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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 Is Real by Desire [web]
• So people blamed me for not mentioning October 7. Well, here's October 7 for you.
• isokadded on the 2024-04-09 18:30:35
• 32k Amiga OCS/ECS SpaceBoot Intro by Scoopex [web]
• Stuck in the 90ties, no-effort recycling of code. By photon's own standards, this deserves all thumb downs he is so eagerly putting onto other fine prods.
• sucksadded on the 2024-02-04 12:19:27
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Ordo
• Don't let the confusing negative comment by Photon distract you from your release being an excellent contribution to the demoscene and a milestone for you as one-man-production. This is more than a slideshow and it has more design to it than any Scoopex production, that Photon has been involved in, has ever had.
  
  Even if the "tools" for your effects were quite limited, the outcome is really great. That makes it deserve even more respect.
• rulezadded on the 2024-02-04 12:14:56
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Is Real by Desire [web]
• I will make a one-time exception regarding not engaging anymore on pouet.
  
  
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  But if those relationships are less clear I find it troubling somehow, and imo demos/art/music/etc that do this risk trivialising incredibly important issues for unclear ends.
  

  
  
  My relationship is that I would like to think of myself of a humanist, a pacifist, and as my nick might suggest, I have been pondering about and studied philosophical questions more than half of my life. My bias is towards the weak, and I detest the rule of the (physically) stronger ("might is right") because it contradicts equality (within a society and law).
  
  So no, this is not a demo that would show "the other side" of the conflict. This is about civilians being murdered. There is absolutely no need to know the precursor to killing people (esp. children), because at least for me, there is no such thing as "just war" and it can NEVER be justified.
  
  
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  In this case, there are enough indications that the author's "take" on the topic could be quite superficial. For instance, use of crucifixes/crosses to represent murdered civilians in the Muslim world is at best grimly ironic, and at worst flat out offensive, depending on your personal level of sensitivity ;).

  
  
  Let me tell you that I have thought long time about this, but then sticked with the crosses, which are not a religious symbol for me in this case. It's merely a symbol of death. I could not have picked a symbol at that resolution that would have been understood likewise. The main audience is "the West" and the people are familiar with this cross symbol and its meaning. The audience are NOT Muslims whom I suppose already know exactly what is happening in Gaza and Westbank and not just since October 7th.
  
  I find it a bit underwhelming that you pretend to know if muslims would be offended or not about this depiction of crosses. Maybe that's one of their lesser problems? Let them decide for themselves.
  
  
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  as long as the Palestinians are not respected and
  no agreement on an own state will be found (there have been
  negotiations and offers over the last decades but all of them were
  turned down by the Palestinian leadership if I am not mistaken)
  

  
  
  Find out if you are mistaken (or not) by researching this a little. The history of this conflict is long and heartbreaking and I cannot transfer this experience. There are plenty of resources out there (maybe try Scott Ritter or Chris Hedges).
  
  The best chance for peace came to a sudden end when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by his own people. Since then, ultranationalists have seized power and abandoned the two-states-idea.
• isokadded on the 2024-01-25 20:22:26
• demotool Windows Amiga OCS/ECS PreTracker 1.5 by Abyss [web]
• Quote:

  Replay is taking 10k *packed* and too much raster time on a 68000.

  
  
  Here's the cure: Raspberry Casket Pretracker replayer.
  
  Twice the speed, half the size (packed). Comes with source code.
• isokadded on the 2022-12-28 15:33:59
• 16k Amiga OCS/ECS Zapped In by Abyss [web]
• Ooooh no! More than gray screen without music, but clearly an offence to the unwritten no-exe music rules here on pouet. Bye bye.
• isokadded on the 2022-09-08 22:52:38
• 8k Amiga OCS/ECS Plastic Dove by Abyss [web]
• I am sorry, I guess the “exe-music is not worthy of pouet”-police will come soon to delete this prod.
• isokadded on the 2022-09-08 22:50:09
• 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