Demo: Starstruck [H.264] (37.25 MB) [DivX] (38.35 MB)
Group: The Black Lotus
Released: August, 2006

I know it’s not exactly old skool, but I just had to include this demo as soon as possible and some people had also requested a version other than MPEG-2 that is available, with bad audio.

This demo has only been out a short while but has a little history behind it. The previous demo party that The Black Lotus (TBL) attended they didn’t exactly do well, and they were placed 3rd. Apparently, someone threw down the gauntlet for them to create a demo that could kick the ass out of the demos that would be on show at the next party (Assembly ‘06).

To cut a long story short, TBL came up with this little beauty and won first place, and absolutely slaughtered the other 14 demos (which were 13 PC and 1 Mac OS X) in terms of votes.

The music for this demo was composed by none other than Olof Gustafsson (of the legendary “Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions” fame and a once member of “The Silents”, if I’m not mistaken.

The demo was made to run on an Amiga with a 68060, but I don’t have that much power. They had to make their demo run on WinUAE because their A1260 (68060 CPU board) broke on the flight over to the party.

Anyway, enjoy this demo. As I said, this will actually run on the WinUAE emulator. It runs perfectly acceptably on 1.6GHz machine, so you can watch this one for yourself. Just need to get yourself Kickstart 3.1 ROMs and a Workbench 3.1 installation and you’re good to go.

Demo Download: Starstruck (Zip File)

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A true testament to the Amiga and the Amiga demoscene, that in this day (around 12 years since production ceased) that the Amiga can still hold its own in a demo competition.  It wiped the floor with the competition (mostly PC demos) and has an awesome soundtrack.

There is a video of it floating around, but I’m going to try and capture a better version of it (will have to use WinUAE as my Amiga isn’t up to the job with its 68030!!).

Well done to The Black Lotus, keep up the good work guys.

I’m going to be moving my site to a different cluster with Servage, that supports Ruby on Rails, so there will be a 24 hour outage some time within the next 36-hours or so.

Just so you know I haven’t gone away.