« on: March 26, 2003, 02:07:47 AM »
Urm.... few things

1. These guys code for numerous platforms so them writing one for MOS is hardly news for these guys, they code some of the best Amiga, PC demos too.

2. It's not "Amiga compatible" demo unless it runs on an Amiga, if it runs on MOS only, here is a bit of a comprehension lesson, its a MOS demo, nothing Amiga-related to it.

3. No reason these guys wont produce an AmigaOS4 version of this and other new demos when it is out. (Unless Genesi have done a Microsoft and bought/paid them out so they only 'exclusively' support one platform)

4. Using demos or whatever, with the small handful of apps/titles on offer to grab users from the Amiga is a decent business idea, but any semi-intelligent person knows that this is the same kinda tripe Microsoft relies on for the XBox using its few and far between exclusive/original titles to try and lure people over to their platform. So using reasons quoted here such as to buy a Peggy over a bloody demo!!!! is insulting the intelligence of people here. A demo can be great, but at the end of the day, once it gets DivX'd, anyone who had any need to get a Peggy just for it, well, the need no longer is there! ;)
 

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Re: Madwizards have won the Equinoxe demo compo
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2003, 12:18:35 AM »
Paul.

In modern times people refer to the Amiga as what is the OS and it's associated products.

AmigaOS 4 *is* an Amiga product.

MOS *is* in the same category as Amithlon and UAE, Amiga-Emulators/Amiga-compatible. It's not an "Amiga product", but it exists (generally speaking) to use Amiga -related apps on it (to varying degrees of success).

So when people talk of an "Amiga-compatible" demo,  it has to then run on an Amiga product. Otherwise by definition its a product of whatever it's created for, ie. a MorphOS Demo.

Saying "Amiga compatible" in such regards is misleading. Regardless of background of coders/platform/etc. Otherwise you may as well call PSX/PS2/etc/etc titles which also don't run on real Amiga's as "Amiga-compatible" because they were done by people who owned/used/coded for Amigas (once) too.