A˜„             22KB intro?



ƒ[LeMUr/Fire & blabla]

—   In„ RAW#9 ‚magazine I've read article
—about  this  problem.  And  I thought,
—this is not stupid idea...

ƒ   What  is  this all about? ‚OKee... I
know    that    not    everybody   had
possibility  to  read article in RAW#9
magazine  (I  don't  remember author's
nickname)  because of many reasons. In
that  text  author  suggested limiting
intro's   size   which  are  shows  on
competitions to 22 KB. Why?

   Well,  because  in present limit of
„40  Kb ‚ we can place many things. Long
module,  which  is  not chipy - its no
big  deal  to pack, for example module
of  length  100  KB,  with The Player,
then  pack  samples to 4 bits and with
excellent  instruments  (f.e. from CD)





it  would  sounds  quite  good. We can
insert  a  table  with  counted before
animation.  This  is not a "real" code
,it is a cheat. The table can include,
f.e.   50   ....   (and   we've   "one
frame"...) of animation 160x128 points
in  one bitplane. Simply calculation -
1   byte   is   8   points,   that  is
160x128=20480  points  which  is  2560
bytes.  Everything  multiplies  by  50
gives   128000  bytes.  With  help  of
productive   commpression's  alghorytm
(see  texts in Joker's "Party-zanci 3"
intro)  we  certainly could pack it 10
times...  Music packed to 20 kB, 12 kb
of  tables  and  there are remaining 8
kB.  And this is 2 special effects, at
least!  Intro  is  fuckin''  good, and
there  are  some  "real  time"  effect
inside, showed every frame...
    Another   limit   is  „64  kB‚.  The
situation   is  even  worse  here.  Of
course,  we can say, it is ONLY 64 kB,
we  have  Wolfeinstein  or  Doom. Such
shit  we  can  say  to pc-man. But The
Real  Amiga  Coders  won't  buy  this.
Unfortunately.

   The  smallest  are„  4K-intros‚.  And
personally,  I  like  them  best. Even
sound appear there lately. This is the
best  proof,  we  have  more  and more
better "compressors" ;­) This is good,
but  from  the  other  side  4K-intros
should    be   just   like   FUNZINe's
"zembatki  z  IO2" - real code without
any sound.

„   22  kB‚ is size which allow press in
chipy  (that  'real'  -  in  many ways
better  than  sequence  - has 10-15 kB
without   compression)   and   several
effects.  I  think,  that such intro's
limit  would  be satisfactory for both
sides  -  coders will find room enough
in  it,  and  spectators will not have
doubts about 'real time' counting.

„   In  present days Amiga dies slowly,
„after  all. ‚ Some  coders moves on PC,
because    that   one   gives   better
possibilities  - hard disk is standard
(even   floppy   disks   have   larger
capacity),   so   486sth  has  a  good
'kick'. Amiga man is not fond of demos
uses hard disk - f.e. Noxzema. Me too.
But  I  think, we should give coders a
chance   -  let  6MB  RAM  will  be  a
standard,  at  last and. perhaps, math
co..  Could  you  imagine  Gourauds on
such  machines?  And limit intros size
to  22 kB - let's show pc-men what can
be  placed  in  so  little file. In my
opinion   it   would   be   shock  for
greenhorn   (pc-man)   to   see,  f.e.
shading  human  head  every 2 frame...
(it needn't be "one frame" :)


—   Think  -  maybe "fish" from G-Force
—won't be the only fuckin' good demo?!

—ƒ                 LeMUr‚/ Fire
—                     ‚/& blabla

At the least:
   Did  you  see „ "Dawn"‚ - 4k-intro by
Azure/Artwork  from  The Party 5? It's
superb! G-Force outside...