Amiga Demos
from
Ratso Rizzo

HISTORY

In 1989, I started to teach myself the art of assembler programming (Motorola 68000) on my Amiga1000 using the DevPac 2.0 Assembler. First there was (of course) "Hello, world!", then an oscillating copper line appeared on the screen. Shortly after, I coded scrolling bitplanes; then a blitter object scrolltext. A sinuswave scroller was the first real little demo. The next project was a small demo with vectorline graphics and a scrolltext. The biggest project, the Flash Group Germany Intro, was released in 1990 and contained a cool introduction and 50Hz realtime vectorballs. Flash Group Germany (which only consisted of two people!) split up and I joined Laser Dance. I started to code a Laser Dance demo with a rotating 3D vectorlogo, which was never completed. My only finished work for them was laserArt!, a neat little mintro. It is still my favorite piece of coding. This one is now available as a Java applet. I stopped coding on the Amiga in 1992.

DEMOS

• check this out (32K) - 1989
  My first little demo with self-composed music. Starfield is generated with the use of the raster beam position register and results in periodic stars instead of randomly positions.
  
  
• sinusscroller demo (3K) - 1989
  One pixel sinusscroller. Very smooth. Nice colors. Inspired by The Twilight Zone TV serial.
  
  
• vector demo (35K) - 1990
  3D vectorline demo. Nice scroller at bottom. Nearly unreadable.
  
  
• de la dildo (0.7K) - 1990
  Plug Joystick in Port #2 and enjoy.
  
  
• space (0.7K) - 1990
  Navigate a tiny little spaceship through an asteroid belt of infinite size. No highscores.
  
  
• Ye Balls! (173K) - 1990
  First and only release of Flash Production Germany. Damn fast vectorballs. I like the blue/red ones. Cool intro sequence. My biggest project.
  
  
• smeary (2K) - 1991
  Smear graphics test for Laser Dance stuff.
  
  
• laserART! (9K) - 1992
  Ratso's only release for Laser Dance. My favorite piece of coding. Great design. Takes you back to those good 'ole Sesame Street days. RECOMMENDED DOWNLOAD!
  Note: This one is now available as a Java applet.