I love the GIF. What looks to be a simple juggling loop is far more amusing.
--ericball Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:50:06 -0400
So what's the AC/DC reference?
--Mac Guy Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:51:40 -0400
a near-meaningless play on the day's ramble thought... Washington DC, Washington AC/DC... I dunno, I was in a hurry...
--Kirk Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:03 -0400
The GIF is great!
--Beau Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:45:47 -0400
I remember the Amiga Juggler demo, and how the first time I saw it was a down-sampled version running on a Commodore 64. Kind of like how the original Amiga 1000 bouncing ball demo was eventually replicated on the Atari 130XE. And, of course, today I can make either one of those an LJ icon if I want to.
--Nick B Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:54:32 -0400
i wonder if that was prerendered or generated on the fly?
--Kirk Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:02:57 -0400
prerendered. But on an Amiga, which was impressive enough back in the day:
http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.htmlSounds like the Boing demo was prerendered too. Now I don't think that the 2600 version that predraws is cheating :-)
http://www.amigau.com/aig/boingball.html --Kirk Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:12:57 -0400