There is nothing like what Amiga games and these demo's and intro's were back in the day. I'm so happy I got to live during that time and experience it. These vids are so nostalgic it hurts 🙂
Let me make this clear. I was born in 1996. I'm wasn't around, nor old enough to truly experience these demos. it's 2017 now. I'm 21. I'm a computer nut. I don 't care how old the computer is. I especially like the Amiga series of PC's, as well as a commodore fan as well, although I don't own any PC's from that era (MY oldest PC I have currently is a Dell Dimension L1000r, which was from 2001). In conclusion, these sound better when played on PC speakers or a 5.1 channel and beyond surround sound system. Awesome!
47:35 the first ever cracktro I saw on the Amiga. I was 16, owned a C128 and hearing the music just made my jaw drop. I knew even more so that I just had to have an Amiga and sure enough it was my first ever big purchase out of own funds. This cracktro really marks my first ever baby steps into the Amiga world.
haha poor Guenther one of the earliest lamers be exposed in the Amiga Scene. Remember Zelnick? I still have the FA18 Interceptor disk somewhere with that cool intro and really enjoyed the music on it too
Hah, it would have been one of the first for me too - I would have been 16 as well, even back then I thought it was hilarious irony that they called someone out for being a thief whilst boasting about cracking and distributing a commercial piece of software...
I switched computers in the late 80's. My friend bought C64 and I got one 1 year later... Then he bought an Amiga and I thought why when the C64 was such an amazing machine... Loved to program the C64, so much stuff to tinker with... First thought about the Amiga was that it was so totally different and I would have to forget everything and start from scratch again so I was hesitant. But the games won me over, and the raw power of the machine for painting, music, raytracing, programming and so on and on... and the OS was multitasking... was just incredible... But I do regret not learning C as the AmigaOS was built for and around C... First programming language (compiled) was Pascal :-) I loved the language but it was not well suited for AmigaOS... Remember so many days/nights when I had (most often OctaMED as I liked that better) in the background for just music and programming and Real3D doing raytracing and DeluxePaint for graphics work and more running (sometimes a Scenery Animator with a fractal landscape animation) and it worked beautifully with AmigaOS and setting priorities so my Pascal IDE was main focus and the rest shared the CPU time left... I felt so productive... and it was my most productive days for sure!
The music of Jimmy Fredriksson (Firefox) at 7:38 defined my first few months of Amiga ownership. I adored the melancholy at the end of the Phenomena Megademo that worked fine on my mate's v1.2 Kickstart A500 but wouldn't work on my newer v1.3. Was devastated. Worth looking up - Firefox Never Ending Love Amiga. How can a sequenced piece of music comprised of just a few samples on a barely capable machine tug at your heartstrings so much ;-)
Any insight on how this music was made? Am guessing a certain amount of sampling went into it at the final stages (to fit on a disk). But the 'amiga' music sound is so distinctive that I feel like some specific software and hardware must have been more commonly used than others for amiga game music.
@@stephandusterhoft9131 naja .. ich glaube nicht das die technik es verloren hat! das der amiga so zerstört wurde .. hatte viele faktoren. von einer überprofessionellen cracker scene bis hin zu massivsten fehlern im managment! aber technisch war der amiga weit überlegen zu seiner "aktiven" zeit! ich denke das niveau des A1200 hat der pc erst 5/6 jahre später erreicht! und solang der amiga von commodore produziert wurde .. war er der bessere rechner! wäre so geil heute eine dritte plattform zu haben! man stelle sich den amiga entwickelt bis heute vor! oh lala ;) aber wie du schon sagst ... leider gibts ihn nicht mehr!
@@stephandusterhoft9131 ja logo .. aber die haben irgendwie nicht mehr das selbe gefühl dahinter .. zu wissen die maschine vor dir berechnet das alles gerade live mit 7mhz (a500) .. das schon ein anderes gefühl als emuliert auf einem windows pc! zumals ich mir am liebsten demos angucke .. ist das mit dem emulatoren oftmals sone sache da die demos ja teilweise sehr kreative wege fanden die hardware bzw. die kickstart nutzen und der emulator da oft an seine grenzn stößt wie ch gemerkt hab! hier das kommentar zu schreiben .. macht einen wieder so nostalgisch! ich hätte so bock auf einen aktuellen amiga!!! ;)
@@n00g75 Ja so richtig Bock auf meinen A2000 030 und meinen A500 040 hätte ich auch wieder aber ich leider schon im PFlegeheimHeim weil ich nicht mehr laufen kann und dabei immer so nach Rechts falle im Sitzen , im Rollstuhl ! Aber die Zeiten sind vorbei das waren die 80er und 90er Jahre sowie die 8-Bit Zeiten womit alles begann mit meinem TI 99 4A mit Extendet Basic und den ersten Joysticks für den TI dann den 8 Bit Atari .
Thank You Bro. You wake up my old nostalgic memories that was are: [00:00 - New Swappers, Dexion 1988], [41:22 - Megademo 2: Starwars Scroll, Dexion 1989], [44:30 - Speedball Trainer, Ackerlight 1988], [56:06 - Amiga Call, Megaforce 1988].
Einige Songs habe ich auch auf den Atari 800 XL umgesetzt mit Original Namen natürlich und Digit Drums und Sample-Geräuschen so wie es möglich war . Ich hatte nur 40 kb frei für Samples . Später : Als Speichererweiterung hatte ich nur 512 kb Ram und 312 kb Rom im Rechner . Das war damals genug , obwohl genug Ram konnte man damals nicht genug haben für solche Tricks !
The music from the last demo is also played in a demo from World of Wonders. The ripped Soundtracker music also was named wow-something, so my guess is someone from World of Wonders composed it
How sad that someone has put a copyright claim on a song in this video. Back in the day the demo scene was all about sharing and building on each others' ideas. How quickly some people succumb to greed.
I've never seen many if these demos (only a few cracked games back in the days). This is the best Amiga music so far with Continental Circus Trainer (demo 13) being very good.
Just downloaded the first tune (From the game Power Ball'88) and I love it. It's amazing how well these songs aged. I mean, I would call many 80s computer music as chipmusic, but Amiga songs, like this SKT gem, really captures the feel and the life from that era.
Wow, I remember most of these and was just starting my scener journey and it wasn't for another couple of years till I could code all of the effects in these demos.
Thanks for these not-so-known intros, very refreshing! Amiga rulez ! Fun to see the usual tunes used again and again in the intros, from 4mat, UncleTom, and good old Futurecomposer stuff.
Can anyone help me? My dad sorta remembers a amiga pd demo from the late 80's to 90's. It was a fish bowl demo that had a few german speaking fish swimming around and around saying to each other "Hi hi, bye bye fuck off and die!" and that's all it was, you just loaded it and kept it running. Has anyone got any info on this? We think he got it from a UK seller called "17-BIT PD" (one bit better than the rest)
+James Ianni Hi James, I'm James's dad (Novalins dad) and me and my Wife have been looking for a video of the fish for over ten years but have never found it. If you can ether run the PD in a Amiga emulator and upload a video to TH-cam or send me the PD file so I can run it on a emulator I'd sure appreciate it :-) The Wife still says Hi bye fuck off and die every now and then lol The Amiga days, fred fish and 17 bit PD, carrier command, team yankee and cannon fodder
Unglaublich, was der Amiga ende der 80 er Jahre bereits geleistet hat. Ich hatte mir (glaube es war 1991) einen PC mit 486/dx50 und wirklich guter Hardware geleistet. Ich war so enttäuscht. Soviel Geld (ca. 2500€) und nicht ein Stück besser als der Amiga.
Right I have been looking for this demo for ages there was a hip hop track released called 20 seconds to comply. based on Robocop in 1989 BUT there was a much better song done on the Amiga Demo scene. it was a far better song. from what I can remember back then it had a line like this "put down your weapon you have 20 seconds to comply, Im gonna get him now son, dd d dd d dont do it, you think your pretty smart think you can out smart a bullet, ddd d dont do it" could of been SAE (share and enjoy/scare and annoy) lol please put an old 16bit nerd out of his misery and post it. cheers. off back to elite dangerous now.
