1 HN user recommended this demo1 month2021–2024score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN cites it as a mind-blowing example of 1990s demoscene technique on Amiga hardware.
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.
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.
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]
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