Best WHDLoad demos

[tomcat666]

Hi !

Just wanted to ask which of the demos that were WHDLoad-ized are the best to check out ?

Also is there a good demos site with AGA demos that run perfectly on stuff like 030 50Mhz ? I know the newest demos are kinda pc-ish and therefore lame... but some of the old AGA stuff is great !

[Riempie]

Hmmm... best WHDload demos? there are many which are good and there are many which I haven't seen yet either.

9 Fingers (Spacballs) is one of my favourites though, along with Bubrain Megademo, Nexus 7 and some I can't remember the name of.

Non WHDload demos which are my favourites and run perfect on my A1200 40 mhz machine are:
The Prey (works on A500 too)
Moments
Psychedlic
Freezer
The Black Lotus demos (they rock!!), especially 'Tint' and 'Captured Dreams'

[rgen]

Open the install page that shows all demo installs and then click 'DC' which sorts the installs by number of downloads. The ones who are downloaded many times should be liked by many people. ;)

[Uukrul]

Desert Dreams is awesome.

[Akira]

I'll add Planet M by Lemon, too. That's a nice WHDLoad demo.
Hardwired is OK (I like the intro the most)

Non WHDLoad AGA demos running on accelerated hardware:

Aphrodisiae / haujobb
Klone / Dual Crew Shining
2CB / Dual Crew Shining
The Prey / Polka Brothers
Captured Dreams / The Black Lotus
Extralife/Abyss

Almost everything by Haujobb, Darkage, TBL and Dual Crew Shining uses to be tops. I LOVE the demos with tunes done by Muffler (my fave demoscene muso).

[Frog]

WHDLoad Demos : NGC-Animatunes :) SKARLA-Atome, SCX-Mental Hangover, SANITY-Arte, RSI-Megademo, PHENOMENA-Joyride, KEFRENS-Megademo 8, DRAGONS-Megademo, CRB-Hunt Red October, ANGELS-Copper Master, ANARCHY-Digital Innovation, ALCHEMY-Marchewki... ok i stop here.
Most of WHDLoad demos are classic so it's hard to choose few demos only.

Non WHDLoad :
ARSENIC-Fear Factory
ARTWORK-The Gate, Exit Planet Dust, Megademo 4
CNCD-Closer, Killer
ESSENCE-Crazy Sexy Cool, Makaveli, Thuglife
FLOPPY-Papadeo 2 (check also others prods if you like this one)
MELLOW CHIPS-Rise
MGD-Dimension
NERVE AXIS-Pulse, Relic
OZONE, Smoke Bomb
RAMSES-Jesus was a demomaker
REBELS-Paranoid
SILICON-Mime

Oh and try NATURE-Neon 64k, lot of 64k are simply awesome !

[Akira]

Originally posted by Frog
SANITY-Arte
I always thought this demo to be So overrated, as most of Sanity's. I never liekd most of their work except for the Cougar artwork! Yes call me an infidel or something :D

I forgot to add:
Desert Dreams/Kefrens
and
Technological Death/Mad Elks

to my WHDLoad list.


ARTWORK-Exit Planet Dust

I second that one! :)

[Frog]

@Akira : Most of Sanity demos contains some really good code, gfx and music so i think they deserve their fame. Their best demo is imho ELYSIUM ! Check it, you'd be surprised to see some effects used in their future demos.

[thinlega]

@akira

me like muffler too....have you checked out this

http://www.lynnemusic.com/muffler.html

it rocks!!! :)

[Akira]

Originally posted by thinlega
me like muffler too....
I'm not surprised, we are twin brothers sepparated at birth, remember? Only that I got the shitty part and was sent to this shithole of a country :D

ME WANTS! muffler is so sweet!!!

@Frog: One of the things I specially dont like about Sanity is the music! :P The code might have been nice but I don't know about that, I always looked more onto the design of things, and not about how many big balls have been pushed onto the screen... (that's why I like Melon)
Design-wise Sanity was great because of Cougar. but that's all I like about it. To each one its own, right? :D

GIMME SOME MUFFLAH!

[tomcat666]

Sweet !

Thanx guys !!!
This will certainly make my weekend an interesting one...

I saw some of the newest demos and they look just like the lame PC demos ... thats a real shame. The old ones had so much more imagination...

