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Norwegian Kindness by Spaceballs [web]
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release date : february 2011
release party : Datastorm 2011
compo : amiga demo
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rulez added on the 2011-02-10 10:16:52 by Quarryman Quarryman
I don't think the title is representative of our society, but oh well.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 10:28:05 by leijaa leijaa
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 10:53:21 by Gʀɪʍʍy Gʀɪʍʍy
hells yes
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 10:56:35 by kusma kusma
new spaceballs demo new spaceballs demo new space (falls off chair)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 11:20:16 by 4mat 4mat
awesome, after they found a working amiga
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 11:25:06 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
Pretty cool demo :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 11:31:09 by evil evil
Nice
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 11:46:06 by datsua datsua
Cool effects and massive soundtrack :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 11:52:29 by eladamri eladamri
I can feel your kindness.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 12:04:05 by skan skan
Capture please :)
added on the 2011-02-10 12:04:17 by gloom gloom
Cool! I'll test it on 060/50 (I saw it on emulator) in a few hours.

Few things could be better for start a thursday than find new Amiga demos! ;)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 12:13:19 by ham ham
BTW is the throat singing by Hanggai band?
added on the 2011-02-10 12:14:50 by datsua datsua
video
added on the 2011-02-10 12:43:13 by chriz74 chriz74
didn't see it on actual hardware so kinda curious how fast it runs but happy to see some cool new effects for change. def rulez.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 13:02:39 by dodke dodke
the music wasn't my cup of tea unfortunately.
added on the 2011-02-10 13:04:14 by dodke dodke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMlQeS2Pu4
added on the 2011-02-10 13:41:00 by Shoonay Shoonay
Not too found of the music - but instathumb of the trademark attitude and kickass effects!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 13:48:07 by Duckers Duckers
Not my cup of tea either. But the effects rock, especially the clouds at the start.. I thought they were some kind of volumetric cloud effects at first. Stunning stuff.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 13:57:52 by psonice psonice
Slummy, my comments are on ADA but the thumb goes here.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 14:04:22 by Corial Corial
great stuff as usual
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 14:16:27 by prm prm
SICKOS!
way too good for Amiga!
didnt work under WinUAE btw ( assigned all the RAM possible, but after the intro-screen ( We are Spaceballs! you are not! ) it went and stood black! )
MOAR! use tEiS as a musician next time!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 14:25:12 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
Shoonay: Thanks for the youtube vids!

If anyone has the chance to capture this from a real amiga as well (060/50mhz or preferrably 66mhz) it would be great! Our vhs-cams are unfortunately all being serviced atm..

This final version is quite close to what was shown in the compo at Datastorm. Some tweaks have been done to the effects in the top-left and bottom-right parts of the screenshot, and several ugly glitches between parts have been removed together with some other bugs.
rulez!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:08:31 by Fiol Fiol
What 4Mat said. Pardon me whilst I go and take a cold shower. NEW SPACEBALLS DEMO!!!!

rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:16:20 by Gmitts Gmitts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlescOGygV8

Alternate youtube, this one should be slightly more precise than the incredibly fast one by Shoonay :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:34:30 by Dozer Dozer
Couldn't get it to work under WinUAE myself. Tried everything but either got it too slow or crashing WinUAE (WinUAE has stopped working etc). But video from Shoonay was much appreciated!
added on the 2011-02-10 15:44:39 by Gmitts Gmitts
Watched right now in Winuae.. Awesome one, loved the clouds in the beginning, and the rest of the effects where also nice - good choice of music :) Thumb up for this :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:49:40 by Sapphire Sapphire
you cannot escape the kindness from strangers!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:51:37 by quisten quisten
Great smoke effects. Well done!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:52:00 by Hyde Hyde
menace threatened to kick my ass if i didnt...
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:52:38 by nerve nerve
Spaceballs, touching.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 15:54:51 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
great fx!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 16:50:25 by maali maali
Wow, those particle stuffs.. :O
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 16:51:27 by leGend leGend
Le Awesomé!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 17:01:41 by elend elend
Awesome shit! Effects,music,mood, I like it all alot!
Good to see the old Slumdog back in bidnezz ;)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 17:54:19 by tFt tFt
Me likes "unlimited cubes" effect, smoke effect, twister with voxel and cube zoomer fx. Also very nice and kind shponglish soundtrack!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 17:57:19 by loaderror loaderror
impressive
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 18:01:25 by Gargaj Gargaj
ossom
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 18:37:04 by thec thec
Runs slick on the real thing. Massive tune and outstanding Kung-Fu
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 18:42:03 by d0DgE d0DgE
Burning churches.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 18:46:25 by Charlie Charlie
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 18:54:58 by Ized Ized
Greatness.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 18:56:23 by lemonade lemonade
Awesome effects and great demo.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 19:04:35 by z5 z5
Some decent effects, but their presentation is so damn ugly! The demo has zero design and absolutely no flow or cohesion.
sucks added on the 2011-02-10 20:04:55 by Wade Wade
The tune is fantastic! :)

