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It is almost 20 years ago since some friends and I made "Alpha & Omega" - a demo running on the original Amiga 500. The demo has a lot of fractals, some of it even raytraced.

http://www.youtube.com/v/bseufyUk4Dc&hl=en_US&fs=1&

The funny thing is that back then "realtime raytracing" was kind of a standing joke with regards to what "impossible" features the latest demos should have. But now almost 20 years later, realtime raytracing is very much feasible on current GPUs.

hi there, congrats to this fantastic demo, i had back in the time this demo in my daily demo show ( besides desert dream by kefrens and spaceballs state of the art )
nice to meet you here ...

i loved nearly every part of it, and beside of that, PMC was a cool name ... i was wondering how the pmc fractal was made back then ... and vector programming was a pain in the ass

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you really had many fractals in this demo ....

Wow!! This was one of my all-time fave demos, along with Phenomena Enigma and Virtual Worlds. All of them had great music and amazing gfx/coding effects. This was of course, state of the art for its time, and even today, it's still fun to see.

Because of the fixed nature of the A500's hardware, there seemed like lots of competition to obtain the fastest possible frame rates, number of particles or polygons.

And looking back, yeah there are quite a few fractalized things turning up in there!

Congrats on making this demo - nostalgia indeed :)

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I am just now getting around to viewing some of the animations I missed.  For some reason, I thought this was much older than "almost 20 years ago".  Definitely nostalgic watching this video.