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hm... java

If this doesn't work, try saving this html into the same dir as the .jar file: http://scali.scali.eu.org/demo.html
Then open it in a browser or with appletviewer.
Edit the BrowserDemo value to "false" to allow high-quality .ogg playback on Java 1.3+

Here's an idea: read the .nfo :)
It's not meant to run in a browser anyway.
Best way to run it is fullscreen as an application.
But with certain JVMs it goes out of memory. The .nfo tells you how to avoid that and explains the different ways in which you can run it. The HTML is a final fallback (mostly for people with only the MS JVM installed).

it is... the demo was made in a few days time piles and piles of junk... and the junk itself was also quick and ugly, so :P

Are you calling my code 'piles of junk'? ;)

yes... you're fired!

Well, it may not be particularly fast, but it uses bilinear filtered texturing throughout, with 2 or even 3 textures at the same time.
It's a shame that you can't really see that.
Radial blur is bugged, I know. I couldn't fix it in time, but I used it anyway, because else there were even less effects.
The camera is a bit sad... It wasn't supposed to go through the object, but I edited the timing somewhere, and created this bug.
As for the overlays. They are actually bilinear filtered. But I decided to use an RLE spriteroutine rather than the regular bilinear filtered pointsprite routine, to make it faster.
And making that subpixel-correct is rather hard. I was hoping for faster layer movement, then it would not have been a problem.

So yes, I know there are a lot of small bugs and problems. If people are interested, we can do a final version, but I guess that would just be wasted effort.

So yes, watch out for the next release, where I will burn extra CPU speed on subpixel-correct overlays just for sagacity.

That's right plek, it easily beats your software-rendered party-hacks ;)

And that's where you're wrong plek. I would never allow some arrogant uselessly flaming bastard who's never made a top-quality demo himself to be on my side.
If you don't have constructive criticism, don't say anything at all (and I mean that in general, not related to this demo ofcourse).

You're not bright enough to see the difference between a flame and constructive criticism. "Subpixel correction is missing" immediately says what's missing, and therefore offers a solution. See how this is constructive? Ah, why even bother.

I don't know why you get so worked up over a simple subpixel comment somewhere...
Sounds like you're jealous that you don't know what us real coders are talking about, or something.
Why else would this be such a touchy subject for you? It wasn't even on one of your demos (because, obviously, you only use hardware, so you don't even have to worry about it).

Oh yes, plek the almighty game coder and scener.
Excuse me while I only write software renderers for mobile devices.

And decided to use some of the code, beef it up, and do a little demo, because plek insists that one must write demos in order to post reactions at pouet.

You are obviously missing the entire point here. I will summarize it for you: shut up and grow up.

For mindless trolling and personal vendetta-stuff in production-threads I wouldn't use the word 'talent'. I think 'bad and annoying character trait' would be more fitting.

I don't go flaming in all your production threads either because I think you're an arrogant lamer, do I?
Go write a demo or something. One that's actually good for a change. This demo may not be good, I know that. But the stuff you put out so far isn't exactly at a higher level. Just incohereht party-hacks.
Or did I accidentally miss all those compo-winning entries that you made, and only saw the bad stuff?

And where exactly did I 'beef myself up'? I never said anything about myself.

You are the one 'beefing yourself up' because you wrote some partyhack demos and worked on some games. That doesn't exactly make you special in the scene you know, and it certainly doesn't give you the right to just flame and annoy other people.
There's plenty of people that have written way better demos and games than you. So who the hell do you think you are anyway?
You're no better than the rest. In fact, your attitude is considerably worse than most others.

That looks almost like an excuse. You're losing your touch, plek.

Dang you're right... sorry I missed the opportunity to return the favour. Ah well, maybe some other time.

It would help if you told me that you had an MSVC DLL problem.
And if you REALLY read the .nfo, you could read that the DLL is not required. In fact it's not even used unless you specifically specify the 'fullscreen' commandline option.
So yes, this Java program is still 100% platform-indepentent. In fact, Chip reported that it ran on his linux box just fine.
So I'm sorry, but your flame has failed. Try again.

ppl that say the scene is dying should read this... damn, we just found two of the most active sceners ever! :)

Gargaj... did i already mention that Umlaut Design is my favourite demogroup *ever*? :D

Yes, apparently the compo was flash/dthml only, not Java, the rules didn't specifically mention Java, so we didn't know if it was allowed or not.
It was also entered into the combined compo at ASM. But it wasn't good enough to make preselection there.