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akabei
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| Is there really none interested in the old Amiga demo scene, or did you all buy the DVD? I'm just wondering, nobody seems to care the Video DVD is available for free now. It's still a joy to watch something like Hardwired and all the other great megademos(though I miss Odyssey). |
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Acid
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Thousands of demos are freely available on the internet and have been for years. People interested in them probably have most of them already. |
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akabei
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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in DVD quality? on a Video DVD?
I'll doubt that. |
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Acid
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| akabei wrote: | in DVD quality? on a Video DVD?
I'll doubt that. |
DVD quality? they can't be any better quality than what the Amiga outputs as they must have been recorded from it, and the whole point of demos is to see them running on the actual machine doing things you never thought possible. Sure you can probably make the output nicer if you record from WinUAE but then you can just run them yourself on it if you want to, and the files are considerably smaller. |
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CTOJAH
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@akabei
I have only one question :
Do I have to download all parts ? - Or these are 2 identical DVDs, one for NTSC standard and the other for PAL ?
Thank You for sharing 
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akabei
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| CTOJAH wrote: | @akabei
I have only one question :
Do I have to download all parts ? - Or these are 2 identical DVDs, one for NTSC standard and the other for PAL ?
Thank You for sharing |
You'll have to download either every pal, or every ntsc part. After that, use something like 7zip to decompress the files to a double layer iso file. Burn it to disc, or use a virtual drive(e.g. Daemon Tools) to read the iso. |
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CTOJAH
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OK - I'll dl PAL.
It's a little bit confusing : e.g. There are PAL and NTSC Amigas so I was thinking that could be 2 different collections/DVDs. (one for each standard)
Thanks for clarifying.
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Predseda
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Watching recorded demos is imho pointless.
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CTOJAH
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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@Predseda
Can You elaborate Your honest opinion about that ?
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| Predseda wrote: | | Watching recorded demos is imho pointless. |
A lot of people can not emulate an Amiga properly (low machine specs + no PAL 50hz output) so if they don't have a real Amiga they won't be able to view them properly. By properly I mean at full frame rate @50 fps.
Some people upload demo recordings to YouTube, so I guess there is a demand for it - although YouTube recordings don't do the demos justice as they often skip frames and are not viewed at 60hz in most cases.
I'll be curious to see what the quality is like on this DVD as I've downloaded some others (I can't remember the titles) that were bad quality as they skipped every second frame. I'm especially curious to see how they had PAL demos playing smoothly on an NTSC display.
The current state of emulation (WinUAE) is very high so there would be less demand for these DVDs than in previous years.
| akabei wrote: | in DVD quality? on a Video DVD?
I'll doubt that. |
As Acid said, you can't get better quality than the real thing. To put it another way, taking a 320x256 image and stretching it to 720x512 (if that is the DVD resolution) doesn't increase the quality - and in some cases it can blur the image depending on how it was done.
A DVD is convenient way to view demos for those just wanting a quick nostalgia fix |
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