rulez added on the 2011-02-10 20:28:39 by baah baah
great fx, the first smoke scene stuff is fantastic!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 20:45:39 by keito keito
Great demo, the smoke effect is really nice.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 21:06:24 by micdune micdune
Yay for norwegian kindness :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 22:13:01 by gloom gloom
Fucking love it.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 22:37:31 by rounddodger rounddodger
Good stuff.
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 22:39:34 by Iapetus Iapetus
Good show
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 23:03:37 by BackSpace BackSpace
;)
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 23:11:39 by bodo^rab bodo^rab
impressive effects!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 23:17:19 by Alpha C Alpha C
Great presentation! Awesome, different music!
rulez added on the 2011-02-10 23:44:46 by novel novel
damn nice
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 05:22:42 by zeebr zeebr
How did I miss this?? Sick!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 06:41:49 by ferris ferris
BB Image . you're slummy - we're not . BB Image
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 06:45:11 by kempy kempy
lovley! well... LOVLEY!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 07:27:19 by M:ET M:ET
ihan paska
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 07:30:19 by britelite britelite
Cool. Lacks some important details in the presentation and design imo. The static dithering in the displacementmap in the cloud scene is a shame - you could at least have animated it :)
Otherwise fresh demo!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 08:02:35 by maytz maytz
!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 09:39:40 by jokov jokov
Quote:
BTW is the throat singing by Hanggai band?

Yes, as is a lot of other things. The soundtrack is based on outtakes from the tracks Wuji and Five Heroes, as performed by Hanggai Band.
added on the 2011-02-11 09:41:49 by lug00ber lug00ber
Cool effects!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 10:00:49 by malmix malmix
Nice stuff.
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 10:56:06 by neptun neptun
most excellent!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 11:16:08 by xerxes xerxes
nice colors and effects
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 11:26:45 by superplek superplek
Very very nice!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 11:33:27 by Mystra Mystra
Good!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 11:57:56 by martin martin
Nice effects, but what Wade said, no design, no backgrounds, that very pity. But anyway there are some original ideas never done on Amiga before and music just rocksl. Thumb up for sure ;o)
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 12:35:24 by jack-3d jack-3d
what Wade said
nice effects but the demo is just boring
added on the 2011-02-11 12:39:41 by wullon wullon
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 12:45:17 by p01 p01
rocks for sure!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 12:46:45 by dv$ dv$
Maytz: I don't know how you newschool PC kids do things but I can guarantee that there's no displacement maps in the cloud part. :)
However, there is a static color overlay (2 bitplanes) which is indeed a bit too visible / creates aliasing. I did consider animating it or toning down the color gradient to make it less visible (like in some of the other parts of the demo), but never got around to it.
Annoyingly these overlays also seem to create visible banding on *some* displays and projectors (most visible in the cloud and meta-grid-thingie parts), which I'll need to look into if I ever reuse this technique. For now you'll just have to pretend this is how things work on Amiga ;)
nice demo!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 13:45:27 by endo endo
@Korvkiosken: well, newschool pc kid - dunno about that - been on the amiga platform since 1989 :) - but using af lookup table (displacementmap) could easily have been used for colors and position.

Maybe doing the dithering inlined in the c2p, as Blueberry explain here could be a way to it?

Still cool demo :)
added on the 2011-02-11 14:07:57 by maytz maytz
Maytz: It's a *static overlay* that never even exists in the chunky buffer, so there's no need whatsoever for baking it into the c2p since it already comes for free. :)

As for the displacement maps; I dare you to do a similar effect using the techniques you mentioned. ;)

Anyway, I'm turning into one of those 'tards who turn prod comments into forum threads.. :(
Korvkiosken: haha, I would never take up that challenge, since I'm growing old and lazy - very lazy, actually so lazy the everything beoynd MSVC take up to much of my time :)
added on the 2011-02-11 14:58:03 by maytz maytz
fun!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 19:03:10 by comankh comankh
johogy rules
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 20:17:40 by stefa stefa
Ok.
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 20:29:57 by ltk_tscc ltk_tscc
awesome!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 20:34:38 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
Awesomesauce!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 21:47:28 by phoxy phoxy
awesome ! Can't wait to watch on real hardware !
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 22:30:57 by frost242 frost242
Yep, awesome!
rulez added on the 2011-02-11 23:29:23 by Cosmocat Cosmocat
GOOD!
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 01:19:10 by substrate substrate
Really great... But I would really prefer to see Datastorm's #1 and #2 put together to see an AMAZING Amiga demo of the YEAR!!!!!
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 01:21:13 by sim sim
Great soundtrack.
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 04:55:58 by xernobyl xernobyl
great fx, for sure
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 09:30:02 by fishwave/scx fishwave/scx
I found Ephi's demo more entertaining, but this is still worth my thumb (expecially g00b's sounds...)
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 10:48:19 by dixan dixan
This is great! sync! music! effects! and it also looks good! Rare on Amiga these days ;) I do hope slummy never gets a computer job again! :D Maybe we will see more of this greatness then :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 11:31:20 by Proteque Proteque
Great.
Please, release the SOUNDTRACK alone.
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 13:16:50 by Manwe Manwe
Manwe: Already on Lug00ber's page: http://lug00ber.m0f0.net/demoscene/
The fat kids approve this production! AWESOME!
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 16:58:40 by response response
Not bad. :)
added on the 2011-02-12 18:35:49 by AntDude AntDude
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rulez added on the 2011-02-12 20:23:35 by peach peach
Even better video capture (no lags, perfect sync) : YouTube.
added on the 2011-02-12 20:56:36 by Manwe Manwe
Really great!
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 21:11:22 by Sir_Lucas Sir_Lucas
I'm not into Amiga at all but this one rocks.
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 21:26:13 by Rouquemoute Rouquemoute
cool demo with a weird track
rulez added on the 2011-02-12 22:52:15 by zefyros zefyros
Nice demo and nice suprise, watched with Ephidrena demo from 2nd place gives one solid good demo :) Great soundtrack! :-)
rulez added on the 2011-02-13 12:16:11 by Akira^Pulse Akira^Pulse
Music! Style!
rulez added on the 2011-02-13 17:19:14 by Salinga Salinga
Ha...
Fueled with fisk meat...and smell of burning churches...

The Rome's represents when arrived, burnt a lot of native to-nature-connection sculptures, holy woods and trees... Let they return now where they came from!

Great music, but do not feel, personally the northlands' spirit. Rather Tibetan's meditation one.
added on the 2011-02-13 17:55:48 by sim sim
Das ist alles so AWESOME!
rulez added on the 2011-02-13 20:26:28 by Herpes Herpes
Slummy kindness! <3
rulez added on the 2011-02-13 20:31:53 by spotUP spotUP
Awesone production. The Amiga doesn't seem to have limits!
rulez added on the 2011-02-13 20:47:00 by Zener Zener
Nice
rulez added on the 2011-02-13 23:06:05 by bitl bitl
Just generic Spaceballs demo. Watch. Delete. Forget. Doesn't you guys have any graphicians in Norway? Demo stripped from graphics is just some mediocre coder pr0n :(
added on the 2011-02-14 03:13:26 by AzzaroMWI AzzaroMWI
Forgot my thumb - sorry guys, but these effects deserves better design skills.
sucks added on the 2011-02-14 03:17:37 by AzzaroMWI AzzaroMWI
It's really great demo, thanks Spaceballs!
rulez added on the 2011-02-14 07:19:09 by dimouse dimouse
Azzaro: hopefully NOT mwi-like design skills. Better let it be "just" generic Spaceballs demo.
added on the 2011-02-14 12:24:08 by jok jok
all those people bitching about "has no design" definitely have no clue.

