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- The following text is reproduced "AS IS", from the intro from
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- the rather good ( ! ) Team Hoi demo "MINDWARP".
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- Everyone seems to hype about the "ADVANCED" Amigas nowadays.....
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- Please allow us to inform you of the hard(ware) facts concerning
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- the new AMIGA 1200.
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- Did you know,for instance, that both the Blitter and the Copper
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- (the Amiga's most important trumps) have not become ANY faster
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- with regard to the "old" Amiga...?!
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- The new A.G.A machines have got no 24-bits incarnation of the old
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- Copper, it is just the same one as in the standard Amiga.
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- That is not all...
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- If you own an A.G.A Amiga with a C.P.U faster than the standard
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- 68020 (like an A1230 or an A4000), the following phenomenon will
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- occur: the bitplanes you use and the higher your resolution is,
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- the slower your blitter will operate!
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- The delay problems seem to commensurate with the speed of your
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- C.P.U...!
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- These setbacks do NOT mean that you can not do anything better
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- than before.
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- The fireworks in the introduction of our previous demo
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- ("PLANET GROOVE") show 8192 dots on screen simultaneously,
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- in two bitplanes and a 24-bits colour gradient in the background.
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- (not to mention the music)
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- The Planet Groove interludes calculate a colour-cycling high
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- resolution picture in 256 colours.
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- The "A star is born" part contains a 128-sided blitter polygon
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- in five bitplanes and "My fair lady" is a realtime manipulation
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- of a full size low resolution picture.
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- Finally, "Phantom of the opera" cross-fades two low resoluion
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- pictures of four bitplanes each,in 256 different phases,while
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- scrolling a high resolution scrolltext with a colour effect at the
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- bottom of the overscan screen.
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- The whole demo runs in Fifty frames per second on a standard AMIGA
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- 1200 and was programmed without any specific A.G.A hardware
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- documentation in february 1993. It is the very first "Illegally"
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- programmed demonstration in the world.
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- We hope this information will satisfy sceptics and specification
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- freaks. If you are interested in Team Hoi's audiovisual efforts
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- (including commercial games), Please feel free to contact us at
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- the folloing address :->
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- Team Hoi
- ALBRECHTLAAN 14
- 1404 AK
- BUSSUM
- THE NETHERLANDS.
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- Thank you for your kind interest and we now invite you to enjoy
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- this new production called "MINDWARP"
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- Created in APRIL and released in JUNE 1993 (Due to a hard-disk
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- crash)......
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- Well what do you think of that lot !
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- The A1200 hasn't changed its Copper or Blitter?
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- Well it just goes to show that once you have a good thing,
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- you don't need to change it ! ! ! ! !
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- NOW CHECK OUT THE MINDWARP DEMO. available from most good
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- P.D. Libraries, or direct from us!
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- (see P.D. reviews section for price and address).
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