I was an Amiga coder and you have to give the guys that made this some serious respect. To do this kind of stuff meant you had to be super creative at optimising code, audio and graphics. Coding had to be done in assembly at the bare metal level of the machine with no pre written libraries, you had to create every graphic, algorithm and compression routines to ebb every last cycle out of hardware that was designed in the early 80s. Only four channels of audio meant creative and careful use of samples that in some cases had to be multiplexed and combined to simulate 8 channels from 4. We would use break beat samples and synth pad samples to flesh out the lack of channels, graphics would be double buffered because the 68k processor in the Amiga was too slow so you would draw a frame in the background ram whilst one was displayed the use bit-plane pointer to switch to the alternative frame whilst drawing the next. Credit to the Amiga hardware design team of Jay Miner and the bedroom coders who took his creation and pushed it to the limits. Salute!
@@chloedevereaux1801 Also i belive this is the first time Amiga owners would have surround sound in a stereo output chip and module format. ruclips.net/video/bOFf79OhAIw/видео.html
I will never get over the joy this gave me back in the day, it was a literal lifetime ago and I still recall every single beat ,vocal and graphic. Truly before its time in every respect. A masterpiece.
Is kinda cool (even 30 years later) how there was an underground scene & culture to being an Amiga owner, that you simply didn’t get on the Megadrive. I’m still as impressed with the 3/4 Tubular Bells sample over 4/4 breakbeats, moving to 44 seconds in, when that banging kick drum first comes in! Not a huge fan of nostalgia, but I fair enjoyed this comment. @@Glasweg1an
+Simon Morgan, the point now though, would be to really push the boundaries of what is possible NOW. to cram as much into 128GB as possible, and really push the envelope for the future when everyone has 900TB Hard Disks
Top memories, getting ready for a night out as a spotty virgin with this on in the background. After a rainy day spent on F-15 Strike Eagle II, Birds Of Prey or Knights of the Sky we went out drinking Blastaways anywhere that would let us in...
I was 21 when this came out... timed to perfection! Sounds as good now as it did then, so many memories - although I'm not convinced they're all mine...
I have all the .mod files for this, and was considering going through the lengthy process of working through all of them in Renoise, and cleaning up the sound, putting everything in Stereo, or at least Mixed Mono etc. Would anyone be interested in a 'digitally remastered' version of this?
I just checked my collection that I've kept since my Viglen 386 days and I think I have the set. Jesus0.mod to Jesus13.mod and JesusEnd.mod. What a blast from the past.
@@genericrandom64 curious on this as well. I've just been recounting the good old days of Rave Discs, and going to hill parties on a Friday night, rolling in on a Sunday afternoon and buying the DJ set on tape at your local rave/head shop on a Monday. Just blown the minds of my 20 something new hire!
Amiga is a computer to be worshipped. I bought PD discs from a guy in Scotland. I had Jesus on E's, Jesus on Cheese, State of the Art and the spinoffs. Off on a tangent, I think the Jolly Rogers Cookbook was standard too.
FiverrFiend people get arrested these days and charged with terrorism offenses for having that particular cookbook - in the 80's and 90's we ALL had a copy LOL
And all this shipped on 2 floppy disks, for something like that to happen today would be unthinkable, for just the audio, never mind a video to go with it. Proof the demoscene had legions of untapped potential.
Can remember extending the intro in OctaMed and putting this onto tape for all my rave buddies while we got smashed before heading into town, great memories
@@diavanille6179 no, the drive would flash for a change of disk, you had to swap disks pretty sharpish or it would crash, this demo was one of the reasons I upgraded from the a500 to the 1200 and an external floppy drive, this and hired guns (4 disks iirc), bards tale (2 disks), the chaos Engine (2 disks), top notch games
This demo was put on 3 disks of 880KB each. Yes, KiloBYTES. 880KB was the Amiga format in those days on DD floppy disks. The PC could only get 720KB out of the same disks.
Takes me back, utterly amazing mix, thank jeebus I had an external drive for my Amiga to play interrupted, this was groundbreaking compared to today's technology.
