The year was 1993 and full screen video on computers was pretty much not a common thing, what with MPEG probably just being in the works.
The Virtual Dreams guys (Fairlight’s demo division) made this lofi-looking video compression algorithm to create this classic demo.
I really love the effect, someone should write an After Effects or similar effect plugin to achieve this :D
The great thing it’s that there’s actually a story in this. Where is this guy going?
Did I say it’s running on a stock Amiga 500? That’s 7 Mhz and 1MB of power for you.
Stock Amiga 500 had 512kB memory, not 1MB.
also it’s just on one floppy disk :-) which was/is rather impressive.