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Enjoy a modern Amiga demo running on original 1986 hardware.

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BrianHG:
This was surprisingly and impressively well done.  Though emulated to an Amiga 500 with 512k chip ram, 512k fast ram, and 2 floppy drives, it would function identically on a Amiga 1000 from 1986 with the same ram and drive setup.

Ed.Kloonk:
Wow.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 04, 2023, 10:11:46 pm ---Wow.

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I know...
I also know that they were using the Amiga's 'Dual-Playfield' mode to achieve the background overlays of the Joker while flying through the city.

Sample sound and scan source quality is obviously from impeccable sources while back in 1986, all of this would have to be drawn by hand, hissy 8 bit audio samplers and most annoyingly slow to model the 3d objects and motion during the creation some of the 3D animation elements.

Though, there still were some Amiga games which were impressive, they did not squeeze all of it together like this demo and everyone stuck with a 512k limit if they wanted to sell any games.

srb1954:
This just shows how far ahead of everyone else the Amiga was when it was introduced.

I might even be encouraged to dig out my old Amiga 1000 and try and fire it up again.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: srb1954 on February 05, 2023, 01:31:44 am ---This just shows how far ahead of everyone else the Amiga was when it was introduced.

I might even be encouraged to dig out my old Amiga 1000 and try and fire it up again.

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Careful of the A1000 power supply.  It has those RIFA caps at the AC input which should absolutely change before even plugging it in as well as the main electrolytic one tends to leak.

Yes, the demo should work as the source disks are available.

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