Suggest some stunning demos!

[Jan]

Yesterday I was watching the Nexus 7 demo by Andromeda for the first time and was stunned. It it the best demo I have ever seen for the Amiga, and I have seen a lot!

I just never cared for the "newer" demos which were released in 1994 and later. Nexus 7 won the demo competition at The Party 1994.

So I am now on the lookout for more newer demos that are really nice to look at. I'm not familiar with the Amiga demoscene later than beginning of 1993, so can you make some suggestions?


Which demos from 1993 and later were a real beauty and worth watching?

Preferably demos that don't require bigger hardware than my regular 68020. I don't emulate, I rather enjoy watching them on my Miggy .


So let me know what's worth watching!!

[logix]

Hi Jan,

The best demos of that Era (in my opinion) are:

Amiga 500:

World of Commodore / Sanity
Monoxide / Vanish
Hardwired / The Silents
X-Pose / The Silents
Multica / Andromeda
State of the Art / Spaceballs
9 Fingers / Spaceballs
Mobile - Destination Unknown / Spaceballs

...and so on.
these are all A500-Demos, but some of them will run on an A1200 as well.

And here are some A1200-only Titles of that Time:

Full Moon / Virtual Dreams - Fairlight (a must see!)
Origin / Complex
Real / Complex
Cuzco / Oxygene
Megademo IV / Artwork
Closer / CNCD
Switchback / Rebels
Roots 2.0 / Sanity
Burning Chrome / Haujobb

and much more...
for more info about cool Amiga-Demos check this link:

http://ada.planet-d.net

have fun

[Echo]

Originally posted by logix
Full Moon / Virtual Dreams - Fairlight (a must see!)

Please tell me you've got this running on the emulator! Features some of my all time favourite demo music, and I simply cannot run it anymore

Back when I had just a ram expansion for my A1200 (4mb), it ran happily on this.

Today I cannot run it in UAE simulating that configuration, nor on my real A1200/030/8mb. Infuriating!

I've done all the assigns etc.

Oh and recommended demos - TBL is a genius. However a lot of his AGA stuff benefits greatly from 030 processors and higher. Breathtaking stuff for the age.

[Jan]

Thanks logix! Although I know half of them already

I'll definitely check the others out. Any more beauties you guys know about? Slideshows and music disks are also welcome.

[Echo]

Just remembered, Big Time Sensuality by Axis is an excellent demo for an unexpanded A1200. Features a fair bit of quality hand drawn art. Oh and the soundtrack rules too

[Bloodwych]

Reading this thread has just reminded me that the current I-Pod marketing campaign on TV and just about every website I visit (god those animated dancing gifs are ANNOYING, especially on forums, so distracting) is just like the good old SYMBOLIA AGA demo.

In fact, I'd swear that someone who created that campaign based it on computer demos of this type!

Runs 100% speed on its requirement of a stock A1200 + fast.

This demo looks much better in motion but here are a few s-caps.

[logix]

@Echo,

I haven´t run this Demo on WinUAE for a while.
But I checked it just now, and it runs smooth,
like it ever did.

I attached my config file.

It´s an A1200 "Plain" - config.
That means: A1200 - 2MB - No-HD - 68EC020.
for more Speed just select 68020+FPU in the CPU-Options.

get the ADF-File from back2roots, and start it.

[Echo]

Thanks Logix - I'll give it a try now, but didn't this need more than 2mb to run?

Edit: Silly me, I've mixed this up with another demo

I actually thought it was Psychedelic, again by Virtual Dreams. Did you ever get this one running?

A demo I like although not in the woah look at those graphics league is Maximum Overdrive 2, brilliant Starwars spoof with some good vidi captures and that strange ending on the video

Oh, and like others have said, try State of the Art, Jesus on e's they were very popular back then in 93.

[Jan]

Jesus on E's is only bearable with the sound turned off .

Seriously, I hate this techno crap, especially if it's 10 years old. So State of the Art wasn't one of my favorites, too .

[Amiga1992]

Originally posted by Bloodwych
In fact, I'd swear that someone who created that campaign based it on computer demos of this type!

