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Inside the Machine by Desire [web]
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release date : october 2024
release party : Deadline (Berlin) 2024
compo : oldskool demo
ranked : 1st
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popularity : 67%
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alltime top: #1037
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OMG!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:06:54 by Olympian Olympian
Yes!!!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:09:02 by Premium Premium
number one!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:12:38 by bartman bartman
Great effort. Love these visuals.
Was the guru error fixed?
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:19:33 by ham ham
Very cool demo! Greetings to the entire team!

Youtube video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJhVjIhsMBI
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:19:33 by magic magic
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Was the guru error fixed?

Still investigating, but so far we've only seen it happen on the compo machine, and it's worked reliably on several other machines.
added on the 2024-10-06 12:24:49 by gigabates gigabates
Those kind of bugs can be tricky. Hopefully you will fix it somehow.
added on the 2024-10-06 12:31:49 by ham ham
Great demo, congrats!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:35:27 by 4pLaY 4pLaY
Massive (uv maps?) tech on top on a trackloader that does some serious powerlifting, my 1200 drive doesn't like the disk, 500 and 600 is happy with it. Great demo!
added on the 2024-10-06 12:46:24 by Z3k Z3k
forgot to thumb, i'm getting old
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:47:50 by Z3k Z3k
Shiny!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 12:58:04 by zoi zoi
Killer!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 13:13:51 by waldiamiga waldiamiga
Pheeeew
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 13:19:58 by p01 p01
I really liked this, though at some parts the colors were way too coderish.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 13:46:12 by uncle-x uncle-x
Absolutely loved it. Very coherent and stylish.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 14:08:07 by iTeC iTeC
an excellent demo, everything is brilliant
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 14:21:55 by Alex Menchi Alex Menchi
Just wondered a couple of days ago if there would be a another demo
by gigabates for the Amiga / OCS or if he lost interest in that machine.
And bam, I get the answer. He is back with reinforcement (an entire
gang of SilverSurfers). Oh...my...gosh... I have never seen something
like that before. Mindblowing what a ca. 40 year old machine is capable
of if you know to press the right keys. Thank you guys for that great
release - a firework in all departments!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 14:32:51 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
What a beautiful and colorful demo. So refreshing.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 14:49:05 by Depeche Depeche
forgot to say that I fuckin' love the soundtrack too.
added on the 2024-10-06 14:49:06 by uncle-x uncle-x
I really don't like the music and some of the colour choices are questionable, the effects and flow are pretty nice though.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 15:03:10 by StingRay StingRay
Awesome to see such massive demo on OCS standard config! Hope to see more from you in the future. Congratz DSR, great job!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 15:05:07 by sachy sachy
lovely!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 15:23:37 by pps pps
Nice
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 15:40:39 by bodo^rab bodo^rab
Awesome, thank you for feeding my old Amiga :D
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 16:05:39 by SnC SnC
Cool both technically and artistically!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 16:18:13 by bitl bitl
Massive uv table fx. I was just wondering the other day if there is oldschool potential besides just the tunnel, and oh boy. Pure love all around.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 16:26:01 by Preacher Preacher
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I really don't like the music and some of the colour choices are questionable, the effects and flow are pretty nice though.


Same here.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 17:13:30 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
Feels realy fresh to me!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 17:18:40 by Kuemmel Kuemmel
.enjoyable. cool it works ok on a1200 as well.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:02:44 by kempy kempy
Spectacular. Best of the year for me.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:07:29 by ats ats
Watched it three times during the party! ;-) Also great tune by mAZE!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:10:26 by novel novel
Bravo! Fantastic demo.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:14:58 by evil evil
Oldskoooooooooooool !
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:17:19 by roudoudou roudoudou
The compo machine was my best A500 with the best disk drive, which I use for final testing of OCS trackmos. Tried on another Rev.5 A500 and the crash happened there too.
A hell of a demo, so don't worry about it. I've seen Guardian Dragon and others crash on the bigscreen too.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:38:32 by bifat bifat
veeeeery nice
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 18:41:04 by SiR SiR
Chapeau.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 19:00:46 by dixan dixan
Great one!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 19:36:00 by ok3anos ok3anos
Pretty massive!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 19:40:35 by Soundy Soundy
it was really nice, pity about the bug, hopefully you guys get it fixed. Demo so strong that even Guru Meditation can't destroy the positive feeling!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 19:45:56 by hollowone hollowone
Very cool
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 19:56:40 by Manwe Manwe
That was a lot of fresh stuff going on! Not sure if the soundtrack and the visuals mix perfectly, but it kind of works
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 20:09:44 by rloaderro rloaderro
Wow! Beautifull design!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 20:10:47 by Darkman007/quite Darkman007/quite
I have to say that, in general, I prefer the clean and smooth 1x1 effects style that the A500 hardware was designed for, rather than the low-resolution chunky fxs, but this demo has very beautiful parts in spite of that. Congratulations guys!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 20:43:39 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
Another OCS classic, great job guys!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 20:46:45 by amigajay amigajay
Great achievement! I love how this avoids becoming overly bombastic and stays cool and somewhat mellow. But the scenes and effects are just awesome.
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 21:12:15 by cp_ cp_
Well thought exquisite scenes, might cheer up even the most cynical minds a bit. Works on A600. Downer: the doughnut isn't round!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 21:43:21 by la_mettrie la_mettrie
Brilliant!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 22:10:14 by guyfrost guyfrost
some very nice 3d stuff for A500!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 22:41:40 by leonard leonard
Great !!!!
rulez added on the 2024-10-06 23:25:34 by ajcek ajcek
7mhz is enough 4 all ! another AGA demo on A500
félicitations
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 00:12:43 by mikev mikev
next level. loved it <3
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 00:21:38 by teo teo
Some of this was at times quite cheesy style wise, but apart from that this was a great show and a well deserved first place.
You've really buried the rest of the entries. 😂
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 00:28:08 by Zavie Zavie
Very nice and runs on every 1MB A500. Superb!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 02:28:49 by AW87 AW87
Wow! Massive effects and some really cool ideas when it comes to the concept/design/gfx. Overall one of the best A500 demos of recent years in my book even though there are some questionable color choices here and there :)
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 08:25:10 by malmix malmix
Oh wow! I really dig old(ish) school demos that manage consistency in the visuals and here it was so, even if a bit at the cost of using same core effect many times. I also liked the slightly abstract story telling here; could have been done even without the text but the text was not the worst kind of scene poetry so even that was ok.
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 08:39:56 by pestis pestis
Wonderful demo!! Congratulations!! Well done!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 09:04:34 by Mod3m Mod3m
I really like what mAZE has brought to the table here. Very impressive demo overall!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 10:17:01 by Mibri Mibri
Impressive code and very good demo overall. Is the dutch color scheme about to make a comeback?-)

No problems running it on my A1200.
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 14:43:50 by pyksy pyksy
Fantastic demo. Soothing to watch. Good message!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 15:12:19 by Virgill Virgill
Table effects galore. On the positive side, some of it looks very nice and fluid for A500. On the negative side, the fact that you have 4096 colors doesn't mean you have to use all of them at the same time :-) And the music and gfx don't always cooperate, e.g. it happily plays its merry tune while there is a black screen and then a slow pan. Overall a good showing.
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 16:16:31 by Sesse Sesse
Wow, I really loved that! Ham-mode all the way, cyber color theme, even torus blocky polygons in ham :)
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 17:43:24 by Optimus Optimus
very nice demo. congrats guys!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 17:44:50 by grey grey
Really cool with nice ideas. A deserved 1st place.
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 17:53:18 by dissident dissident
Great prod! Crafted with love and passion. Visuals look to me like an improved version of Lawnmower Man :)
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 18:22:27 by KONEY KONEY
Cool, inspiring demo. Good job guys!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 19:19:35 by slayer slayer
koney is right! great demo, cool theme, done well! watched it many times already.
beautiful animations there. cool greetings part and absolutely loving the uplifting soundtrack! - the chords and that voice-melody on the hook .. <3
only nay for me were the coder colors(tm) and the big logo. (looks ai (don't know if it is) and feels to me that it would need some more pixelling time/color ajudstment tbh. ) excellent demo anyway, thank you!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 19:27:31 by chavez chavez
No more pants for me! And I'm too young to realize this is all just table effects
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 22:07:43 by Duckers Duckers
Great Job for OCS!!!
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 22:42:35 by critikill critikill
Amazing to see this on an A500 OCS with 1MB. Looks like AGA stuff streamed vom harddisk. Lots of WTF/minute included. I have some ideas how it is done technically, and I'd really like to know more about the "How?".
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 23:13:56 by JAC! JAC!
Stylish, slick, impressive.
rulez added on the 2024-10-07 23:45:40 by grip grip
Fantastic production! But may I beg for a patch version without that main vocal? It's too loud and hell of annoying! :D
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 09:32:58 by jammer jammer
Way cool!
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 11:02:55 by Emod Emod
Pellicus and gigabates, some of my favorite coders uniting for an envelope-pushing prod! I am a coder, so I loved it that steffest absolutely made sure we know every scan was as 4096 color as it can be, and Mace's music reminded me so much of parts of Speed by Sim Productions
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 16:05:30 by zajc zajc
Now for a technical question:
Did anyone succeed in runnning this on a real Amiga 500 with a floppy drive?

The only way I could get it to work is to use a brand new Gotek with an AT32F435 and run the ADF from it.

No matter what I did, I could not get it to run on (brand new) Nashua DD floppies or an older Gotek. Tested on an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200. Both worked once I figured out that the ADF here needed a new-ish Gotek (at least for me). Older Gotek's would crash on random parts and floppies would not pass the bootsector no matter what I did (red or cyan screen).

Seems like the trackloader is really picky. I tried both X-Copy and Retrogiovedi's WAFFLE to image the disk. Even with the most conservative settings, multiple erases, precompensation, the adf here would not run even for a second from a real floppy.
added on the 2024-10-08 16:12:11 by zajc zajc
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Did anyone succeed in runnning this on a real Amiga 500 with a floppy drive?

Yes, absolutely. With optimum equipment (A500, disks and mechanical disk drive in good/very good conditions) it bugs out here in not more than about 1 in 20 attempts.
added on the 2024-10-08 16:19:46 by bifat bifat
Now works on A500 with a floppy, I have no real explanation why. There'a a daemon in the trackloading code here, anyway, as I said, love how much this prod pushes the OCS platform
added on the 2024-10-08 16:22:12 by zajc zajc
My first try with Sony's floppy disk failed (gave just red screen), second with TDK worked. Both are HD. Copied with TransADF.
Very classy, I enjoyed this one a lot.
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 16:38:07 by darya darya
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Seems like the trackloader is really picky

Yes, this is exactly this issue and we're working on it. Hope to deliver a fixed version soon.
added on the 2024-10-08 17:21:16 by gigabates gigabates
Impressive demo!
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 19:48:13 by mailman mailman
Truly wonderful!
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 20:16:04 by Mystra Mystra
Very good demo. At last someone's using the palette colour cycling in a way that makes sense. Nice and fresh.
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 21:20:48 by aki aki
Cool demo and nice track!
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 21:56:11 by TMA TMA
Clever idea, truly enjoyed that one on bigscreen.
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 22:00:16 by AzzaroMWI AzzaroMWI
Really enjoyed this one. It has some of the best movetables on Amiga 500 config. I esp. liked the horizontal scrolling one with the guy walking in front.

(demo works everytime on my 1 MB Chip Amiga 600 with real diskdrive, three different kickstarts on 68000 and 68020. Maybe a 512/512-related problem then?)
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 22:51:31 by noname noname
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Really enjoyed this one. It has some of the best movetables on Amiga 500 config. I esp. liked the horizontal scrolling one with the guy walking in front.

(demo works everytime on my 1 MB Chip Amiga 600 with real diskdrive, three different kickstarts on 68000 and 68020. Maybe a 512/512-related problem then?)


We're working on it! ;) I'm helping out the chaps to determine what's going on as I seem to have the perfect setup to kill the trackloader before the demo even starts!. This, hamazing final and even lossos new demo are all affected.

