An important thing about the Amiga demo scene was that those constraints were also the edge of what was possible in home computing. So they were approached in a

An important thing about the Amiga demo scene was that those constraints were also the edge of what was possible in home computing. So they were approached in a different spirit from say, someone writing a 64k demo on a pc with 8gigs of ram, or running demo effects in the browser. When I watched demos in the Amiga days it was because I wanted to see something new that had never been done on a computer before. Seeing a great demo effect was like discovering a new superpower in your computer; it opened up new possibilities. Being on the limit of what is believed to be possible is, I suppose, formally the same as being within a constraint, but the spirit is completely different. It was about pushing back boundaries. Over the edge of that boundary, there was nothing, just mythical SGI workstations somewhere in the far distance :)