Eon: An Amiga 500 Demo - Andreas Fredriksson

[edgeofsanitysevensix]

I loved the demo scene when I was a teenager. So many good ones, and so much good music.

[johnnysvensson]

The Black Lotus, some of the greatest in the scene since forever.. I'm no longer a part of the demoscene but I still remember how impressed i was last time i saw one of their amiga releases- starstruck, and to this day it's still one of my favourites.. I had to go watch it again just now :) Not to mention how Stash and Jizz on PC inspired me to write my own procedural texture generator back in the days :)

sweet demo, great talk!

[michalp.]

It's amazing that the Amiga (and C64) demoscene is still alive! Recently I discovered that even here in Poland there are still AmiParties where the demoscene presents its work

[cjjuszczak]

excellent talk. i'm 50, and have been an avid demoscene enjoyer since i was a watching friends and their Amigas as teen in the UK, the graphics, the music, the amature understanding of the programming art that makes it all happen, Amazing.
Now living in Australia since 20 years ago, throughout the years it's great to see how demo guys went on to do genuine commercial games on PC, and consoles, but also still have their connections to the demoscene like this. Beautiful to witness, thank you 👍

[cyberkm]

Andreas is one of the smartest guys I had pleasure to meet during my entire gamedev career.

[elmariachi]

Insanely good music and modern looking visuals!

[Dustycircuit]

So many wonderful memories of this lovely machine. Thank you for a trip down memory lane!

[le]

How so much genius went into one man, I will never know. The limits an artist will reach to create the art is what inspires greatness.

[dahahaka]

This is by far my fav demo of all time

[bewilderbeesty]

Very very impressive, and fascinating to see the constraints viewed through a modern tooling and coding lens

[namakudamono]

It’s fascinating to hear this insight into demo development from a legendary coder. He briefly mentioned working for Insomniac - one of the most respected development studios in the industry, known for pushing the limits of modern-day consoles - at the beginning of his presentation. I wonder how many AAA game developers cut their teeth coding 68k assembler on an A500 back in the day?

[Jarek.]

When I saw EON for very first time, I didn't like it. I thought, ok, another PC-like demo where all is streamed from the HDD. Only later, when understood that this is bare A500 + 2 FDDs my jaw just dropped... Massive kudos for the demo, massive thanks for this talk 👍👍

[spieleschreiber]

Eon: best demo on Amiga, period. I love the talk!

[marwellus]

The Amiga (500) ... "only" 32 colors*, but when I see them on Screen it still feels "magic" to me. Back then this machine was so advanced, so capable of amazing things I'd never seen before. I'll never forget this little computer, she'd been something special, last but not least because of the people who really pushed her to the limits. It's just great to see that she's still loved by the demo scene :)

*) or 64 or even 4096, or with clever hacking 31 different colors per line - I know ;-) But handling these modes was quite tricky, used mostly for static images.

[sillonbono]

Great talk, as much as Amiga OCS demos are amazing sometimes, the C64 demo scene in the last few years has become even more impressive.

[tekk]

Imagine playing this demo on 23 juli 1985 at the Lincoln Center, New York City.The day that the Amiga 1000 was introduced.

[mbe]

There were some cracktro's from the scene that I would just listen too endlessly. I'm too young for the demo scene, but seeing what it can STILL do on old hardware, and even the demo's back then, are super super SUPER impressive.

[suvetar]

Utterly inspiring, thank you Andreas and the team!

[BurstNibbler]

Absolutely awesome demo, really pushing the A500 hardware

[anon]

The irony is people in the 90s would probably say that phone looks unimaginative for the future yet it's spot on