I remember this demo being really hard to run on anything but a completely stock unexpanded Amiga 500... The good news is the music is good, but after the first 5 minutes you've pretty much seen the entire demo.
nice one....saves me getting the old 1200,s....600's....500's out the loft....or setting up uaex on the xbox...20 odd years of getting blitzed to this!!
still as amazing as when i first witnessed it on my A1200 in 92 loved it since! So many ripped samples from this, N-joi and later the chemicals with it began in africa to name but two!
Hey, I just listened to that before re-listening to the original. The remake is excellent. However, it's missing the dirty quality that really makes the music stand out on the original. We have new shiny hardware to thank for that. Not a criticism of your remake though. It's pretty perfect on modern production hardware. The limitations you had to work with back then give the original some real punch. You are no doubt etched into the memories of many thousands of people just like me that will never, ever forget having a copy of this demo for the first time and wishing they had the patience and skill to produce it. Especially the music. I was but a lowly BBS sysop distributing it. BTW, your shameless plug should have pointed out that YOU actually made the original.
Thanks Jamie. I didn't want to hijack this thread so kept my comment succinct. :) You're right that the remake has lost the grungy charm of the 8-bit original, but hopefully I made up for that with the instrument choices and production values. That said, it still sounds rough to me!
This music forever changed my teenaged mind for the better in the early 1990s. Living in the suburban US I had no access to anything like this other than the demoscene, but once I knew this sound existed, it was off to the races. Thank you x 1,000,000!!
Haha, init! My 500 is in the loft still. Going to get it down tomorrow and see how the little minx fires up. This has to have been the pinnacle of music creation on the Amiga. So wicked and creative. 3D Demo II was excellent as well, as was the stuff Jesper Kyd did, but this takes the biscuit.
I was an Amiga coder and you have to give the guys that made this some serious respect. To do this kind of stuff meant you had to be super creative at optimising code, audio and graphics. Coding had to be done in assembly at the bare metal level of the machine with no pre written libraries, you had to create every graphic, algorithm and compression routines to ebb every last cycle out of hardware that was designed in the early 80s. Only four channels of audio meant creative and careful use of samples that in some cases had to be multiplexed and combined to simulate 8 channels from 4. We would use break beat samples and synth pad samples to flesh out the lack of channels, graphics would be double buffered because the 68k processor in the Amiga was too slow so you would draw a frame in the background ram whilst one was displayed the use bit-plane pointer to switch to the alternative frame whilst drawing the next. Credit to the Amiga hardware design team of Jay Miner and the bedroom coders who took his creation and pushed it to the limits. Salute!
2 audio channels not 4....... left stereo and right stereo, each had left and right.......
@@chloedevereaux1801 Paula (Audiochip) have 4channels output so in this case 2 for left and 2 for right. ruclips.net/video/-AJcqqFdzFY/видео.html
@@chloedevereaux1801 Also i belive this is the first time Amiga owners would have surround sound in a stereo output chip and module format. ruclips.net/video/bOFf79OhAIw/видео.html
@@chloedevereaux1801 paula has 4 physical audio channels, 2 hard panned to left and 2 to the right.
I will never get over the joy this gave me back in the day, it was a literal lifetime ago and I still recall every single beat ,vocal and graphic. Truly before its time in every respect.
A masterpiece.
Did you get it (like myself) at a certain market where it was £2 for the first disk and £1 for the next?!
@@RussellGi ah The Barras is better 🎶😂
Is kinda cool (even 30 years later) how there was an underground scene & culture to being an Amiga owner, that you simply didn’t get on the Megadrive. I’m still as impressed with the 3/4 Tubular Bells sample over 4/4 breakbeats, moving to 44 seconds in, when that banging kick drum first comes in! Not a huge fan of nostalgia, but I fair enjoyed this comment. @@Glasweg1an
Magic! Try telling kids today that this was does in less than 1.5mb. Lordy I'm getting old!
