Rivalry With Other Platforms
An often cited aspect of the ST demo scene was its rivalry with its fellow 16 bit computer the Amiga. While the Amiga had the benefit of some rather advanced hardware for the time coders on the ST had to make do with a marginally faster clock-speed and later on abusing the hardware to do certain tricks like emulating hardware scrolling. A common refrain from the rather proud ST coders was "needs no custom chips" when they successfully replicated a demo effect that had been originally seen on the Amiga.
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