AMIGA-Demo "Spaceballs: 9 Fingers"

[djrikki2008]

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[Sodomantis]

I always wondered who the girl dancing was...

[pauladenisefatagnus]

OK, Let's only post 4 AMIGA........

[pundewhee]

Art. Demoscene art. Wonder when the demoscene gets the respect it deserves in the "artsy circles".

Probably never, but this is the only art I can relate to and appreciate.

[rhinonose]

all those chinese characters are mirrored

[lmzxb]

Oh I dream of using protracker and Octimed again... :) I miss my Amiga....

[dazzharvey]

i see they have or are launching a c64 pc with on board emulator - xcant wait for someone to launch an amiga version if they have one planned

[djrikki2008]

@dazzharvey

Check out a-eon.com and amigaos.net for all you need to know.

[samson06120]

@benanderson88

I capture this long time ago and also don't know about this. ;)

[ProjectorGames]

Damn this needs a reupload with a higher bitrate on the video! ;)

[cloverlief]

There were many capture cards for the system ranging from your little cheapy ones you order on grapevine all the way up to the full blown Amiga 2000 or Amiga 4000 video production suite.

[cloverlief]

importing from the Amiga is easy. It displays in standard NTSC just like the TV. Just hook up a VCR or DVD recorder, or any recording source you would use to record the TV signal (tv card) and press record, that's it, no fancy conversion. Then just upload the video file.

[SeverityOne]

So... I'm watching this on my four-core, 3.2 GHz system... and I have absolutely no idea how they pulled this off. I know the Amiga, and it's limitations. But taking a video and playing it on a rotating cube on a machine without 3D hardware? Stunning.

[Ander01SE]

@SeverityOne

You don't need 3d hardware to play a 2d animation. :p

Though, fullscreen animation and sound would just have caused any 7,14mhz PC with 1mb ram to die a very violent death.

[Ashtree81]

Was this before or after "state of the art" demo?

[bombardierr89]

@Ashtree81:

SOTA - 1992

9 Fingers - 1993

[djrikki2008]

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[harleykman]

This would be a lot better if they encoded the original video's colors

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[Snowwie888]

What is the purple thing we see at 1:54 and 1:57?

Amazing all this data could be on one 1DD 3,5" disk, only 880kb.

[Arska777999]

@Snowwie888 it's a leaf, I don't know the English name of the plant. This demo was on 2 DD disks.

[cy76]

the best demo i ever seen :) amiga forever !!

[harleykman]

I don't know what's so amazing about squeezing this to 2 floppies? ReadySoft squeezed the entire Space Ace game (animated video) on just 4 floppies.

This demo, minus the repeating parts, has maybe 1 minute of video. Using modern codecs I've squeezed whole TV episodes to just 70 megabytes, which is 1.7 meg per minute.

I think the Spaceballs' Stat of the Art demo is actually better and more impressive

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[blandrys]

@harleykman

when this was released your modern codecs had not even been thought of. the coders most likely invented & coded all their compression routines themselves, on a comparatively slow cpu. adding color would increase compressed size significantly...

[Ander01SE]

@harleykman

I really don't know where to start...

Comparing codecs that's been developed for years by pros with a demo made by a group of amateurs 20 years ago? O_o

Reading from disk, unpacking, displaying animation, playing sound all at the same time with a 7,14mhz CPU... do you even know what happens on any 'older PC' (let's say Win XP, 3Ghz Intel / AMD without Dual Core) when you try reading from a floppy disk?

Space Ace, sprites vs fullscreen animation... hmm tough one...

[pallenda]

I will never forget the the amiga demo compo at The Party 1993 where this and 2-3 other classic amiga demos was released.

Mid 90'ies NOTHING was cooler computer wise than amiga demos.

[sals3r0]

what is funny, parts of this demo were used in a commercial music video...the song is from Silent Circle, song name Every move, every touch

[dazzy1975]

The best demo EVER!

[Ander01SE]

@dazzy1975

Sanity's "World of Commodore '92" was technically much better. :P

[droutsolias]

FUCKING amazing....never again such creativity

amiga changed my life

[duderion]

@droutsolias you are so right. this was absolutely amazing.

[Amomynity]

@droutsolias: Without Amiga I would be an out of work freeloader... Now I work as a systems architect with a IT consulting firm...

[lurynowicz]

Artistic, I really like demos like this one. Great job.

[Agnus78]

The same about me - shiivers. So many years and same feeling. AMIGA power! :-)

[pallenda]

I remember seing this one live at The Party. The Amiga demos at The Party 1993 was great. Origin, Full Moon and last but not least ARTE.

