Just like me

Remember the good old days, of Public demo's on floppy disks. Well thats when Comp's really hit me I suppose. So tonight, I was bored, and I thought what the hell, lets go back in time.

Its feckin amazing what you find on Youtube. Check some of this stuff out, bet it makes you feel old like me ROFL

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kkp_a9W5dA - Budbrain Mega Demo ( especially love the Africa Part )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8JbAdEzvMA Budbrain Megademo 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZObBN00rA Red Sector MegaDemo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay2Qyc45Uks - State of the Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1PuDMgpJlg - 9 Fingers ( not rude )

And most proberly the best ever demo on the Amiga Scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3yQyxQ8cBo - Jesus on E's ( full Version )

Enjoy Fellow Amiga Freaks

Why just watch videos, when you can http://www.winuae.net/

http://www.amigademopodcast.com/

http://ada.untergrund.net/

http://www.amigau.com/demoscene.htm

It never did die, it just moved to underground

For kids that have no idea what we are talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

Amiga is not a computer, it's a religion

G'day! Rolf here

It was amazing what was possible to do with machine that had 7Mhz and 512kb of memory, we have now 3Ghz cpus, GPUs that are god knows how many times more powerful than any Amiga, but still we can watch some of that stuff and say, beautiful.

Most today's commercial code, just can't compare to these, it is different world. Some can still do pretty good code as seen at Assembly for example, but still quite rare it is.

Nice demos, I never got to see most of those when I had my Amigas.

Sorry to OT a bit, but I was wondering. Do any of you X Amiga heads know how you can convert a .mod/.med etc tracker file to a .mid file?

The Amiga sucked in comparison to the Atari ST

/runs VERY quickly, remembering the wars that were caused by this simple (true) statement.

Edit: It also proves how wrong GoogleFight can be http://www.googlefight.com/ind ... =Amiga&word2=Atari+St

Quote from DratsaB :

Nice demos, I never got to see most of those when I had my Amigas.

Sorry to OT a bit, but I was wondering. Do any of you X Amiga heads know how you can convert a .mod/.med etc tracker file to a .mid file?

No, but we use for example modplug to listen them in original glory. Some do even use XMplay

Quote from tristancliffe :

The Amiga sucked in comparison to the Atari ST

/runs VERY quickly, remembering the wars that were caused by this simple (true) statement.

FLAME ON

It never was as popular and you don't see it anywhere today where Amiga still is alive

Ok, we could fight from this to world end like kids, but we are now grown up adults so I just hit you with my +9 silver dagger

I gave my Amiga A1200 away to a primary school computer club :| FOR NOTHING! Kicking myself now as I could probably have got something for it.

Quote from tristancliffe :

The Amiga sucked in comparison to the Atari ST

/runs VERY quickly, remembering the wars that were caused by this simple (true) statement.

Edit: It also proves how wrong GoogleFight can be http://www.googlefight.com/ind ... =Amiga&word2=Atari+St

The ST couldn't even do curved lines for the centre circle in Kick Off
It did kick ass for making music though.

Quote from tristancliffe :

The Amiga sucked in comparison to the Atari ST

lol "Them's fightin' words"

the google fight isnt really fair though. As Amiga means some thing other than a computer brand.

Did Atari finish with the ST, as far as home computers go? they never had a competitor to the mighty A1200.

First I had an A600, which was kind of an abomination I guess. Then I got an A1200. I had a 3.5 inch HD crammed into my A1200 case. Bulged a bit and reset if you pressed to hard on the casing above the keys. But boy an amiga with a HD was sooo much better. Alas i never got afford an Amiga 4000, before Bill Gates had his wicked way with me

Probably best not to get me started on Amiga stuff ... got five of them in the attic ... also, UAE works great for most Demos these days

Oh boy oh boy... now the old Amiga freak inside me is waking

About Atari ST being better.... dunno about that. I remember them being quite equal. Both had good sides, but Amiga was more popular.

