Saw this clip and decided to say hello to everyone! Thanks for all the nice comments on the music :-) //Firefox

@piwe74

7 жыл бұрын

one of the best tracks on amiga!

@RetroDemoScene

7 жыл бұрын

The music you done for this and other releases is legend. Thank you Jimmy/Firefox. Best regards

@TontimerWeber

7 жыл бұрын

legend

@Battlemover44

7 жыл бұрын

Amazing track my friend, pure legend...

@kierankelly1629

7 жыл бұрын

I loved this so much as a Kid ! the Music was amazing... Now I realise its very much an Italo vibe, certainly the underpinning groove of the track

Casual reminder that the Amiga was released in 1985. It cannot be stressed enough just how outstanding this machine was for its time.

@martinandersson9712

Жыл бұрын

Just like ZX Spectrum back in the day! Shame Commodore went down! Remarkable piece of hardWARES!, C64, Amiga

The Amiga is the only machine I felt had a personality'. I remember seeing these demos in the 90s, and nothing comes close to that feeling

@waperboy

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Miss it badly.

@bird6691

3 жыл бұрын

Game music died after the amiga. CD audio was the worst thing to happen.

@STriderFIN77

3 жыл бұрын

@@bird6691 cd audio from Command&concuer with 1x cdrom, aergh .. Space Debris - Captain

@bird6691

3 жыл бұрын

@@STriderFIN77 there are some exceptions and most of them are early. People gave up being creative and got lazy once CD Audio hit for the most part. These days game music is just background noise, sad.

@STriderFIN77

3 жыл бұрын

@@bird6691 i am lucky i have been in and near Finnish Commodore(*all) machinaes and Demoscene... meaning that i have had possibility to enjoy demos audios, and even people that made those

25 years after and still rocks

@retrogamefan8682

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you. Amiga rules !!!

@Ailgadem

2 жыл бұрын

30 now

@martinandersson9712

Жыл бұрын

*TIMELESS*

4:12 - One of the best riffs in Amiga demo history.

@luisgm7664

Жыл бұрын

ThE BeST EveR!!!

It's 2023 and this demo still rocks

@1d3v

10 ай бұрын

My stepdad did the drums for this:)

@Zejoant

10 ай бұрын

Based

@Fnord23Gnosis

2 күн бұрын

There are remixes. Have a look for them. Just as good in their own way.

Imagine, what features and technical advantages a new computer should have to be so much ahead of this age as the Amiga was ahead of its time. Pre emptive multitasking, 4 channel hi-fi stereo sound, palette size of 4096 colours, 3.5 “ fdd with 880kb capacity, risc graphical co processors (Blitter and copper, MC68000 cpu, 512 kbytes of Ram, etc... just 3 years after the release of C64... i can still remember the feeling when I first saw the A500 in 1986. It was a fucking spaceship. No doubt, Jay Miner was the biggest genius in computer industry.

@RetroDemoScene

4 жыл бұрын

You have pretty much said it all. We who have always loved the Amiga have seen and knew this from day one, and why it still beloved to this day. The demoscene helped show the true Amiga capabilities. I can still remember seeing this demo for the first time in '91 and was left in amazement in what i was seeing and hearing. This is now 2020 as i type, and i still get that rush as i fire this up and hear Paula kicking in that killer tune and the visuals begins. Only Amiga!

@johanaberg621

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. The moment I saw a screen shot of Defender of the Crown I was hooked. Just had to get an Amiga and sold my C64 to fund it. I soon got bored with the game though and started messing with the Copper and Blitter. Amazing stuff for the time.

The music sounds like Italo disco, and I love it

@roygalaasen

4 жыл бұрын

I see what you mean. I never thought about that before. Someone else linked to some other music on this video. Turns out it totally was Italo. Very similar to Laser Dance. Oh sorry youtube is recommending old videos again

@smartyyone2000

3 жыл бұрын

True... Italian disco and Amiga... That's what makes you feel something

Its 2018 currently. This demo came out in 1991. Thats 27 years ago. 27 years before 1991 is 1964. Time is a crazy concept.

@s2ms10ik5

3 жыл бұрын

sometimes i feel like 90's were supposed to be the "present" and we are living in the future

@Per0lus

2 жыл бұрын

This demo is now as old, as how long they go back in time in Back to the Future.

@johanaberg621

2 жыл бұрын

And all of us who were active in the demo scene at the time are now around 50 years old. Going back 50 years in time from the early 1970s when we were born and we arrive in the early 1920s. Ouch!

@JrundPedersen

2 жыл бұрын

@S Hol And now its 2021. And 30 years since the demo came out. Congrats, I guess? Tempus fugit. Still a banging tune and great demo. Well, heres to 30 more.

Back when people did this for the love and the art. Better days... truly.

@d0dge947

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and they did it to one-up each other, believe me. We're talking teenage boys ;) There's as much competitive drive as there's artistic motivation behind this.

@Frantzen79

4 жыл бұрын

@@d0dge947 I know about the competition :) But they also knew what they were doing and didn't do it for big money or companies telling them how to. And the music was just brilliant thinking about what they made it with.

I plugged my Amiga into an Akai stereo system and cranked this up back in the 90s. Good times.

@Pluginz

3 жыл бұрын

Like i used to? Hehe i still have my stereo and the tapes i recorded these demos onto :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKCarseLh5bZh6Q.html

@1MrCrusherX

2 жыл бұрын

Akai, that's a blast from the past. I used to have an Akai amp wired up to some monster Wharfdale speakers. Used to get the neighbours playing hell with me when I had the music cranked up.

One of the best demotracks ever made.

This is my youth (in 1991 i was 16 years old :) Still worked at C64 but waiting for Amiga 500. 1992 meant my own Amiga :) and Phenomena demo with great, amazing music. I love this nostalgy time :) Commodore 64 and Amiga let me knew magical world of composing music and be the part of music family :) Today, tomorrow and always writing the music I recall those times. Best regards for all Commodore Funs and music composers

The music is incredible and one of my favourite demos of all time on my favourite computer of all time.

@mattiasjansson683

10 ай бұрын

Yeah the music tune is one of the best ever produced. I spend all my time in to the amiga world. Due to my brother and his friends ran a huge bbs with 4 nodes haha .

This tune is one of my all-time faves on the Amiga. A timeless classic.

Amazing memories from my childhood ❤️ R.W.O/Kefrens

@RetroDemoScene

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for creating great memories with your awesome artwork.

This tune has gotta be one of the top 10 on the Amiga.

Legendary demo... As a programmer, Amiga was my favourite system. And my friends had PC's in the late 80's but they came to me when they wanted to see/play some really great games on a computer.

@kungfreddie

Жыл бұрын

The copper made gfx programming fun and easy!

This is the demo that stands out for me back in the day. It was iconic. I still have my 500 with the 1084S monitor and this demo still sounds and looks amazing on that

This is a stone cold classic amiga demo. One of my faves along with Global Trash and Desert Dreams. It's worth knowing that if you're listening with headphones and are unfamiliar with amiga sound the audio channels are mixed in this video, and for your own benefit; I remember I had a tape of amiga tunes I'd listen to on my knock-off walkman and, by god, the hard left/right audio hurt the ears after a while.

First demo I saw on Amiga. After that Amiga was my no.1 and its still today.

i tell you once more time. this is the best demo scene music!

The spheres had me in awe, then the raytracing overwhelmed me. Fantastic.

Best demo music ever! Can't believe it's 30 years old now. Now I feel old lol

@floodd3527

3 жыл бұрын

Old is Gold :-)

to this day, this is one of the most memorable demos i ever experienced back in the day. while i'm grateful this is here, i can't stress enough how much better the experience is to see it playing on a live amiga on an actual CRT monitor.. the stars feel so much more alive and everything is just more ALIVE! however this is a very well done capture and can't imagine it looking any truer to form on an LCD monitor.

28 years and still fu%#up my mind!! Amiga 4 Ever!

Best Amiga demo ever. When I saw it, 30 years ago, I couldn't believe how amazing was, specially the first cube and the music...

Outstanding music!! 👍👍👍 A breath of fresh air, away from all of today's crap they have out there now!! How far we have fallen from the great music we once use to have everywhere!! 😭

It's normal to own a console nothing special these days, but owning an Amiga back in the day was like having a computer from the future that was multiple generations ahead from the competition in the home market and indeed it was, Real sound ,stereo ,midi ,samples, 16 bit supergraphics, friends and family were amazed they all said it looks like a cartoon with real sounds, the only thing most people knew were some monochrome pc graphics or atari so imagine their awe when they saw a glimps of the future, That was a special time of technical marvels with computers that had character and each game was completely different, thanks to all those super programmers that pulled it out of this machine it was a kind of fun that is lost today no matter how good future graphics will be we all know how they will gonna look just improvements towards photo realism with the same fps and sports games I prefer fun indie games that are different and reminds me of that special era...

I love how Azatoth’s ray tracer had features that we only see in modern game engines and graphics libraries for the past 20 years (like real-time phong shading & infinite lights) on the Amiga. THE AMIGA.

It's like nostalgia overload watching these. I forgot how much these demos meant to me back then.

It was this amazing demo that blew me away and I found myself watching more demos than game playing on my Amiga.

A milestone of the golden era of the Amiga 500 - one of my all time favorites demos.

1991 - AMIGA the BEST from the BEST!!!

Have been watching some demos this evening, this is the one that I was looking for. Absolute masterpiece! Blessings to all involved. This is beautiful.

Still my favourite Amiga demo, love the trip to mars when the music slows / changes 😍😎🥰

I remember seeing an early draft of this demo that I got from Tip. It had a picture of a tiger as loading image and a different type face for the early credits. Same amazing tune though. What doesn't come thru in the KZread-video is the loading routine. If my memory doesn't fail me I belive the demo used the technique of just reading tracks from one side of the disk at the time in order to create a faster tic-tic-tic sound from the disk reader head as the demo was loading. One of my absolute favorite demos after Mental Hangover and Hardwired (shame about the last part of the demo though, really think that could have been left out).

@RetroDemoScene

5 жыл бұрын

Great insight Johan, thank you. One of my favs also and one of my first demos i had seen on Amiga. What a welcome! Along what you mentioned are up there also, along with the mighty Desert Dream

@DeeperSoundz

4 жыл бұрын

The music was made during the Anarchy Party where the demo was released. I was there and spent a lot of time in the room with the Phenomena guys, and witnessed the creation of the music as it happened :) The early draft must have had different music

@johanaberg621

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeeperSoundz I might not remember correctly but I have a distinct memory of visiting Tip in his apartment in Växjö and hearing an early version of the music. That trumpet is hard to forget. So I think the main parts of the tune were in place when I got the draft demo. But I also know that Tip and Firefox spent much time synchronising the tune to the events in the demo, especially the Trip to Mars part and that could very well have happened during the party. :)

Always loved the music in this demo - classic.

still love the music.

let the demo begin with a weird cube

after almost 30yrs, still one of my favorite demos.

30 years and still in my head 🤩❤

I still have 3 amiga500s and a commodore 64c too...love it.

Simply an Amiga masterpiece!

Love this ! Nostalgia!! And the music rocks!

This song could top the charts. So good loved it then love it now. Need to go listen to Danko music now

i wanna go back to the 1800s at a worlds fair and blow everyone's minds with this. like the columbian exposition

Talkin’ about bringing back memories !!! This stuff was jaw dropping at the time. And considering the time this was made it still is !

Yes!! This is the demo. Most favorite on Amiga from when I was at school! Just stunning in every way. Very 80s! The best.

I remember getting this demo disk at Earls Court Amiga Show

I like music of Amiga Demo I hearing daily with my car :)

@maxsmarts8210

6 жыл бұрын

Me too dude!!! incredible tunes !!!

"For what specific reason(s) do you think that you are remembered ? Because i made the good and mega arrogant demo Enigma which dropped down like a bomb in the amiga-scene culture." -Azatoth

so much good memories! it was THE DEMO with THE MUSIC!

I had this demo on my A2000 back in the early '90s, and I still have the same A2000 with GVP GeForce 68030/68882 and OpalVision and all my 100s of disks from 30 years ago although the Amiga is currently life-less but seeing this incredible demo for its time and that cracking soundtrack has made me want to blow the cobwebs of the old girl and get her to fire up again for one last "hoorah".

Thanks for sharing, I still have my original disc for this on the A500 - I remember it blew my mind way back in the early 1990s - I used to play it over and over... every note of the music still in my head.

2022 and still rocks

Wow! This is a tune to listen to. I feel the 80´s feel of possibilities and the whole world is open and ready for you.

the music in this demo always was world class! i hope the guy went on to become a successful musician.

Been there,. done that, Denmark and Germany Copy party in the 90's 👍 When Dreamhack wasn't even an idea!

Amazing to think the Amiga only had 4 channels of sound. Makes the song even more impressive.

This is my first watched Amiga Demo. When I watched it first and I was shocked. Years passed away, today I watched again and I really excited again :) Thank you so much.

One of the best demo ever ! I remember when it was released, I was blown away...and I still am even after all these years !

Just doesn't get old, does it? Amiga was so far ahead of it's time, it's criminal that Commodore-Amiga management totally dropped the ball :(

this bringsd to mind alot of those early 3d cgi tech demos from the 70s and 80s

This was the first floppy I've ever inserted into my Amiga 500...Epic!

Man this song is STILL epic! I remember watching this demo over and over and over again on the Amiga back in the days

one of the ground breaking demos at the time of release, and awesome music.... happy days :)

we was so amazed with raytraced spehere over the mandelbrot fractal, no wonder I ended in tv graphics and design later ... thank you for this amazing demo!

30 years and still moves me.

i love the music in this demo. would love this as a ringtone.

Even taking my own songs into account, The Enigma song is probably the best Amiga song ever made. :-) I wish I was back in the 90's again !

@waperboy

5 жыл бұрын

Goes to show the importance of tweaking the details, like the ADSR of the bass line to give it that bouncy feel

Nice work. I just came back to the scene Revision 2017 after a 16 year hiatus. Nice music Jimmy!

That wireframe appearing as a texture on another model is so impressive!

3:10 haven't heard that song in decades, yet it was somewhere in my memory

Great demo, even now. I love, how freaking big technology leaps were made back then, year after year. This demo in 1991, Unreal in 1992, Second Reality in 1993, Final Reality in 1997, 3DMark 99, 3DMark2001 SE. Just 10 years, and so much have been improved. I'm aware that hardware progress haven't slow down but at this point we've gained level of realism in games so high, that it's harder and harder to see difference. Like, you know, in 2023 games from 2017 will still kick ass, but when you compare game from 1991 with game from 1997 there's nothing to talk about. Impressive period of time it was.

@jimmy I remember watching this demo a dew days after it was released and I still get the goosebumps from the music and the awesomeness of the coding! Wow... Just realised that it's celebrating its 30th birthday this year...

I was hyped watching this back then and I'm still hyped watching it now!

3:07 is the goose bump part .... love the atomosphere!

Simply the best Amiga demo......ever!

I can't imagine the sense of accomplishment the creators must have felt at the time. Nowadays it feels like setting up your dev environment is the most tedious part of development. Hats off to the shoulders of the giants I'm standing on.

First demo on Amiga I ever saw and it was part of first 10 Disks for my Amiga 500! Especially music is great

My favourite Amiga demo. Loved the trip to mars and the music throughout. Mad talent n skills, respect \o/

one of my favorite amiga demos, love it running on my real amigas!

Still my all time favourite Miggy demo, with possibly Jesus On Es or the Northstar/ Fairlight mega demos a close 2nd.

Very good Amiga music. I had this demo and watched it on my Amiga in the 90s. Still having the disk. :)

Personal favorite of mine too. The music blew my mind and I watched it A LOT.

love the music, love the demo. Thanks!

Still remember that weekend in Nyköping at the Anarchy party (I beleive) when this was released. Great times.

Just fabulous ! Great job dudes

At the time this was a wow demo, esp the trip to mars and the tune, not sure how ppl can downvote!

Simply the best demo for the AMIGA 500! I remember the time I saw it ....1991! dam! I´m getting old! :) ->2019!

42 polygons on screen at the same time! I remember thinking how incredible this was. Imagine going back to 1991 with a raspberry pi and 1080p monitor.

@harrisonhall1139

3 жыл бұрын

How was it when the SNES got the "Super-fx"? That thing could display 1000+ polygons a second!

@JB_inks

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrisonhall1139 the SNES had such a weedy CPU, the Super FX chip was like magic. It's a pity it didn't come with one by default

Still rockin' 32y later ❤

This is beyond awesomeness! ❤️

this still sounds great on my Cerwin Vegas' the same ones that were on my amiga2000 when this was released! Amiga lives forever!

Awesome even today!!! Love Amiga!

I switched from MSX2 tot Amiga somewhere around 1992. What a time :)

I had a .MOD of this for decades, but never knew where it came from!

This hits hard. It's just awesome.

just got an 600 because of the demos. this tune is awesomely upliftin