Demos using a GFX mode please !

[Dagon]

there won't be any scene on the new PPC machines (powered by morphos, os4) because they're just standard hardware and makes them not different from PCs for demos. ?

Can anyone reassure me ? Is there a spirit that can be pursued on the new ppc machine (optimization, passion, ...). ?

I know it is considered very cool and has become a cliche to say that to make a demo it must be in a custom hardware. Well that is not true anymore.
I hang around on a IRC channel #demo-gr and there are pleanty of people that have passion, and they like to optimise their demos. And you know what? Most of them don`t have a custom computer. They use their PCs. Does that makes them non-sceners? I don`t think so. Does that makes them having no passion?

I think we can make an AmigaPPC scene and still have passion, optimization etc.

You`ll say that nowdays computers are more powerfull etc. And A500 was more powerfull than C64, so was A1200 than A500 and now PPC based Amigas are more powerfull than their predecessors. Exploit the power that is given to you to make more cool stuff (whatever you think is cool) that is all I have to say.

Yeah, it is also exciting to code on our old Amigas but that doesn`t mean that we mustn`t do as well with our new ones.

Open your minds, don`t  close yourselves in cliches.

[Dagon]

and face the fact that AMIGA = CUSTOM CHIPSET thats when what we discuss here makes sense

define custom chipset:
Do you mean that all Amigas have the same chipset?
Because that isn`t true at least the last 15 years. It`s been years that I havent used AGA on my Amiga.(Since I bought CyberVision64 3D which has a Virge chipset) Nor all Amigas have the same hardware (Various Motorola CPUs same as Apple etc..) Since then I almost stopped seeing demos because I had my TV set connected with my A600HD and I couldn`t change all the time the cables, ports can be damaged in time with this procedure.

I bet for you an A4000/A1200 with PPC, PCI slots with voodoo, soundblaster, ethernet, USB with scanner and webcam running AmigaOS 3.9 isn`t really an Amiga because it uses of the shelf chipsets and accessories. The new&old Macs are real macs when they use ATI/nVidia?

i have a feeling that next u want the c64 guys to make RTG demos also, eh??

I dont put Amiga in the same fate with C64. Except if you consider Amiga just as a retro hobby. I`m not.


I can perfectly understand you that what you do, you do it for your own fun, that`s okay with me, I just hope that you will do your productions available also for the new Amigas that are about to come. :-)