![Late 80s Amiga Demos [4K 50 Hz]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/E9WGTyvIoTE/mqdefault.jpg)
There is nothing like what Amiga games and these demo's and intro's were back in the day. I'm so happy I got to live during that time and experience it. These vids are so nostalgic it hurts 🙂
Marvellous Amiga sounds.
Let me make this clear. I was born in 1996. I'm wasn't around, nor old enough to truly experience these demos. it's 2017 now. I'm 21. I'm a computer nut. I don 't care how old the computer is. I especially like the Amiga series of PC's, as well as a commodore fan as well, although I don't own any PC's from that era (MY oldest PC I have currently is a Dell Dimension L1000r, which was from 2001). In conclusion, these sound better when played on PC speakers or a 5.1 channel and beyond surround sound system. Awesome!
Similar story, although I'm from 1995. I've got C64 and Amiga now and I'm making my own C64 demo (you can see some on my channel)
Please also make demos! No matter how simple they are!
47:35 the first ever cracktro I saw on the Amiga.
I was 16, owned a C128 and hearing the music just made my jaw drop. I knew even more so that I just had to have an Amiga and sure enough it was my first ever big purchase out of own funds.
This cracktro really marks my first ever baby steps into the Amiga world.
Yeah, I think I remember that cracktro form Interceptor :)
haha poor Guenther one of the earliest lamers be exposed in the Amiga Scene. Remember Zelnick? I still have the FA18 Interceptor disk somewhere with that cool intro and really enjoyed the music on it too
@@elmariachi5133 yes correct. Blew me away!
My first was a D.O.C. demo
Hah, it would have been one of the first for me too - I would have been 16 as well, even back then I thought it was hilarious irony that they called someone out for being a thief whilst boasting about cracking and distributing a commercial piece of software...
I switched computers in the late 80's. My friend bought C64 and I got one 1 year later... Then he bought an Amiga and I thought why when the C64 was such an amazing machine... Loved to program the C64, so much stuff to tinker with... First thought about the Amiga was that it was so totally different and I would have to forget everything and start from scratch again so I was hesitant. But the games won me over, and the raw power of the machine for painting, music, raytracing, programming and so on and on... and the OS was multitasking... was just incredible...
But I do regret not learning C as the AmigaOS was built for and around C... First programming language (compiled) was Pascal :-) I loved the language but it was not well suited for AmigaOS...
Remember so many days/nights when I had (most often OctaMED as I liked that better) in the background for just music and programming and Real3D doing raytracing and DeluxePaint for graphics work and more running (sometimes a Scenery Animator with a fractal landscape animation) and it worked beautifully with AmigaOS and setting priorities so my Pascal IDE was main focus and the rest shared the CPU time left...
I felt so productive... and it was my most productive days for sure!
IN CASE ANYONE WANTS TO DOWNLOAD ANY OF THE ORIGINAL FILES:
New Swappers, Dexion 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=7
Goodie, Quartex 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=1462
Ottifanten, Thrust 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=1154
Megademo: Part 1, Phenomena 1989 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=325
Megademo: Part 3, Phenomena 1989 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=325
Corkscrew, Phenomena 1990 - www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9393
Speedball Intro, Red Sector 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=11723
Advertisement, Crystal 1991 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=6740
Stardust 3, The Silents 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=498
Snurkel Scroller, Defjam & Silents 1989 - www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=8034
Seven Sins, Scoopex 1989 - demozoo.org/productions/22229/
Atomix Intro, Vision Factory 1990 - demozoo.org/productions/160526/
Continental Circus Trainer, Conqueror & Zike 1989 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=23459
Megademo 2: Starwars Scroll, Dexion 1989 - www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9160
Speedball Trainer, Ackerlight 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=14555
Interceptor Intro, Unit A 1988 - www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9133
Letterwriter v2.0, Red Sector 1990 - th-cam.com/video/pssH6moTGLc/w-d-xo.html
Cabal Trainer, Fairlight 1990 - www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=27434
Amiga Call, Megaforce 1988 - janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=19456
Thank you for your attention
Nice, thanks for doing that!
