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Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

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1 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2024
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About this video

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.

Why it appears in the archive

HN cites it as a mind-blowing example of 1990s demoscene technique on Amiga hardware.

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sunpazed · 2024-03 · rec

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] [VIDEO] These easily run on an Amiga 500 ES from the 80s, and are stored on a single floppy disk.

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kstenerud · 2021-04 · reference

Reminds me of the techniques Spaceballs used to make the mind blowing "9 fingers" demo for Amiga in 1993. [LINK] [VIDEO]

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jug · 2021-08 · reference

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: [VIDEO] And making of: [LINK] Kefrens - Desert Dreams: [LINK]

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