Kefrens Desert Dream (HD) 

When an old Amiga demo has more love put into it than most modern video games.

the music is a masterpiece

This IS the demo you put on your Amiga back in the day to make your PC owning friends piss their pants in wanton ecstacy of pure bliss.

That buzzsaw hitting the screen just about took my head off when I saw it for the first time in the 1990's. Classic, stylish, inventive.

R.I.P. my fantastic brother who showed me the magic of computers and these great demoes.

Godlike... i can't count how many times i've watched/listened to this...

Take a poor MC68000 / 7Mhz, add a flexible blitter and copper chips, an extra amount of talent, and ... behold.. Still gives me the chills 20 years later

only one generation will understand how magical was to see a computer being able to do this realtime in 1993

that 3d effect at 4:35 never fails to amaze me after 30yrs. what an amazing machine!!!

If you want to show someone how impressive the Amiga and its programmers were back in 1993, this is one of those demos! Brilliant from start to end.

Jedno z tých najlepších. Môžem pozerať do okola. Úžasná hudba, super efekty. Výborne aj po skoro 20 rokov.

The filled/NOT filled dotcube routine is still my favorite!

You CANNOT give this thumbs down. It is heresy.

i remember the party, i remember the danemark, and my eyes just glowing when i see for the first time this one, can someone invent a time machine please.

Purple motion def got his inspiration from this demo ;)

I always liked the sawblade effect - what's funny is its achieved by messing up the bit plane pointers.

A *legendary* classic! *Godlike music too*

fun fact: Bouncing 3D cube was the effect that only Amiga could do. No commercial PC at the time was able to do that. Not in real time though...

Back in 1993 I had my SNES as I never rated the Amiga as a gaming machine, but I'll never forget the excitement me and my mates had when bringing these demos home from the local pirate dealer, and thinking about what kind of tunes and effects would be lurking in thise 3.5 inch floppies. There are lots of decent Amiga demos but none have the power and energy of this. We had this hooked up to my sister's Kenwood hifi at the time and it was nothing short of mindblowing.

spine tingles when the K-E-F-R-E-N-S letter punch onto the screen accompanied by that sample.

Holy shit. Why didn't I check YT for some oldschool Amiga demo nostalgia sooner?! I swear, something deep inside me that has lain dormant for almost 30 years came alive again. I remember the ending music would loop, and I would have it on in the background while I did homework, haha. The sleeper has awakened! -_- :D

I remember when I saw this the first time. It was such an inspiration and I went on and implemented my own version of many of these routines. It was so fun.

The secret part at the end btw - boot the second floppy with the right mouse button held down ;).

One of the best, I pull it up from time to time for the amazing soundtrack and the way it is put together. Forget your farcry, back in the day this was blowing our heads off. And a melon!

First class demo, back in the day, and the music could still kick ass today !

respect is the only word i can think of. great then, great now!

What a rollercoaster of master tracks!

Oh my happy childhood... Thanks to Laxity.

Thumbs up if you still enjoy this demo in 2016 !"The Meaning of life is to become a legend" Laxity is a fucking legend !

Classic 💗

LAXITY - champion of the champions !!! :)

HD really brings out how this looked on the Amiga back then. The Amiga was way way ahead of its time.

The beginnings of depth-cueing by rendering the scenes as dots in bitplanes. Pretty fascinating.

stunning... but never quite understood why it wasn't full screen from the start, the c64 remake is fucking excellent too

Everything about this demo is EPIC.. Especially the MUSIC and the CHOREOGRAPHY.. I LOVE IT!!

Everything about this is amazing. How they pulled this off on a A500 just shows awesome talent and the raw power of The Amiga.

This is why I got into a career in motion graphics. Truly inspirational, even in 2019!

SIGH! Want to return in 1993....

One of the best amiga demos.

Plus... the whole thing on two 880k floppy disks? Awesome programming and talent!!

All hail the dots! Stunning!

I can just imagine how amazing this would of been back in the day. I love it!

And in HD, who could ask for more?!

still great!

i love when those two ships are flying away behind the other one that is coming towads the screen... and then they turn into the bullets that desroy the craft... yeah bro

Amazing demo

Still loving it!

Laxity the real No. 1

ponadczasowe. Amiga Rulez!!!!! I ta muza. yeeee.

Just amazing! The nostalgia!

One of the All-Times Best Demos on Amiga. Really.

