Amiga demos are demos created for the Commodore Amiga home computer. A "demo" is a demonstration of the multimedia capabilities of a computer (or more to the point, a demonstration of the skill of the demo's constructors). There was intense rivalry during the 1990s among the best programmers, graphic artists and computer musicians to continually outdo each other's demos. Since the Amiga's hardware was more or less fixed (unlike today's PC industry, where arbitrary combinations of hardware can be put together), there was competition to test the limits of that hardware and perform theoretically "impossible" feats by refactoring the problem at hand. In Europe the Amiga was the undisputed leader of mainstream multimedia computing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, though it was eventually overtaken by PC architecture. Some Amiga demos, such as the RSI Megademo, Kefrens Megademo VIII or Crionics & The Silents "Hardwired" are considered seminal works in the demo field. New Amiga demos are released even today, although the demo scene has firmly moved onto PC hardware. Many Amiga game developers were active in the demo scene. The demo scene spearheaded development in multimedia programming techniques for the Amiga, such that it was de rigueur for the latest visual tricks, soundtrackers and 3D algorithms from the demo scene to end up being used in computer game development. (Wikipedia).
Mathigon (found at mathigon.org) is one of my new favorite apps. Check it out to see what it can do!
From playlist Mathigon Demos and Ideas
Prototype Commodore Amiga CD 1200 - Retro Computer Festival 2017 - Part 4
Andy Spencer tells us about the Commodore Amiga CD 1200 - a prototype of a peripheral for the Amiga 1200 that would allow it to play Amiga CD32 games. Sadly, the product was never to be ... Filmed at Retro Computer Festival 2017 at The Centre for Computing History
From playlist Retro Computer Festival 2017
Mathigon Demo: Exploring Area Conceptually
When it comes to Ss exploring and making conceptual sense of area, #Mathigon ‘s #polypad absolutely rocks. #MTBoS #ITeachMath #mathchat
From playlist Mathigon Demos and Ideas
Using and Tuning the Bash History from the command line. The linux bash history is so fantastic! This short demo takes you through how you can use and control what is stored in your personal history file. The demo use SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 but this whould work in general across most dis
From playlist Linux
Here, a quick demo using #Mathigon Polypad to help students further explore their initial intuition as to how to solve a #CurriculumAssociates #iReadyMath grade 6 problem.
From playlist Mathigon Demos and Ideas
Messing around in #Mathigon tonight. Exploring rotations of number lines to see where it could lead.
From playlist Mathigon Demos and Ideas
NOTACON 4: Building Character: ANSI from the Ground Up
Speaker: Christian "RaD Man" Wirth With limitations in color, character set and size, the ANSI artscene still found ways to innovate, flourish and reach amazing heights in the last 25 years. Starting with a brief history of pre-ANSI character art, RaD Man of ACiD describes the problems an
From playlist Notacon 4
NOTACON 4: Squarewave to Heaven: An introduction to the Chiptune Music Scene
Speaker: Nullsleep An entire generation has now grown up with the likes of Atari, Nintendo, Sega and many other console systems, not to mention the "classic plastic" home computers of the 1980s. Throughout these last 25 years, the unmistakable sound of 8-bit chips have pervaded their ears
From playlist Notacon 4
EnCase Computer Forensics Demo
This is a short demo of EnCase I worked up. If you are interested in some of what professional computer forensics software can do then this is for you.
From playlist digital forensics
Abug Talks - Dominic Beesley demos his new hardware blitter for the Acorn BBC Micro.
Abug Talks - Dominic Beesley (dominic) talks about his new hardware blitter for the Acorn BBC Micro. Virtual Abug Meet-Up - 16th May 2020. Recorded via Zoom during the Coronavirus Outbreak. Help us create more videos! Support us through Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/computinghistory
From playlist Abug Meetups - May 2020
The Short-Cut Demo 2K1 (Part 2)
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From playlist Early Artistic Works (before 2004)
NOTACON 4: Taking Tracking Mainstream
Speaker: Andrew "Necros" Sega Tracker-based music has been instrumental in providing the audio component of demos since the early 90's. Always limited by the processing power and memory of the machine, creating these types of tracks is a challenge and an artform. Andrew will present some
From playlist Notacon 4
The Computer Chronicles - Amiga 2500 (1989)
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From playlist The Computer Chronicles 1989 Episodes
The Computer Chronicles - Amiga and Atari (1985)
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From playlist Early Microcomputers & PCs
Andrew Oliver - The Early Days of The Oliver Twins
Andrew Oliver talks about the early career of the Oliver Twins, their relationship with Codemasters and Mastertronic, Super Robin Hood, and Fantastic Dizzy. Part of the 'Viva Computer' project sponsored by the Heritage Lottery. www.ComputingHistory.org.uk
From playlist Viva Computer!
The Rise and Fall of the Commodore Amiga - Kim Justice
#retrogaming #amiga Today's video is quite a special one - one that's been requested for a long time...we're looking at the history of the almighty Commodore Amiga - how it came to be, how it flourished, and how arguably the best and most advanced computer of the 80's was mismanaged and m
From playlist Early Microcomputers & PCs
The Computer Chronicles - Amiga 3000 (1990)
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From playlist The Computer Chronicles 1990 Episodes
From the album Margerine Eclipse
From playlist the absolute best of stereolab
The Short-Cut Demo 2K1 (Part 1)
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From playlist Early Artistic Works (before 2004)
The Computer Chronicles - Consumer Buying Guide (1993)
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From playlist Computer Chronicles Buyer's Guides