The Black Lotus (2006) - Starstruck [ amiga demo ]

[JackTorranceReDruM]

Great talent. Massive electronic music.

[dazado75]

The Fucking Americans killed Amiga now we are stuck with shit Mac and Windows

[makrisj]

AAA chipset would do Avatar back in '93.

[MIDNIGHTCLUB2FAN]

can some one explain me wtf did i just watched? its cool, but im confused D:

[TheSwanies]

This is amazing. I shit my pants

[stevieu83]

Awesome. :)

[Atad64]

Hey guys, any ideas about the source of the vocal sample played from 3:40 to 3:50 ??

[nlmoreaux]

@Atad64 Babylon 5

[Gamegeneral]

@Atad64 Not a clue, but I'd not bet against either Star Trek (The Borg) or Dr. Who (The Daleks)

[BluTrilobite]

Does Hewlet-Packard have any kick-ass demos like this? I've never seen any if there are. (-_-)

[ERFJ]

Awesome!!!!!!

[slimSEBIhamburg]

wow! this is really great! =)

still love my Amiga!

[nszeba2]

Another great piece...! Amazing demo!

It's good to see, that Amiga still lives!

AMIGA FOR EVER!!!

[kyrkbymannen]

The Amiga "Ball" demo was better! ;-)

[Outlander999]

just.... WOW!!!

I ever loved Amiga, that's a great demonstration of power...and class.

Maw!!! ( smash XD )

[superturbo2]

one of the best amiga demos I've ever seen. It even run smoothly on a real amiga with a 060 :)

[djustplc]

Just amazing... AMIGA POWA !!!!

[Svendsor]

incredible

[vlgtube]

TBL simply kickss ass. And now is turn to Atari Falcon version!

[Xteaphn]

Atari Falcon PUNCH!!!!

[ClitoriousCeasar]

I just hope someday there will be some hardware manufacturer smart enough to make use again of this smart designed advanced technology that amiga had.

[positron77]

It exist, and is called personal computer.

[ClitoriousCeasar]

no.. actually its called macintosh cause you see amiga used RISC based cpu's like old macintosh did. But.. i was talking about smart design which both mac's and (especially) pc's lack.

[positron77]

Well, if Amiga design is smart compared to the PC one, I am Godzilla.

[Jawattdenn]

You are godzilla.

[positron77]

No, I am GAMERA, and i will crush Amiga bad design with my ARMOUR-PLATED DORSAL ARMOUR! :)

[Jawattdenn]

So what do you know about the design after all? Ever programmed x86 assembler? Or 680x0? And ever tried some 1986 PC system? Even the latest PC systems suffer from the bad design of the PC's of the 80's.

[positron77]

Oh, this must be why PCs are still alive and in full health, while Amigas failed miserably to survive the '90s.

Don't misunderstand me: I love Amigas and all old and new computers and consoles, they are both a piece of history and very interesting machines, but you can't seriously deny that the standard based and compatible hardware structure of PC's let them use ever the most advanced solutions.

[Jawattdenn]

Amiga also had a standard based and compatible hardware structure, even much better than PCs. The only reason why PCs succeeded: Cheap and clonable without paying fees.

[positron77]

Jokes apart, I find more attractive the respectful point of view: 68xxx were nice CPUs, but why spit on Intel and AMD ones? 386 and 486, they have strong points too. And today, the Athlon X2, Phenom, Core, Core 2 and I7 are all wonderful CPUs. Ok, also the Powerful IBM PowerPC 3.2 Mhz in the Xbox360 is fantastic, the Cell is interesting, and that what proves? These CPUs can peacefully survive togheter.

[Jawattdenn]

It's not about the CPU, it's about the entire design. In Amiga you plugged in a card and it automatically had it's AutoConfig stuff going on (plugnplay before plugnplay was invented on PC). It also never had IRQ or memory range conflicts, it had 32 bit address range from day 0 where I had to spend years with 64kB segments on PC, there was a very good multitasking OS when PCs were still using MS-DOS for several years to come etc etc. Several of the AmigaOS features I even miss in todays OS'es.

[positron77]

On the compatibility issue, the PCs can handle hundred of thousands of peripherals, the Amigas and Macs only the few that were designed specifically for them, this is why you do not have conflicts. Windows is even too efficient to manage such an enormous, unlimited pool of peripherals.

By the way, keep enjoying your Amiga, I have some work to do on my Intel quad core, so I'll stop to respond this post.

[Jawattdenn]

No, the conflicts on PC were "by design" with certain slots assigned to certain memory ranges and IRQs. It had nothing to do with the amount of hardware available. I remember that every time you tried to add a new card, you had to swap cards into different slots until there was no harmful conflict anymore. On Amiga you never had to do that.

[Barry3443]

@Jawattdenn Yes Amigas had autoconfig, automatically assigning unused resources to new cards, so you had no conflicts. It took Windows another decade to get that.

[1NOM155]

@Jawattdenn its true, unfortunately Jay Miner, don't survive to struggle a war with pc's, and evening Microsoft, ho copy numbers figs from Amiga, last example it's Zune, a word is't patent to Amiga, and Microsoft don't pay. MS sucks.

[JasperAbraxxious]

@positron77 - Amiga architecture is far more efficient that the primitive cobbled together PC hardware.

PCs are dirt cheap though, I just spent $1400.00 on a 15 year old Amiga 4000. :(

I could have purchased two decent pcs new for that. :(

Oh well, you get what you pay for.

[Kermamorjens]

Holy shit.

[romaneberle]

masterclass. biggest respect.

I think we all agree on that one: amiga rulezzz.

so does TBL. (and Nerve Axis. :))

[dia8el]

OMFG!

THIS IS JUST AWESOME!

WONDERFUL WORK! THIS IS STATE OF THE ART!

AMIGA WILL LIVE FOREVER

and as i can see now

NOT ONLY IN MY HEART :D

EXCELENT WORK!

cheers!

[dia8el]

OMFG!

THIS IS JUST AWESOME!

WONDERFUL WORK! THIS IS STATE OF THE ART!

AMIGA WILL LIVE FOREVER

and as i can see now

NOT ONLY IN MY HEART :D

EXCELENT WORK!

cheers!

[Cnltaf]

Hi......=) First WHAT a incredible nice demo, very nice programing and code aswell graphic idea..everything is just awesome..I know it must been lot of log nights to make this and it is done whith a Amiga that is really cool.

[sacreleases]

Amiga? Incredible! What type of amiga, just a normal Amiga 1200 with AGA or something with more power?

[amigastar]

Hi! YES!!! The demo works fine on my Amiga 1200 with 68060 CPU ;-))