30 years of Amiga Software or What to show at the Amiga30th events

[Tenacious]

I would think the low spec systems could be used to showcase some the most loved games and demos (especially those that were difficult for other platforms of the time).  

Some of the unusual (on other platforms) hardware configurations might be of interest, like a low spec machine running a RAD with only extra FAST ram.  Warm booting would be amazingly fast as would calling programs from RAD.  This might be a good system to demo the awesome power of the dir utils (advanced and almost unique) that evolved on the Amiga.  (Strangely, Amiga always had much more of its share of text readers as well. Other platforms used editors to read a file.)

Examples of original, low spec machines doing things that evolved years later, like playing Mp3s with a MasPlayer.

Pick a popular serial linked game and have that running on 2 machines.

Moving up to more expanded systems, an Amiga could be linked to the net.  If an older browser is used, perhaps sites should be limited to compatible ones like Aminet, Wikipedia, etc.

For those attendees who are unfamiliar with Amiga, it would be great to show off what is under the hood hardware and software wise.  Those admired attributes of the OS (dynamically allocated ram disk, multitasking, logical and straight forward system organization, the way the cli AND workbench were tightly integrated (WB was not splashed on top of a DOS, they were 2 facets of the same powerful OS), the clever icon system, the very small size and responsiveness of the system (near realtime) etc.) could be demo'ed.

Much could be said of the Amiga's native sound abilities, not only great quality playback, but sampling as well.  We made this (http://aminet.net/mods/smpl/VoiceOfAmiga.lha) in a matter of days with a DSS8+.  (Shameless plug,

It would be excellent if an Amiga could be set up to run a presentation with sound and images of its own history, technology, features, etc in a long continuous loop, all unassisted by a user!  An interactive presentation would be even better, if not harder to produce in the time allotted.  Amiga was, after all, billed as the first multimedia platform!

My 2 cents.

[Tenacious]

Boing!
RoboCity
"This is Amiga talking" (some kind of demo of the text to speech system)
Marble Madness, Defender of the Crown (two of the "killer-apps" games that sold the A1000)
Shadow of the Beast (one of the big A500 sellers)
Deluxe Paint (or wossname that Jim Sachs made the beautiful AGA image for)
A slideshow of Jim Sachs paintings

Yes!  I have no idea what the venue or atmosphere on offer at CHM is like, but, imagine several Amigas (perhaps serially linked) running slide shows, running demos, converting text to speech, etc while one talks (hopefully, in a sampled voice and thru some large speakers ) about the others and what they are running, about its own specs, about Jim's art background and obvious accomplishments, highlights of the OS, about Fred Fish and Aminet (at one time, the largest archive of any platform), details of how that machine is doing its own presentation (not a video tape!), the work of Jay Minor and other Amiga visionaries, etc.

Maybe these Amigas could be arranged in an entry way or along the approach to the main show but a little separated from all the hubbub and noise of 50 people talking at once.  

It would be a tremendous testament if the Amiga could present itself, without an operator  and intervention!  What other computer from 30 years ago has ever done this?