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Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

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The classic 1992 Amiga demo 'State of the Art' by Spaceballs showcases real-time vector graphics and animation on limited hardware.

The Ultimate Amiga demo to showcase it's abilities, now in HD 50 fps! (See Below) Released at The Party 1992... Credits: Code: Lone Starr, Major Asshole Music: Travolta Graphics: Tmb Design *As Youtube just introduced the new frame rates for playback, i have recaptured this classic Amiga demo in native Pal 50fps. Please watch in HD to enable 50fps on a browser that supports it (Chrome is your best bet at the time of upload)* Related Releases: -=-=-R=-=-D=-=-S-=-=- Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps) youtu.be/n4M7e79XTYk Making of 9 Fingers: youtube.com/watch?v=B6fqOJjubVk -=-=-R=-=-D=-=-S-=-=-

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What people say. Highly recommended as a legendary example of what could be achieved on the Amiga 500 hardware within a single floppy disk.

sunpazedon Hacker News • Recommends

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: link to this video link These easily run on an Amiga 500 ES from the 80s, and are stored on a single floppy disk.
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vardumpon Hacker News • Mentions

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. link to this video A year later same group released "9 Fingers", also running on Amiga 500. link
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vardumpon Hacker News • Mentions

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: link to this video
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scandinaveganon Hacker News • Mentions

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 DN1) 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…
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