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The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge
The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge. Contribute to askeksa/NoCpuChallenge development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is an open challenge to create demos that run entirely on the Amiga custom chips without involving the CPU. The Amiga custom chips (affectionately named Alice, Lisa and Paula in the AGA version of the chipset) were remarkably powerful for their time, enabling the Amiga computers — with their modestly-powered CPUs — to perform graphical and musical feats that required heavy computation on most contemporary platforms. Depending on the hardware configuration, the runner may not actually be able to exit back to the OS, so the demo should still maintain a valid display.
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