Comment by kyled

Ah, so yes I appreciate demos which pushes hardware to the limit or create some new effect which hasn't been seen before. I feel most demos on older hardware falls within this category then newer demos.

Additionally, please correct me if I'm wrong, older demos didn't have nice graphics apis to call. They had to create and store what's given for free by Apis these days into their binary. I think the Amiga did have some 3d stuff?

With opengl with a handful of lines you could get a spinning cube with lighting. So much more work had to be put into older demos to get to the same point. On top of that, the demo writers really had to know the hardware well, and diving into undocumented behavior. A lot more was being calculated on the cpu back then too.

I haven't been on pouet.net in a while but I will look at newer demos.