This is an interesting thread. About one of the key
areas which played a very big role in Amigas history.
First, I think Steffen is a bit arrogant/ignorant..
If you where talking about applications it would all make sense, but we arent. As has been said earlier,
democoding is about limits, reaching them, breaking them. Thee is no such thing on RTG systems. Furtehrmore, demos does NOT have the same goals
as applicaitons. They are captures of the present,
using present hardware. They are timeless. THats waht makes them special. Do NOT diss the democoders for choosing specific hardware to play on, its about inspiration, inspiration you dont get from
codig on a PC with RTG. No isnpiration=no demos.
Now some coders may be a little unaware of new
technologies though. Darkcoder: The PPC is actually
mor fun to code directly than the 68k. You can still
easily beat compilers doing it
. It is more "simple"
than the 68k, for example there is no subtract immediate instruction, you have to use add -x,
there
compose them yourself using smaller and simpler
instructions (alot of optimisations can be made here)
And.. you can schedule the code by hand, although
rather different scheduling may have to be done on
different PPCs though..
