Amiga Demo - Hardwired (full) by Crionics & The Silents

[FayeKane]

Interesting. And BTW, I used to sell Amigas.

This is real clever use of sprites, palette-cycling, and polygon morphing. I take my hat off for the programmers. But the question is:

► Was all of this generated in realtime?

The polygon stuff, yeah. It's just permuting the parameters of two equations and plotting them on top of each other.

And the rotating array of spheres was kinda cool, but far less so if you take away the tilted split-checkerboard background...

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[FayeKane]

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...It's just a static prop to give the illusion of the array bouncing off the planes..

The only "holy SHIT!" demo was the raytraced bathroom. No WAY was that rendered in realtime, not in the 80's on a desktop system—even in low-rez and even on an Amiga.

If it wasn't realtime, then it's nice that an introverted nerd boy can program other people's apps to do construct a toilet. But even a 'tard can throw up a slideshow of prerendered frames...

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[FayeKane]

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...and any old 286 could generate the CGI for Star Wars one frame at a time if you put in a 16M EMS board then let it sit and think long enough.

If it WAS realtime, then I'll take my hat off for the programmer — AND my clothes.

-- faye kane homeless brain

Autistic math/physics chick living naked in a cave in the woods hacked into the pwr grid.

Yes really. tiny url dot com slash kanecave

[MikeKdy]

Only on the Amiga!!!

[wlodi5]

nice effects !

[Saymannsk]

Amiga Mist Die!

)))

[diverhose]

Thanks for sharing! Love the Amiga ! Still have my A4000 040/25 MHz w/ Emplant Pro board/ Retina Z3 /4 MB Video Card. Reading Steve Jobs autobio book - too bad we did not have someone like Steve pushing the Ami because internally it was a way better machine than the original Macintosh.

[ObsoleteAcey]

@diverhose thank GOD we did not have that guy anywhere NEAR the Amiga.. else it would of been a disaster. Anyone who opened to to hack it would have their Amiga bricked remotely and all Amiga software would only be available from one place, the Amiga store.. and you'd only be allowed to install the software THEY let you install. As it is I have my A500 here and I can put what i want on it and do what i want with it.

[bozdoganli666]

Fuckin awesome! Best demo music I have ever heard in my life. Jesper Kyd rulez!

[rvounik]

best 2d amiga demo by far. very original effects done in a really clever way, accompanied by one of the best demo soundtracks ever

[xsanchezz]

THE BEST AMIGA DEMO EVER MADE

[TheSwanies]

Does anyone have the image? Pouet.net has a 404

[montpenier]

Jesper Kyd was born with some serious Rob Hubbard DNA.

[lurian8]

That was when I became a fan a Jesper Kyd. :-)) (And the Amiga of course. :-))

[MrFlibble2011]

4 people are bitter ST trolls

[MikestaTMan]

@MrFlibble2011

Potato

[philiptwood]

I take it that this was the prequal to the Sega Genesis version of "Hardwired."

[douro20]

8-bit sampled sound with analog filters.

[DrTopaz]

And to think 20 years later these same guys release BattleField 3.

[RabidRat88]

I miss that perfect scrolling the most... die PC shite die!!!

[mmonicque]

Imagine if Amiga didn't go bankrupt, they would of made a 3D computer without glasses years before anyone would for cheap.

[snaforfun]

@mmonicque well we have the hardware to do even better things .. but it is the old generation of programmers that disappeared ...

the hardware and audio chips and 3d chips today are very powerfull .. but there are no more Talented people like in the 80's and 90's u have to admit this.

[mmonicque]

@snaforfun Yeah your right, programmers now don’t seem to take the time to put detail into a game.

[singularity3]

@mmonicque That would be the job of the artists.

[ObVReboot]

@intrepidis: easy really - vertical stripes are used say colours 1-8 combine this with horizontal colour splits to contruct the letters in the scroller. A set of pre worked 'twisted' graphics are used and selected with a sinus curve to give it the twist effect. I would say it's in 32 colour mode using 16 colours for the background picture leaving enough colours for the vertical scroll. Well this is how I would do it anyway :)

[jammingcats]

I remember Amiga... I owned All the models, from A1000 to A4000T...

even the Amiga CD32

I made some awesome music and demos on it!

