Any of you old time Amiga owners would know what demos were all about. You could say they were the precursor to modding, where a group of talented programmers, artists and musicians worked together on various kinds of "demos" which often showed off ground breaking hardware-pushing routines accompanied with great presentation. Except there were no commercial engines to work with back then, and the tools were much more primitive :)
In fact, many crusty game developers around the world had their start making demos on the Amiga. Digital Illusions, more widely known now as DICE and the developers of Battlefield 1942, started as a demo group called The Silents.
Where am I going with all this? Well, Australia had a very active demo scene too! Peter from Hemiware has done a fantastic job at collecting, categorising, and archiving old demos from the Australian Amiga demo scene starting from around 15 years ago. Many of these demos would have simply disappeared from existence otherwise.
You will need to use an Amiga emulator to run these demos, which you can download at www.winuae.net. Check out the list of downloadable demos by clicking the following link to the Hemiware website. And hey, you might even spot my name in some of those demos ;)
great, i can see the group i was in, experience has been added. Thanks Peter! grant