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Title: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 29, 2013, 02:44:04 AM
"A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene" is now online! :)

http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

I'm re-reading from the start, it's been a while since the last installment!
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: magnetic on April 29, 2013, 04:11:30 AM
What an awesome article! thanks for the link
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 29, 2013, 04:36:50 AM
My pleasure. :)
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: AJCopland on April 29, 2013, 10:30:15 AM
I just came here to post this myself :D

An awesome read, I can't believe how good TBL StarStruck still looks too.
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 29, 2013, 11:08:04 AM
I just finished reading the first 7 parts, gonna have to fire up some Amiga games now! :D
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 29, 2013, 11:36:01 AM
Quote from: AJCopland;733228
I just came here to post this myself :D

An awesome read, I can't believe how good TBL StarStruck still looks too.


Holy crap, I just got around to watching Starstruck, that blew my mind, that must have been one massively pimped out PPC based Amiga to pull that off! :eek:
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: UberFreak on April 29, 2013, 11:40:18 AM
StarStruck was made for 68060 and runs quite smoothly on a 50Mhz one :)
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 29, 2013, 11:43:44 AM
Quote from: UberFreak;733239
StarStruck was made for 68060 and runs quite smoothly on a 50Mhz one :)


Impressive! :cool:
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: Britelite on April 29, 2013, 12:52:34 PM
Quote from: UberFreak;733239
StarStruck was made for 68060 and runs quite smoothly on a 50Mhz one :)

And it looks even better on a 060-equipped Atari Falcon :)
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 29, 2013, 12:55:44 PM
Quote from: Britelite;733247
And it looks even better on a 060-equipped Atari Falcon :)

How does that work seeing it is an Amiga Demo???
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: Britelite on April 29, 2013, 12:58:15 PM
Quote from: djos;733248
How does that work seeing it is an Amiga Demo???

Quite easily as there's an Atari Falcon port of the demo. And it's actually the "final" version of the demo, which was never released on the Amiga.
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: UberFreak on April 29, 2013, 01:11:41 PM
Its a real shame the final was not released on Amiga, as the demo still has a few standing bugs, one of which is nasty - it doesn't release memory upon exit!

On both my 060 setups, the music sync is off and there's jerkiness in a few parts that should run smooth (beginning & greetings scrollers).
On the Atari these problems were solved, as far as I could see...

Sorry for being OT :)
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: Jeremy Reimer on April 29, 2013, 10:22:29 PM
Quote from: djos;733206
"A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene" is now online! :)

http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

I'm re-reading from the start, it's been a while since the last installment!


Thanks for posting this!  I agree it's been far too long since the last installment, but I'm back to working steadily on these articles now, so stay tuned!  In fact, if anyone has any good stories from their Video Toaster days, email me at jeremy_reimer@hotmail.com and I might use it in the next article!
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: djos on April 30, 2013, 12:09:08 AM
My pleasure, thanks for writing such a great series! I've pre-ordered Brian bagnals Amiga book will always have room for another should you write your book. :)

Btw I liked how you started off part 1 with Dave Haynies death bed vigil walk thru, I have it on DVD and its a great but sad watch.
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: SysAdmin on April 30, 2013, 06:56:12 AM
Cool read!
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: yakumo9275 on April 30, 2013, 01:18:34 PM
Quote from: Jeremy Reimer;733275
if anyone has any good stories from their Video Toaster days


You cant have a toaster article without Kiki Stochammer LOL. I think that composed most of my newtek memories as a hormone addled teen
Title: Re: ArsTechnica: A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Post by: RobertB on April 30, 2013, 04:48:56 PM
Quote from: yakumo9275;733324
You cant have a toaster article without Kiki Stochammer...

Don't forget that Kiki speaks a little bit of her Video Toaster heritage at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4Q1wDy5Ec

Warp 11 concert this Saturday in San Francisco!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex