Amiga 500 : Spaceballs State of the Art

[reds005]

Takes me back 20 years in an instant!

Fantastic. Must have played it 100 times.

[Halligen1972]

Hammer Demo !!! Sieht auch heute noch geil aus !!! Also tanzt für mich, Mädels !!!

[fortressofcomfort]

No, Atari ST was 720kb disk. Amiga was true DD 880kb

[dia8el]

I've just jumped back in time. And of course i came :)

I watched that demo million times on my sweet Amiga 500 those days in past.

i love Amiga 4 ever

[eylusion2]

oh my god that's freaking amazing

[skeedunabop]

I have been trying to find this all my adult life. I remember watching it when I was like 10yrs old thinking it was the absolute business!! This will last the test of time! :D

[FraeStudios]

for only abouot 880kb thats damn good

[gerardsollie]

YEAH. My fav Amiga demo. And it's online !!!  WaW

[Formula1Production]

i have this old amiga disk :-) ... FANTASTIC!!!

[alien5ive]

if am i right it´s from 1993 or so? have seen it last these dayz. grEat !

[EinFremderAusElea]

Hmm... did they use the HAM mode for filling?

Or is it pure BLITTER torture?

[johhny449]

This was the best of it's time. I remember when i run this on my own Amiga, cool memories...

[KeremGo]

Work of genius! Those were the days... :/

[fysh3]

I fooking LOVED this back in the 90s. My amiga used to smoke to this :)

[blanker666]

fucking amazin.... classic.

[Robthe555]

OK Here's the deal... U can win a bottle of Polish Vodka :)

Take modern fast PC with few Gb RAM and trylion Mhz processor.

Just try to run this GREAT DEMO with one CONDITION

U have only one floppy disk with 880Kb (Yes its not mistake- 880 Kb) of free

space.

Thanks...

...

now I must drink alone...:)

[ImIndoPeople]

@Robthe555 <dumb why? cant run?

[ImIndoPeople]

@ImIndoPeople sorry mybad for the <dumb it was me

[izzihr]

@Robthe555 m8 amiga rules but dont be fool when pc power gets in right hand amazing things they can make with only 64kb

youtube.com/watch?v=zjGt2JlkUJ­k

[Robthe555]

@izzihr OK u're right it was a some kind of joke ;)

[Kromaatikse]

@izzihr That's 64KB of application and a couple of gigabytes of operating system - not quite comparable. (Still impressive, but not as compact as you think.)

[aussiebloke350]

@Robthe555 well actually the 1 disk was 720k! even more impressive hey!

[chfriend]

@aussiebloke350 880K

[TheSwanies]

@Robthe555 Challenge accepted. I got the rights to remake it and distribute it for free, as long as i specified the original makers and who remade it

[ytdlgandalf]

those guys must've been math, linear algebra and CS guru's. Can't even imagine the space- and time complexity restriction under which they were able to make this.

[Geardos]

people need to understand this runs off ONE FLOPPY DISK. I saw it on a real 500. Amazing.

[TheSwanies]

@Geardos I am actually getting an Amiga on eBay so i can watch stuff like this :D

[Superbatron]

@TheSwanies Get the fastmathlibs from Aminet. Nice speedup.

[Joliie]

@Geardos OMG A real 500, ( /irony )

Tho as sweet as this demo is, there are better technical ones from the A500 era that pushes the hardware, this one is just very extremely timed, <3 <3 Spaceballs, which is something only lately Pc demos seem to have implemented.

[faxekondi4321]

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[Brasidas69]

The dancing woman was a girlfriend to some of the team-members.

Met the coder on the tube on my way back home and had a good chat about old days.

By the way shared a flat during the late nineties with one of the gfx artists, and he told me that editing the animations from vhs-video to vector manualy point by point was torture.

[XXplaythegamesXX]

this was the test sound of JAMES BROWN IS DEAD !!!!!

[bollox1030]

still got a cdtv and my 1200 which gets used for a bit of retro gaming evry now and again. :)

[Socrates2060]

does anyone own any Amiga??I do...Amiga 500,Amiga Commodore,Amiga 1200,Amiga 1500 and all software that exists in the world..!!!

[chrismofer]

@Socrates2060 Amiga 2000! my most prized possession lolz

[Brasidas69]

@Socrates2060 One of the coders (Che Lalic) at Dice has got an Amiga and a C64 in his office.

