| From: | John Worthington |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 16:44:55 |
| Subject: | Re: Vote for your favourite demo |
--- In amigactive@egroups.com, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@w...> wrote:
>
> I don't, except a CDTV.
Others may help?
>
> A 1200/030 with AGA would struggle to run a QT/AVI anim, it
certainly
> wouldn't run as smoothly as the original, And it kind of defeats the
> point anyway.
>
I wouldn't be running it on an 1200/030/AGA but then that's me.
What do others think?
> File sizes would be a real problem. Even with MPEG encoding, which
I'm
> not able to do, you'd only get three 20 minute demos on the CD.
You'd be
> lucky to get one with QT.
>
Some of the song videos I have hit around 70meg, some 12meg but a
bit rough on full screen! how big was dataworld 2
> One of the points of demos was to show off what could be done with
low
> spec hardware. Requiring fast processors and hundreds of megabytes
of
> storage space completely defeats that.
I agree, and many of us are proud of that but it is a another
way to be nostalgic over some very good metal banging demos.
Regards
John
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