There is nothing like what Amiga games and these demo's and intro's were back in the day. I'm so happy I got to live during that time and experience it. These vids are so nostalgic it hurts 🙂
I switched computers in the late 80's. My friend bought C64 and I got one 1 year later... Then he bought an Amiga and I thought why when the C64 was such an amazing machine... Loved to program the C64, so much stuff to tinker with... First thought about the Amiga was that it was so totally different and I would have to forget everything and start from scratch again so I was hesitant. But the games won me over, and the raw power of the machine for painting, music, raytracing, programming and so on and on... and the OS was multitasking... was just incredible... But I do regret not learning C as the AmigaOS was built for and around C... First programming language (compiled) was Pascal :-) I loved the language but it was not well suited for AmigaOS... Remember so many days/nights when I had (most often OctaMED as I liked that better) in the background for just music and programming and Real3D doing raytracing and DeluxePaint for graphics work and more running (sometimes a Scenery Animator with a fractal landscape animation) and it worked beautifully with AmigaOS and setting priorities so my Pascal IDE was main focus and the rest shared the CPU time left... I felt so productive... and it was my most productive days for sure!
47:35 the first ever cracktro I saw on the Amiga. I was 16, owned a C128 and hearing the music just made my jaw drop. I knew even more so that I just had to have an Amiga and sure enough it was my first ever big purchase out of own funds. This cracktro really marks my first ever baby steps into the Amiga world.
haha poor Guenther one of the earliest lamers be exposed in the Amiga Scene. Remember Zelnick? I still have the FA18 Interceptor disk somewhere with that cool intro and really enjoyed the music on it too
Hah, it would have been one of the first for me too - I would have been 16 as well, even back then I thought it was hilarious irony that they called someone out for being a thief whilst boasting about cracking and distributing a commercial piece of software...
The music of Jimmy Fredriksson (Firefox) at 7:38 defined my first few months of Amiga ownership. I adored the melancholy at the end of the Phenomena Megademo that worked fine on my mate's v1.2 Kickstart A500 but wouldn't work on my newer v1.3. Was devastated. Worth looking up - Firefox Never Ending Love Amiga. How can a sequenced piece of music comprised of just a few samples on a barely capable machine tug at your heartstrings so much ;-)
Any insight on how this music was made? Am guessing a certain amount of sampling went into it at the final stages (to fit on a disk). But the 'amiga' music sound is so distinctive that I feel like some specific software and hardware must have been more commonly used than others for amiga game music.
Let me make this clear. I was born in 1996. I'm wasn't around, nor old enough to truly experience these demos. it's 2017 now. I'm 21. I'm a computer nut. I don 't care how old the computer is. I especially like the Amiga series of PC's, as well as a commodore fan as well, although I don't own any PC's from that era (MY oldest PC I have currently is a Dell Dimension L1000r, which was from 2001). In conclusion, these sound better when played on PC speakers or a 5.1 channel and beyond surround sound system. Awesome!
@@stephandusterhoft9131 naja .. ich glaube nicht das die technik es verloren hat! das der amiga so zerstört wurde .. hatte viele faktoren. von einer überprofessionellen cracker scene bis hin zu massivsten fehlern im managment! aber technisch war der amiga weit überlegen zu seiner "aktiven" zeit! ich denke das niveau des A1200 hat der pc erst 5/6 jahre später erreicht! und solang der amiga von commodore produziert wurde .. war er der bessere rechner! wäre so geil heute eine dritte plattform zu haben! man stelle sich den amiga entwickelt bis heute vor! oh lala ;) aber wie du schon sagst ... leider gibts ihn nicht mehr!