Oh wie vermisse ich meine Amiga´s , die alten BBS Zeiten und die Demos.
The music of Jimmy Fredriksson (Firefox) at 7:38 defined my first few months of Amiga ownership. I adored the melancholy at the end of the Phenomena Megademo that worked fine on my mate's v1.2 Kickstart A500 but wouldn't work on my newer v1.3. Was devastated. Worth looking up - Firefox Never Ending Love Amiga. How can a sequenced piece of music comprised of just a few samples on a barely capable machine tug at your heartstrings so much ;-)
Any insight on how this music was made? Am guessing a certain amount of sampling went into it at the final stages (to fit on a disk). But the 'amiga' music sound is so distinctive that I feel like some specific software and hardware must have been more commonly used than others for amiga game music.
18:25 The music in Red Sector's Speedball Intro sounds like "Juke Box Boy" by Baltimora.
This makes me very emotional, thanks for this. Long live Amiga
Ja aber leider hat er das Rennen verloren !
@@stephandusterhoft9131 naja .. ich glaube nicht das die technik es verloren hat! das der amiga so zerstört wurde .. hatte viele faktoren. von einer überprofessionellen cracker scene bis hin zu massivsten fehlern im managment! aber technisch war der amiga weit überlegen zu seiner "aktiven" zeit! ich denke das niveau des A1200 hat der pc erst 5/6 jahre später erreicht! und solang der amiga von commodore produziert wurde .. war er der bessere rechner! wäre so geil heute eine dritte plattform zu haben! man stelle sich den amiga entwickelt bis heute vor! oh lala ;) aber wie du schon sagst ... leider gibts ihn nicht mehr!
@@n00g75 Mittlerweile gibt es doch einen guten Emulator für den PC .
@@stephandusterhoft9131 ja logo .. aber die haben irgendwie nicht mehr das selbe gefühl dahinter .. zu wissen die maschine vor dir berechnet das alles gerade live mit 7mhz (a500) .. das schon ein anderes gefühl als emuliert auf einem windows pc! zumals ich mir am liebsten demos angucke .. ist das mit dem emulatoren oftmals sone sache da die demos ja teilweise sehr kreative wege fanden die hardware bzw. die kickstart nutzen und der emulator da oft an seine grenzn stößt wie ch gemerkt hab! hier das kommentar zu schreiben .. macht einen wieder so nostalgisch! ich hätte so bock auf einen aktuellen amiga!!! ;)
@@n00g75 Ja so richtig Bock auf meinen A2000 030 und meinen A500 040 hätte ich auch wieder aber ich leider schon im PFlegeheimHeim weil ich nicht mehr laufen kann und dabei immer so nach Rechts falle im Sitzen , im Rollstuhl ! Aber die Zeiten sind vorbei das waren die 80er und 90er Jahre sowie die 8-Bit Zeiten womit alles begann mit meinem TI 99 4A mit Extendet Basic und den ersten Joysticks für den TI dann den 8 Bit Atari .
Haven't seen this Ottifanten demo in 30 years. The frog was so adorable 😁
The tune of the Ackerlight demo is the sound of the good old days.
unit a - interceptor intro !! an evergreen ! :)
Unit A - only 50 Cracks , guaranteed
Excellence, started playing computer and video games in 1980, very glad i experienced those days. Thank you for posting this.
I think there outta be CD releases of music from demos like these!
Thank You Bro. You wake up my old nostalgic memories that was are:
[00:00 - New Swappers, Dexion 1988],
[41:22 - Megademo 2: Starwars Scroll, Dexion 1989],
[44:30 - Speedball Trainer, Ackerlight 1988],
[56:06 - Amiga Call, Megaforce 1988].
