Demo #002 : State of the Art (Spaceballs)
March 17th, 2006Well, 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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April 7th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
I remember seeing it on my A500 for the first time and I was awestruck. They used to air this demo on Polish TV and people weren’t even realizing it’s actually a demo ! Those times are gone forever though ..
Great site - keep up the good job !
July 24th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Too bad it was captured from a newer machine, making the end out of sync:( Was hoping to see the demo in sync for the first time in over a decade:(
January 25th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Ah yes - in 1992 I downloaded it - unpacked it to a floppy - rebooted my A500 and life just was never quite the same after that.
I wandered over here because I was telling my wife about it (who never heard of an Amiga) after we saw a Ipod commercial - I commented that the marketing folks must have been Amiga users.
I had to see it again - cause I wasnt quite sure if it was as good as I remembered it - actually its better.
Amazing freaking machine -I kinda miss those days - sorta.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:22 am
it’s a kind of dream to have a chance to watch it again, and this music… and the mysterious shape of this girl… you sure know the girl I’m talking about….. I was a 12 year old teen when I saw it for the first time, in the very deep countryside of France, sometime in the early 90′, just so you understand that this video just traveled so much and so fast… without any internet… thanks to hackers groups…