I miss this! This used to be the scene back then and there were no rules as we were making them as we went. The gurus of gaming industry today and in other industries, this is where they started. A time before esports and corporate e3's, where it came from genuine interest and excitement for a passion to have fun while doing new things and being innovative. Then it all turned into a career and money making, and the fun got sucked out of it.. At least I have the memories for myself... The demos made in these events are still among the best ever made!
These "copy parties" in Europe were legendary... just look at all the X-Copy running there. Too bad we didn't have many in the US, just same lame swap meets. hehe
Great memories! I’ve always been a fan of northern Amiga Demo teams, but after watching this vintage footage... It was like a LAN-Party before the PC era, I love it. Cheers and ❤️ from 🇵🇹
Everything seemed new and fresh back then. ideas and creativity just flowing. All a bit samey now. nice look into the past. Most the music in the background sounds great. Amiga music man. What a sound
Those were the days! I got my A500 for Christmas in 1990, just when i went to high school. I entered my 1st scene event (Scenest) in 1995 then i went again in 1996 & 1997. Maybe in 1998 too but im not sure about that.
My parent brought me Commodore 64 After that I brought my first computer A1200. Next I wanted them all so brought the commodore 128,128D, sx64 , A 500,600,2000, CD32. I was a young teen dreaming one own A4000
yeah... and many of them are current game programmers. For example the team of second reality (future crew) are the authors and creators of max payne 🙂
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@Fulgore18 In 1991 I was 20 years young clueless lost nerd dreaming of having a girlfriend.
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@@LarsTragel-zh7ei My mind thinks I'm 20, in fact at age 50 I am physically and mentally much stronger and healthier than when I was 20. The same with you?
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@@funcibus And I recently watched a viedeo about how/where Rockstar games origin. Their first released games was for Amiga!!
Ya, lucky with my genes I'm still only 145 pounds (66Kg) at 50, and definitely not feeling my age "yet" lol. Most of my friends are younger, including my girlfriend. But we all wish we were 20 again. heh
The Amiga made us all more social interacting. Oh man, I always went to so many people with my benches full of 3,5 floppy disks, with games and of course empty disks as well. I scratched every penny I had together, run to the shop, to buy another box of 10 floppies. Great days....
When I watched demos, I used to be so confused. Why are there no people in the landscapes? It couldn't be that hard to add a couple bmps of a person. But then I realized, the people were all around, watching the demos.
This cool see what we look like as kids playing on our commodores. Still today theirs people still making crack intro scene, demo scene. I’m Intel Mac now , not really a scene on Mac like the days of commodore. I remember my days soldering a reset button on my Commodore 64
Who looked after the computer gear while you slept or went for a pee? In particular those sidecar expansions for the A500 cost a fortune and could very easily end up in someones rucksack.
Nobody steals at these events, its extremely rare to hear about stuff stolen... even today with laptops and pads, people are not without morals in the demoscene!
.....first there was the spectru...now psygnosis presents Amiga..., in those times a lot of ideas and so few memory for them, now days a lot of memory and so few ideas...
Yes, from Switzerland (Zürich). I got my fingers on that tape during an internal meeting with some ZENITH guys on 6th Sept 1992 in Wettingen, made a copy of it and don't remember anymore to who i returned it back by post. But guess that original tape is already long lost, so I uploaded the copy of it a few years ago. Guess that's some Zenith members who were there (wasn't me).
At the time of the 68060 Turbocards, Games like "Breathless" actualy already needed them for the game to not be ugly and slow so i guess the Demoscene of BACK THEN would have creamed over the possibilitys of that hardware
Awful video quality :) but interesting to see. I think we were around 1200 the first year. Then got up to 3500 at its peak. Amazing we could come together like that. amazing how people found out, pre internet. It must have been pretty much every computer nerd in denmark at a certain age range that showed up. It's like an army :) And we must be more or less the backbone of Denmark today.
