Also of particular interest is the Amiga demo scene: a community of hobbyists who created software demonstrations of artistic, musical and programming skill.

There is a fair argument that Deluxe Paint is the real beginning of professional graphic art and design on a home computer – the Mac was still monochrome at this point. Many of the seminal games of the era were coded for the Amiga first, while other platforms received a port of lesser quality. It was originally designed purely as a gaming machine, although it didn’t take long to become a full computer. The common reason to revisit it is to play the games. Eventually, the much more open ecosystem of the x86 PC meant the Amiga couldn’t compete on price, performance, or market share and software support.īut for a moment there, the Amiga was the ultimate home computer, with thousands of colours, 4 channels of sound, and a powerful Motorola 68000 CPU backed by 3 custom-built co-processors. The Acorn Archimedes might have outclassed the Amiga in raw power, but the software library was very limited. In a time of beeps and boops and screens with 16 colors, it brought jaw dropping graphics and sound. One of the OCS demos which impressed me very much and was a guide for me coding similar effects.Īnd about that scene with the helicopter and the runway is a little bit boring from above comment - not in 1991, in 1991 when watching it as kid it was jaw-dropping just because it was realtime 3D, not wireframe, and had music with it.In the late 80s and early 90s, the Commodore Amiga was the dream computer. My only minor complaint is that the trip to mars section runs a little too long imho - but with soo many good things happening, I better stop complaining.:). The music was awesome and the 3D graphics were revolutionary for their time.Īlthough it hasnt aged very well, it is mind-blowing when you consider that the Amiga 500 only had 512 kb of RAM and a 7 MHz processor.

Possibly one of the first Amiga demos i had seen and one of my fav ever.īig late thumb up and another not really needed Youtube link. Incredible 3d code for that time, and the soundtrack is one of the best the scene has ever produced.Īnd fortunately the boring flyby part can be skipped with a mouse click:).Įspecially the music rocks, one of the best oldskool amiga demo soundtracks around. Also TIP the muzak is the best (have it as my winlogion muzak).

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