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/originsboing.html

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• Amiga
• boing
• ball
• demo
• logo
• commodore
• computers

[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...

[Azarien]

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

[triptothebeach]

a milestone for it's time

[lutzdify]

This is going on my favorites!!

[Berleh]

Hey, it's the drumbeat from Morrowind's main theme.

[D6Film]

Great to see it after years :)

[st3f0n]

sick graphics!

[DevilMaster]

LOL, they made it polygonal to trick people into thinking this color-cycling BOB was real-time 3D graphics!

[archon808]

@vapourmile : The C64

[vapourmile]

@NULUSIOS One of the keys to lack of Amiga adoption was a simple deal breaker: The Amiga did not have broadcast quality graphics which have always been 24bit. You do score points for observing that the Amiga introduced 'the mass public' to many things they hadn't seen, I 100% concur, in fact, it was largely because the public had never experienced CGI systems in any capacity that they were so easily seduced by the Amiga.

[vapourmile]

@NULUSIOS Quick tip: It is extremely unwise to begin your posting with personal remarks like 'you are clueless', esp, when you know nothing of the person posting. Social tips aside, it's a long shot to speak as if to suggest that every single TV company in the world used Amiga exclusively for broadcast graphics, since in reality, very few of them used them in major contracts and none but the low-end enterprises used them exclusively and without other machines.