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Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps) on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2024.

Spaceballs' 9 Fingers, an Amiga demoscene demo released at The Party in 1993, recaptured here in 50fps HD. It is the follow-up to their demo State of the Art.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as a mind-blowing example of 1990s demoscene technique on Amiga hardware.

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“both really cool scene demos”
— sunpazed, Mar 2024, in “Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

sunpazedMar 2024Recommends

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] ▶ this video These easily run on an Amiga 500 ES from the 80s, and are stored on a single floppy disk.

in “Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago” · View on HN

jugAug 2021Cites it

Danko - Complications [link] Purple Motion of Future Crew - Unreal 2 [link] (composed by a 16 yo) Making of Second Reality with said Future Crew: [link] 9 fingers - Spaceballs: ▶ this video And making of: [link] Kefrens - Desert Dreams: [link]

in “Amiga Music Preservation” · View on HN

kstenerudApr 2021Cites it

Reminds me of the techniques Spaceballs used to make the mind blowing "9 fingers" demo for Amiga in 1993. [link] ▶ this video

in “Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Demoscene & retrocomputingamigademoscenespaceballsretro computing1993