36:11 - Vision Factory Soundtrack is king! Gives me hard flashbacks.
Einige Songs habe ich auch auf den Atari 800 XL umgesetzt mit Original Namen natürlich und Digit Drums und Sample-Geräuschen so wie es möglich war . Ich hatte nur 40 kb frei für Samples . Später : Als Speichererweiterung hatte ich nur 512 kb Ram und 312 kb Rom im Rechner . Das war damals genug , obwohl genug Ram konnte man damals nicht genug haben für solche Tricks !
Mein erster Computer war ein Atari 600XL! Deine Umsetzungen für den Atari würd ich gern mal hören! 🙂
The music from the last demo is also played in a demo from World of Wonders. The ripped Soundtracker music also was named wow-something, so my guess is someone from World of Wonders composed it
Christof Mühlan - Banana / The Electronic Knights - Echoing aka 003. WoW has just used it.
I know that the music is contemporary but the presentation was amazing and the music was on point. Excellent.
The guys who programmed these were so freaking brilliant, they were like gods to me as a teenage kid with my Amiga 500 😎
dude, these soundtracks are straight up FIRE
02:33 and 18:25. Thank you for sharing. The two most wanted Amiga tracks by me!. I used to love them, love them now and forever will love them!
39:15 conqueror and zeke cracktro - one of the best chiptunes ever made
Chris Hülsbeck ;) Nice to see some old own stuff here. Was a great time!
"Shades" by Chris Hülsbeck. The original C-64 version was one of my all time favourite chip tunes back then.
Seven Sins by Scoopex. Man, such awesome music!
The scroller alone is world class for the Amiga but with everything else going on it’s ridiculous. What amazing programming
Conqueror & Zike sure knew how to make a tasty intro with very little resources and file size.
Pure nostalgia, I'm old now.
loved the late 80's amiga demos, they had a certain charm ; especially that old skool music
How sad that someone has put a copyright claim on a song in this video. Back in the day the demo scene was all about sharing and building on each others' ideas. How quickly some people succumb to greed.
That MFC intro at the end takes me back. Lovely tuneage..
I've never seen many if these demos (only a few cracked games back in the days). This is the best Amiga music so far with Continental Circus Trainer (demo 13) being very good.
47:30 Unit A - SO POWERFUL!
Just downloaded the first tune (From the game Power Ball'88) and I love it. It's amazing how well these songs aged. I mean, I would call many 80s computer music as chipmusic, but Amiga songs, like this SKT gem, really captures the feel and the life from that era.
Wow, I remember most of these and was just starting my scener journey and it wasn't for another couple of years till I could code all of the effects in these demos.
42:00 hilarious... that tune is about as close to Comic Bakery as actual Comic Bakery is to Hot Water 🤣
thanks for this collection and for tagging the demos/intros in the details!
This stuff is really good! I Love the way they are just wide of common (apart from Comic Bakery of course.) Good job sir!
great stuff love it!!!
Thanks for these not-so-known intros, very refreshing! Amiga rulez ! Fun to see the usual tunes used again and again in the intros, from 4mat, UncleTom, and good old Futurecomposer stuff.
Definitely the 56:06 - Amiga Call, Megaforce 1988 is the vibe of early Amiga mods. Amazing! Ping....
Nostalgia...the epic days of phone dialers, at&t conference calls, bbs's....
I remember the pink elephant one so well. Great tune and funny animation. Thx for sharing!
thanx for making this :) awesome music
Last one has to be my favourite, sorry. Amiga demos are amazing anyway. :3
Photon's corkscrew demo from Phenomena is amazing. Best corkscrew scroller ever, sorry Scoopex! ;)
Thanks for sharing this, great stuff :)
Brings back so many memories, thank you!
15:00 cool scroller!
Thank you! Great Compilation!
TH-cam algorithm: "You want to see some Amiga demos that were posted 12 years ago"
Me: "TH-cam algorithm, you know me so well! Sure!"
