Demo's and the one that made you go #### me!!!!

[csirac_]

I always thought the Amiga 64KiB demos absolutely rocked. They do. They are awesome. Especially the music (for most, anyway) like "I want to be machine" (I think that was it).

Anyway, a friend showed me "The Product" for Wintel PCs. It's 63.5KiB. And there is no way any 68k Amiga could ever come close.

http://theproduct.de/

It doesn't really run on my P-II 300Mhz/TNT16MiB, but that's OK - this demo really does utilise those resources! Must eat lots of memory, takes ages to decompress..

Truly an incredible feat of assembly, mathematics and forsight... the amount of detail is incredible; it uses mathematic expressions to generate textures, camera motion, objects... damn.

This one demo for the PC is probably responsible for a lot of PC demo coders just giving up - since they have to be compared to the product!

Cheers,

- Paul

[csirac_]

@SKAN: Yes, I saw one of (the?) Lapsuus/Maturfurk demos, certainly one of the better ones ;-)

@amigaguy: It is true, tacking on to the monolith DirectX API is cheating a bit, still, I guess the bar has been raised. A similar oppurtunity would arise when AOS4 comes out I guess. If it comes with Mesa GL or whatever OpenGL support it's supposed to have, we'll see what new generation of PPC OS4 demos will look like with a brand new "lowest common denominator".

- Paul