Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as the canonical example of what the demoscene could squeeze out of an Amiga 500 and a single floppy disk.
What it is
A recapture in 50fps HD of Spaceballs' 'State of the Art', an Amiga demo released at The Party 1992. It showcases the Amiga's real-time animation, graphics and music in a few minutes.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2015 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sunpazed · 2024-03 · on “Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago”
The “European hacker-culture demo” from Ezra’s Amiga is likely State Of The Art or 9 Fingers from Spaceballs — both really cool scene demos: [this video] [LINK] These easily run on an Amiga 500 ES from the 80s, and are stored on a single floppy disk.
Cites vardump · 2015-04 · on “A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer”
A few years later 1992 "State of the Art", Spaceballs demo shows off Amiga 500 pretty well. That whole thing fits on 880 kB floppy and it's rendered realtime. [this video] A year later same group released "9 Fingers", also running on Amiga 500. [LINK]
Cites vardump · 2019-09 · on “SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips”
For a moment I thought this was an old Amiga 500 demo (older than this game). Spaceball's "State of the Art" [0]. Apparently same author for both rotoscoped animations. [0]: [this video]
Cites scandinavegan · 2020-01 · on “Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry”
I agree with everything you said. I have a couple of theories from a Swedish perspective. First, and the most vague, is the idea of competent children in Sweden. I read an article recently (in the Swedish newspaper DN[1]) that traced a line through the author Ellen Key -> Astrid Lindgren and Rune Andréasson -> Pippi Longstocking and Bamse (comic book bear), and the idea that just because you're young doesn't mean that you're not competent. Both Pippi and Bamse talk directly to children (and the parents who read them to their children) and tell them about injustices and the idea that even a child can do things on an adult level. This idea has been involved in the creation of preschools throug