[Akira]

Think about it the OTHER way. :) The PC demos look just like the Amiga ones!

Because that's the truth. The Amiga demos were here first :) All those brilliant Dual Crew Shining demos are just like today's productions by Blasphemy (aren't they the same as DCS, or a former part of DCS?), but the DCS stuff was created many years before!

Clone looks just like any production of today by Blasphemy :D

[Psygore]

you can find nice demos: http://ada.planet-d.net/

[tomcat666]

Thanx... found most of the demos from this thread, but still missing some... been searching for 2 hours now :) Hopefully some of the missing ones are here...

[_SoLO_]

melon = great design, good ideas, VERY bad code
sanity = great code, great ideas, bad design

so melon + sanity = ...andromeda :)

[kriz]

hehe maybe some of you would call the new amiga demos lame, or whatever .. but I dont think so, they got some very skilled programming and top notch sound/gfx ... if you got the hardware check them out .. (or check divx at www.amidemos.org)

esp the MadWizards sttuff... very good.

[tomcat666]

I am not saying they are technically bad - but all of them use 3d stuff - different ways of doing shading, bump mapping, textures, etc. -> no real ideas if you ask me... I rather look at nice raster effects, copper plasmas and stuff like that... I kinda have enough of 3d stuff :)

[Akira]

Originally posted by _SoLO_
melon = great design, good ideas, VERY bad code
sanity = great code, great ideas, bad design

so melon + sanity = ...andromeda :)
Hmm... I dont remember anything from Andromeda... or do I? I think I have one of their demos... tarting with B... Bsomethingsomething Time.. ? ECS demo.

You made me want to see some now! I'll get downloading :)

[_SoLO_]

u dont remember Nexus7 from andromeda ???
Damn it's simply the best demo ever (not only on amiga) :)


http://www.marktallee.de/ada/showdemo.php3?id=4

[Akira]

Rings a bell, but I think it didn't run in my Amiga because I had no FPU... is this possible?

I'll check it out again!

[edit] NO! I have never seen this demo! Looks fab!! wowowowow ! DOWNLOAD! :D

Is this just their only good demo or do they have other great productions?

[_SoLO_]

All andromeda demos are great, but nexus7 is the best.

U don't need a FPU, the demo was made for a simple 1200 (only aga & 2mo chip are needed)
All others andromeda demos run on a500 (check the Dos demos, sequential, mindriot, point blank...there are all great demos)

ftp://ftp.amigascne.org:21/pub/amiga/groups/a/andromeda

[Akira]

Just downloaded sequential too... fine demo...

I think the best of the best should gather up and code one demo:

- Mega dark rough upbeat tempo music by Muffler :)
- LSD-inspired ideas by TBL :D
- Directors of Design: Melon Dezign+Dual Crew Shining
- Graphics by Cyclone, Made, Cougar.
- Put yer fave coders here because I dont know who makes slick code or who doesn't, they all look great to me! ;)

Wouldn't that be brilliant :D

[alkis21]

Originally posted by Riempie
Hmmm... best WHDload demos? there are many which are good and there are many which I haven't seen yet either.


Hi Riemer. http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/bigwave.gif

[Riempie]

;) Alkis!

[Solid Snake]

Here is a list of my favourite Amiga demos: :spin

1000%
9 Fingers
A1200 Demo
Aimless
Andromeda
Arte
Budbrain
Desert Dream
Electra
Enigma
Extension
Flower Power
Full Moon
Hardwired
Interference
LSD Jesus
Mental Hangover
Odyssey
RSI Cebit 90
RSI Mega Demo
Sequential
Smoke Bomb
State Of The Art
Substance
Technological Death
Turrican Music Disk
World Of Commodore

Can anyone recommend other demos not listed here?

[pbareges]

for the historical perspective and the amiga shop window-leeching they bring back to my memory : boing balls and juggler are among my favourites also !

[Mad-Matt]

Here is a list of my favourite Amiga demos: :spin

Can anyone recommend other demos not listed here?

paradisio by drifters ? it has an odd but strangely catchy looped song ;)

some others i like include, relic, origin, motion origin 2, control and rise.

i notice thes are all newer 3d type demos not included in your list, but there still some of the best in my mind. the best classic one for me is world of commodore final, just looks so impressive for stock a500.