Amiga Demo Scene History
This month (May 2024) marks the 37th anniversary since we released the first Amiga Demo-Creator in May 1987. At that time, we had no idea it would be used by quite a few groups to kick-start their Amiga demo-game, including the legendary Fairlight.
Looking back now, it feels like an eternity ago and almost unreal that we created something, shipped on floppy-disks to our Amiga Demo-Scene friends, and only finding out decades later that it was actually used by groups at the time.
The Supremacy Demo Creator was released
back in May 1987, back when we were still in the early days of the Amiga
Demo Scene. Our solution allowed Amiga users to create demos/intros by
supplying:
- image
- sampled sound
- scrolling text (displayed w/built-in "hand-coded" font)
We
had just finished our first Amiga demo, when we set out to build an
Amiga Demo Creator. The Assembly coding was done over a period of about
2 weeks. I also coded the font "by hand" inside the application using
the Assembler editor. There was no commonly available Internet for us back then, so distribution was often done on floppies via regular post mail.
Side note:
"The Supremacy" group name was chosen because I had just read "The Bourne Supremacy" (Robert Ludlum, 1986).
Here are some groups that used our application to produce their first Amiga demos:
Fairlight
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=24699
Triad
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=14564
Errorsoft
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=17265
Finnish Amiga Duo
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=66482
Risky Business Boys
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=78843
Thx1138
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=94128
Amiga Amigos
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=94133
Dr. Jeckle
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=94489
The Amiga Force
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=91033
As 6502
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=23671
Alpe Cracking Duo
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=97771
Crack Band Crew
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=98970
Delta Force
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=97572
Chandysoft
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=97573
Italian Bad Boys
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=82926
Highlight Crew
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=102172
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