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keops, go compare the number of amiga demo ever released to the number of atari demos ever released with the prod filters and show more respect.

I'm not sure I get your point. In what way does that make YOU earn respect?

I'm not sure I will answer friol's questions either.

I'm not sure IT will answer friol's questions either.

the first point was just to irritate you.

To be honest, your clueless post about sorting stuff rather made me smile since it was quite stupid :)

if you want to browse an history of the techniques used in demo, using the sort by date filter seems a good idea... You can do a lots of interesting stats with the different filters. What other technique do you use to find out the oldest demo with a given criter ? You just search in your head ?

actually ... maybe you don't ever noticed there *WAS* sorting filters ;) It must be that.

I think that one of the 1st hires+truecolor demos was Mayhem by Ingognita.

I never knew Eva did a demo. Well maybe you mean when she showed Adam the apple ??

I think DX Project by Realtech was Vesa in 1995

Amiga OCS/ECS is able to do >256 colors and you can accelerate polygon rendering with the blitter!

I would guess both were used in demos already in the 1980s

viznut: and the softsynth?

does making a c64 disk drive play music count as a soft synth?

viznut: in sense everything that runs on hardware is accelerated, unless the hardware was specifically designed to slow the program (which runs by itself without hardware) down.

skrebbel: i'd say anything that generates an audible waveform without assistance from any samples or on-chip synths counts as a soft synth...

Here's another early HW-accel. demo:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2844

That one was quite nice for it's time...

At least some old (1980s or early 1990s) ST demos extend the capabilities of the YM by mixing samples and synthesizing pulsewave sounds. I think Mad Max pioneered this, but I can't name any demos with his music at the moment.

Regarding softsynths in the "calculate some complex sounds" sense, I've heard that some folks already did runtime sample calculation in 1995 (before TBL's PC 64K intros)

Ambience by Tran, from 1994, is the first demo that I can think of with more than 256 colours on PC. I'm not entirely clear on how it works, but I believe it flickers between two screens each displaying a single colous channel in order to create the effect. Other demos from around that time used a dithered fakemode to increase the apparent palette.

Realtech's demos from 1994-1995 used VESA modes (I think) to display higher resolution 256 colous screens.

For standard VESA hicolour modes, the earliest that I can think of would be Toasted by Cubic Team & $eeN, from 1996.

I was talking of vesa, not raster tricks (otherwise there was an intro called "chuckoo" or something that displayed more than 256 colours on PC, back in the early 90s)

Yeah, defining "hardware acceleration" is quite tricky.

"Hey, look at my hardware-accelerated rasterbars! I didn't plot the pixels separately with the processor but used a special hardware acceleration feature for it!"

"You're cheating, this isn't a totally non-accelerated demo! It uses the DMA mechanism of the display card to translate those pixels into video signal!"

"Your kefrensbars are not hardware-accelerated! You didn't use an official 'kefrensbar accelerator' for doing them but abused an obscure hardware feature instead! So, your kefrensbar acceleration is fake!"

Bleam was the first D3D demo wasn't it?

This one was released early in 1998

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=17221

first demo to support direct3d was trip by kosmic/kfmf, as mentioned by astronautstebo above. first demo to support glide/3dfx was nature by vertigo. jeez, don't be so sad that north americans did it first. :)

i *think* the first hi-res/vesa demo (256 colors) was dx project, but i may be wrong. the first hi-color demo, i'm pretty sure, was colors by a-men, which isn't even on pouet yet and i don't know what the hell it's doing in the asm95 in4k directory as it came out after asm95 and isn't 4k.

Viznut:
Ziggy Stardust made the first "SID"-voice on the ST (Hidden screen in Transbeauce Demo 2). But there are many other softsynths on the Amiga used in the very early days of the Amiga from Whittaker etc. I'm sure at least cracktros used those tunes very early too.

Friol:
HAM on the Amiga is not a raster-trick. But indeed, not VESA either.

around the same time as Tran's stuff, dunno who was first...
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1444