It probably doesn't see much action, but hey nostalgia is a hard thing to kick :)

[Joliie]

@Brasidas69 Dice started out as a Amiga gamer house back in the days, some of the guys from the Silents Sweden started it, games like Pinball Dreams etc.

[HartRaver]

@Socrates2060 I do...I have 2 Amiga 500 and one C64 with diskdrive etc...all working 100% !

[kpaxian643]

Oh the memories... <3 <3 <3

[nikysch]

Cuándo saldrá el nuevo Amiga al mercado? Quiero volver a saborear lo que verdaderamente es un ordenador multimedia!!!!!

[RoachVR6]

lol i still have my amigas ,they rule

[qettyz]

For those 4, they have never seen Amiga in real life or this demo back in 90's !

[trisky1234]

still have the 500 in a box (shouldn't be really) :) don't know where the 600 disappeared to..

[ElliotLakeCanada]

yeah this machine was awesome I had the 500+ then the 1200, and if u wanna look at something check Jesus on Ez. This spaceballs vid i think was 2 discs. were talking 1.44mb here. x 2 2.88mb insane.

sound was through the roof for a 80s computer

[froyd3d]

diskettes on amiga usually had 880kb (DoubleDensity - those with just one write-protector switch), not like those for PCs with 1.44mb (HighDensity)...

with tricks and a custom loader you could get some kb more out of it...

[labelfree904]

lol i want to project this on a wall while having a house party

[kinmanyuen]

This is the best example that shows how we get screwed today wth bulky commercial animation software suites and hardware to do the same

[MrKajko2]

To jedno z najlepszych demek na Amcię,do tej pory lubię to oglądać.Pozdrowienia dla wszystkich amigowców

[GzegzolkaDA]

@MrKajko2 Kiedyś wielu ludzi z kręgu demosceny narzekało na prostotę kodu tego demka, można by powiedzieć że nastąpił rozłam na tych którym się to podobało z artystycznego punktu widzenia i tych którzy nie widzieli nic nadzwyczajnego w kodzie tego dema.

[flagellate]

The best Amiga demo that I remember! Amiga was the only computer that I loved ;), now they are just advanced calculators ..

[mikveronwe]

awesome

[deckarudo]

Amiga rocks. Amiga always be.

[Ashtree81]

The art of making the most of what you got to work with!

Great visuals, great music, great everything!

[trisky1234]

@Ashtree81 There was another version of that song on my protracker II disk :)

[fg1998]

Spaceballs RLZ !

[AlkisGR]

hadn't seen this in ages, it gave me goosebumps.what an amazing machine... it sure made our childhood better.

Cheers

[duckgeezer]

my mint condition A4000 040 is on eBay now.

happy bidding

[Funkstar124]

etuber is right. It just shows what programmers of any worth could get the best out of a machine for just 500k. It's the same with windows when that came out. I said it was shite then and it's even more shite now.

[djrikki2008]

Check out the new amiga coming out very soon, just search: Amiga X1000 in your favourite search engine!

[IceCoolDaIceMan]

The Amiga 500: very smart hardware design, very efficient pure ASM coding, very few instructions on the graphics chip.

The Demo: precursor 9 Fingers, one of the most impressive demos ever made for Amiga, innovative techno music and graphics, simply state of the art!

A demonstration of what one can obtain without the bloating of marketing and speculation.

[leggy26a]

Excellent stuff. I heard the Amiga was used used to create the graphics in Star Trek The Next Generation. Wonder if it's true.

[skog77]

@leggy26a Dunno about that one, but the Amiga was used for Television production. Sky and many others used the Amiga.

[UrgentementeUK]

@leggy26a I think that was Babylon 5, pretty sure they had some render farms full of Amigas at the time. :)

[Quartrez]

Wait... this is a demo for the Comodore Amiga !?

Damn Oo That's REALLY impressive ! And I'm serious...

I'm 17 years-old, and I'm still impressed by games like SNES Star Fox... Long live the Comodore, the ATARI, the NES, the SNES, the Sega Genesis, the Megadrive... All of them !!

[harleykman]

@Quartrez >>>"impressed by SNES Starfox"

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Ditto, although Starfox actually has a coprocessor in the cartridge - it's like taking a SNES and adding a 3D GPU, otherwise it couldn't handle the load.. - The Commodore Amiga was equivalent to a Sega Genesis, but with better sound, and available five years earlier (1985). In fact a lot of Genesis games, like Populous, are direct Amiga ports

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The Atari ST, Amiga, and Mac were also the first computers with 32 bit CPUs in 1984-85. IBM PC was only 16

.

