Amiga Demo Podcast [H.264]

Demo #013 : Starstruck (The Black Lotus)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:31:28 +0100

Demo: Starstruck [H.264] (37.25 MB) [DivX] (38.35 MB)
Group: The Black Lotus
Released: August, 2006

I know it's not exactly old skool, but I just had to include this demo as soon as possible and some people had also requested a version other than MPEG-2 that is available, with bad audio.

This demo has only been out a short while but has a little history behind it. The previous demo party that The Black Lotus (TBL) attended they didn't exactly do well, and they were placed 3rd. Apparently, someone threw down the gauntlet for them to create a demo that could kick the ass out of the demos that would be on show at the next party (Assembly '06).

To cut a long story short, TBL came up with this little beauty and won first place, and absolutely slaughtered the other 14 demos (which were 13 PC and 1 Mac OS X) in terms of votes.

The music for this demo was composed by none other than Olof Gustafsson (of the legendary "Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions" fame and a once member of "The Silents", if I'm not mistaken.

The demo was made to run on an Amiga with a 68060, but I don't have that much power. They had to make their demo run on WinUAE because their A1260 (68060 CPU board) broke on the flight over to the party.

Anyway, enjoy this demo. As I said, this will actually run on the WinUAE emulator. It runs perfectly acceptably on 1.6GHz machine, so you can watch this one for yourself. Just need to get yourself Kickstart 3.1 ROMs and a Workbench 3.1 installation and you're good to go.

Demo Download: Starstruck (Zip File)

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News: 24-hour Outage some time in the next 36-hours

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:29:45 +0100

I’m migrating my account to a different cluster with my host Servage that supports Ruby on Rails.

Just letting you know so you don’t think I’ve gone offline permanently.

Demo #012 : Jesus on E's (LSD)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:02:52 +0100

Demo: Jesus on Es [H.264] (162.68 MB) [DivX] (157.55 MB)
Group: LSD
Released: October, 1992

It's been a long time coming, but at last here it is.

Get out your white gloves, whistles and dummies and let the rave commence.

Seeing that this demo came out in 1992 makes me feel really old now :(

The length of this demo is absolutely huge, dare say my bandwidth limit is going to get tested with this one. Whilst the demo doesn't exactly do a hell of a lot technically, it certainly set a standard in its day. Kicking in at something around the 30 minute mark spread over two disks and REQUIRING an extra disk drive. Fortunately I AGA and ECS fixed it, so that I could run it from my hard disk (not having an extra floppy drive).

The disk images are the original unmodified ones, and the fixers/HD installer is included too to save the searching.

I'm going to try and get back in the habit of doing the demos on a weekly/bi-weekly basis now as it has really been hard going try to get myself back into.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] [HD Installer and AGA/ECS Fixers]. To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #011 : Guardian Dragon (Kefrens) [Article Link Corrected]

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:50:38 +0100

Demo: Guardian Dragon [H.264] (44.09 MB) [DivX] (45.02 MB)
Group: Kefrens
Released: September, 1991

Sorry for the delays in getting this one out, there have been some connectivity issues recently and my WordPress install got hacked, just to compound things.

A nice old demo, that has visuals and music very reminiscent of the day. Most of the effects show off what type of vectors and 3-d models they could do.

Good demo in all. Brings back many memories of the 90's.

Ignore the "Vote for next demo", it's going to be Jesus on E's. Which I'm sure would win anyway if it was put to a vote.

The voting will return, following Jesus on E's!

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk]. To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #011 : Guardian Dragon (Kefrens)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:01:59 +0100

Demo: Guardian Dragon [H.264] (44.09 MB) [DivX] (45.02 MB)
Group: Kefrens
Released: September, 1991

Sorry for the delays in getting this one out, there have been some connectivity issues recently and my WordPress install got hacked, just to compound things.

A nice old demo, that has visuals and music very reminiscent of the day. Most of the effects show off what type of vectors and 3-d models they could do.

Good demo in all. Brings back many memories of the 90's.

Ignore the "Vote for next demo", it's going to be Jesus on E's. Which I'm sure would win anyway if it was put to a vote.

The voting will return, following Jesus on E's!

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk]. To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #010 : Twisted (Polka Brothers) [Re-post with correct link]

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sun, 21 May 2006 14:50:17 +0100

Demo: Twisted [H.264] (32.56 MB) [DivX] (32.35 MB)
Group: Polka Brothers
Released: December, 1994

Lovely demo, nice visuals. Lots of spinning rotationg things. Small video clips and a thumping soundtrack.