I still had 2 Amigas last summer. One was A500+ with 40MHz 68EC030 GVP turbo and 8MB of mem and 120MB SCSI HD. It was quite kick ass computer and I felt that it was like 486. At least it was nice for simulators. I dropped them to junk yeard last summer... already regretting. :banghead:

There is really no need to convert old MED(or octamed) and MOD music (unless you really want to). Mod can be played by many players and med can be played by deliplayer (http://www.deliplayer.com/) among with all kind of other old Amiga music formats.

For emulator I would recommend Winuae (or other UAE ports for different systems). It runs programs really well and I have even Workbench 3.0 (Amiga's graphical OS) installation with professional gfx card (Picasso) emulation (you can get flicker free 1280x1024 in your 'Amiga').

Quote from JTbo :

It never was as popular and you don't see it anywhere today where Amiga still is alive

I _STILL_ have a fully operational Mega-STE that I sometimes play on!
Add to that a couple of old bog-standard ST's that are still pretty much functional... (If I feel like swapping the one PSU that still works between them )

Also, there are some bands who still use Ataris for their mixing and stuff on stage...you could never do that with an Amiga!

ATARI FTW!!!

Sam Tramiel is teh King!

Surely, Love is the best demo evah... and the music... uuuuuuuuuh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-DVULV3UA

I Have the mod if anyone's interested :P

Was at Southsealand demo party myself (where the demo was first shown)... didn't sleep the entire weekend, and it's still my record

Edit: Uh, and Polka Brothers .. ones of the coolest demo group... have a peak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;mode=related&search=

Quote from tristancliffe :

The Amiga sucked in comparison to the Atari ST

Fordman I think we have to throw Tristan now out of T7R

Quote from r4ptor :

Surely, Love is the best demo evah... and the music... uuuuuuuuuh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-DVULV3UA

Year before that I was at Assembly and there was Future Crew and their Second Reality, PC era started from there for me, it was just so much more what anything else before and that music just incredible, bow for mighty skaven and Purple Motion, those tunes were best at that time.

Unfortunately I never had an Amiga. I grew up with it's older but less capable brother (C64) but I would always dream of getting an Amiga. 4096 colours!! Advanced sprites! Unbelievable sound. And when all that Cinemaware stuff started coming out (Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger, Three Stooges) and that beautiful adventure The Pawn... Heaven was an Amiga. :rolleyes:

Yeah, well there was a catch if you wanted to use all the 4096 colors at the same time (in AGA Amigas the max was 262144 of 16.7M palette). Usually games used max 32 colors in old Amigas or in few occasions 64 (so called half-brite mode, where the other 32 where half brightness of the first 32). The AGA Amigas had all the modes in old ones plus at least 64non HB, 128, 256, and 262144 HAM8 color modes, plus the higher graphic resolutions.

Actually the nicest thing was all those odd features like having two screens visible at the same time with different dimensions, resolution, color count and palette (can be seen for example in Test Drive, where the data sheet is 640x200 and car screen behind it is 320x200 resolution iirc). And you could move them up/down left/right. Also the screen above could have a hole in it showing the background pic (but then the 2 pics shared same max color count or something like that iirc)... nuts

About 2nd Reality. It is about the same level as the best AGA demos IMO. But when it came it was great (I had it too). Especially the music rocked. The biggest problem in Amiga demos was that they usually had to fit 1 Amiga disk (880kB), because not so many demo viewers had a HD. Also not so many had more than 1MB of mem. In case of the 2nd Reality the music alone takes 587kB for Purple Motion and 383kB for Skaven (ScreamTracker modules). BTW: The final city flying music was reused in the Final Reality 3D gfx card test program (by Remedy, maybe c 97-98).
(I still have both the 2nd reality mods and the final reality mod)

Quote from Aquilifer :

BTW: The final city flying music was reused in the Final Reality 3D gfx card test program (by Remedy, maybe c 97-98).
(I still have both the 2nd reality mods and the final reality mod)

That is right and that Final Reality had Max Payne ad in there too and from there we come to 3d mark that everybody knows, it is quite small circle really, so if you ever did wonder where did Future Crew go, there are few answers History of Remedy