lol i would still have trouble rendering 3D like this on modern windows 7 computers! :D i love the amiga... so many decent coders! I wish we still have intros like this when ever we play games on PC or Wii or what ever :D
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Amiga was well past its prime in 1995. I love Amiga too, but the Amiga was at its best with the Amiga 500 in the late 80s; not in the mid 90s with A1200 and friends. In 1995 we had games like Need for Speed, Doom and just a year later Quake. This is not impressive graphics for 1995 compared to state of the art on PC -- however, it is still a really great demo in every regard.
Nice demo, great music and fantastic visuals. I assume this was running on the AGA chipset?
Kind of makes me wish that Commodore was still around like they were in the old days, before the Windoze dominance. If only they hadn't screwed it up at the time......
Oh that was definitely AGA, although OCS still could've had some life in it at the time...not so much competing with the state-of-the-art but improving on what could be achieved on limited resources.
These days, nobody uses resources efficiently, they just keep getting more power thrown in their direction all too often.
Note that this doesn't mean that I consider progress to be a bad thing, just that a side-effect is that people doing things like demos of the old never get a chance to super-optimize for their target.
@zebionic You are so right, people have no idea how far you can actually push a computer. The people who did know are those who made these incredible demos for the amiga, when you think about the spec of an amiga to todays averaga computer it makes me think they were either geniouses or we simply dont know how to programme properly these days
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MadCanine 5 days ago
lol i would still have trouble rendering 3D like this on modern windows 7 computers! :D i love the amiga... so many decent coders! I wish we still have intros like this when ever we play games on PC or Wii or what ever :D
kragle2008 1 week ago
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StewX1976 3 weeks ago
1:30 into this video looks like Wipeout 2097, in a bare polygon way
and this was in 1995
RaspberryRhino 1 month ago
1:48 WipeOut )
WickedChips 3 months ago
I wish the amiga really took off more than it did. these graphics are so impressive for 1995
labelfree904 1 year ago 10
@labelfree904 But it was massive, it couldn't have took off any better. They screwed up the business and then it died.
Rickyfre5h 6 months ago
@Rickyfre5h
:( its too bad
I think this stuff looks cool even today. This stuff was breakthrough for its time.
labelfree904 6 months ago
@labelfree904
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Amiga was well past its prime in 1995. I love Amiga too, but the Amiga was at its best with the Amiga 500 in the late 80s; not in the mid 90s with A1200 and friends. In 1995 we had games like Need for Speed, Doom and just a year later Quake. This is not impressive graphics for 1995 compared to state of the art on PC -- however, it is still a really great demo in every regard.
ioctlvoid 2 months ago
Nice demo, great music and fantastic visuals. I assume this was running on the AGA chipset?
Kind of makes me wish that Commodore was still around like they were in the old days, before the Windoze dominance. If only they hadn't screwed it up at the time......
chindleymuffin 2 years ago 8
Oh that was definitely AGA, although OCS still could've had some life in it at the time...not so much competing with the state-of-the-art but improving on what could be achieved on limited resources.
These days, nobody uses resources efficiently, they just keep getting more power thrown in their direction all too often.
zebionic 2 years ago
Note that this doesn't mean that I consider progress to be a bad thing, just that a side-effect is that people doing things like demos of the old never get a chance to super-optimize for their target.
zebionic 2 years ago
@zebionic You are so right, people have no idea how far you can actually push a computer. The people who did know are those who made these incredible demos for the amiga, when you think about the spec of an amiga to todays averaga computer it makes me think they were either geniouses or we simply dont know how to programme properly these days
Rickyfre5h 6 months ago
2nd place demo from The Party 1995. I saw this one aswell live for the very first time. :)
KarpowSCX 2 years ago
Cool. You could string several of these scenes together with a plot and dialog and make a science fiction short story.
magicianspirit 3 years ago