StickyMicky

Just found this, i don't really follow the demo scene but this is from 2006 and has just amazed me

YouTube - The Black Lotus (2006) - Starstruck [ amiga demo ]

mart360

This iis from about 1982/3

from a basic home computer...

IBM ran for cover lol


Mart
YouTube - NewTek Demo Reel 1

bob269

Plenty more on here (with youtube links) on many platforms including amiga

prodlist

StickyMicky

how can the demo groups get this kind of performance from the amiga when the games devs back in the day could not ?

scoobyverysoon

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Quality stuff - I loved my old Amiga 500

Iain Young

Because demos generally were not interactive. Essentially they just ran a script. Didn't have to worry about annoying things like unpredictable user input, collision detection etc.

Pretty amazing some of the stuff they managed to squeeze out of the cpu though

StickyMicky

Some of the "cut scenes" were pretty bad back in the day, but i have never seen anything like what the demo scene put out, in a retail game.


while looking at old amiga stuff today, i found this page,

Duke Nukem stole graphics from Turrican!

copyright ahoy

+Doc+

Jesus on 'E's still rocks

DJ Dunk

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State of the Art and Nine Fingers were my faves