I'd wish Amiga, Would be back! I miss you Amiga!!!! :-)

[schnudderi]

@jammingcats

check commodoreusa(dot)net

[Ulfdewyn]

Was the days that 880kb of space were enough !!! o/

[intrepidis11]

Ho man, these guys were the masters. How did they do that twisty verticle scrolly?

[mayhemtv]

EP!C

[TurboSoldat]

amiga is the best

[Robthe555]

3 people click "wrong" button because they can't open this great demo without BLUESCREEN :P

[mulder3035]

Ive owned every computer since the zx80 days.

And the AMIGA is without doubt the best machine ive ever owned.

The whole AMIGA "scene" was a magical time - The c64 scene wasnt far behind tho.

What a machine !

[steffenkarstoft]

The best Amiga demo ever made.

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[steffenkarstoft]

Amazing!!!

[HoldontightmediaGB]

Pure brilliance! The way the music and video sync is impeccable, probably only equalled by Kefrens 'Desert Dream'. I remember playing this on my Amiga and being blown away by the pure genius of this whole demo. Loved it, still love it!!

[Archimedes75009]

Yes the Amiga was a great machine, but the most powerful machine was the Archimedes by Acorn (born in 1987)

Best coders were on the Amiga, no doubt.

[patrutiss]

the coders were stunning in creating these effects

[mayhemtv]

WOOOW!!! STUNNiNG!!!!

[jmm1233]

some of the demo looks awesome enough to be a game intro

[Audiomancer]

I think Amiga was just too far ahead of it's time to have succeeded, I mean, why did it fail? Was it a lot more expensive than IBM? They couldn't parlay the success of the C64 to the Amiga? That seems hard to believe, based on Commodore's penchant for aggressive pricing and marketing.

[iTalented]

Amazing demo! When I recived this through the post I just knew this was going to be amazing! Long live Crionics, Silents and of course the Amiga!

[micdune]

Possibly the best demo ever on amiga.

[ClOnedCybe]

Jesper Kyd rulezzz :)

[MrMegazuki]

GLENZ VECTORS! I remember that peeing the pinnacle of 3d back then :)

[RichardCyberPunk]

simply great, fuck ms-dos

[Burningmace]

I wish I'd never chucked my old A500 now :(

[HuATTK]

Despite all of this advanced hardware and unparalleled talent, Microsoft and PC clones won, and today we're all running some form of Windows. Sad, ainnit.

[BigEd23111983]

Ive still got this demo on two 3.5" discs for my amiga 500!...

[crazyivan030983]

is this scene with toilet prerendered or calculated in real time?

[gloom303]

@crazyivan030983 Prerendered.

[atarimark]

@crazyivan030983 It is pre-drawn.

[crazyivan030983]

@atarimark so it was never a 3d digital project only drawings?? :)

[kiyotewolf]

This was one BAD ASS demo..

~Kiyote!

[blanker666]

pure cult... 

[TimHaywood]

Jesper wrote create tunes back then, and always had a great ear for the right sound in the right place - but this tune is a tribute to David Whitaker, and also to Mike Oldfield for the Tubular rift.

[metamour]

Listen to the new TRON Trailer Music... Reminds me to the music of Jesper Kyd ;)

[gloom303]

@metamour Because it's sample-reduced at the end of the TRON-intro, making it sound low-fidelity.. like the Amiga samples of the time :)

[richardmaudsley77]

The excorsist theme and a toilet.

Okay then.

[pallenda]

i remember being blown away by this demo, and the morph 4:42 my jaw was on the floor. pure magic. :)

[ZXRulezzz]

...and effect at 5:30 was also reused in ZX Spectrum demo "Action" (from one of Enlight demoparties) :-)

[ZXRulezzz]

Animation of toilet at 2:56 was also used in ZX Spectrum demo "OVER THE TOP"

[yak2be]

Yeah, I remember watching a video of Jay Miner having a speech, trying to explain to some guy why a full D/A converter like Paula is better than chips that could only synthesize waveforms. He asked if the other chips could sound like a guitar, the guy responded "well, they can sound like a piano". Poor guy... :)

[BlueKyne]

Go, go Gadget arm! @ 6:12 LOL

This is a very cool Amiga demo, which Amiga was it for? My dad had a 1000 and I never saw anything like this on it!

[Kaminskifahrer]

That´s electronic Entertainment. Epic!

