Re:The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]
by zurn on Sunday January 17, 2016 @06:12AM
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Yeah, as per my caveat, you had to build the PC with Linux in mind, from best supported components. And the installation process wasn't really the good part. Interestingly this has remained constant in the last 20 years, though the list of good hardware has expanded considerably ;)
Re:The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]
by pjmlp on Sunday January 17, 2016 @07:22AM
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Which is why the laptop I am typing this reply is running Windows.
With my interest for demoscene, gaming and graphics, which I already had before jumping into GNU/Linux, I could never get fully away from what those communities use.
The demoscene and gaming cultures are more focused into results, how to get there doesn't matter and there is a certain pride in being the only one capable of doing X.
My IDE CD-ROM wasn't reckognized, I had to copy all floppies into the MS-DOS partition and install from there.
X Windows could not do more than 800x600, and that was after lots of fighting with the X Config file.
So quite good?! No.
What it was, was a cheap way to have UNIX at home, because we were having DG/UX and Aix at the university.
One of the reasons I kind of lost my way into the game dev culture, was because I had this silly idea of trying to invest into the Linux demoscene that went nowhere.