Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as a mind-blowing example of 1990s demoscene technique on Amiga hardware.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sunpazed · 2024-03 · on “Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago”
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.
Cites kstenerud · 2021-04 · on “Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images”
Reminds me of the techniques Spaceballs used to make the mind blowing "9 fingers" demo for Amiga in 1993. [LINK] [this video]
Cites jug · 2021-08 · on “Amiga Music Preservation”
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]