@@stephandusterhoft9131 ja logo .. aber die haben irgendwie nicht mehr das selbe gefühl dahinter .. zu wissen die maschine vor dir berechnet das alles gerade live mit 7mhz (a500) .. das schon ein anderes gefühl als emuliert auf einem windows pc! zumals ich mir am liebsten demos angucke .. ist das mit dem emulatoren oftmals sone sache da die demos ja teilweise sehr kreative wege fanden die hardware bzw. die kickstart nutzen und der emulator da oft an seine grenzn stößt wie ch gemerkt hab! hier das kommentar zu schreiben .. macht einen wieder so nostalgisch! ich hätte so bock auf einen aktuellen amiga!!! ;)
@@n00g75 Ja so richtig Bock auf meinen A2000 030 und meinen A500 040 hätte ich auch wieder aber ich leider schon im PFlegeheimHeim weil ich nicht mehr laufen kann und dabei immer so nach Rechts falle im Sitzen , im Rollstuhl ! Aber die Zeiten sind vorbei das waren die 80er und 90er Jahre sowie die 8-Bit Zeiten womit alles begann mit meinem TI 99 4A mit Extendet Basic und den ersten Joysticks für den TI dann den 8 Bit Atari .
Thank You Bro. You wake up my old nostalgic memories that was are: [00:00 - New Swappers, Dexion 1988], [41:22 - Megademo 2: Starwars Scroll, Dexion 1989], [44:30 - Speedball Trainer, Ackerlight 1988], [56:06 - Amiga Call, Megaforce 1988].
How sad that someone has put a copyright claim on a song in this video. Back in the day the demo scene was all about sharing and building on each others' ideas. How quickly some people succumb to greed.
Just downloaded the first tune (From the game Power Ball'88) and I love it. It's amazing how well these songs aged. I mean, I would call many 80s computer music as chipmusic, but Amiga songs, like this SKT gem, really captures the feel and the life from that era.
I've never seen many if these demos (only a few cracked games back in the days). This is the best Amiga music so far with Continental Circus Trainer (demo 13) being very good.
The music from the last demo is also played in a demo from World of Wonders. The ripped Soundtracker music also was named wow-something, so my guess is someone from World of Wonders composed it
Einige Songs habe ich auch auf den Atari 800 XL umgesetzt mit Original Namen natürlich und Digit Drums und Sample-Geräuschen so wie es möglich war . Ich hatte nur 40 kb frei für Samples . Später : Als Speichererweiterung hatte ich nur 512 kb Ram und 312 kb Rom im Rechner . Das war damals genug , obwohl genug Ram konnte man damals nicht genug haben für solche Tricks !
Wow, I remember most of these and was just starting my scener journey and it wasn't for another couple of years till I could code all of the effects in these demos.
Thanks for these not-so-known intros, very refreshing! Amiga rulez ! Fun to see the usual tunes used again and again in the intros, from 4mat, UncleTom, and good old Futurecomposer stuff.
Can anyone help me? My dad sorta remembers a amiga pd demo from the late 80's to 90's. It was a fish bowl demo that had a few german speaking fish swimming around and around saying to each other "Hi hi, bye bye fuck off and die!" and that's all it was, you just loaded it and kept it running. Has anyone got any info on this? We think he got it from a UK seller called "17-BIT PD" (one bit better than the rest)
+James Ianni Hi James, I'm James's dad (Novalins dad) and me and my Wife have been looking for a video of the fish for over ten years but have never found it. If you can ether run the PD in a Amiga emulator and upload a video to RU-vid or send me the PD file so I can run it on a emulator I'd sure appreciate it :-) The Wife still says Hi bye fuck off and die every now and then lol The Amiga days, fred fish and 17 bit PD, carrier command, team yankee and cannon fodder
Unglaublich, was der Amiga ende der 80 er Jahre bereits geleistet hat. Ich hatte mir (glaube es war 1991) einen PC mit 486/dx50 und wirklich guter Hardware geleistet. Ich war so enttäuscht. Soviel Geld (ca. 2500€) und nicht ein Stück besser als der Amiga.
Right I have been looking for this demo for ages there was a hip hop track released called 20 seconds to comply. based on Robocop in 1989 BUT there was a much better song done on the Amiga Demo scene. it was a far better song. from what I can remember back then it had a line like this "put down your weapon you have 20 seconds to comply, Im gonna get him now son, dd d dd d dont do it, you think your pretty smart think you can out smart a bullet, ddd d dont do it" could of been SAE (share and enjoy/scare and annoy) lol please put an old 16bit nerd out of his misery and post it. cheers. off back to elite dangerous now.
