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The Black Lotus – Eon – Amiga Demo (50 FPS) (youtube.com)
3 points by doener on July 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



"Fun facts: - We hit every documented hardware bug on OCS in this demo more than once

- The song can’t fit in chip memory all at once (the module is 559K in size)

- We built so much tooling for this demo that it is kind of ridiculous: a register allocating assembler, a new linker, an emulator version with memory protection and instruction level trace profiling, the scene packing tools,.. will be looking to release some of them later"

Impressive stuff!

I was a PC guy, so wasn't familiar with the Amiga scene much. But when I saw Jizz[1] and Stash[2] they blew me away for 64k demos. Of course helped that I was really into goa trance at the time, but still, how had they managed to fit all that into 64k?!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXgseVYvhek

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiY-TM_3Ns


oh those fond memories

looked up 'State of the Art' and it's there too (!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89wq5EoXy-0




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