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2013-12-05 01:19
TWW

Registered: Jul 2009
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MEGA demo

What exactly warrants the title MEGA Demo? No category for it so I'm just curious as it was a common expression for any demo spannig across one disk side.
2013-12-05 01:23
TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
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I can't remember having read that very frequently, but I'd rather than with +1 disk sides associate that with sth done by several groups like DOTY but I guess, ppl also used the term rather arbitrarily just as a synonym for "more than 1 part" or just some kind of superlative meaning "mega cool/must have".
2013-12-05 01:35
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11540
imho its not more than one part, but more than one file (usually one disk side, seldomly two) :) quite a loose term indeed =)
2013-12-05 15:51
theWizard
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Quote: What exactly warrants the title MEGA Demo? No category for it so I'm just curious as it was a common expression for any demo spannig across one disk side.

red sector making it.
2013-12-05 15:52
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
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amiga crap has no relevance here, sorry
2013-12-05 16:17
Cruzer

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1051
In the beginning, demos were usually one file, with one or more parts. So when people started combining several files with a loader inbetween it was dubbed a megademo, since it was unusually large for the time.
2013-12-05 16:29
algorithm

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 707
I believe the term originated from the Amiga? where a disk worth of demo (with some compression) was around 1mb in total hence the word megademo?
2013-12-05 16:32
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11540
no, C64 scene used that term before the first amiga megademos were made. (and certainly it has no relation whatsoever to "megabyte")
2013-12-05 18:44
Count Zero

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 2026
Indeed c64 demos went mega way before RSI used the term as a name.
2013-12-05 18:45
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 268
Quote: red sector making it.

+1
2013-12-05 19:36
theWizard
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well thats how i remember the term 'mega' demo first ever 'mega' demo i ever seen was on the oh no ... amiga..
 
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