PSP Demoscene

[Harrison]

What do you think of the Amiga? It is great to see that people are still discovering the Amiga for the first time.

[Submeg]

Its cool that we have people actively involved within the demo scene. Tis quite cool

[ReJ]

Back from vacations.

What do you think of the Amiga? It is great to see that people are still discovering the Amiga for the first time.

Well, for me Amiga looked like an interesting challenge with some bits of nostaligia. I completely missed Amiga, when it was really big - back in the days we heard only rumours about it in Lithuania - bulk of people here had ZX Spectrums at that time (actually those were russian clones).

I liked simplicity and straigtforwardness of Amiga (for example comparing Motorola assembly with *ugh* Intel), but that could be very much wrong Maybe that was just because of experience, tools and environment provided by TBL guys

On the other hand, it looks like main strength of Amiga is 2D. If Amiga would have just twice as fast CPU and memory... that could've been a killer beast in 3D

ReJ: You coming to Evoke?

No had no demos to show Vacations in Switzerland instead.

[Harrison]

On the other hand, it looks like main strength of Amiga is 2D. If Amiga would have just twice as fast CPU and memory... that could've been a killer beast in 3D

Well, that is more due to when the original Amiga was released. 3D wasn't a big thing back in the mid 80's and the Amiga was designed with 2D direct pixel manipulation in mind, and used a planar display method, rather than the chunky display method more commonly seen on PC.

More about Chunky and planar displays can be found here.

And that is actually the biggest stumbling block developers on the Amiga has to overcome when trying to manipulate 3D. Something the demoscene took in their stride and proved could be done.

Obviously with the A1200 the Amiga did gain a faster CPU and more memory, plus later on there was access to much faster CPUs and a lot more ram, including in the end the PowerPC CPUs and 24-bit chunky displays.