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From: derek@speedy.WISC.EDU (Derek Zahn)
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Subject: Re: Killer Demo Contest
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Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 10:03:50 EDT
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Interesting point, Leo, about the group vs. individual problem in the Demo
contest.  Personally, I would not put too much emphasis on it, though.  I
would suggest leaving the categories as is, except adding "best individual
effort" -- if "best" and "best individual" turn out to be the same, well,
that's ok....

Speaking of this demo thing, I am working on an entry and have a question:
when does the "one minute" start?  If, for example, I had a program that
had 200K of data or more (like the Juggler) and the minute was counted from
the time the command was entered, 20 seconds or more of that minute could be
most unimpressive (loading data) -- I would think that the minute should be
counted from a clear starting point provided by (or inferred from) the
program, provided that the startup time is "reasonable" (subjective).
Whatever the rule is, I would like to know, as I would hate to not include
the data loading time into my demo when writing it, only to have it disqualified
because of that; and one minute is not a lot of time to show off the Amiga!

derek
Derek Zahn @ Wisconsin

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