Kefrens - Desert Dream - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

RetroDemoScene · 192.3K views · 2014-11-02 · 13:19

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Overview

Kefrens' Desert Dream, an Amiga demoscene production released at The Gathering in 1993, recaptured in HD at 50fps. It features code, music and graphics by a team of scene members.

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Brought up in Amiga threads as a classic example of what the demoscene achieved on old hardware.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2021

Topics

Demoscene & retrocomputing Music theory, synthesis & production

What people said

armitron · 2019-01 · Recommendation
Great demo. Not as good as the best ever though :-) "Kefrens: The meaning of life is to become a legend" [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: [LINK] And making of: [LINK] Kefrens - Desert Dreams: [VIDEO]
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metroholografix · 2020-03 · Reference
Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assembly in tight feedback loops -with the occasional crash- until exhaustion forces one to stop. I spent the best years of my life with the Amiga and I wish I could do it all over again.. Later, I moved on to doing realtime graphics in DOS, first with Turbo Pascal and inline assembly (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials) and eventually C and although I have fond memories of that period too, the Amiga will always remain supremely vivid in my memory. Utterly unforgettable. The meaning of life is to become a legend: [VIDEO]
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