The Black Lotus - Eon (Pixel perfect 1080p upscale)

[@iannmiller]

6 minutes of 4K streaming = 2gb 6 minutes demo = 2mb

[@AstralPhnx]

Not even that. Closer to around 1.7mb because of two 880kb floppies

[@em00k]

When the woman turns from 2d to 3d it brings a rush every time, then the dancing woman - its one of the best things my eyes and eats have ever had the pleasure of watching.

[@argentinaspy_oc]

this is not a dance, woman doing Wushu (Chinese movements)

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@argentinaspy_oc huh, fascinating

[@jsrodman]

I think it's fair to describe wushu & tai chi routines under the greater umbrella of dance, even if there are some major differences with other dance traditions.

[@pacocarrion7869]

I have an Amiga and the first time saw the beginning I was thought that was a copy style of Another World game, but when the woman turns and the "Wushu" move...wow, it was in another quality level, probably the best demo scene in A500 (no expansions)

[@holicool]

They paid the possible tribute to the Amiga with this demo. Can't believe this is running on an A500 with a 7Mhz processor. Bloody impressive!

[@macdeluxe733]

Try explaining this demo to modern day firmware engineers working with literally infinite resources vs. the A500. They just don't seem to understand :D

[@holicool]

@@macdeluxe733 modern software (lack of) optimization is a real plague, I agree!

[@yetihehe]

​@@holicoolmeh, todays engineers just wish they had that kind of time to perfect the things they do. Instead it's typically product owners asking every day "is it done yet? Look at that backlog bro, we need to ship it faster!". Happened to me once, boss didnt want to pay for commercial compiler. Well, i can do everything but it so happens that a full toolchain implementation in gcc takes more time than just buying licence, worl will never be able to compile keil projects in gcc.

[@holicool]

@@yetihehe fair enough! It's true that the competitive digital market doesn't leave much room for optimization. "Ready when it's done" has become a luxury motto, sadly.

[@LondenTower]

​​@@holicoolHey, but at least it IS still a thing in the demoscene. I'm just glad to see how far we've come after all those years. And although i agree that most AAA games are rushed AF nowadays. At least that's not all the PC gaming economy/industry has to offer. Source ports and indie-games are also still a thing and there are quite a few good titles out there. You just have to know where to look for those.

[@le9038]

How so much genius went into one man, I will never know. The limits an artist will reach to create the art is what inspires greatness.

[@scalliano]

Burial vibes from the music, Chris Cunningham vibes from the visuals. Sublime. By far the most emotional scene demo I've ever come across. I legit have a lump in my throat.

[@Durzel]

Bang on with both the comparisons.

[@EduArana]

The conversion between 2d to polygon is beyond this world.

[@LondenTower]

This demo just s c r e a m s polish. The OCS demo to end all OCS demo's. I mean, afaik the team that made this demo made an absolute myriad of tooling to even make this work. And they hit every flippin hardware bug on the OCS chip more then once! Heck, the tracker file can't even completely fit in chipram while the demo runs, hence the reason disk swapping might've become a necessity. And the way the pre-calculated 3D effects/Vectors work in this demo is absolutely mind-blowing. (Imagine showing this to people when this computer was still brand-new, this probably would've blown people's minds bwck in the 80s)

[@runcmd8851]

One of the best Demos ever created..... by far.... 2020

[@naviamiga]

Using demo scene techniques to build an actual story and theme, so good. Soundtrack fits so well too.

[@BRUXXUS]

Still gives me chills every time I watch it.

[@neominis]

this is just one of the best videos on KZbin. I even have this in my favourites of the browser, I listen to it at least once a day

[@nathanmilnthorpe11]

Love the Uk Garage Underground Sound to this!

[@nathanmilnthorpe11]

The Artwork is Phenomenal as well!

[@djpirtu2]

I just cant stop watching this again and again on my A500 🥰

[@Dukefazon]

I had goosebumps at the part where the figure finished dancing and scrolled off screen. And the polygonal female face before that scene is gorgeous, simply amazing! An Amiga port/remake of the first Alone in the Dark doesn't look far fetched :)

[@jalzate]

Didn't expect to see a tai chi demonstration in an Amiga demo...

[@mokujinsan9946]

This is beautifully executed. Magnificent. 💎♥️👌

[@xoen6]

a500???? This is insane. Absolutely unreal.

[@SP95]

Beautiful

[@chrislaivier8459]

I think the audio track should be available to buy as wav in full stereo and 48kHz sampling rate. While Paula sure does an amazing job, I think it's just too beautiful to leave it at that.