Anyway, fantastic demo. Lovely graphics, coherant, solid uplifting soundtrack, awesome effects. Well done chaps, you've landed a banger.
added on the 2024-10-08 23:49:45 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
thumage!
rulez added on the 2024-10-08 23:50:00 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
awesome!
rulez added on the 2024-10-09 12:00:54 by RufUsul RufUsul
fresh!
rulez added on the 2024-10-09 12:40:30 by Daddy Freddy Daddy Freddy
Holy, Moly!
rulez added on the 2024-10-09 23:07:10 by thunder_burn thunder_burn
It looks amazing. Please continue to create demos for Amiga.
rulez added on the 2024-10-11 11:19:33 by tjahzi(aka Jimi) tjahzi(aka Jimi)
stunning!
rulez added on the 2024-10-11 12:54:01 by hAkRi hAkRi
Wow, this was cool !!
rulez added on the 2024-10-11 16:57:36 by ghandy ghandy
superbe
rulez added on the 2024-10-12 11:01:56 by cryodav76400 cryodav76400
Very cool!
rulez added on the 2024-10-12 18:38:45 by noglin noglin
OK. Nice tune.
added on the 2024-10-13 02:15:14 by AntDude AntDude
What Sesse and noname said.
rulez added on the 2024-10-13 15:16:56 by kb_ kb_
awesome
rulez added on the 2024-10-13 18:58:30 by zeebr zeebr
Nice!
rulez added on the 2024-10-13 19:30:03 by arpz arpz
Awesome!
Really fantastic code here. I would love to see any sort of technical write-up or notes.
rulez added on the 2024-10-15 19:55:19 by trixter trixter
I missed to vote this masterpiece. Thanks for that, seeing this at Deadline was very entertaining !
rulez added on the 2024-10-16 14:12:52 by AMItac_TSA AMItac_TSA
Great demo! Consistent design throughout that manages to look fresh and modern. Cool tune too!
rulez added on the 2024-10-16 23:45:44 by exocet exocet
Very nice and colourful!
rulez added on the 2024-10-17 17:06:27 by baah baah
good stuff!
rulez added on the 2024-10-17 21:37:06 by stijn stijn
Love it!
rulez added on the 2024-10-20 13:30:33 by CCRider CCRider
Best I seen in awhile. Gratz!
rulez added on the 2024-10-20 13:44:39 by nikosidis nikosidis
crazy demo! Thank you for releasing it at Deadline! I have seen it so many times already, but I cannot get enough of it. Great code, style, mood, message and fantastic soundtrack.
rulez added on the 2024-10-20 22:54:34 by v3nom v3nom
great!!!
rulez added on the 2024-10-21 11:51:39 by sINk sINk
Beautiful. But the soundtrack is quite unremarkable.
rulez added on the 2024-10-24 21:54:19 by dex46... dex46...
WOW! Great job, guys! Superb! My godnessss)))
rulez added on the 2024-10-25 19:17:09 by fatalsnipe fatalsnipe
Thanks for all the feedback!

I've now added a fixed version that addresses some compatibility issues, and includes a hard disk installable exe for higher end Amigas, and as promised I've finally done a write-up.
added on the 2024-10-28 16:31:54 by gigabates gigabates
Thank you for this detailed write-up @gigabates! This will be very interesting to read!
added on the 2024-10-28 16:39:16 by Olympian Olympian
Really good!
rulez added on the 2024-10-28 22:34:07 by xeron xeron
Table-effects on steroids!
I like how you kept it varied with different c2p modes.
Very nice work and thanks for the write-up!
rulez added on the 2024-10-29 03:04:03 by Jobbo Jobbo
I still have hard time to believe that this actually was an OCS demo. Fresh and awesome!
rulez added on the 2024-10-29 11:02:25 by Skynet Skynet
Thanks a lot for this read-worthy and comprehensive write-up; I would
give another thumb if I had a second digital one :-)
added on the 2024-10-30 09:53:25 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
Loved the write-up seriously!
added on the 2024-10-30 19:26:37 by leGend leGend
Also the tech rules etc.
rulez added on the 2024-10-30 19:27:24 by leGend leGend
Superb!
rulez added on the 2024-10-30 21:43:39 by ED ED
really enjoy the soundtrack, some nice modwork.
rulez added on the 2024-10-31 12:02:49 by okkie okkie

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