[0nilum0]

this one really rocks!...

[celebritypaul]

So nostalgic to me..I remember thinkin ,Wow! how powerful is the Amiga.

[aure232]

6:28 comeon, this music Panther rip-off...all honor goes to David Whittaker

[BikeNutt1970]

I think it's intentional - DW's tune in Panther was called... Wait for it... Hardwired.

[jahoodunrama]

@BikeNutt1970 isnt there a problem with the timeline here? Panther was released in 1987 and this demo is, iirc, 1990.

[BikeNutt1970]

@jahoodunrama That sounds about right. DW composes the tune that is used in C64 Panther and the tune in this demo is, well, let's call it an homage to DW.

[NiNeX]

unreal demo

[Joliie]

Kyd Balle unbeatable for good entertainment!

[ixer76]

This is THE demo I remember when I think of the Amiga demo scene. The music is awesome and the innovative effects are all put together perfectly, it is very innovative.

[darkbyte2005]

When this was released its was so cool, it still is today.

[got737]

Magic times! Real nice copy party!

[Ruhiganer]

Please made hardwired 2...:)

Great!!!!!!!

[hankillo1]

i cant believe that a 1985 machine can sound this way.The best computer ever made.

Paula chip was made by aliens :)

[surfitlive]

@hankillo1

Are you BLIND??

What about the 'graphics'?

Remeber DOS Pcs/Macs with the text only in B&W! Haha

lets not get into 3D and perfectly times/synced Audio to Video...........something that today with all the MegaTons of speed/memory/storage is not accomplished.

Take this Youtube for instance. Compressed so degraded quality AND it still takes more space than the actual demo did! And timing is off on many videos.Even ones on my local drive will skip frames/lose sync.

[hankillo1]

@surfitlive Yes you are right.Amiga was the most powerfull computer in those years but, I am a musician and I like to give my opinion about its audio abilities.That s all

[surfitlive]

@hankillo1

Sorry for riffing on you! I re-read what U wrote and cant figure out why I responded 2 U like that. I must have read too many negative comments prior, working me up to 'Over react'!!!!!

[Polybun]

@hankillo1 hah, no, just the left overs of a keyboard controller :D

[nitturo]

@hankillo1 we must all thank Jay Miner's awesome team! :)

[Ehal256]

@hankillo1 thank you aliens

[feltes45]

@hankillo1 I agree, It was definitely far ahead of its time.

[philiptwood]

@hankillo1 Well you got to give the oldschool a little credit... There was a reasonable level of sophisticated stuff going on back in the day. How do you think how we got to where we are now?

[urmo345]

@hankillo1 Indeed, unfortunately most of possibilities it gave were used only after 90's.

[astrocosmo77]

@hankillo1 The whole Computer is Alien Technology :D

[apemant]

Sick... 5/5.

[Lob0Guara]

extraordinary demo,i have it on emulator,and had in good old days on my amiga 500 :)

[delioromeu]

Badass! God I miss the TRUE multiprocessing of the Amiga.

[CorzairOffWorld]

i miss my amiga boohoo

[elwoodfr]

@All

Maybe you don't know but AmigaOS is still alive. If you miss the feelings to use this OS, check for the Sam440 board made by ACube Systems.

[jsuttonus]

OS4 isn't made by Amiga and doesn't run on any Amiga. It's got no relationship to the Amiga other than Hyperion licensed the name. Don't make a $1200 mistake buying overpriced, slow, unreliable, outdated, system-on-a-chip hardware like the SAM (also not made by Amiga).

[elwoodfr]

OS3.9 doesn't run on any Amiga too ;-)

It doesn't change the fact that AmigaOS 4 gives you the exact same feeling than with the old AmigaOS. Go and test it for yourself on an Amiga/Sam computer near you.

[valwit]

far from it. especially if you compare it to morphos.

[porcorosso81]

@elwoodfr

>>>OS3.9 doesn't run on any Amiga too ;-)<<<

The most nonsensical statement I have read so far here. I was there when 3.9 was being released, and the first thing I did was to install it on my A1200...

[elwoodfr]

@porcorosso81 Huh? OS3.9 doesn't run on an Amiga without 3.1 ROMs so it doesn't run on "any Amiga". That was my comment.

