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Re: Megademo



In article <3ibogv$q8n@tusk.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>
>Cool.  I hope you can crack it!

Status report:  I have it cracked open now , am working on fixing it for
disk 2 now :)

>I have another question.  I know demos require their own booting, etc. 
>but wouldn't demos like this be programmable to run and launch on the 
>hard drive?  I love demos, but I'm jealous of all my PC buddies who can 
>just launch them like a program.  Is it impossible on a GS?

It's a matter of programming.  It's more difficult to do cool effects under
GS/OS since you don't own the machine, but it's completely possible (see
the 3 GS<>IRC 'wares).  Getting existing demos to HD install is very
difficult, although I guess it could be done.

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