design != overlays/background images

fresh stuff, slummy rules.
rulez added on the 2011-02-14 13:15:36 by arm1n arm1n
awesome music
rulez added on the 2011-02-15 14:50:30 by pista pista
nice one!
rulez added on the 2011-02-15 15:27:09 by v3nom v3nom
@jok: I mean any design or effect concept. Comparing to Ephodrena entry this looks like silly 4k intor on pc. Sorry, not my cup of tea.
added on the 2011-02-15 17:30:49 by AzzaroMWI AzzaroMWI
"silly 4k intro on pc" -- well.. odd comparison. i do agree that it's a bit low on grapical content but it looks intentional (focus on effects, not on overlays) and stuff moves around nicely

that said, in terms of "type of demo" it's not comparable to the 2nd ranking demo

basically what spike said about design !equals overlays :)
added on the 2011-02-15 17:45:12 by superplek superplek
Pure fx demo !
rulez added on the 2011-02-16 01:18:03 by skp skp
AMIIIIGGGAAA
rulez added on the 2011-02-16 09:30:15 by las las
Vey good demo :3
rulez added on the 2011-02-16 16:26:17 by OlaHime OlaHime
Some great effects in there, but not a demo ill remember.
added on the 2011-02-16 22:34:49 by 4pLaY 4pLaY
Very very nice, and awesome music as well :)
rulez added on the 2011-02-16 23:07:17 by Dbug Dbug
True performance at all levels :).
rulez added on the 2011-02-17 11:03:17 by ulrick ulrick
Quote:
Azzaro: hopefully NOT mwi-like design skills. Better let it be "just" generic Spaceballs demo.


Have you seen Mwi demos? They're among the best designed demos on the Amiga!

Obviously, you work to your strengths. The coder here is clearly not a designer, but has made some great effects. The upshot is that it will impress a lot of coders, the downside is that it doesn't appeal as much to the designers/artists.
added on the 2011-02-17 16:10:00 by Wade Wade
good one
rulez added on the 2011-02-17 19:10:53 by SiR SiR
VERY nice!
rulez added on the 2011-02-17 21:25:55 by Emod Emod
gr8 tune!
rulez added on the 2011-02-19 10:40:28 by ded^RMDA ded^RMDA
@PRM - it works under WinUAE. Just make A4000 with some RAM and run it under OS3. I can give You my .uae config file, of You wish.
added on the 2011-02-19 13:43:43 by OlaHime OlaHime
wow!!! very superb stylish prod! why not comments???
rulez added on the 2011-02-20 18:04:28 by mitchell mitchell
unbeliever^x7m has written news about it at the facebook.com . thanks unbeliever
added on the 2011-02-20 18:08:20 by mitchell mitchell
Quote:
The coder here is clearly not a designer

wade: sorry, i disagree. the selection of colors, lighting/shading, and progression of effects in this demo for me clearly are design aspects. and slummy did them well.

just because it has a black backround doesn't make it a badly designed demo.
added on the 2011-02-21 10:35:21 by arm1n arm1n
good stuff
rulez added on the 2011-02-21 17:02:24 by wayne wayne
i smell some pimped friday at 8 routines...
rulez added on the 2011-02-23 21:02:02 by Muerto Muerto
Wonderfull !
rulez added on the 2011-02-24 16:45:04 by Anat Anat
I jizzed out of my ears :D
rulez added on the 2011-02-24 17:11:34 by chromag chromag
Surprising comeback. The nice look and the ass-kicking, fresh soundtrack by lug00ber make me thumb this up...
rulez added on the 2011-02-24 17:34:21 by pintcat pintcat
good stuff
rulez added on the 2011-02-24 18:05:26 by Serpent Serpent
Cheers!
rulez added on the 2011-02-24 18:25:15 by revival revival
rulez added on the 2011-02-24 20:50:28 by rudi rudi
yes!
rulez added on the 2011-02-26 11:30:21 by provod provod
It looks great - cool and consistent.
It sounds great - Unusual and well balanced.
It feels great.
In other words, i like it.
rulez added on the 2011-02-26 12:22:39 by Paranoid Paranoid
Great stuff & great music as well ... but yes, could have been even better with some more design. Very good job anyway !
rulez added on the 2011-03-01 12:50:10 by sunb34mm sunb34mm
Awesome!!
rulez added on the 2011-03-01 16:44:59 by SoDa7 SoDa7
I really can't stand the soundtrack (in fact, it makes me bloody wanna kill someone ;D) but the rest is pure awesomeness. Ace code and who cares about design when the effects are that cool?
rulez added on the 2011-03-02 18:14:24 by StingRay StingRay
cool
rulez added on the 2011-03-07 11:18:53 by gopher gopher
rocks
rulez added on the 2011-03-11 18:14:02 by gentleman gentleman
I like it a lot.
rulez added on the 2011-08-01 23:47:43 by abscess abscess
Joda....
rulez added on the 2011-08-08 01:03:46 by Frequent Frequent
good!
rulez added on the 2011-11-10 23:03:42 by Spewk Spewk
rulez added on the 2011-11-19 15:57:19 by nhi nhi
ace
At first, I was like "it's beautiful, it sounds good, but some effect are a bit under-powered in those GPU times" And then I saw vanilla plateform="Amiga AGA". my jaws were 6 feet under, together with my coder-pride. H-O-L-L-Y K-I-T O_o
rulez added on the 2012-01-31 16:21:21 by marmakoide marmakoide
Visual design left me a bit cold, but effects were good and music was a pleasant and unexpected surprise.
rulez added on the 2012-01-31 17:59:51 by moozooh moozooh
Very cool.
rulez added on the 2012-02-01 21:16:01 by Intrinsic Intrinsic
Good ideas there
rulez added on the 2012-07-24 00:33:54 by Marq Marq
Forgotten thumb
rulez added on the 2012-08-02 20:43:41 by Maissi Maissi
black backgrounds.
sucks added on the 2012-08-05 01:06:57 by kimi kardashian kimi kardashian
Forgotten thumb
rulez added on the 2012-08-09 18:00:53 by stfsux stfsux
what moozooh said some lines above, the whole design with black and empty background make this prod a bit sad, but code and music is great, so thumb up!
rulez added on the 2013-07-25 17:28:22 by rez rez
Cool! :)
rulez added on the 2013-11-29 12:15:28 by kjb kjb
Spacious Balls does not let down.
rulez added on the 2014-11-23 08:54:09 by ccr ccr
great!
rulez added on the 2015-02-04 19:07:53 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
Funny soundtrack, fresh ideas.
rulez added on the 2015-08-12 09:42:28 by lvd lvd
Fucking great. Sorry for using the F-word but hey, this is brutally nice. On the other hand, I've been having a few beers and maybe I'm not that well-balanced but who cares? Now I'm off to sleep.
rulez added on the 2015-08-13 02:00:02 by lennart lennart
The cloud part is extremely impressive. Original music too.
rulez added on the 2015-09-21 16:33:58 by Trilkk Trilkk
Demo without any significant theme but with really nice effects.
rulez added on the 2016-01-16 16:52:07 by mailman mailman
One of my favorite Spaceballs demos. Delicious soundtrack and ossom effects.
rulez added on the 2016-04-26 22:33:04 by slayer slayer
How have I not thumbed this!!
rulez added on the 2019-04-16 08:20:14 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
Same here
rulez added on the 2019-04-16 09:53:24 by noname noname
Whow. Proud to be Norwegian when I see this. Spaceballs rulez!
rulez added on the 2019-05-31 03:06:26 by nikosidis nikosidis
absolutely hilarious.. and the soundtrack with Mongolian through singing.. especially after quite recent discovery of the Hu band.. I simply love it.
rulez added on the 2020-05-04 14:01:58 by hollowone hollowone
Great!
rulez added on the 2022-09-19 22:40:20 by spkr spkr
what can I say? few animations played back, mp3 played back, zero coding... and what I used to value demos for? the coding! mainly coding. music, grafix, design also, but not other way. any other way of "making demo done" than writing, is barbarianism and has nothing to do with heritage of civilisation, culture and science of Europe. soon we gonna get soapbulbs generated by curving the time-space, or same as usual, single slice of chewing gum produced at expense of blowing up the whole universe. back to school dudes!
sucks added on the 2022-12-01 01:02:37 by Laffik Laffik
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what can I say? few animations played back, mp3 played back, zero coding... and what I used to value demos for? the coding! mainly coding. music, grafix, design also, but not other way. any other way of "making demo done" than writing, is barbarianism and has nothing to do with heritage of civilisation, culture and science of Europe. soon we gonna get soapbulbs generated by curving the time-space, or same as usual, single slice of chewing gum produced at expense of blowing up the whole universe. back to school dudes!
idk what this guy watched but it certainly wasn't this demo
added on the 2022-12-01 11:18:57 by ferris ferris
that comment has very similar energy to the embarrassing shit I used to write back when I was a moron too
added on the 2022-12-01 11:22:51 by ferris ferris
Without this 3am energy the scene will stop
rulez added on the 2022-12-01 11:51:41 by rloaderro rloaderro
Fantastic.
rulez added on the 2022-12-01 17:37:54 by Skynet Skynet
Quote:
Quote:
what can I say? few animations played back, mp3 played back, zero coding... and what I used to value demos for? the coding! mainly coding. music, grafix, design also, but not other way. any other way of "making demo done" than writing, is barbarianism and has nothing to do with heritage of civilisation, culture and science of Europe. soon we gonna get soapbulbs generated by curving the time-space, or same as usual, single slice of chewing gum produced at expense of blowing up the whole universe. back to school dudes!
idk what this guy watched but it certainly wasn't this demo


Naaay... clearly this "demo" - mongolian singing played back of an audio track (not a module), clouds and flying cubes played back of animation, not a computed in real time. (Amiga can not calculate this many operations per second and everything is strongly limited, so... clouds? beaucoup of transparency cubes? really?)

that's what I am talking about. it's not a coding it's renders being played back. just a set of players, no intelectual riddles at all...

since coding is most important in demo art - there my negative vote goes.

no coding here - you can play animations back in Amos. this demo (and plenty of other ones like this one) shouldn't be presented in demo category, but weird or anim instead.

seriously! back to coding guys!
added on the 2022-12-02 00:58:08 by Laffik Laffik
Quote:
mongolian singing played back of an audio track (not a module)

Yes, we used a streamed soundtrack (not mp3, but close enough for this conversation) in this demo. I'm not sure what this would have to do with anything other than your fetishization of mods.
As for the coding aspect of the soundtrack: I didn't code the streaming music player used here, nor would I have coded a mod player if we had used a module. :)

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clouds and flying cubes played back of animation, not a computed in real time. (Amiga can not calculate this many operations per second and everything is strongly limited, so... clouds? beaucoup of transparency cubes? really?)


Just because you don't understand something it doesn't mean that it's an animation. :)

The "clouds" are made from several (I think it was six) layers of blended grid expanders / grid interpolators (the thing that most of those late-90's tunnels were done with).
The hard part here (for me, at least) was finding a texture that worked well, parametrizing the movement & distortion so that it looked "like smoke", and then making it all run fast enough.
Part of that last bit was rendering the 6 layers at lower resolution and then doing some upscaling tricks to make it look slightly better than plain nearest-neighbour 2x2.