[azshaw123]

@Quartrez us gold...And i still have this demo which i got in 1992 and will never get rid of it as there will never be another like it..Utter amazment when i got it aswell as other demo's and the next night i remember getting x-out and ghosts 'n goblins which i could not believe how amazing how good the music was on x-out and how close the conversion of ghosts 'n goblins was to the arcade..I thought the C64 version was good but this version was allmost identical!

[snaforfun]

the fact is , today Coders and programmers are lazy with tons of resources , disk space , RAM , even fast access time , and u dont see such things even today ...

want proof? look at the mobile phones .. they shold have such things right ? well no one is BOTHERING coding it , they are lazy :)

[nutellajunkie]

I think I was in-love with Paula, Agnus and Denise at the same time.. Then then others came along.. BITCHES!!!

[thepts]

overrated, Spaceballs made much better stuff

[chico26getafe]

Condom Corruption!!!!!!

[nutellajunkie]

@chico26getafe Hey, STD's need to be shared ;)

[Dvs35]

i just got a flash back ;)

[TheMaGnUm93]

I rememberr skid row now, a cracking tream originally for the amiga, this has aged like fine wine as said, truly amazing for a machine the a500 at the time!

[greyhoundgill]

omg read the text at 0:32 it sais major asshole

[darkbyte2005]

I was in Amiga computer show and every was playing this demo and  its still rocks..

Brilliant..

[kozmik1000]

I remember seeing one of the Timothy Dalton James Bond films a few years later and recognizing part of the title sequence as something used in the first seconds of this Megademo.

[DiverseProduction]

Absolutely fecking awesome, this has aged like a fine wine, sounds better than it ever did.

[8thumbs2fingers]

I remember gettin my hands on this public domain demo and thinkin " how the f**k have they done this " !!!!

[l0nni]

Man this demo was/is OF EPIC proportions for that time.

Just for the concept alone. Aand I remember that some parts of this demo were used in a musicvideo that was played MTV's The Party Zone.

CLASSIC !!!!

[SD78]

Incredible what people mananged to squeeze out of the system.

The only part that looks dated it the 3d graphics that everyone takes for granted nowdays.

[HolgerDenmark]

Damn I remember this one... soo cool... though my favorite was oddessey (apart from the spelling)

[dymatrixnz]

currently playing this demo on my CD32 XD

Man I cant play it enough times!

Runs nice on a projector with the composite out! XD

God im awsum...

[ElektroKit]

New BattleSquadronRMX up ;)

by ElektroKit

[kuzi315]

I loved my Amiga 500, great times for sure. When it was first released, no system could match it, the graphics, intros, music, animation, OS etc were the best at the time. It took the PC many years to catch up.

Just imagine this demo was made for hardware that is almost 25 years old (1985), that's how powerful the Amiga was!

[eldorado303]

realli cool.

[jtacher]

Wow..... so many memories. One of the best DEMOS i´ve seem. played a lot of times in my Amiga... those times were great!!!

[etuber21]

The Amiga is the only computer that has EVER impressed me.

Who cares about Gigs of ram. This ran with 0.5 MBs of ram.

[harleykman]

0.001 gigabytes.

Tiny!

My poor 400 megahertz Mac can't even play this video at proper speed, and yet the 1985 Amiga played it flawlessly at just 7 megahertz. Amazing!

[snaforfun]

@harleykman this is not movie play back , is all coded !!! yea I know AMAZING

those days they didnt have movie maker or 3d programs !! all coded from scratch !!!

[harleykman]

@snaforfun Actually it is a movie playback. You can find the original scene here: watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY

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That video was then digitized into the Amiga (like a flash file) and played back in the demo. Which is still impressive for a 7 megahertz machine. No 7 MHz Mac or PC would be able to do it - you'd need a 100 MHz minimum

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[snaforfun]

@harleykman hmm ok but there are tons of other demos with 3d running so fast that it seems like they were using 3d hardware ... I got em all on emulator xD

[harleykman]

@snaforfun Oh and they did have movie-making programs back in the 80s. I know because I used some of them. And of course they were used for TV programs like Babylon 5, seaQuest, and Space: A&B

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Or movies like Disney's cartoons (The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin)

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[snaforfun]

@harleykman :O wow movie editing programs on a pc running at 7mhz and 1M  ram ?!?!?!?!?

