Once my big hobby (and still my secret love affair)
Weiterführende Links zu meinem Kommentar “Demoszene – Leuchtende Subkultur” in der Ausgabe 7/8 2025 der Zeitung “Politik & Kultur” des Deutschen Kulturrates. Die Ausgabe setzte einen Schwerpunkt auf Retrocomputing und Demoszene. Mein Beitrag kann im Volltext im kostenlosen PDF-Download (S. 25) gelesen werden. Am 30. Juni 2025 wird der Schwerpunkt im Computerspielemuseum in Berlin in…
I have been invited to write a chapter on my demoscene hobby, which resulted in a 12-page spread with many pictures and anecdotes. This post contains my copy of the text before final layout. It tells my way though 16-bit computing from November 1989 until our Amiga 500 demo “The Loop” in 2023. On the…
I have made physical copies of our demo The Loop with new disks, printed label, cover, and case. The first physical copy was sold to Willi of Factor 5 at gamescom 2024. Cheers mate! Contact me if you want one, too. Mail to ybccreznaa@tznvy.pbz (rot13, reverse here https://www.rot13.com). The Loop was made for the A500/1000/2000,…
I never really cared too much about having correct time information available in my Amiga. Maybe not least to the fact that the battery backed-up real-time clocks on Amigas are usually not backed-up by a battery. Getting started Today, I got triggered to change that. Bubbob42, one of the AmigaOS 3.2 developers, mentioned that he…
by Noname/Haujobb 2019 seems to be a golden year for the Amiga scene! After a fantastic demo-competition at the Revision party earlier this year, we now had the dedicated Amiga 34 event-fair which saw perfect weather and a range of highlights that this report will try to cover. Amiga 34 took place at the “Rheinisches…
Selection of press coverage, reports, YouTube videos, and picture galleries. Press: Reports: YouTube: Pictures:
Today, Dascon and me game a demoscene talk at Amiga 34 in Neuss, which was a lovely event with many important news for the Amiga community. I leave it to someone else to cover all the amazing hardware and software news that premiered there. The focus of our talk was on cross-development of music and…
Happy New Year! As mentioned in our Evoke seminar on Modern Amiga Demo Cross-Development we were planning to make our demo framework publicly available. This has finally been done! You can now find the release with complete documentation (currently 45 pages PDF, as well as HTML) on https://github.com/leifo/haujobb-amiga. If you ever wanted to code that Amiga…
This tutorial is showing you how to create a fully partioned Amiga CF-card in about 10 minutes from scratch. The process will involve using a Windows-based disk image tool and writing a prepared image-file directly to the CF-card. The resulting card contains four empty Amiga partitions that have been set to the correct MaxTransfer of…
This text summarizes the tools and workflows that we used during the development of our Amiga demo Prototype 1, which was released at Breakpoint 2010. Introduction The development of Prototype 1 implicated programmers with different backgrounds ranging from high-level C/C++ engine coding to low-level Motorola 68k assembly coding. Hence we decided to devise a tool-chain…