http://www.osnews.com/story/72/Interview_with_Saku_of_Maturefurk_the_Winning_Assembly_2001_Demo_Team Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:23:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? And good to see the Scene is still this hot, hope to see more good stuff like this! Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? I hope this isn't their last demo for the Amiga.
I hope to download a new one next year ! Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Now it`s time for people to concentrate on getting the most out of the new Amigas which are coming our way real soon. I`ll will be buying an AmigaOne 1200 because it will give me full AGA compatibility as well. Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Cool! Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? amiga NEVER had any 3d capabilities!

the never was any 3d-related hardware: it was/is all software....

which makes the scene coders all the more god-like! Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Obviously you never played any early 3D games on the Amiga, these existed well before anything remotely impressive was available on other platforms. Trex Warrior (created by the team who did Lion Heart for the Amiga http://www.cus.org.uk/~alexh/games/lionheart/lionheart.html) for instance was one great 3D game I loved to play very much, in this game you would fight against different spaceships in a 3D arena. Some years later Doom was hyped very much within the video game industry. Sadly for Amigans this game wasn`t designed to use Amiga`s chipset features, thus it needed alot of CPU power to be played. Partly because most Amigans hadn`t upgraded their hardware to reasonable CPU specs, ID Software decided not to release it on the Amiga platform. I still think it was a strange decision, as Doom needed the best possible PC hardware configuration available to the PC at the time and caused a real rush to the shops by consumers. Doom (and later Quake) finally made it to the Amiga when its source was released by ID Software. A shame really that they decided not to port it, as it runs with ease on hardware available for Amigas at the time. Maybe it could have done the same for the Amiga as it did for the PC.

Also note that Amigas have a very commendable reputation within the 3D field. Not only were most 3D renderings done on Amigas during the mid-eighties-early nineties (i.e. Babylon 5), the first virtual reality systms also used Amiga technology. With fast CPUS on the horizon Amiga has the ability to start playing a role within 3D market segment again. Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? > never was any 3d-related hardware: it was/is all software....

Note that many Amigans nowadays use specialized 3D games orientated 3DFX Voodoo video cards with their classic 68k or PPC Amigas. Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Amiga still RULEZ!!! Doesn't this tell something about PC coders? 10-year old hardware beats their ass - Amazing! By the way, the same crew made last years Assembly winning demo for PC. Sat, 01 Sep 2001 12:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? No anims, no OpenGl no Direct X or what else
Pure Code of fast assembler 68060,
So, hope we 'll see the next demos on
Aone with G4/750mhz in full high-resolution
and Real-time calculation **no fake like on PCs**
Amiga can do more, but with a good Coder Sat, 01 Sep 2001 18:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Maturefurk == Futuremark, most the people behind those 2000 & 2001 Assembly prods. are from company MadOnion (former Futuremark division of Remedy) . So, essentially they are PC coders these days... They have backgrounds from Amiga and PC scenes.

And you can do decent demos with PC, it's just that...well.. I personally simply believe, that when Amiga demo scene (by large) died, also the real scene died. Sadly it isn't the same anymore. Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments