Love to listen to this from time to time. Good memories, thx for uploading. :)

Bestest ever

I remember this demo!

@clafey

5 жыл бұрын

I remember the setting where I watched it the first time perfectly. Curious how some things are stuck on you.

@bachaplegic

5 жыл бұрын

I remember coming home from the Amiga Format Show at Earls court and this was one of the demos I got from there along with Elite Frontier

@clafey

5 жыл бұрын

What a game Elite Frontier was... Really felt like the possibilities were endless!

Animated raytraced scenes combined with fractal surfaces were popular in 1991 ;D. Another example would be from "Enigma" by Phenomena released the same year :).

@clafey

2 ай бұрын

Probably has to do with the fact that rays and fractals were otherwise very rare in games. I can tell you I stood amazed watching this back in the day.

@tomahzo

2 ай бұрын

@@clafey Oh, for sure! Back then the demo scene elite was light years ahead of what you would see in games. I thought it looked pretty amazing too :). Funny to think that we actually have real-time path tracing nowadays, though, so no need for animations :).

WOOW! That's killer music, almost in the league of Blaizer / TSL !! (did Pinball Dreams too, so you have an idea about the level that Peter is about to reach!)

I made an attempt to play the first part of the tune on my piano - Piano in the dark - Alpha Omega (Garbage collection) - hope it doesn't ruin the experience :-) cheers, Peter

@clafey

8 жыл бұрын

Late night listening to Nectarine, Garbage collection comes on, check the comments, see your Piano rendition, watch it, get emotional, comment on it, come and check my Alpha & Omega video, , a two year old comment approval request from none other than you... Sorry Peter - all sorted out now!

@psalomo

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks again :-)

If I could take 5 demos with me to my grave, this would be one of them.

flashback ! pmc was good shit, i knew some members

This is catchy, I listen to it from time to time. How much space did this take up?

@clafey

2 жыл бұрын

The song is called Garbage Collection and the MOD file for it is 98678 bytes.

@villevirtanen00

2 жыл бұрын

​@@clafey Thanks! There should be more focus by developers in these days on saving resources both short- and long term tbh.

Anyone have the PMC demo with the module named Riff Raff in it ?

Wait - they had ray tracing in 1991?

@tomahzo

2 ай бұрын

Animated. That is, not real-time. Although, TBL released the demo "Rift" in 2014 where they showed off real-time pathtracing (rendering a 3D fractal landscape) on a 060 Amiga 1200 running at... what... 10 fps? See: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iWmTsK-xh5i7lqg.html (at 1:41) . So it's possible to do stuff like that. Just not on an Amiga 500 back in 1991 ;D.

The 3D intro was obviously inspired by the 1989 CNN logo animation: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qY18zMaig9Oof7Q.html