Amiga Boing Ball

To demonstrate the Amigas hardware capabilities, the bouncing Boing ball demo was written late one night at the Winter CES show in January 1984. At the time it was an amazing achievement that surpassed all current systems of the time, seamlessly handling real physics whilst multitasking in the background.
The original Amiga team preferred the Boing ball design, adopting as the unofficial trademark. Dozens of Boing Ball logos were made for the A1000 launch, until Commodore decided to use the checker mark. This is the original demo. To find out more visit
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/origins...

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[FrederickTears]

does anyone know the name of the background tune??? :(

[amigang]

it from the Gateway Amiga promotion video "Back for the future" was the name of the song

[buokopter]

much way better then crysis

[Soul74]

I like this better than Avatar...

[JewTubeUsername]

*hums morrowind theme*

[Jagged85]

Looks almost close to arcade-quality at the time.

[jellyblu]

i know, right ? makes you want to watch the video in HD n'stuff...

[jellyblu]

earlier versions of Bugatron had a nice rendition of a spinning Boing Ball doing aerobics within its axis on the game's title screen

there's also one on the title screen of DX-Ball 2, although pre-rendered, with some nice chiselled texture

two cents for eyecandy...

[Azarien]

Yes, but not in this scale ;-)

[CorrectiveAction]

In fact that is true...

[JcButay]

Duhhh...Duh-Duhh...Duh...Duh-D­uhhh....Duhhh...Duh-Duhh...Duh­...Duh-Duhhh....

[Olgasys]

I am in TV business and let me assure you, if you watched TV in 80s to late 90s, you have seen Amiga in one way or another.

[Olgasys]

Every single person in IT got shocked and awed when they saw this ball.

[Azarien]

gravity is weird... as if at the top it is weaker than on the bottom.