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2003-01-21 21:46

Dr. Jay
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Registered: Jan 2003
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Demo wars?

I'm interested if anyone has ever "sequenced" demos that are responses to each other, so that others can view them in order and appreciate the challenge of "one-upping" each other. A few examples I can think of:

1. The vertical raster bars - Demonus Interruptus, which refers to a few demos prior, and followed by Interruptus Retriggerus.

2. The shadow casting. In the Plush +h2k demo there is a scene with H2k having a sun and a moon casting interleaved shadows. I just saw a demo the other day (forgot the name) that had the same with just a sun ... obviously the Plush was a "one-up" for that routine.

It would be interesting to line up such demos and watch the evolution over time.

Also, has anyone done/attempted a timeline of when breakthrough effects starting appearing? i.e. first raster routine, first FLD, first FLI, first sprite stretch (I stumbled on this in '88 purely by accident but was a horrible coder and couldn't duplicate it -- I knew the switching on the x-size but was lost on the need to preserve the bad line -- curious when this was "invented" by someone who knew what they were doing), etc.

Look forward to the replies!

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2003-07-31 02:43

Stryyker

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 466

Maybe add Met Crest first? It wouldn't take much to look through old diskmags for announced demos that never happened.

2003-07-31 06:49

CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3038

It's different ... Demos shown and unreleased and demos announced and forgotten.

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