Starstruck by The Black Lotus

platform : Amiga AGA
type : demo
release date : august 2006
release party : Assembly 2006
compo : combined demo
ranked : 1st

Category:

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[hiwdy1]

love this song!!!

[matt47110815]

Waaah!! I want my Amiga back! Great Demo!

[NovaTheCoder]

One of my fav's....ok, maybe my fav, pity an 030 can't run it :(

[jilagone]

Atari Falcon version is here - watch?v=6nnW8JvtMko

[RaaMooShaa]

watch >>> The Arrivals

[nintendoeats]

You know the bit where is said "I jest. Very impressive?"

That was because I was jesting and I was impressed.

[d0dge25]

@nintendoeats:

that's why ..uhhm...Plastic was ...sort of...hired for it and had worked on Linger In Shadows for almost 3 years.

Also the PS3 has ...uhm... totally more HW muscle ...

[teamEDWARD199629]

what the hell was that....??????????

[crocz]

it's a demonstration on graphics and coding skills, aka a demo.

[Jawattdenn]

The "former director" Tramiel didn't do any mistakes. He founded Commodore, he made it big with stuff like PET, VIC20, C64 and Amiga. Commodore had 80% market share at it's best time. And then he left, the remaining management ignored that they were living in a fast moving market. They had a machine like Amiga which was 4 years ahead of it's time and then they didn't update it for 7 years. Seriously, you can't "stop and just sell your old stuff" in a market which depends so much on new designs.

[Catrabela]

Firstly: Production couldn't fill orders so although people wanted to buy it they couldn't.

Secondly: The company was under attack from a former director who seemed miffed about getting fired because he couldn't do his job. (I'd point you to the web page detailing the Amiga history but I've lost it)

An open architecture could have prevented that as developers could have developed Amiga rather than the Open Architecture IBM PC.

[Jawattdenn]

You are wrong. What it would have needed is a management not making vacation on the philipines counting money.

The Amiga had a perfect start, but then no further development followed because "it sells anyway".