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Originally posted by drawerfixer
I'm Amiga, which has a definition and meaning I will never know.
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the "balls in the air" part refers to the Amiga's astounding (for the time) ability to form and animate spheres in realtime through straight calculations rather than just spinning a piece of clipart around. Amiga loved to show off by making demos which had balls spinning and swooping around the screen. Finally a group called Future Crew programmed a demo in assembly for the PC that beat the hell outa the Amiga even when run on the 286 - the demo was called Unreal, and had the quote "Balls! Amiga didn't think we could do this!"
there's yer history lesson for the day! BTW, if you have an old machine, go find "Second Reality" by the future crew and run it on the old (pentium 100 or lower) machine. It's a pretty damn good demo even today, and is especially impressive when you consider that it was meant to run on a 386 with at best a Soundblaster Pro and a 512k VGA video card.
btw, I scored a
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