I want this to be streamed directly to my brain
What a time it was to be alive
Amiga Rules :)
Anyone knows the effects of the first intro? Red/White field: blitter or copper? How did they do the logo effects? The M's seem to be sprites.
Just amazing. Thank you!
Amiga forever! ❤️
got it :)
Thank you for the video...
Brilliant times, miss them
Amiga was the best 16bit computer ever made....
Atomix Intro, Vision Factory 1990🤗
Very Good And Amazing.
Can anyone help me? My dad sorta remembers a amiga pd demo from the late 80's to 90's.
It was a fish bowl demo that had a few german speaking fish swimming around and around saying to each other "Hi hi, bye bye fuck off and die!" and that's all it was, you just loaded it and kept it running. Has anyone got any info on this?
We think he got it from a UK seller called "17-BIT PD" (one bit better than the rest)
+James Ianni Hi James, I'm James's dad (Novalins dad) and me and my Wife have been looking for a video of the fish for over ten years but have never found it.
If you can ether run the PD in a Amiga emulator and upload a video to TH-cam or send me the PD file so I can run it on a emulator I'd sure appreciate it :-)
The Wife still says Hi bye fuck off and die every now and then lol
The Amiga days, fred fish and 17 bit PD, carrier command, team yankee and cannon fodder
@@SE09uk WTF xd
I am here today!!!
RSI Megademo is awesome.
28:06 - What is the title of this demo ?
It's called "Snurkel Scoller" (released at the Digitech and IBB Summer Conference 1989 in Kortedala, Sweden)
+Magnus Danielsson:
THX - Super Snurkel Scroller - Final - music: *janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=31858*
31:39 Need for Madness 🤩
echoing.stm at the beginning nice nice
+Thr³³ What?
Don't know any of these demos. They must be before 1991 when I 1st got an AMIGA 500 Plus +
@@igakoga2481 Well they look great all things considered though not as polished as the later 90s demos that could have been easily featured in games.
Unglaublich, was der Amiga ende der 80 er Jahre bereits geleistet hat. Ich hatte mir (glaube es war 1991) einen PC mit 486/dx50 und wirklich guter Hardware geleistet. Ich war so enttäuscht. Soviel Geld (ca. 2500€) und nicht ein Stück besser als der Amiga.
What's the music track on the final demo at 56:06 anyone?
I'm finding a few places refer to it just as mod.003
Is called Echoing
Very good
Amigaaaaaaaaa!
Stardust 3, The Silents 1988 is nice
Quartex the motest stranges crew in the Amiga scene
»Advertisement, Crystal 1991« done in Red Sector Demomaker?
Nah, it was made WAY before that was released.
20:42 ❤
21:03 song name?
It’s “Starworx” by 4-Mat.
@@QuiteImmoral Thanks! Should've knew it was from 4mat ✌
song name at 11:18??
It’s called “megademo tune v2” by Firefox.
Sounds a lot like laserdance.
Maybe someone can help me. I´m looking for a demo which starts with a background from the game "Speedball II". Anyone?
red sector megademo
it's so good
can anyone remember "white dot demo"?
UNIT A
Ahhh ... Let's Pretend No One From Quartex ever Left The U. K. ! ! !
Right I have been looking for this demo for ages
there was a hip hop track released called 20 seconds to comply.
based on Robocop in 1989
BUT
there was a much better song done on the Amiga Demo scene. it was a far better song.
from what I can remember back then it had a line like this
"put down your weapon you have 20 seconds to comply, Im gonna get him now son, dd d dd d dont do it, you think your pretty smart think you can out smart a bullet, ddd d dont do it"
could of been SAE (share and enjoy/scare and annoy) lol
please put an old 16bit nerd out of his misery and post it.
cheers. off back to elite dangerous now.
It was called weapon on amazing tunes 2
var ett tag sen man satt med demos.
Man blir aldrig för gammal för några hederliga demos. ;)
Precis, rätt så.
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Amiga blitting capabilities with blocking data bus were dull...