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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Chris
• last name: Hodges
• portals:
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Blood Sugar Rises by AttentionWhore
• cdc #2: Desire FM by Desire [web]

• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Shaggy by DuskWave
• I usually don't come here anymore to comment. However, as a counterpoint I wanted to share my own opinion that might divert from others.
  
  I found the demo very entertaining. It was funny, and I wanted to know with whom they would come up next, regarding the scientists. The soundtrack was a real banger. The effects were, well, not spectacular, but they did not need to be. Sometimes I thought the 3D plane sorting was broken on purpose to make it more interesting.
  
  As for the system requirements: I don't care much about oldskool or how you paint your nostalgia in. If I target A500 512+512 for my own stuff, that's my personal decision. There have been high-end Amiga demos for a long time, regardless if you classify them as ECS or AGA. TBL was mentioned a few times -- some of the high-end AGA demos are very much generic in the sense that they only use the Amiga as a framebuffer. What's the point in that? Especially after, say, 1995? A few have been ported to other platforms, which makes sense because they're as generic as most of the PC productions nowadays. Most of them don't entertain me at all. Bland, replaceable.
  
  To me, stubbornly still using AMOS to express creativity shows more of the Amiga spirit than most of the high-end (AGA) Amiga productions that don't even use a single sprite or even a more than standard copperlist. (Imagine what might have happened, if I had added more demoscene stuff into AMCAF 28 years ago -- would you claim AMOS/AMCAF would be a demomaker kit that kills the demoscene? I doubt it!).
  
  Downvoting a production because in your opinion it should have been marked as "AGA" or "Wild" to me seems kind of arrogant (that also goes with the comment about "difficult to produce" and "personally-developed dedicated tools" -- as if e.g. the triangle data drop out of the sky -- how do you know, how much effort went into producing that demo?). Revision for example, (IMHO) fails every year to make an Amiga competition that makes things actually comparable. There have been ZX Spectrum demos with 100 MHz CPUs and at some point I was thinking of doing a "Wild" intro that would use UAE with "immediate blitter" enabled (would that count as an Amiga intro or not?).
  
  Congrats for winning the compo with Shaggy. Keep up the good work! Watching the progress Domel had over the last few years, I guess he will not need to play with AMOS for much longer, but if he has fun, who are we to discourage him?
• rulezadded on the 2022-09-01 22:11:11
• 4k Amiga OCS/ECS Unicode Attac by Five Finger Punch
• Very cool, especially for 4k.
• rulezadded on the 2022-06-19 17:43:37
• 256k Amiga OCS/ECS Halifax Demo
• Oldskoolish.
• rulezadded on the 2022-06-17 18:19:14
• demo Windows Llama Drama
• More content than Rob is jarig, and that was not done by a 10-years old. Should have ranked higher. Keep up the good work! Only llamers llament :)
• rulezadded on the 2022-05-30 08:18:00
• 256b TIC-80 Thrive by Agenda
• OMG!
• rulezadded on the 2022-05-29 18:29:56
• 4k procedural graphics Windows Orders of Magnitude by bitshifters collective [web]
• Ossom. Best Visuals (disks with right proportions unlike another production).
• rulezadded on the 2022-05-28 11:19:26
• demo Wonderswan bad apple!! for wswan
• >8 MB. Not impressed. I thought Bad Apple was supposed to be over?
• isokadded on the 2022-05-23 13:21:39
• invitation Atari ST GemTos 2022 - la bande-annonce by pépé production [web]
• Many nice ideas, a wonderful tribute to the Atari legacy.
• rulezadded on the 2022-05-22 11:56:56
• 8k Amiga OCS/ECS Plastic Dove by Abyss [web]
• Yes! That looks very promising! Great work!
• rulezadded on the 2022-05-20 16:25:00
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Planet Rocklobster by Oxyron [web]
• Missing thumb. What Soundy said.
• rulezadded on the 2022-05-11 11:57:41