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The Assembly In Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-pix-post-links dept.

codetalker writes: "Assembly 2001 ended on August 6th and it seems that the demo scene hasn't died yet. Head on over to their ftp and download the latest marvels from Helsinki's massive annual programming and digital art/music competition. Wired also has a couple articles on the subject here(1), here(2) and here(3)."

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  1. Re:Future Crew by kinnunen · · Score: 2, Informative
    Different Future Crew member went on to found two companies: Remedy Entertainment which just released Max Payne, and BitBoys, the designers of the infamous Pyramid3D (good chip, just late for market) and Glaze3D (vapor) 3D-cores. While working on Max Payne the Remedy people also released the Final Reality benchmark (which actually has Max Payne ad in it). Although the people were essentially the same, the company that did FR was different, called Future Mark. Future Mark later renamed to Mad Onion, and has since released the 3DMark benchmarking tools.

    What's the point to of all what I'm saying? Well, Mature Furk is of course a simple anagram of Future Mark...

  2. Re:Straight from the article: by Knos · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.google.com/search?q=boozembly

    oh well, sceners usually can't stand being in that big ice hockey hall filled with 15 years old gamers, so typically meet in a small place outside the party hall where alcohol and other substances are (ab)used and come back to watch the compos if they are not too wasted to enter the party.

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  3. Umm. Pity most of you missed the webcast... by Late · · Score: 3, Informative


    We did an almost 80 hour television broadcast from Assembly for the second year running. Somehow posting it to Slashdot slipped my mind this year. On the other hand Soneras servers would have been hopelessly Slashdotted :)


    Quite a few clips of our material are available for download at www.assemblytv.net and we'll try to get more posted in the next few weeks. Unfortunately there isn't as much material in English as one could hope for.



    I was made next years editor-in-chief for demoscene related programs yesterday, so I'll try to get all our scene material done in English for next year if we manage to gather equipment and funding for a third full scale production.



    If everything does go well, I'll really really try to post to Slashdot next time ;)

  4. Re:Scene.org by spiny · · Score: 2, Informative
    yeah, but when it's done well, it can really work - check out equinox's 'old school'java demos, fantatstic stuf:
    http://equinox.planet-d.net/

    also don't forget hornet.org - still loads of stuff there thats not yet on scene.org

    cheers, spiny

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  5. Demo Maker PC Author Died by friday2k · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dear Demo Fellows!
    Some of you might remember the famous first Demo Maker by TRSI for the Amiga, enabling many people that did not have the skills and/or time to learn coding to make their own Demos on the Amiga. Some of you might also remember the PC Version of it. It was published by Data Becker in those famous 90s. The Author, Andreas Schwaab, died about 6 weeks ago after a long sickness. I hope that you have some good memories of him and his work. I will for sure miss a very good friend!

  6. Lapsuus runs on WinUAE btw by Otis_INF · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you wonder how the winning demo will look like and you only have an old fart amiga500, dual boot in your dusty windows (you know, that OS you use to play that one game) and download WinUAE (a href="http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/">http://www.cod e poet.com/UAE/), get 'Amiga In A Box' (http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/), then grab some kickstart rom from a friendly source (search for 'kick31.rom' on google) and you're ready to go! unpack the .lha archive in a directory and add it as a harddrive to WinUAE, and start it. A friendly amigaOS shell will welcome you.

    After the rush and warm feelings you got inside by re-facing this screen of joy from the old days, go to the harddrive you assigned the lapsuus dir to (f.e. dh3:) and run the demo. Enjoy :)

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  7. Re:Just curious.. by SLi · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the winner demo was for Amiga.

  8. Re:Why aren't there more demos for Linux? by Francis · · Score: 2, Informative
    It seems to me that demo crews would be more interested in writing for Linux than they are. It just seems like the two cultures would mesh well, but apparently they haven't very much.

    There are quite a few - lnxscene.org

    There are a number of reasons why it's not so as convenient as you might think to program in Linux.

    1) Have you ever set up OpenGL in Linux? I mean REAL hardware accelerated GL, not this mini-driver stuff? It can be a painful/impossible experience depending on your graphics card. With windows, it's just a matter of plunking down your vendor-supported video drivers.

    2) The simple graphics stuff can be VERY cpu intensive in X11. Blitting a bitmap to the screen requires TWO long memcpy's. X11 is horrible for this stuff. That's why Windows had fast movie players (Remember Quicktime for Win3.1?) before X - it was possible to access the hardware directly.

    3) For reasons unclear to me, great assembly programmers seem affixed to DOS + derivatives. I think they all grew up in a world (OS) that allowed the assembler to have free range over the address space, able to poke and prod the hardware in ways that sane programmers such as me might consider obscene ;)

    4) If you want to show your stuff off, it's easier if you write for the more common (w32) platform

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  9. Some good demo links... by antdude · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lnxscene for Linux demos. I am not sure if any of these demos are from Assembly.

    Calodox Demology Exchange for user reviews. You can submit your own reviews. This is for PC demos (Windows and DOS).

    Amidemos for Amiga Demos in AVI video format since most of don't have the classic Amiga computers and emulators don'twork well. Check out 05.08.2001: Assembly 2001 winner demo Lapsuus now online ...

    scene.org -- I believe these are for all systems beside PC and Amiga.

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  10. Re:Future Crew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    nothing big?

    how about, oh, say, forming Remedy Entertainment, releasing Final Reality, and writing Max Payne? Surely that's something.