carls wrote:
Dr_Righteous wrote:
I'm probably in the minority here, but I was unimpressed with the demo. It's painfully obvious to me most of the work was done in Lightwave, which is available on just about every platform out there. Call me oldschool, but I'm far more impressed by demos done primarily in code... Preferably assembler... Written to take full advantage of the system's hardware directly.
Damn I miss Future Crew.
If you miss Future Crew, who to my knowledge never released an Amiga demo, I can't see why you're bashing TBL...
Well, there was Lapsuus (Future Crew = Future Mark = MadOnion 3dMark = Maturefurk)
But Future crew just stole effects and ideas from Amiga demos and recoded them in 386 asm for the PC. I just watched Second Reality again and still can't see anything in there that hadn't already been done on Amiga several years earlier (rotzooms, plasmas, glenzvectors). And a lot of these effects were easier to code for VGA thanks to the byte-per-pixel graphics. The only reason they became famous was because they were the first to do it on PC, which at the time was still largely a business machine.
They were good at what they did but they certainly weren't innovative or groundbreaking.