Another demo I hadn't seen first time. This one comes on 4 whole disks, there is a hard disk installer (included in the downloads).

There are a few little glitches, most likely my dodgy (10 year old) disks again.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] [Disk 3] [Disk 4] [HD Installer]. To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #010 : Twisted (Polka Brothers)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:03:45 +0100

Demo: Twisted [H.264] (32.56 MB) [DivX] (32.35 MB)
Group: Polka Brothers
Released: December, 1994

Lovely demo, nice visuals. Lots of spinning rotationg things. Small video clips and a thumping soundtrack.

Another demo I hadn't seen first time. This one comes on 4 whole disks, there is a hard disk installer (included in the downloads).

There are a few little glitches, most likely my dodgy (10 year old) disks again.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] [Disk 3] [Disk 4] [HD Installer]. To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #009 : Full Moon (Virtual Dreams/Fairlight)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:35:14 +0100

Demo: Full Moon [H.264] (40.43 MB) [DivX] (40.33 MB)
Group: Virtual Dreams & Fairlight
Released: December, 1993

This was the second demo to come of the Virtual Dreams and Fairlight collaboration.

Another AGA demo, an awesome soundtrack and some very nice effects.

Has a little bit of the "doom-style" demo going on at the start, but doesn't last for too long.

Demo File (.lha archive): [File]

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Demo #008 : RSI Megademo (Red Sector Inc.)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:14:44 +0100

Demo: RSI Megademo [H.264] (102.34 MB) [DivX] (100.83 MB)
Group: Red Sector Inc.
Released: September, 1989

This was the first megademo released and most of the effects and features subsequently formed the "Red Sector Demomaker".

The music was by Romeo Knight and provided a really nice backdrop to the whole demo. Excellent work.

Whilst the effects aren't as fancy as the demos so far, it was groundbreaking for it's time.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2]. To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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NEW : MODcast - Amiga Music Audio Podcast (AAC/MP3)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:54:31 +0100

I don't think I have enough to do with my time, so I've started up another podcast.

This one is dedicated to Amiga Game/Demo Music, back in the days when writing music was limited to generally 4-channels (7 if you include TFMX Pro).

Head on over to http://www.themodcast.com and check it out.

I'm determined to use my disk space/bandwidth, if it kills me!

Demo #007 : Mental Hangover (Scoopex)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:55:56 +0100

Demo: Mental Hangover [H.264] (45.69 MB) [DivX] (45.29 MB)
Group: Scoopex
Released: April, 1990

This is one of the "proper old skool" Amiga demos, and I think the first ever Amiga demo that I saw.

I still had myself a Commodore 64 at the time, and this just blew me away. Thanks in part to my mate Gormy I pretty much managed to wangle myself an Amiga 500 shortly after off my parents.

Nice dark soundtrack, and some good vector work, considering the time.

Sadly, I've had to mark this one as explicit cos of a single rude 'F' word rather prominently displayed.

Good work Scoopex. And thanks again for the logos!

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #006 : Fruit Kitchen (Silents)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:06:13 +0100

Demo: Fruit Kitchen [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Silents
Released: August, 1995

This was the last demo that the Silents released on the Amiga. A very sad day. It was released at "The Assembly 1995" where it came 4th (source Amiga Demoscene Archive).

In my opinion it suffered from a problem that most Amiga demos had (after about 1992), and that was trying to do a "doom-style" first person fly through at really crappy resolutions.

As far as I'm concerned that was where the whole demoscene started to fall apart as there was too much concentration on getting "doom-style" sections and the type of innovations seen earlier in the 90s had just died by the wayside.

The demo "Blood Kitchen" advertised as 'coming soon', at the end of this demo, obviously never actually made it.

Demo Archive (.lha format): [LHA Archive] I'll try and stay away from these 'file-based' demos in the future, and keep it to the disk-based ones, as they are better anyway.

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Broke 100 subscribers in 24-hour period!

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:41:46 +0100

Excellent, it's getting quite some attention (more than I'd anticipated at any rate).

I've broken the 100 subscriptions in a 24-hour period. Not sure on the total subscribers though.

Sadly though, there doesn't seem to be a similar level of activity on the web site. Just downloads via the feed. :(

Still, it's better than my first estimates.

Amiga Game Intro Podcast NOW AVAILABLE!

