Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

The Ultimate Amiga demo to showcase it's abilities, now in HD 50 fps! (See Below) Released at The Party 1992...

Credits:

Code: Lone Starr, Major Asshole
Music: Travolta
Graphics: Tmb Design

*As Youtube just introduced the new frame rates for playback, i have recaptured this classic Amiga demo in native Pal 50fps. Please watch in HD to enable 50fps on a browser that supports it (Chrome is your best bet at the time of upload)*

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[gabrielirlanda]

Having an Amiga in the 80's and early 90's was like living in 3057. Thank you AMIGA! I miss you so badly.

[antster]

The "dancing girl" routine was later reused in the 1996 SNES game Winter Gold, only that was polygon driven using the Super FX2 chip in the cartridge. Some members of Spaceballs went on to work for Norwegian developers Funcom who developed Winter Gold.

[diamondp.]

I was literally shocked by this demo in the early 90's when I saw it on a videotape, couldn't even normally sleep for a few days. Before this, the most impressive things that I've seen were Spectrum games and few Commodore 64/128 crack intros, so you may imagine my amazement. But I absolutely could not afford an Amiga back then. In a few years after I saw what Amiga could do and dreaming about it, I managed to buy a 486 DX2 66 PC for 100$ USD from a local junkie (probably it was stolen somewhere), and so I was once again impressed but this time with 3D games like Doom, Heretic, Descent etc etc. My Amiga dream was never fulfilled.

[MrBlitz]

The fact that this could be easily mistakeable for a MTV videoclip for an actual early '90s techno song explains how insanely good this is

[altlandf]

Stock Amiga running a 68000 processor running at 7.16 mhz with true stereo. It just blows the mind what this computer did. It's sad they didn't have a CEO that knew how the market the computer. Commodore had so many first. They beat so many other computers to the market that were State of the Art.

[PaintBeforeAssembly]

I still love that the version of the demo everyone sees ends with Skid Row bitching about how the code's crap, but it was one of the coolest and most impressive looking demos any of us had ever seen. No idea if it was bad underneath, but on the surface, it was awesome, seriously jaw-dropping at the time. I played this demo over and over! Really clever use of the layered effect to make the rough shapes look much smoother than they really are.

[EGOS]

I remember being introduced to this at a friend's house in 1992. Then the thrill of showing to other people with my own copy. I felt so pumped seeing this like anything was possible!

[phero]

I was there. Didn't know it was history in the making at the time.

[albaPhenom]

God, this just came back to me like a Core Memory Unlocked moment and here it is on YouTube all these years later

[Nytra_]

I have just recently discovered the demoscene and I have to say it is incredibly interesting and super cool to watch these videos and read about the whole thing as a programmer wanting to get into graphics and sound myself. All of the work that goes into making these in the name of art is so very inspiring to me.

[matieucastel]

Most impressive piece of coding EVER !

[brownholecharles]

its 2019 and Windows still doesn't have a native icon editor or allow the mixed-use of different desktop icon sizes (its only small, medium, or large for all of them), unlike the Amiga, which had this QoL stuff back in the mid-eighties

[Jablonkai]

Jesus Christ, the taste of good old days when booting up a demo just received by snail-mail... Then getting a small shock.. :) ..then showing it to all the fellas and copying.. :) I miss the 90's so bad in general.. Guys, we are old now! :)

[zodberg]

Great demo, although it would be better with the drive noise during the silent bit at the start. Everything is better with the Amiga drive noise - there's just something extra special with the sound of the Amiga's floppy drive. Except for the click when there was no disk. That was annoying. There was a patch for that though. Those were the days...

[richardsexton]

I miss my Amiga 500 so bad the happiest time of my life as a teen in High school, this machine was awesome as much as Xcopy Pro haha, my next jump was a CD32 with SX-1 EXPANSION so made it a 1200 in theory ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Memories that stay a life time ❤️❤️❤️Long love the Amiga❤️❤️

[paulmichaelfreedman]

First saw this at one of the copy parties. Everyone's jaw was on the floor when they saw this.

[Jamie-ypqz]

The guys behind this demo later worked on Winter Gold for the SNES, so I guess the Winter Gold intro is a spiritual successor to this demo

[chucklesuk]

Early 90’s I got a Amiga CDTV had a c64 loaded up this demo and lots of others great memories. Ex wife’s threw out the CDTV was not happy.

[waymuchNFO]

There’s a lovely interview with the Swedish girl that was the model for the animation and the ‘rave’dancing motion capture before motion capture was motion capture I suppose?

[mark]

All this brilliance on one small floppy disk in 1992, i run this demo on my Amiga 1200…superb machine