The Black Lotus - Starstruck - Amiga Demo (AGA)

Name: The Black Lotus - Starstruck - Amiga Demo (AGA)
Uploaded: 2013-01-06T20:40:17Z
Duration: 6 min 18 s
Channel: RetroDemoScene
Description: "Starstruck" is a 2006 demoscene demo by The Black Lotus for the Amiga's AGA chipset, shown here as a video capture. It is real-time graphics and music from 1990s-era hardware. HN people share it as a favorite example of what the Amiga demoscene can do, and as proof that the scene is still making work like this.

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"Starstruck" is a 2006 demoscene demo by The Black Lotus for the Amiga's AGA chipset, shown here as a video capture. It is real-time graphics and music from 1990s-era hardware.

HN people share it as a favorite example of what the Amiga demoscene can do, and as proof that the scene is still making work like this.

“Some of my favorite demoscene demos were Amiga ones”

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@dejobaan2025 · in “The demo scene is dying, but that's alright”

I was just walking down demoscene memory lane yesterday. Some of my favorite demoscene demos were Amiga ones (playlist: ▶ this video), which lead me to "The Greatest Video Game Tech Demo Ever," Shadow the Beast: link That video's great because it breaks down how Psygnosis managed to get 12 layers of parallax scrolling at 50fps and 128 colors on-screen. I never really loved the game as much as (say) Blood Money, but it was an awesome accomplishment in the same way demoscene demos were!

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@29athrowaway2020 · in “Little Things That Made Amiga Great”

The Amiga has a very impressive demoscene... Two Amiga demos that I like from The Black Lotus (TBL): - Eon (2019): link (4:16 is my favorite part) - Starstruck (2006): ▶ this video

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@based22016 · in “The Black Lotus – Starstruck – Amiga Demo (AGA)”

Submitted the video to Hacker News.

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@Mithaldu2016 · in “The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]”

I've owned one, though i never programmed for it. But from what i know, i guess the answer is that the amiga is very close to a modern computer, in that it has specialized chips for graphics and sound (Denise and Paula), making many tasks quite easy, but is still weak enough to force most programs to be relatively simple. At the same time there's also still a very active competitive amiga programming community², making things like these: link -- link -- ▶ this video -- link -- link ² link

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