Girl & Dinosaur [M2 – Tech Demo]

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4 responses to “Girl & Dinosaur [M2 – Tech Demo]”

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   April 9, 2015

   eSPy

   Big article on the M2 featuring screens from this demo and others.

   https://archive.org/stream/nextgen-issue-006/Next_Generation_Issue_006_June_1995#page/n39/mode/2up

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   March 2, 2016

   eSPy

   Video Games The Ultimate Gaming Magazine Issue 77 June 1995
   https://archive.org/stream/Video_Games_The_Ultimate_Gaming_Magazine_Issue_77_June_1995#page/n57/mode/1up

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   February 22, 2019

   Ross Sillifant

   In fact, one of the earlier demos (written by Mark Rearick, author
   of 3DO Game Guru) was a Euro-style “plasma” field, which was mapped on to
   a 3D object.  The plasma texture was dynamically computed by the CPU each
   frame.  A bit of a drain on the CPU, but a neat trick when you need it.

           He also wrote a ScreamTracker 3 MOD file player to run on M2, which
   is used in some of the more recent demos.  It sounds incredible.

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   Leo L. Schwab —

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4. 

   February 22, 2019

   Ross Sillifant

   All public Opera demos were run on actual hardware.  The original Opera
   machines were 13 boards of silicon, which were later compressed into
   3 chips, but the “giant graphics engine” was the actual Opera hardware.

   Some of the very early very speculative PRIVATE Opera demos were
   mockups, but these were never represented as running on real hardware.
   They were in fact video tapes of our guesses as to what the hardware
   would eventually do.

   The approach to the M2 demos was another story altogether…
   —
   “Stephen H. Landrum”

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