[torkezilla]

@etuber21

You said it!

I'd like to know how much Ram a common PC would need to make this demo...

[moomoomooism]

@etuber21

i remember spending £120.00 for a half meg of ram ! WTF......but boy was it worth is lol...good old days :)

[303shaunl]

God i remember this, didnt think id find it by searching here, cheers for putting this up.

[sweeter12]

heh amiga kidnapped few years from my life:). I first watch this demo any 15(?) years ago... greetz to all oldschoolers!

[Foxstab]

Mel Brooks not Mall Brouks.

[Gaowyim]

Ah. The Amiga era was the best years of my life...

Up until I discovered pussy that is, then I forgot all about the computer for a while.

Now I'm married with children, I want my Amiga back.

[Ironlord2015]

Takes me back to a time in life that was miles better than now, in all aspects. Anyone around my age (approaching 33) & involved in the Amiga scene will probably feel the same. Don't get me wrong I love modern video games & machines, I own a Wii, 360 etc. But I often feel that modern games are trying way too hard to be movies now, & I just yearn for the good ol' days of the late 80's/90's, with my beloved C64, & later Amiga & many other machines. The Amiga scene was truly an amazing time...sigh

[kinmanyuen]

omfg.... those peeps were true artistic and highend programmers. They push hardware and data in such efficient way.

I hate the fact we are poluted with hundreds of commercial corporation megabytes to make the same thing nowadays...

[Spitefulgod2]

Ohh and another good Demo was the Bjork one.....err... big time sensuality..... The 1980s/90s rocked!

[Spitefulgod2]

This was the shit back then, when macs and MS where pissing with Dos prompts and barely usable GUIs Amiga was pumping multitasking and Ultra GFX, it should have been the real winner of OS wars although the Global Elite had other ideas to hold humanity back.

[Ironlord2015]

Right there with you mate, it's those Illuminati bastards we should blame for the fact we're now all on PC's & not super duper all new powerful Amiga's eh? Funny I should come across your comment on the global elite though, as i'm currently in the middle of watching an absolutely massive series on YT (there's 100 parts I think) i'm only up to part 46, it's called 'Illuminati Project'. Most deffo worth watching if you haven't already. Just seen the stuff about IBM & the holocaust, not good at all

[TeensAreNotChildren]

I can't believe

this is a 1985 computer!!!

My IBM PC from that time just showed 4 colors and went "beep".

[GarryGarryz]

I remember watching this when i was a kid on my amiga500. i had no fucking clue what this was. just like.. ooh cool effects thats all.

[snesoey]

And soon it's TG all over again!

[kumbah2006]

You ought to post this on Vimeo where you can

have higher quality output ... :)

This is amazing for what I see here, but

I bet it would look even better not so "compressed". :) A+++!

[ENFDO]

at the end it freeze on my amiga 500. almost two decade back in time!!

[dejayAXEZ]

i like the music and video

[JoeTheToucan]

ah my lord it's so old it's sickening

[gavdoff]

I was planning to upload the soundtrack from this called condom corruption as i have it in module format and have the demo on the amiga amongst others but have to pull it from the loft, it was a quality demo and still stands up today, them be the days tho!

Nice to know there r still ppl who remember the demoscene!

[kevincarbonaro]

gooodd ol' memories of the Amiga 500 days!!! :)

[KaneFFU]

A classic. People who did'nt appreciate it because of the code forgot about the art. This was pure art. For me it was impressive at that time.

[greyhoundgill]

@KaneFFU it was basic right, for people who know basic...

10 print "the amiga was art:

20 goto 10

[julyjam70]

My favourite Amiga demo!

[i7co]

I still have this demo lying around somewhere on the attic, together with my trusty old A500 & A1200. Liked this one a lot back then :-D

[fredslev]

Damn i've missed this demo, thanks for sharing...

[andonesdt]

mein gott das kommen errinnerungen hoch , hey ich war mal jung :D schade das es heut keine so geilen demos mehr gibt. das war ne leistung amiga 500 1 mb ram

[MagicalDoremiRules]

RULES

[hfmx1]

techno!!!!!!!!!!!!!i love amiga

1mb wow

[Eltempe]

Who would have guessed that after all these years this demo is still nothing short of amazing! The song is awesome as well.. one of the most memorable amiga tunes for me

[KozubSoft]

This video...880 kB in Amiga disk!

