How the buggerin' hell did...

[xeron]

SOTA is a great demo that is rightly popular, but if you're going to pick a demo to marvel over the code, don't pick that one.

Theres nothing in SOTA that is very hard to do. The vectors for SOTA were hand traced, and that would have been laborious and annoying, but not difficult. Also, I have it on good authority (StingRay :-)), that the code itself is pretty awful (don't forget that the original SpaceBalls release had to be fixed by Skid Row for it to work on most Amigas; and that was even before AGA came out).

I'm guessing for 9-fingers they had automated the process of vectorising video frames.

[ddniUK]

The 9fingers source video is on YouTube...

Will search for the link.


/edit

here we are

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY

and

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MgcfpQqpf5g&feature=related

[alexh]

Did anyone ever try 3D glasses (Red/Blue?) on that scene in SOTA with the rotating 3D grid? Man it was amazing in 1992, I almost wet myself.

[AeroMan]

I´ve never though about that.... I need to get one of those glasses and try :-)

[jmbattle]

I hadn't realised that it was 3D either...I bet it must have looked bloody incredibly back in the day!

Speaking of which, I recall reading interviews with participants of the demo competition in which SOTA was released, and the reaction was rather mixed.  Some folks loved it, other's criticised it's old fashioned routines.

Personally I love it, and will never forget the day I first watched the demo on my A500 as a child.  Truly magic. Those were the days.

Cheers,
James
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[AmigaMance]

Especially 9 fingers... ok it's lo res and probably 4 bit colour.. but still, 880k?

 It's 2 disks, btw. 880k*2

[MarkWatson]

Its impressive fitting stuff into small memory. If anyone has an x86 box and hasn't seen The Product - this is damn impressive viewing for 64K!

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221

[pyrre]

how come no one mention the odyssey demo....?

[da9000]

weirdami wrote:

da9000 wrote:

weirdami wrote:

pyrre wrote:
But it still looks awesome

Only Amiga makes it possible.  :-D

Hardly...

 :roll:

Trying to bring some semblance of reality into the conversation. I apologize, please go back to fantasy land...

[Krusher]

alexh wrote:
Did anyone ever try 3D glasses (Red/Blue?) on that scene in SOTA with the rotating 3D grid? Man it was amazing in 1992, I almost wet myself.

Actually, I did, red/green and red/blue

Didn't work for me, although I did create a pseudo 3d movie from a vhs source using a framegrabber, and color conversion and a lot of patience  :-D

[cv643d]

pyrre wrote:
how come no one mention the odyssey demo....?

It came on 11 floppies IIRC?

And I was hardly impressed by Odyssey demo when I watched it, boring and lacked cool effects.

[pyrre]

It came on 11 floppies IIRC?

No. only five....