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:47:22 +0100

A lot of people have requested an Amiga Game Intro podcast. This has now been setup and, with any luck, shall be released every Wednesday to offset the wait for a new demo.

The first demo is Another World by Delphine Software.

You can subscribe to the following feeds:

Amiga Game Intro Podcast [H.264]
Amiga Game Intro Podcast [DivX]

Give me some feedback in the comments to the post or in the forums.

Demo #005 : Hardwired (Crionics/Silents)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:52:32 +0100

Demo: Hardwired [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Crionics/Silents
Released: December, 1991

I remember when I first saw this demo and thought "Oooh! Video!".

Has some nice effects, and a very dark soundtrack.

Hope you enjoy this one was a right bugger to capture, had to whip out my A600 and actually run it off floppy disks because it was complaining a bit on the A1200 (didn't look pretty). It weighs it at a nice 61MB too!

Still at least it's free of glitches and errors.

Another classic made for the original Amiga 500 computer.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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A Note on the Vote

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:40:51 +0100

A lot of people wanted to see some of the other demos that didn't win the previous votes, so I thought I would put some of the more noticeable losers from the previous votes in to this weeks vote.

Also, I'm thinking of doing a vote where users can add their own demo to vote for, let me know what you'd think to that (via the comments to this post).

Leave feedback on voting.

Demo #004 : Origin (Complex)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:33:50 +0100

Sorry for the delay, had a couple of hectic days.

Demo: Origin [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Complex
Released: December, 1993

This was I believe the first "proper demo" that was released for the A1200/4000 and the AGA chipset. It was definitely the first AGA demo I saw.

It won when released at "The Party 93", and whilst it didn't exactly contain anything special it did go to show what could be done with the new, more powerful, Amigas.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #003 : Desert Dreams (Kefrens)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:27:37 +0000

Demo: Desert Dreams [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Kefrens
Released: April, 1993

Well people, you voted for it, and here it is. Nice demo weighing in at a massive 77.5MB per video stream. Quite a lengthy one so hope you enjoy it.

According to the text at the end, this was the last demo that Laxity actually did for non-AGA machines.

This demo is split into two parts, the first one tells a little (very little) story about their "Desert Dream" and the second-part is their "Ooh, ooh we're demo-coders look what we can do" bit.

Brilliant music, not as dancy as the previous two demos, but very fitting and synchronisation to the visuals is impeccable.

Again, another one made to run on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #002 : State of the Art (Spaceballs)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:45:45 +0000

Well, State of the Art won the vote (as I expected).

Demo: State of the Art [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Spaceballs
Released: December, 1992

Spaceballs released “State of the Art” at ‘The Party’ in 1992, and from what I can gather it received quite a heavy demand, thereafter. There wasn’t much code to it, but it seems that they managed to mess up some of the “trackloader” code. This makes the demo finish just a second before it should do.

Other than that it was an excellent standard setting demo, and was apparently one of the first demos to be featured on the music channel MTV (source Amiga Demo Archive). This demo has some nice blitter chip copper goodness, that still slows down UAE quite a bit when having to deal with it.
Again, another one made to run on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.

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Demo #001 [Repost] : 9 Fingers (Spaceballs) due to problems.

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:11:02 +0000

Download this if you are unable to play the whole 2:52 of the first post of this (check the size of the video isn’t drastically below about 16.8MB), as some issues were identified

Demo: 9 Fingers [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Spaceballs
Released: December, 1993

Spaceballs kicked the video-style demos up a notch when they released “State of the Art” back in December, 1992. The following year they released “9 Fingers” (at The Party), which took their original vector animation idea a stage further and introduced smaller, coloured polygons to give more depth than the previous vector silhouettes.

What made it all the more amazing was it ran on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

A truly awesome demo.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.
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Demo #001 : 9 Fingers (Spaceballs)

terry@amigademopodcast.com (Terry Wilson) — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:26:43 +0000

Demo: 9 Fingers [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Spaceballs
Released: December, 1993

Spaceballs kicked the video-style demos up a notch when they released “State of the Art” back in December, 1992. The following year they released “9 Fingers” (at The Party), which took their original vector animation idea a stage further and introduced smaller, coloured polygons to give more depth than the previous vector silhouettes.

What made it all the more amazing was it ran on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

A truly awesome demo.

Disk Images (.adz format): [Disk 1] [Disk 2] To convert to an ADF, use either WinZip or gzip.
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