[@starnamedstork]

Pretty sure H0ffmann has it on his Soundcloud.

[@chrislaivier8459]

@@starnamedstork Yes, he had it posted, but sadly sound quality is 128kbps @22.050Hz only so i suppose the track was built in protracker entirely. To achieve better sound quality you would have to rebuild the whole track from scratch on a more modern software sequencer and im pretty sure he has plenty side projects to keep him busy already.

[@starnamedstork]

​@@chrislaivier8459 Yes, it's a rendering of the Protracker module. Which is what the song was made in. To get better quality you wouldn't have to redo the entire track, but you would need to import the track into a tracker capable of handling 16 bit samples and basically redo the samples. I have done similar things with my own work back in the day, releasing an Amiga module as 8-bit, importing in Impulse Tracker on the PC and redoing all the samples in high quality.

[@Durzel]

@@chrislaivier8459One would hope that he has/had the original samples before they were downsampled, in which case couldn't the track be replicated "as is" in a tracker that does support higher fidelity? (I'm guessing here)

[@djpirtu2]

This song can be found on modarchive and played with Gravis Ultrasound, and your ears will be pleased.

[@aligarion1947]

True masterpiece.

[@fredericcuveillier2526]

Best of the best ❤

[@andrevanginkel9951]

Pure Art! Great!

[@falazarte]

is the music done with the Amiga as well? This is freaking amazing!

[@ylette]

Yes.

[@zaxolotl]

yes, by h0ffman!

[@vitamin-Dz]

If you see the tracker file, actually, most of the sounds are long samples, which he sort of cuts up a bit. I reckon that he has produced a lot of the sounds in something like Ableton Live, then output each as a sample to use in Noisetracker or something similar. The track sounds great, though.

[@jsrodman]

During the demo runtime various sounds are mixed down in software into long samples. Mostly the percussion. The MOD has to have them pre-mixed which makes them much larger.

[@nostar-tv]

Das Teil ist der Killa!!!🤘 doppelter Wahnsinn über EWerkBoxen&Beamer🤘 Peace Noss 💾

[@NikTheDusky]

pouët prod: www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=81094 direkter Download auf scene.org: files.scene.org/view/parties/2019/revision19/amiga-demo/tbl_eon_party_version.zip Bitte :D

[@MicrophonesInTheTrees]

Shame the synth arpeggio thing goes out of sync when the beat comes in for the middle bit. Otherwise, perfect.

[@badmanPL]

Another World intro vibes

[@Dormat25]

It's a great track but starting at 3:43, it always sounds way off beat to me

[@CPha2er]

There's nothing wrong with the music - it just isn't your style ;)

[@jsihavealotofplaylists]

Its definitely intentional. Very interesting music choice tho

[@MicrophonesInTheTrees]

Yeah, the arpeggio thing goes out of time. Perfect otherwise. Wonder how such a clunker got thru.

[@-ion]

For what it's worth, I like it. It's just syncopated.

[@tommcnamara2852]

Bad choon

[@ronwesterduin2471]

How did they make this on the Amiga? not just pure coding.

[@CPha2er]

Sampling ;)

[@chris24hdez]

Definitely done via assembly language for the Amiga "Copper and Blitter" OCS (original chip set). All of which is far beyond what I know how to do. Motorola 680X0 CPU Amiga AGA 2D GPU "Paula" audio The raster image "layers" are probably sourced from the web and sampled down to 8-bit color with compression better than GIF or PNG. The 2D art and transformations is just 8-bit raster math with hard aliasing (no anti-aliasing). The audio is probably sampled from several audio sources into 8-bit voices, MIDI style. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Chip_Set

[@jsihavealotofplaylists]

Is The Black Lotus making music still?

[@TojoQQ]

kzbin.info

[@Brenryz]

even better watching the video at 640x512 50hz with ... INTERLACE mode on my crt. on my tv this looks like junky minecraft indie "pixel art"

[@ianford1467]

its supposed to be mono.

[@bytesabre]

Ian Ford if not mono, definitely much reduced stereo separation.

[@d3relict]

@@bytesabre well, if they use the normal 4 channels of the audio chip (2 left, 2 right), it has to have a complete stereo separation. (afaik)

[@CPha2er]

@@bytesabre Stereo separation is about 70% I guess. Far away from mono -.-

[@dadgamer6717]

it's the classic amiga sound to me! mod tracker had 4 channels. always 2 on the left 2 on the right. so always fun to hear the different instruments on different ears back in the day. spent so many nights listenig to mods in my teens