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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. |
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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". |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
imho its not more than one part, but more than one file (usually one disk side, seldomly two) :) quite a loose term indeed =) |
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theWizard
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Registered: Jul 2007
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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. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
amiga crap has no relevance here, sorry |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
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. |
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algorithm
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 705 |
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? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
no, C64 scene used that term before the first amiga megademos were made. (and certainly it has no relation whatsoever to "megabyte") |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1927 |
Indeed c64 demos went mega way before RSI used the term as a name. |
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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
Quote: red sector making it.
+1 |
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theWizard
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Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 109 |
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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theWizard
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Quote: amiga crap has no relevance here, sorry
commodore machines , i know what ya meen though lol or id call ya prick. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
we call it lamiga for a reason, yep |
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theWizard
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Posts: 109 |
Quote: we call it lamiga for a reason, yep
sexmiga ? |
