First Amiga Demo Creator Could 1987

2023-05-06 15:48:07

This month (Could 2023) marks the thirty sixth anniversary since we launched the primary Amiga Demo-Creator in Could 1987. At the moment, we had no thought it might be utilized by fairly a number of teams to kick-start their Amiga demo-game, together with the legendary Fairlight.

Trying again now, it seems like an eternity in the past and virtually unreal that we created one thing, shipped on floppy-disks to our Amiga Demo-Scene buddies, and solely discovering out a long time later that it was really utilized by teams on the time.

The Supremacy Demo Creator was launched
again in Could 1987, again after we had been nonetheless within the early days of the Amiga
Demo Scene. Our resolution allowed Amiga customers to create demos/intros by
supplying:

picture
sampled sound
scrolling textual content (displayed w/built-in “hand-coded” font)

We
had simply completed our first Amiga demo, after we got down to construct an
Amiga Demo Creator. The Meeting coding was carried out over a interval of about
2 weeks. I additionally coded the font “by hand” inside the applying utilizing
the Assembler editor. There was no generally out there Web for us again then, so distribution was typically carried out on floppies by way of common put up mail.

Facet observe:
“The Supremacy” group identify was chosen as a result of I had simply learn “The Bourne Supremacy” (Robert Ludlum, 1986).