Amiga demo won at Assembly 2006!

[Piru]

@motorollin

Well, I don't know for sure, but I doubt it's a mod. Now that I think about it, it could be ADPCM aswell (it's very cheap to decompress).

[redfox]

@z5

Starstruck.mp3  :-D

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redfox

[jmbattle]

Yes, the MP3 sounds great - I wonder what the original source was... I searched using WinUAE's ProWiz ripper (saved two files) and ExoticRipper (saved an Eureka packer file), but did not have any luck - perhaps the soundtrack is not 4ch .mod after all?

Any further details, please?

Cheers,
James
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[xeron]

TBL don't use "tracker" based audio in their demos, and havent done for a few years. They make the music in PC apps and the resulting audio file is compressed in a form of ADPCM.

The .mp3 was released by the musician and is almost certainly the output direct from the PC music app before downsampling and compressing for Amiga playback.

[motorollin]

xeron wrote:
TBL don't use "tracker" based audio in their demos, and havent done for a few years. They make the music in PC apps and the resulting audio file is compressed in a form of ADPCM.

That's a bit disappointing. They should have done it on an Amiga.

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moto

[benJamin]

Holy..!

I've seen some greetz lists in my time, but that was one of the more interesting (given the preceding discourse from the voice?).

I concur and exclaim that that is THE best demo I've ever seen (but I used to think Extension was the best, marginally).

*wishing I had an 060 in my 1200*

Want it for my collection.

Thanks for the links, you made my night: well worth the download...

*drones on a bit*

...deserved winner.


benJamin
"Starstruck."

[Piru]

@motorollin

That's a bit disappointing. They should have done it on an Amiga.

If it was a mod, it would not be as breathtaking as it is. Sorry, but that's the fact.

You just can't reproduce something like that with a mod, and amiga does not have the professional tools required.

Oh, btw, Maturefurk's lapsuus uses ADPCM aswell.

[Karlos]

It could have been created on an amiga. I have a pretty powerful tone generator (it was the bees knees in its day) wired up to my amiga and powered by soundstudio. Paulas audio is routed through the AD inputs on the front and is processed on the internal effects bus. Some people that have heard examples my stuff point blank refused to believe it was made on an amiga, especially the sampling ;-)

The only thing I use a PC for in that regard is capturing the output.

[blakespot]

A very nice demo on my A1200 060 66, but I must say it's not the best demo I've seen.  Just not that outstanding.  Impressive that it won ASM 06 tho!

I'll watch it again tonite.

Strangely, I still love Second Reality quite a bit.  :-)




bp

[jmbattle]

Ah, it is a shame the music was not created on an Amiga, however I fully understand Piru's reasoning.

blakespot, I shall have to download Second Reality for a comparison.

Cheers,
James

[InTheSand]

Fantastic demo!!!

Just watched it on WinUAE... Wanted to see it on my real A1200/060 but it tries to allocate 50-odd megs of RAM, whereas my A1200 only has 32... D'oh!

Still... it gave me an excuse to boot the ol' machine up again and watch a few other demos I've not seen for a while, plus a few of the Breakpoint 2006 ones I'd not had a chance to look at yet.

 - Ali

[pVC]

Well, Second Reality was first proper demo on PC. It had effects which had been done on Amiga earlier, but first time on PC. Later there was Second Reality C64, which was remake of that classic PC demo. It was nice "we can do this with fraction of the power" demo. But as Amiga scener who has seen lots of quality demos on Amiga, Second Reality isn't that interesting

[marcfrick2112]

Wow, nice to see the demo scene is alive and well. And happy that I recently upgraded my '060 A1200T to 128 MB RAM!!

 :-D

[orange]

how do you start demo on Amiga?
gives an error :
Starstruck.exe not executable ?

[motorollin]

@Piru
*One* Amiga might not have cut it, but they could have had a fleet of them all synched via MIDI, each running a tracker, and then mix all of the outputs :-)

@Orange
Starstruck.exe is executable. You just type starstruck.exe in to a CLI window. How did you get it on to your Amiga? Maybe one of the protection bits was lost in the process of copying.

@Thread
I have never, ever been interested in the demo scene before. However, watching this demo has made me excited about demos on the Amiga :-) As a total newbie to the demo scene, I would really appreciate any recommendations for demos or groups on the Amiga which are worth watching.

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moto

[Piru]

@orange

Probably you decompressed the thing from a zip archive and Starstruck.exe has no execute bit set. Protect Starstruck.exe e add, then start it.