Find the most talented sceners of the Amiga years
Contributors
The story
Discover the evolution of the Amiga demos throughout the years
The books
Format 165×230mm more than 450 pages
Quality
Hardcover edition, offset printing, sewn binding, Soft touch front + UV coating
Goodies
Exclusive pack of postcards and bookmarks, with full color printing
Shipping
Deliveries available in Europe, United States, Australia and all over the world
Volume 2 Demoscene the AGA years 1994-1996
The Amiga Demoscene, from its inception, has always evolved with the times, and reinvented itself, always pushing the limits of Commodore’s flagship machine. From the Megademo, at the end of the 80s, to trackmos in the 90s, 1994 was the beginning of a new development for the Demoscene, with many demos released that used all the power of the Amiga 1200.
The Amiga 1200 was released in October 1992, and was the third generation of Amiga for the home market. Like its Amiga 500 brother, it was designed to be a single box solution, incorporating the keyboard, processor, chipset, floppy disk drive, expansion ports internal and external, and support for an internal hard disk. The 68020 processor running at 14MHz was supported by 2MB of memory, AmigaOS 3, and the new Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture – AGA.
Demoscene the AGA Years is the second volume of our series dedicated to the Amiga demoscene. In 1992 the arrival of the Amiga 1200 piqued the interest of several demo groups and many coders, graphic designers and musicians. Some abandoned the Amiga 500 entirely to focus exclusively on the Amiga 1200. The arrival of this new model was a notable improvement, with the overall power of the machine being quadrupled thanks to a stronger processor operating at a faster speed and higher speed RAM. The color palette of the AGA chipset increases to 16,777,216 – or 24-bit – colour too, giving the demomakers a new playground in which to create.
Volume 1 Demoscene the Amiga years 1984-1993
Say « Boing » and fans of the Amiga think of the first demo, written in 1984 by Dale Luck and RJ Mical for a prototype displayed at CES, that used the machine’s unique hardware capabilities to create smooth animated 3D graphics with stereo sound. It was hugely important to the machine’s success, and captured people’s imagination – and a generation used the Amiga to express their creativity and ingenuity.
The Amiga demoscene thrived and evolved, and this book chronicles many of the scene’s favourites from multiple groups through interviews with their creators: coders, producers, artists, musicians from many countries are included. 450 full colour gloss pages in a quality hardback binding.
Demoscene the Amiga years reflects the making of the best demos as well as the history of the most emblematic and best known groups of the demoscene. Discover numerous pictures of demos through more than 450 pages as well as contributions of “sceners”. This book is the first volume covering the years 1984 to 1993 with about 90 demos amongst the most famous and popular ones.
Details about books
Quality
High quality book printing High quality pictures 300DPI
Content
More than 90 demos and intros exposed
Edition
Hardcover edition offset printing and sewn binding
Finish
Soft touch front
UV coating 135g glossy coated paper
Format
Finished format 165×230mm
2mm cardboard cover
Goodies
Postcards pack R/V 250g coated semi-matte
Bookmarks pack R/V 250g coated semi-matte
Some demos
Read about groups such as Crionics, Sanity, Melon dezign, Anarchy, Andromeda, Fairlight, The Silents, Alcatraz, Kefrens, Lemon, Rebels, Spaceball, Razor 1911…. as well as many other groups.
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Thanks for this amazing demoscene books. High quality pictures and logos, many great stories, interviews, demoscene facts and comments in two awesome books. A lot of work here, I love it! Thanks again and I recommend it very much. 
Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2Norby
10 July 2022 I hesitated to buy these books for a long time, but in the end I didn't regret it. I grew up with the Amiga and the demo scene was an important part of my youth (I'm almost 50 now). Reading the book and watching the corresponding demos on YouTube at the same time gave me a lot of great dejavu. The background information on the respective programmers, graphic designers and musicians is also very interesting, although there could have been a little more of it. I bought the first two parts together and am looking forward to the third part being released. Demoscene the AGA yearsPeter W.
5 February 2024 Beautifully designed an very informative – I really love both books! Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2ville9
9 July 2022 - Just get it! - absolutely love the details and anecdotes through out the beautiful illustrations. It takes me right back there at The Party back in the 90s.
Absolutely stunning compendium of the amiga scene and it's history. Wow.
Demoscene the Amiga years vol. 1Stefan Skotte
9 May 2023 great work, many interresting interviews and high quality pictures (like the first book)
as a non Amiga user, i discovered many demos i missed and the past of people i knew on PC sceneDemoscene the AGA years vol. 2roudoudou
9 July 2022 Got both books, vol.1 and vol.2. Very happy with the quality and content. Looking forward to vol.3! Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2RT
16 July 2022 - Quality, photos,etc.. All is perfect!! A must-have!! Demo or die Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2
Sink
9 July 2022 This book is simply awesome!… every (not so) serious scener needs this really bad! sometimes you simply fell too lazy to dig out your hardware just to show off someone else what demoscene means so this books come very handy (unless you neet to show some moving pixels with sountrack…) ;) Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2MaD][/SSP
9 July 2022 - A beautifully designed book with informative insights about the demoscene. Well researched, well written, a history of the corner of the demoscene. Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2
Marin
9 July 2022 Super quality and very nice book, with at lot of stories and pictures form the early 1990's. If you have ever had an Amiga, then you must buy this book! Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2Peter Sandhøj
11 July 2022 Incredibly TOP quality. Love both Demoscene books, looking forward to the third one. Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2Panayotis
9 July 2022 - I hesitated to buy these books for a long time, but in the end I didn't regret it. I grew up with the Amiga and the demo scene was an important part of my youth (I'm almost 50 now). Reading the book and watching the corresponding demos on YouTube at the same time gave me a lot of great dejavu. The background information on the respective programmers, graphic designers and musicians is also very interesting, although there could have been a little more of it. I bought the first two parts together and am looking forward to the third part being released. Demoscene the Amiga years
5 February 2024 What a trip down memory lane! Fantastic quality book and a must for everyone who enjoyed the demo scene a few decades ago (or just want to learn about it now) Demoscene the AGA years vol. 2Stefan
9 July 2022