I'm assuming the "flying cubes" you mention is the next part (the one after "we are spaceballs..."). This is an old trick, used in tons of late-90s PC demos and a few Amiga demos from the same era.
Simply render some 3d objects to a few offscreen buffers and then use those buffers to draw scaled 2D "software sprites / point sprites / billboards / <find your own terminology>".

"Back to school", indeed.
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Just because you don't understand something it doesn't mean that it's an animation. :)

You're an animation!!
added on the 2022-12-02 09:01:30 by britelite britelite
I was about to say that this is one of the better Amiga 060 demos from recent years until I realized it’s >11 years old. Ouch. Still feels fresh though.
rulez added on the 2022-12-02 09:57:10 by malmix malmix
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Naaay... clearly this "demo" - mongolian singing played back of an audio track (not a module), clouds and flying cubes played back of animation, not a computed in real time. (Amiga can not calculate this many operations per second and everything is strongly limited, so... clouds? beaucoup of transparency cubes? really?)

is this a photon alt-account
added on the 2022-12-02 10:34:44 by Gargaj Gargaj
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soon we gonna get soapbulbs generated by curving the time-space, or same as usual, single slice of chewing gum produced at expense of blowing up the whole universe


I hope this is an idea for some killer demo. That promised demo for Revision 2023 mentioned in other Laffik's comments. Good luck with that.
added on the 2022-12-02 12:29:24 by ham ham
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That promised demo for Revision 2023 mentioned in other Laffik's comments. Good luck with that.


Good! Demo is already ready and buzzing! And believe me, even on superfast emulation on PC "simple" phong routine is barely doing 25 FPS. That gives, or rather proves what I had already - the sense of Amiga capabilities. This sense honks that I am cheated with "Norwegian Kindnes" and whatever it is, it's not a realtime.

Even according to official Amiga Source Development Kit and all hardware guides, there's no hardware implementation of grid expanders/grid interpolators, so It would have been coded and performed by processor on Chip memory and planar playfields - no god damn way it can be done without prerenders.

Sure I don't know everything and if you really made it you can take my rant as a huuuge compliment. That would be told if I believed in what I see.

Maliciously, Revision 2023 will be organized in Germany and so far I haven't heard anything about possibility of contributing remote entries. Is it because some folks want to mute my handmade coding? Or even to pull me into Germany zone, where still some risk of physical confrontation residues... aaaay!?
added on the 2022-12-02 15:17:37 by Laffik Laffik
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That would be told if I believed in what I see.

I believe I see an idiot.
added on the 2022-12-02 15:43:37 by gloom gloom
Came for the nice demo, stayed for the moronic comments
rulez added on the 2022-12-02 15:53:44 by break break
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<find your own terminology>


I think you mean "impostors". :)

What else can I say - Really nice soundtrack and actual effects. Here's a thumb.
rulez added on the 2022-12-02 16:07:47 by kb_ kb_
I come out of comment hiatus to agree with break and kb. The Dunning-Krueger is strong here.
rulez added on the 2022-12-02 16:46:42 by Preacher Preacher
effect of Hurvitz-Cramer-Bonk-Banks says that number of pixels drawn in a second is limited. strongly limited. so limited that none of you know how limited it is. or assumes that noone else knows.
added on the 2022-12-02 17:35:00 by Laffik Laffik
quite ok
rulez added on the 2022-12-02 18:09:48 by Blast! Blast!
i want to make such a 'video demo'
rulez added on the 2022-12-02 18:20:39 by netro netro
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so limited that none of you know how limited it is.
:D
added on the 2022-12-03 00:41:47 by ferris ferris
I think is on to us, we got away with doing animations for 25+ years now... Jokes aside, this is one of my favorite Spaceballs production
rulez added on the 2022-12-03 01:52:14 by Todi Todi
Crazy, sexy, cool demo! No code?! Truth - that's a real magic! xD
rulez added on the 2022-12-03 11:08:57 by sachy sachy
Very kind!
"We are spaceballs you are not" XD
Loved the middle scene with the... bubbles?
added on the 2022-12-03 12:28:20 by revival revival
super
rulez added on the 2022-12-04 09:24:53 by fyrex fyrex

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