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Lets not forget the first Newtek demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwUQIvhHzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwUQIvhHzw Such a classic. I remember playi

by krunck 3y ago

Lets not forget the first Newtek demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwUQIvhHzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwUQIvhHzw Such a classic. I remember playing this as a kid over and over just because I loved the music. I had no idea that it was "Paranoimia" by Art of Noise.

stuff4ben 3y ago
God I watched all these too as a kid. Had some of the videos on tape and I remembered watching them all the time. Kiki Stockhammer!!! My first grownup crush (I was a teen).
- krunck 3y ago
  Good, so I'm not the only one.
dean2432 3y ago
awesome, i remember some of those HAM images. oh, when i read paranoimia this is the tune i think of XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwgZ7wGus0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwgZ7wGus0
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mrandish 3y ago
Just to expand, that's called NewTek Demo Reel #1 created to promote NewTek's pre-Toaster products Digi-View and Digi-Paint for the Amiga. It fit entirely on two Amiga floppy disks and would play back in real-time and loop at the end. It was sent out for free to Amiga dealers in color packaging and became the demo many dealers would just leave running on their floor model. The decompression and simultaneous playback of multiple motion video clips and synced audio toward the end of the demo was extraordinary for the time (~1986). It was all custom coded demo-ware in 68k assembly language pushing the Amiga custom chips right down to the metal as there were no authoring tools to create this sort of thing. I remember being shocked when I first saw it playback on an Amiga in real-time. Initially I thought there must be a VCR hidden under the table. Because it was distributed by Commodore Europe to all European dealers, Demo Reel #1 clearly influenced the evolution of the still-nascent DemoScene and it's been called "The mother of all demoscene demos." NewTek was figuring out amazing stuff right on the bleeding edge of possibility.

by krunck 3y ago

stuff4ben 3y ago

God I watched all these too as a kid. Had some of the videos on tape and I remembered watching them all the time. Kiki Stockhammer!!! My first grownup crush (I was a teen).

krunck 3y ago
Good, so I'm not the only one.

dean2432 3y ago

awesome, i remember some of those HAM images. oh, when i read paranoimia this is the tune i think of XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwgZ7wGus0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwgZ7wGus0

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mrandish 3y ago

Just to expand, that's called NewTek Demo Reel #1 created to promote NewTek's pre-Toaster products Digi-View and Digi-Paint for the Amiga. It fit entirely on two Amiga floppy disks and would play back in real-time and loop at the end. It was sent out for free to Amiga dealers in color packaging and became the demo many dealers would just leave running on their floor model. The decompression and simultaneous playback of multiple motion video clips and synced audio toward the end of the demo was extraordinary for the time (~1986). It was all custom coded demo-ware in 68k assembly language pushing the Amiga custom chips right down to the metal as there were no authoring tools to create this sort of thing. I remember being shocked when I first saw it playback on an Amiga in real-time. Initially I thought there must be a VCR hidden under the table. Because it was distributed by Commodore Europe to all European dealers, Demo Reel #1 clearly influenced the evolution of the still-nascent DemoScene and it's been called "The mother of all demoscene demos." NewTek was figuring out amazing stuff right on the bleeding edge of possibility.