[richardmaudsley77]

@jsuttonus

I suppose it doesn't have any relation, apart from the fact it's based on OS 3.1 code.

Troll harder.

[gnuochtapir]

Jesper Kyd's music was and still is awesome.

[docent60]

@gnuochtapir, this soundtrack was composed by David Whittaker in '86 I guess. The fact is that Jesper's version is the best!:-)

[alvagante]

This is scene history.

[OverBurn1990]

Jesper Kyd <3 :)

[ippino]

This is a real oldskool demo. Love it!

[TrollSniffer]

Amiga demo's were obviousely to show off the capabilities of the hardware and the programmer, graphics artist and musician, I used to love some of the demo's and intro's and stuff you got with cracked amiga games, the pc demo scene is much better in terms of wow factor but I do miss the amiga days for sure, but hey pc demo's now are nothing short of awsome

[snokeloke]

was on the party that year , this was just amazing , as the guy below me sayd , fat effect after another. to bad that shit odessey was in the same comp( not that odessey was bad , but it was a frigging 5 disk anim ) :(

[Stevieboy74]

imo this was the best of the best on the amiga demo scene, nothing touched it. You're just finished going "shit look at that!" and it rocks on into another amazing routine, and then another, all accompanied by superb dark music by Jesper Kyd. Notice the credits...nearly every routine done by or contributed to by "The Spy" - That guy was serious and knew how to code that hardware! Would love to know what the team that worked on this are doing now? Thanks for the memories :-)

[maw2k]

the best example how u can put quality programming on minimal space. and all based on amazing designed hardware! .... i want the good old times back. *sigh ...when we would have today the hardware more expansive, we would see much better programming work. a good example are gaming - consoles. its amazing what the programmers made for games, based on a p3 and geforce3 on the xbox1.... but just my thinking.

[ugurozyilmazel]

i remember... i had received this release via swap!... good old amiga dayz...

[djustplc]

_- AMIGA 4 EVER -_

[postie2003]

My favourite Amiga demo of all. Brilliant from start to finish. The logo morphing part is still  particularly awesome.

[vicemanFIN]

I just love the design how the demo goes on from part to another.

[maxone2007]

Crionics is DANISH ARTISTs

[vizeeee]

how many discs? 2? incredible

[pianetasilenzioso]

Jesper Kyd was my hero when I was a kid. Now I remember why.

[pallenda]

I still remember when I saw the Hardwired logoo transform into the wireframe box. My jaw dropped.

[iTalented]

This has to be in my top 10 fav/most technical demos ever on the Amiga! Silents rule!

[jci10]

I think the music is not in time with the video....

[nebby6]

It's from 1991, but runs on a chipset built in 1985.

[x050968]

Awesome!!!!

[burkmat]

Love this stuff. Jesper Kyd is such an awesome music composer. Most known today for composing the music for the Hitman games.

[3yE]

This music piece has a couple of original parts, but mostly it seems to be conversion of Panther by David Whittaker on C64.

[burkmat]

Yeah, you're correct :-)

David Whittaker did some amazing stuff, especially fond of his music to the first Shadow of the Beast game.

[Koalitionspoker]

Interesting hint. Thanks a lot!

[cogit99]

The similarity to the music in this demo and the 'Jason Bourne' theme from the movies is striking.

[nevikdemonovich]

One of my favorites! Thanks for the u/l!

[conradhw]

raytraced ofcourse :)

[OOverflowW]

awesome demo !!

[IntrinsicPalomides]

Epic, of course.

[TheMorMor]

when is this from ?

[undomondo]

1991

[TheMorMor]

Its so awesome.. And the fact that it was from 1991 makes it even more awesome. I thought it was just a couple of years old.

[undomondo]

yeah, 17 years I've probably made about 20 people watch this back in the day all the time watching it with them and observing their reactions. amazing :)

[TheMorMor]

This is a serious jawdropper. The raytraced part is totaly amazing. Do you know if its real raytracing or if they used some sort of cheating ?

[neqkk]

usually it's an animation, on the amiga 500 :)

[buffelberra]

This most be one of the coolest demos I've seen.

[kmarcusb]

my absolute favorit demo ever.

[BigDplayboy]

Fantastic!!!

Them good ol' days. The demoscene was (is?) the most creative thing happening the past 20 years. And I remember this one still.

Ah, nostalgia :')