I have seen some amazing demos on the amiga. especially some of the ppc demos that are so small you cant but marvel at the obvious coding prownes.
I have also seen amazing things on PCs and amstrads and snes etc etc etc.
I love amiga, but I have not used one for quite some time now. I thinks IBM clones have their place. Macs not used. Love my Xbox and my PSP as well.
Really don't see the point in all these recent and over the years. Amiga rulez. windows sucks etc etc on infintium.
All Hardware and software has its place somewhere and everyone has different prefences.
No one is wrong, no one is right. Its all down to personal taste.
Same goes for music
No I agree, as a demo platform the PC coders have hardware light years ahead of anything an Amiga can plug into even a Zorro-III slot, and always will. The PC hardware hasn't been the problem for a decade, very powerful silicon in the box, bar none.
However Windows 7/Vista has no place anywhere. You specifically say Windows sucks sarcastically meaning we shouldn't say that. well only a fool would ever champion Windows today, it is pathetic bloatware beyond belief. 15Gb of space and requiring gigahertz of CPU power and gigabytes of memory just to show a mouse cursor on the screen to run even more bloatware CPU hogging applications, or routines like Flash video, is a joke....which microsoft laugh all the way to the bank about obviously. Windows IS pathetic and you'd have to be a bit of a n00b to think it is either efficient or elegant, what is worse than windows? Nothing. The only time Windows was superior to Linux was in Windows 95 days as far as machine requirements go. I can totally understand why people stopped at XP, you don't actually need anything more and microsoft artificially forcing DX10 off XP and making it Vista was just due to poor sales figures. Crysis was developed on XP-64bit and EA developers had a working DX setup for XP-64bit too, you can even see it in some old videos where they demo the DX10 features after launching the game code from XP 64.
OS X is too close to Linux + fancy windowing environment for me personally, not worth the premium Apple place on their computers...however that to some degree may be personal preference. After all some people genuinely prefer Linux to other operating systems so fair do's. And there are too many expensive paid for updates with OS X, forget that!
But as far as demos go, even 4kb ones, the PC has it's fair share of stunning demos simply because they have oodles of CPU power to play with thanks to having to run winblow bloatware.
Sure as hell though in the past there was some excellent coding, like the SID player and C64 Demo by Per Hakan Sundell for OCS Amigas, yes he of C64S emulator for DOS, who managed to get some amazingly accurate C64 SID tunes converted very closely with just Paula and a 7mhz 68000, show me all you want from later years but this in itself shows a time when extremely efficient coding was in evidence, and there is not a single 8mhz 8086 + 16bit Soundblaster equivalent of the C64 Music Demo as produced for Amiga. Those are the facts and combined with just what a terrible OS Windows is in terms of efficiency you can see why people are right to say Windows IS a pile of crap AND at the time (80s to early 90s) Amiga was king of the demo scene end of story. Sorry if that upsets anyone but those are historical facts on a like for like basis.
However things change, ironically thanks to such pathetic coding by microsoft for each successive OS, so that doesn't mean you shouldn't go looking for post 90s PC demo's or MOD tunes...my favourite on PC has to be from Quazar of Sanxion called Funky Stars. At the same time don't discount Amiga either, Silk Cut by Black Lotus is one hell of a demo, with superb art and music regardless of host machine's limitations. Pixel art and music are universal to all 16/32bit machines, and to some extent the host machine does not matter. If I owned a Falcon I would download Silk Cut for that too, simple.
