ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2019 Entry 4th July 2019: Amiga Demo Scene - Welcome to the Party Amiga Demo Scene - Welcome to the Party In a recent blog I may have been a little cruel when I suggested that a demo party probably consisted of a few guys meeting in a lounge somewhere watching home made demo disks. Obviously that was not the case and here is an image from the Equinox site with link below showing one such party meet. Also I include some links to an event featured on YouTube. OK record set straight, and trust me I have no idea what a party was like having not been involved in any in the day. For me music mix videos were always something I created on a video player and or camera and I have never been tempted to use the Amiga to achieve the same thing. For one my video mixes lasted for three hours and included clips from best loved comedy. I digress. And so to the purpose of today's blog. My aim here is to show just what I do when I create an Amiga demo disk for evaluation. Basically I grab one of my numerous demo CDs that I have. I then copy the dms or adf file and de-crunch the disk. I then take the disk from the A4000 and place it in the adjacent Amiga 500. Once I have recorded the content and given the disk a reference I then ADF the disk and place in the demo vault. I show the process below and include two demo videos for reference. Visit the Equinox site for details The Party Plus these YouTube links ...Party Video 1| Party Video 2| Party Video 3| Party Video 4 V I D E O S Lethal Exit by Digital and Monoxide by Vanish Amiga Demo Scene - Welcome to the Party First I insert the CD into the A4000d and check over the contents. Show all files reveals all demo files. Next into DOpus to copy over a demo file. The file is transferred to RAM. I then make sure I have ADF crunched the contents of the current DD disk. I then place the ADF file in the vault. ADF processes take about 40 seconds. OK time to de-crunch the DMS file. For this I use the SHELL. To use DMS you need the tool in 'C'. Checks the content of the disk. I then transfer operations over to the Amiga 500 and boot into the disk. I discover the disk is not a demo. The disk contains a text based game. So I repeat the process with another file. This time we have a disk full of demo titles and logo artwork. Third time lucky and a cracking demo. Monoxide by Vanish. This is a selection of some of my CDs. And this is the one I am working thro at this moment. PDSoft library. There are 1000 demo files on this CD. The demo featured is included above along with another that I created. Takes 40 seconds.

If you can only see this CONTENT window
then click the image above for the full site

Last updated 4th July 2019

Chandraise Kingdom

Keep the Faith
scuzzscink 2019