[Schnitz1]

What's that noise? Oh, it's just the sound of PC getting it's GODDAMN ASS KICKED! Compare this to what a 7 Mhz PC can accomplish.

[gillbuck]

@Schnitz1 Yeah, I'll just go compress 1.6GB of data in 10 minutes on my i7

[Schnitz1]

@gillbuck

The thing is that it's like 500 million times faster but not that many times more impressive.

[GiannouG]

How did they import the video on the Amiga?

[samson06120]

You could buy a capture-card for AMIGA4000.

"Frame ..."- whatever.

[nebby6]

@samson06120 Or, in this case, the Amiga 500.

[linuxpenguin73]

@samson06120 That being said I think they compressed the video by vectorising it.... probably by hand in those days....

[droutsolias]

@GiannouG cmon amiga had video capture equipment of grat quality for that time...

video toaster?????????

[ShadowDreadblade]

@GiannouG DIGI VIEW was an old Gadget that was connecting Amiga with a video player or camera. Had own software. Digitized video could happen. Only Amiga Makes it possible after all.

BUT! How to create a demo, that's another story!

[Snowwie888]

Amazing this stuff could run on a 7 MHZ machine? Whenever was running video possible on a pc?

[therealxevious]

Still gives me the shivers.

[emplant]

I have this FD right now.

great from Japan.

[cyborgtroy]

Amiga quit being so leet FFS

[SkyMarshallArts]

Maybe the best on Amiga! Loved it :) Memories.

[gapenisbruzas]

Incredible! I love this demo.

[KaneFFU]

Back in those days that demo kicked ass. Still a good one.

[julyjam70]

My favourite Amiga demo, after State of the Art!

[ndrutheone]

Thanks for sharing, greate i've rememberd that

[nospleen69]

the best demo on amiga 500!

[KozubSoft]

super Amiga demo!

[honorabili]

My fav amiga demo ever! :)

[PralK]

The Best Ever!!!

[capacitor1975]

ThisisthebestAMIGA'SDEMOEVERMA­DE

[whiteb89]

Holy Jeezus, even on Youtube's crap quality, it still kicks arse..........

[xroni]

I remember when I first saw this demo, it was mindblowing! And it still is :)

[luderhamster]

One of my fave scene productions, thank you Spaceballs!

[mkiozipangbuu]

This is probably the song that introduced techno-type music to me. One thing bothers me still after all these years... can anyone read what the Chinese text says? :D

[bjarnebrock]

I SHOULD know it - after all I drew them... about 200 years ago.

Dark Helmet / Spaceballs

[brhodes0]

LOL. I love this demo; and the blonde dancer :D !!

[sidewind69]

this is truly amazing, 5th element quality

[zyxlamonde]

the first time I saw this on my Amiga I thought... damm, who has connected my amiga monitor to MTV?...

[nitewaves77]

8MHz MC68000, 1MB RAM, No Hard Drive... See what you can do when you write efficient code? Microsoft, are you listening?!

[ShadowDreadblade]

Nobody listens. Nobody cares.

Perfect code + perfect hardware = Happiness.

[nutellajunkie]

always good time with my Amigas and Amiga friends. RIP Jay, you gave us something wonderful!

[sxs2k]

This was one of the better demos in the PD at that time alright. I said it then though, and I'll say it now, that girl really can't dance a damn though! Great demo though. Cheers for the upload lad! :D

[LX28974]

Thanks for posting. This really brings back memories. Halcyon days!

[Ironlord2015]

Happy Days man...Happy days. I am a founder member of the scene group Nerve Axis, or NVX as we liked to shorten it to back then. I remember this demo well and I still have a massive collection of the old demos on disks in my old boxes from years ago. This is indeed a good demo but it's not as good as Kefrens - Desert Dreams masterpiece..that is awesome. More demos please!!!

[zlimvos]

Guys.. Amiga was created by Aliens. They came, the deliver to the earthlings this achievement and they left. AMIGA FTW

[whichisnice]

quality, Amiga rocks!

[jive808]

i used to be part of "spaceballs" - i ran their european bbs called neo geo! much love to the guys! wherever you are!

[DaveCrozz]

yep bring back the amiga

[tyronix]

Amiga rules :D

[jive808]

i have been member of this crew,.. when they presented this demo in aars, denmark! i was their sysop for the european hq! yes,.. brings back memories! the people were screaming and did stand on their chairs,... while this demo was presented the first time on the huge screen!

[sajko7]

One of the best demos EVER. On any platform...

[mmace]

brings back memories, cheers