Amiga Demos

If you are not familiar with demoscene productions, you can think of a demo as a compact, self-contained piece of software that combines and demonstrates art and technical excellence. To better appreciate a demo keep in mind that everything you see and hear in a demo is generated in real time by computer code (there is no pre-rendered animation), and that the code itself is relatively compact (which is part of the challenge). Unlike in a game, there is no interaction in a demo: just start the demo, and sit back and enjoy it.

Included Demos

Amiga Forever contains a preinstalled selection of well-known Amiga demos, preconfigured for one-click launching.

Additional demos can be downloaded from the sites listed below.

Download and Support Sites

The following is a list of the major sites which include or link to Amiga demos with permission of the copyright holders:

• Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.)
• old-skool.net
• pouët.net
• Amiga Demoscene Database

Additional Information

Some multiple-disk demos may require a key to be pressed (e.g. Enter, or one of the two mouse buttons) to confirm that a new disk has been inserted.

On Windows, simply press Alt+F4 to quit the emulation while a demo is running.

The demos are stored in the "Demos" directory, inside "Amiga Files" when installed on a Windows system (or inside "Emulation", on the Amiga Forever distribution medium, or when installed on non-Windows systems).

For additional instructions on running downloaded files, please refer to this article:

• 3-112 - Using Amiga Floppy Disk Image Files