The "flat-vector-people" thing does not come from demos of that type, I tell you.

Think of Apple. American computer

Americans watching Amiga demos? Only a very few I suppose.


Anyway, for recommended NEW demos (you will need a beefier Amiga to run them on, mind you) you should check out the stuff by TBL, Haujobb, or UP Rough.

[Bloodwych]

You're probably right Akira, but you should see the advert. I swear I'm watching one of these demos everytime I see it!

BTW nice thread - I'm trying out a few new demos and really enjoying the experience.

[logix]

Well,
as Akira said, for the newer Amiga-Demos
you need a powerful Amiga.

but if you have one, or you want to watch them on WinUAE, i can recommend a few more Milestones:

Lapsuus / MatureFurk (1st place at ASM´01)
Magia / TBL (they rocked Breakpoint´03)
and don´t forget all the wired Stuff form the Ephidrena-Posse!
If you have a PPC-Amiga, you should also check the latest Madwizards-Demos.

those not having such an Amiga, check http://www.amidemos.org
here are some HQ-divx Movies of PPC-Demos.

[Amiga1992]

I beg to differ about lapsuus. It's shite. Only a good 3D routine with zero content, zero design, and zero soundtrack. Overrated. avoid.

I will post more later, i forgot the names, will check my miggy.

[Bobic]

I'm watching demos since 1991 and still do. I think I've seen hundreds of demos since that time and in my opinion the best came out between 1994 and 1999. I really like those AGA demos from that time. Creating a list with great demos would take too much time, so I suggest you to browse through the AGA demo archive at www.back2roots.org. I've included the best stuff there and rated every production. Give it a try please.

Today I'm watching mainly PC Windows Demos, but I don't miss any new Amiga demo release, of course!

Hello...

Nice to see people talking about Symbolia. Makes all the hard work I (and others) put in seem worth while :-)

Toodle-pip!
Gerard

[alexh]

I found This demo for the A500 quite amazing.

It's not by the Italian group RAMJAM.

Nice texture mapped 3D routines on 7MHz A500!

[Photon]

I liked that demo A LOT, alexh. Very slick AND very artistic! The only thing I didn't like was the gazillion dot objects, but that's because I hate dots The dots marked the end of the era of skilled demos imo. Suddenly nobody made demos with new ideas, they just kept shouting, "2000 dots in one frame!" - "2100"! To be fair though, that demo has the nicest dots I've seen.

Dunno when that demo was made, but it rivals, or even surpasses, my idols of the post-'91 era, Sanity.

The texture mapping is fake. The clue is that the objects only spin around the Y-axis, so that one can use the blitter to blit 1-pixel wide, vertically shrunk slices.

If you want to see multi-axes texture-mapped polygons, there's a Swedish Horizon demo from 1991 (I think) made by a coder whose name I can't recall but there was a photo of him in the demo, and he looked Iranian. The demo has a yellow mail box with the blue sign of the Swedish Post Office on it, among other things. As I recall, some of his texture-mapping code starts garbling the music a while into the demo :P

Three cheers to anyone who can scan that demo disk, at least I cannot find it on the internet!

[Photon]

Originally Posted by logix

@Echo,

I haven´t run this Demo on WinUAE for a while.
But I checked it just now, and it runs smooth,
like it ever did.

I attached my config file.

It´s an A1200 "Plain" - config.
That means: A1200 - 2MB - No-HD - 68EC020.
for more Speed just select 68020+FPU in the CPU-Options.

get the ADF-File from back2roots, and start it.

Sorry, your config loads the demo and then the screen goes black. Whereas with my own 1200basic config it worked fine but with some jitters. Oh well.

[Photon]

Got it working now (by toggling fullscreen twice! curious.)

Dunno why you liked full moon so much, it looked like an A500 demo Definitely nothing to write home about. Ugly slow vectors, the usual zoom-plasma but with ugly patterns, the zoom effect at the end was OK but I believe Tristar (or was it Paradox?) did the same on A500 (but without the zooming text on top).