Demo #013 : Starstruck (The Black Lotus)
August 16th, 2006
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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August 20th, 2006 at 3:19 am
Outstanding! I can see why it won.
August 28th, 2006 at 7:30 am
They have done some very good stuff in the past,
but this makes all there previous demos look poor!
August 31st, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Great music, perfectly fits the demo!
September 6th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Absolutely amazing! And what a technology showcase, proving it’s not the hardware capabilities but how imaginative and talented the developers using it are that matter. Great to hear some modern work by Olof.
The URL to the disk version isn’t working, BTW.
September 8th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Thanks, Matty for pointing out the knackered URL, it should be fixed now.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
… I mean, is it as simple as loading up Workbench and double-clicking the .exe file, then executing it? I tried that but the box that comes up says I’m out of memory. Configuration problem, is it?
September 13th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Matty,
All the files you need, including a WinUAE config file are provided in that zip file. You need to actually have Workbench installed (i.e. onto a Hardisk/Hardfile).
But you definitely have to have Workbench INSTALLED. The config file with the demo should also have enough RAM set aside, anymore problems then drop me an email and I’ll sort out the config file.
It should all be in the instructions included in that zip file, if I remember correctly.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I remember one of Commodores advertising slogans for the Amiga 500 was “Amiga - The only limit is your imagination”… 13 years after the Amiga’s demise this demo is continuing proof of that… If only Commodore had used there imagination a little more… R.I.P JAY