One of the best demos ever. On this demo you can clearly see some of the problems of viewing demos on RU-vid. Most of the demos back then were programmed to show stunning 50 frames per second, while YT only shows 25 or 30 fps.. Quite visible on the Desert Dream texture mapped logo in the beginning of part 1 (if you dont count intro part as part one, then it's part two ;))

brilliance prod!

It rocks !

just a bunch of awesome holding hands

imagine, if the Kefrens guys from 1993 came to late 2012 and saw something like Farcry 3 or Pacific Rim! culture shock!

freaking bravo my man

6:00 is such and amazing refrain too.

I spent hella time to find this . And all I remember was the yellow eyes

At the time these graphics looked so advanced!

One of my favorite demo tracks ever, the musical references to the guitar solo of Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd really resonate. (Though I am told its a complete coincidence!) - excellent stuff.

I was working on a retro demo imitation and checking on a few references. Some of my pieces have very basic soft body dynamics, but I thought it might still be a bit much. Hell, they had it!

06:28 - This. Look. Like. MATRIX! Damn yeah!

Still get back to this :)

4 people owned a ZX Spectrum

hahaha i searched for something absolutely different but this shit here is bombing !!!

haha the sweet battles between Kefrens and Melon

I can't believe the guy with his coding skills also wrote the music. People normally aren't multitalented like this. The Amiga 500 running this ran at 7.04 MHz. That is 0.2% of the clock frequency of a 3 GHz PC.

Ahh yes, the demo Future Crew copied and called "Second Reality" a few months after it came out :)

worlds last assembler mega demo. I were in fron of stage on release. Bow to me ; (

Atari power.... always :)

7:08 was pretty rad :D

Still awesome, Klf music style

all my life i've been wondering: in the opening titles, at 0:18 "design and coding - laxity zeus", the white extra pixels to the left and to the right - is this a bug on floppy disc? did everybody copy from the same faulty floppy disc? or a programmers' easter egg / hidden message / joke? or what?

This demo really has an obsession with dots, doesn't it.

This video is missing the bassline in the beginning.

Demo leggendario!,questo demo sicuramente e' stato fatto girare su A500,perche su A1200,anche se gira,nella prima parte del demo ci sono alcune cose che sballano,perche il 68020 e' più veloce del 68000

1:30 A wild Jester sample appears...or did Jester take it from Kefrens?

It's astounding that this demo's music was made in not-so-good Protracker :D

greatest fucking mod ever

only high end versions of Archimed could to do that but they were far from Amiga's price range at the time.

Has Laxity used his apparent skills post Amiga-era to pursue a musical carrier? I learned to love Pink Floyd after watching this demo til my ears bled in the 90's.

was this AGA or did it run on earlier Amigas?

Give me multicolour raster bars and a killer tune and no one will get hurt.

i'm trying to make this demo in scratch!

"The Cheops pyramid. Build as a tomb for king Cheop of the 4th dynasty..." :-D You still believe?!?

Holy shit, I never knew about this demo. My opinion of the future crew just lowered a notch; still legends, but it is clear where they got their ideas.

I know this is a long shot but i'm running out of avenues. There was a demo disk for the Amiga that had a song on it. It played over a static picture of a gargoyle standing on a roof over looking an alien / futuristic city? It was a fairly dark sounding song. I remember the roof tiles were aqua / green color? Awfully vague description i apologize but i was very young. I used to adore the song and the artwork.... Worth asking i guess? :)

People just have no respect nowadays, throwing their watermelons as pyramids.

a500 can this... bravo :)

...memories...this is fuckin' great demo. Oh, this vid has no glitch from winuae, when rockets just go through the ship, funny out-of-sync error. upd: ahhh...a1200 emulation was the cause...or even real a1200 could do this... btw...music...is a masterpiece.

they should make this demo in a modern game engine

Check out Jesus on e's

Probably just a glitch in the original program that they never got around to fixing would be my guess.

have you ever thought that taking pictures & videos use visual graphics to make them look nice? (I don't know anything, I am an 11 year old theory creator!)

i can Rember me , 2 Discs on my Amiga -

Who stole the samples. You or Skaven lol. Same year, same blipp. Haha ;)

What's sad about this video is that you've done good job and then used a corrupted version of Desert Dreams. Also, you badly needed to merge those audio channel too.

Well the Acorn Archimedes could do much better. In 3D and in 256 colours it outperformed all other computers until the 486DX appears. Acorn always made real computers, more coherent as a whole than Atari or Commodore (=games machines with a keyboard).

never liked the part with the melon! :D