spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) (12/11/88)
My access to the net has been extremely limited, so this is the first time I have had a chance to post this. I hope that it isn't the first time the information has appeared on the net, the results were announced at last months BADGE meeting. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Announcing the results of the 1988 Bay area Amiga Developers GroupE Killer Demo Contest . . On October 20, 1988, the Bay area Amiga Developers GroupE (BADGE) held a contest to select the best Amiga demo of the year. The contest is sponsered in the hope of promoting greater interest in the Amiga and thus greater sales. The primary end result of the contest is for there to be disks for the dealers to use in the showing of the Amiga computer line. . This year there were two catagories under which people could enter, one being Tool-Based (meaning that they require another, possibly commercial, program in order to run), and Custom-Programmed. . The prize catagories were Best Overall, Best Use of Graphics, Best Use of Sound, and Funniest, as well as second and third place. . The scoring was accomplished by first creating score sheets for everyone who attended that nights meeting using AmigaTeX, from Tom Rokicki and Radical Eye Software. Then each demo was run one by one and individuals scored each demo on Use of Graphics, Use of Sound, Amiga specifics (does "Only Amiga make it possible?"), and Nift (how impressed were you). There were 100 points possible with the addition of 30 technical points that each demo was supposed to live up to (returning memory, not Guru'ing ...) Then each of the sheets was typed into a Maxi-Plan spreadsheet and the results tabulated, the demos have been listed below in the order of points scored. . This year, the Best Overall prize (an Amiga 2000, donated by Paul Higginbottom of Commodore-West Chester) goes to Brad Schenck for his Director Animation called Charon. . Other winning catatories include: Best Custom Demo -- Tank by Vince Lee; Funniest -- "Not Boing Again" by Dr. Gandalf; Best Sound -- "Charon" again, by Brad Schenck; and Best Graphics -- Tychoid by John M. Olsen. . Two disks with the top three demos are available from BADGE for $5.00 by sending your request to: Badge Killer Demo Contest c/o Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 . All of this years entries will be sent to Fred Fish for distribution in his Freely Redistributable Library. . The following is the list of all enteries and how they faired: . Tool Based Demos: . Charon Brad Schenck Not Boing Again Dr. Gandalf Tychoid John M. Olsen AmigaWave! Allen Hastings CUCUG Ed Serbe "Education of a Young Coyote" Gene Brawn Asteroid Field Michael Powell Sail Marvin Landis Stereo Flowers P. McIntyre Splash Robert de Bie Alice MedioTech Bowl Vern Staats NuHand Bryan Carey Gallivan Tiger B. Rifaux Dogs World Charles Voner Heartbeat MedioTech History Of Computers Robert Berryhill Cardiac Surgery MedioTech . Custom-Programmed Demos: . Tank Vince Lee Triple Tom Rokicki Multitasking Rob Peck Hawk P. McIntyre Brownian John M. Olsen Stereo David M. McKinstry MemFlick Jim Webster Picture Garden Steve Tiffany . Those who have (so far) donated prizes include: . Commodore -- Amiga 2000 Go Amigo -- 30 meg Hard Card Computer Attic -- 2 meg Ram Board MicroBotics -- 8Up! 8 meg Ram Board (unpopulated) A-Squared -- Real Time Video Digitizer Boing Inc. -- Boing Jacket Manx Software -- Aztec C compiler (and house) Oxxi -- Software (Maxi-Plan, Atalk III) Info Magazine -- Ten three-year Subscriptions Winner's Circle, Berkeley -- Time and Equipment (thanks!) "He who dies with the most toys... is dead" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu ...ucbvax!mica!spencer BBS: (415)222-9416 (no longer working for Infinity Software..."Work? I don't work for anyone")