Demo: Desert Dreams [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Kefrens
Released: April, 1993

Well people, you voted for it, and here it is. Nice demo weighing in at a massive 77.5MB per video stream. Quite a lengthy one so hope you enjoy it.

According to the text at the end, this was the last demo that Laxity actually did for non-AGA machines.

This demo is split into two parts, the first one tells a little (very little) story about their “Desert Dream” and the second-part is their “Ooh, ooh we’re demo-coders look what we can do” bit.

Brilliant music, not as dancy as the previous two demos, but very fitting and synchronisation to the visuals is impeccable.

Again, another one made to run on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

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Contest to port Mozilla Firefox to Amiga OS exceeds $10,000

This would be absolutely awesome if this could be accomplished. I hate using AWeb 3 on my A1200. Hopefully it doesn’t just come out for Amiga OS4 only. I mean those AmigaOne machines aren’t proper Amigas even. They don’t even have a custom chipset, where’s the fun in that.

Update: Sadly, it appears that it is only an Amiga OS4+ project. Perhaps the Amiga 1200 is a whole new project in itself. I’d have a go, but never coded for the Amiga before, and haven’t really got a clue where to start.

Update (30/03/2006): Thanks to mihcael, but it would appear that one of the project guidelines is that it must work on OS3.0+ (including MorphOS). Excellent news. I hope that it does get ported. I want it! I’d imagine large amounts of memory (or at least Virtual Memory) would be required for Firefox, as it can be a bit “hungry” at times.

I’ve trimmed down the RSS feeds to only include the ALL podcast episodes rather than all the random posts that are made.

From time-to-time the occasional PDF may be included. But basically, you should only see the pertinent information in the RSS feed from now on.

You don’t need to do anything special, as it will update everything automatically.

Thanks for your patience.

Well, State of the Art won the vote (as I expected).

Demo: State of the Art [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Spaceballs
Released: December, 1992

Spaceballs released “State of the Art” at ‘The Party’ in 1992, and from what I can gather it received quite a heavy demand, thereafter. There wasn’t much code to it, but it seems that they managed to mess up some of the “trackloader” code. This makes the demo finish just a second before it should do.

Other than that it was an excellent standard setting demo, and was apparently one of the first demos to be featured on the music channel MTV (source Amiga Demo Archive). This demo has some nice blitter chip copper goodness, that still slows down UAE quite a bit when having to deal with it.
Again, another one made to run on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

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I have had a few queries on this, so I thought I’d post it here.

You can subscribe through iTunes, just select the relevant URL minus the preceeding protocol (i.e. “http://”, “feed://”) and select the “Podcast” section in iTunes and then select “Subscribe to Podcast…” (maybe feed) from the “Advanced Menu” and put the URL to the feed in there.

Update: iTunes cannot handle DivX feeds though, so it’s a bit pointless really.

Download this if you are unable to play the whole 2:52 of the first post of this (check the size of the video isn’t drastically below about 16.8MB), as some issues were identified

Demo: 9 Fingers [H.264] [DivX]
Group: Spaceballs
Released: December, 1993

Spaceballs kicked the video-style demos up a notch when they released “State of the Art” back in July, 1992. The following year they released “9 Fingers” (at The Party), which took their original vector animation idea a stage further and introduced smaller, coloured polygons to give more depth than the previous vector silhouettes.

What made it all the more amazing was it ran on the original MC68000 7.14MHz Amiga 500.

A truly awesome demo.

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You can now vote without the need to register. Just visit the main page and make your selection.

http://www.amigademopodcast.com

I was hoping that registering wouldn’t be too much of a hinderance, but I guess history has proved otherwise. Anyway please vote, you will need to recast your vote if you already voted the old way. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please be aware that there are a few issues with the database server, that may cause temporary failures on viewing web pages. Our host is looking into the problem, just bear with us until it is fixed.

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ADP management

Another subscriber suggested that the disk images for each demo are made available for download.

So here they are.   View the first demo post to download them.

From now on they will be posted at the same time as each video is made available.

You can use them on your emulators or get them onto your real Amiga.  Enjoy!

As requested by some of the users there is now a DivX feed, that can be subscribed to.

See the link on the right-hand side of the page.