Amiga demos
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Amiga demos are demos created for the Commodore Amiga home computer.
Smaller demos were often known as intros, and were typically limited to between 4kb and 64kb in size. Intros were originally used as an 'introduction' by a cracker-group on computer games and other software disks cracked for copying and redistribution. Later it developed into a stand-alone artform and many demo/intro groups disassociated themselves from the cracking/copying scene (although many of the major demo groups were still heavily involved in this).
Most demos were written in 68000 assembler language, although a few were written in C and other languages. Demos on the Amiga flourished because of the power of the "Copper" Co-processor for synchronising display changes to the vertical beam position on the screen, and the blitter - a chip capable of fast block moving of graphical data from one position on the screen to another.
Full demos ranged from under 512KB to several megabytes. There were several thousand demos produced in many languages and many countries, particularly the UK, Germany, and the Nordic countries.
Partial list of Amiga demo groups and demos
- Andromeda
- DOS
- Nexus 7
- Anarchy
- 3D Demo II
- Hardcore
- In the Kitchen
- Alcatraz
- Odyssey
- Budbrain
- Megademo
- Megademo II
- Complex
- Delirium
- Gospel Karaoke
- Origin
- Real
- Cryptoburners
- The Hunt for 7th October
- Crystal
- Human Target
- DCS
- Klone
- Deathstar
- Megademo
- Dual 4Mat
- Visual Intensity (Disc Mag)
- Art-Tro I - V
- Woo
- My Friend The Atom
- Le Portrait de Sparkle I & II
- Egg 'n' Spam I & II
- Fanatic
- Gate
- Bruno's Music Box II
- Jesus on E's
- Kefrens
- Desert Dream
- Guardian Dragon
- Megademo 8
- Mature Furk
- Lapsuus
- Melon Dezign
- SOS
- Mystic
- Parallax
- Phenomena
- Enigma
- Interspace
- Polka Brothers
- Friday at Eight
- Prey
- Pure Metal Coders
- Alpha And Omega
- Pygmy Projects
- Extension
- Red Sector Inc
- Cebit 90
- Megademo
- Reflect
- Sound Vision
- RNO
- Electroluxus (Mekka Symposium 2002)
- Sanity
- Arte
- Roots
- Roots 2
- World of Commodore
- Scoopex
- Mental Hangover
- Seven Sins
- Share and Enjoy
- Amazing Tunes II
- Silents
- Global Trash
- Ice
- Silents+Crionics
- Hardwired
- Spaceballs
- 9 Fingers (considered to be a sequel for The State of the Art)
- The State of the Art (The Party '92, 1st place)
- Spreadpoint
- Cube-O-Matic
- Stellar
- Mindflow
- Tristar (http://www.trs-1988.de)
- Up Rough
- Live Axxion
- April In Paris
- Ink
- The Yard BBS Intro
- Virtual Dreams
Note that these demos are not necessarily the most famous.
Fred Fish
[Add a discussion of Fred Fish.]
External links
- Amiga Demoscene Archive http://ada.planet-d.net/
- Back To The Roots (http://www.back2roots.org/Demos/) amiga demos archive
- Scene.org (http://www.scene.org) the main scene archive