[Jamezxh96]

40 meg ( Mine is ) But considering that Monkey island was on of the biggest games coming in at 5 disks .. I think that was still only around 4-5 meg . and most others were 1 disk ... I took quite a bit to fill it

[Jamezxh96]

I still have my Amiga 500 with the Hard drive, mem expansion ect

4 a system with a 6mhz processor .. I think thats pretty bloody good music and graphics. Problem is theres to many Punks out there who never grew up with real computers

[madcows10]

How big is the hard drive? probably like 12 MB. lol

[jettero1]

omg memories from 1994 when i got my first A500plus and i upgraded it to 2meg and cost me 30 quid lol

[MetalHeadmmx]

waste of my time.

[McLarenMercedes]

Yes because you were dumb enough to think this was "Spaceballs" the movie.

[MetalHeadmmx]

i guess i was dumb enough to think it was spaceballs the movie, my mistake. i just wanted to play with spaceballs the flame thrower.

[peter18928298]

They must have did the iPod commercials!

[karadok666]

overrated shit. I hate it since the first day. Just a verry simple code and i know the history of that trash. The most demos are much better.

[Beerburt]

Probably the most overrated crap ever made! (Yes I said it "back then" and I stick to it!)

[norgern83]

thats what I call flashback.. will never forget those days.. this demo really rocks! even today !!

[luderhamster]

Groundbreaking and awesome, my #1 favorite scene productions. Thanks Spaceballs! :D

[mkiozipangbuu]

One of the best and most famous titles from one golden era.

[tlukka]

Amazing also is that this demo ran off of a low density floppy disk.

[BrokenHaiku]

Dual Density, not low.

[tlukka]

You're right, double density.

[vjpistolpete]

Wonder where Apple got their iPod silhouette dancers idea from ;) This is what got me into VJing and video editing. Impressive stuff considering it worked on an A500. Talk about fantastic coding skills!

[paulisthebest3uk]

All that running on a motorola 68000 based 8mhz cpu, you cant say a ibm pc compatible of the same speed could reproudce that with msdos and its internal beeper!

[sunegn]

IIRC the original release had a bug that messed up the demo if it ran on a machine with slow-mem (or fast-mem, don't remember) only. Skid Row fixed it so it ran on all configurations.

[mstuomel]

Wasn't it Slummy who fixed it?

[DeckerFI]

I didn't understand the Skid Row thing either. "Debugged it".. Maybe they just cracked the thing to check out the code. And bitch about it :)

[nebby6]

All that real-time coolness from a chipset designed in 1984.

Wicked!

[acme1212]

Süpperr

Çok güzel... Amiga kullananlar ayrıcalıklıdır...

C++

[ega76]

Old good days of AMIGA

[ShadowDreadblade]

8 mhz? 1 mb ram??? Floppy disk double density?

ONLY AN AMIGA CAN PERFORM SUCH A MASTERPIECE

WITH THOSE CHARACTERISTICS!

[FranticLes]

Takes me back, to the good old days of amiga demos. I thought Jesus on e's wuz better tho!

[jive808]

i was in this crew and i was with them when they presented this demo in denmark at "the party" in front of thousands of computer coders, freaks and hackers,.. people where standing on their chairs and screaming!!

[nebby6]

You sir, rule!

I salute you. :]

[leonidasmark]

I salute you too!

Old good days!

Only Amiga makes it possible!

[karadok666]

Dont talk about the good old time. All demo coders hated this crap because it was never a state of the art demo. This was precalculated code for beginners. I realy remember the good old times. cu, karadok (ST and Amiga Coder)

[poosgy]

Back in the old days I would love to launch this thing on my A500. With 7.14 Motorola this demo kicked ass like anything

[therocksolid]

what was the deal with the skid row fix? My version never had it.

[dpiktoria]

I am crying... thanks Amiga!

[Schnitz1]

Skid Row debugged it! =)

This stuff kicks PC ass anytime.

[morxxer]

amiga best hardware ever

[gtr2008]

7.14 Mhz rulez

Fuck pc sheet 3ghz, can"t emulate AGA chipset 100%

[lcaise]

excellent, amiga 4 ever!!!!

[surehole]

god what is that?? i had this demo haha

[shaolinwind]

What a beast of a machine. Everyone go buy amiga 500's.