+Anthony Prime People are still doing amazing things in incredibly small space constraints. The demo scene is alive and well.
+Simon Morgan, the point now though, would be to really push the boundaries of what is possible NOW. to cram as much into 128GB as possible, and really push the envelope for the future when everyone has 900TB Hard Disks
Anthony Prime as far as i know this came with 2 discs. So this was on about 3 MB. Right?
MixMoose Amiga Discs were 880kb DSDD so it came in at around 1760Kb, say 1.5Mb
MixMoose Hehe, 1.5MB diskS. It wasn't the future then buddy!
Memories of my Amiga and a sampler. The software I liked was octamed
Double disk drive loaded. Ghetto blaster hooked up to Amiga with RGB cables. Bass boost on. Window open. Let the sun shine.
I didn't bother with girlfriends at school, I was too addicted to 16bit games and E culture to even notice their so-called beauty!
Classic masterpiece! Can't believe I had forgotten this lol... 32 minutes of genius.... The Amiga era was brilliant.. .
Top memories, getting ready for a night out as a spotty virgin with this on in the background. After a rainy day spent on F-15 Strike Eagle II, Birds Of Prey or Knights of the Sky we went out drinking Blastaways anywhere that would let us in...
I was 21 when this came out... timed to perfection! Sounds as good now as it did then, so many memories - although I'm not convinced they're all mine...
I still LOVE this almost 25 years on! Thanks for a pivotal point in my life Echo, will take these tunes to my grave! :)
oh yess
Same!
Wow, where have the last 20 years gone?
Pissed up in rainy Manchester...love it!
Nice to see it all the way through. Can remember swapping disks over every time the drive light came on hoping it would continue running!!
I have all the .mod files for this, and was considering going through the lengthy process of working through all of them in Renoise, and cleaning up the sound, putting everything in Stereo, or at least Mixed Mono etc. Would anyone be interested in a 'digitally remastered' version of this?
did you remaster it?
I just checked my collection that I've kept since my Viglen 386 days and I think I have the set. Jesus0.mod to Jesus13.mod and JesusEnd.mod. What a blast from the past.
8 years later, howd it go
@@genericrandom64 curious on this as well. I've just been recounting the good old days of Rave Discs, and going to hill parties on a Friday night, rolling in on a Sunday afternoon and buying the DJ set on tape at your local rave/head shop on a Monday. Just blown the minds of my 20 something new hire!
Wow this brings back memories of my Amiga BBS scene days. Was part of LSD as a Hacker/Trader. Thanks for uploading.
MeCHaNiC/LSD
hi bud.. Fish/LSD
@@fish5210 Will Grapevine ever come back. (I did want to ask. is there a way I can contact you btw)
@@T3KNUG3T5 hi bud I can't see grapevine coming back.. its a shame it was a great time to be around
@@fish5210 Dang :( Grapevine was the first ever diskmag I ever raid (even though I started long after the Amiga had essentially faded)
Hey guys, just saying hello
AlCaPoNe / LSD Modem Trader
Not a huge fan of electronic/dance music but this is amazing. Found it in a box of "sold as blank" floppies.
Amiga is a computer to be worshipped. I bought PD discs from a guy in Scotland. I had Jesus on E's, Jesus on Cheese, State of the Art and the spinoffs. Off on a tangent, I think the Jolly Rogers Cookbook was standard too.
FiverrFiend people get arrested these days and charged with terrorism offenses for having that particular cookbook - in the 80's and 90's we ALL had a copy LOL
And all this shipped on 2 floppy disks, for something like that to happen today would be unthinkable, for just the audio, never mind a video to go with it.
Proof the demoscene had legions of untapped potential.
Quite a few people from the Amiga demoscene made it into games dev. Shagratt (the coder on Jesus on E's) definitely did.
Where did he end up?
Can remember extending the intro in OctaMed and putting this onto tape for all my rave buddies while we got smashed before heading into town, great memories
Still better than most music today!
great memories of this on my Amiga 500......floppy drive light would flash when you had to change discs :)
didnt u have to have 2 drives to even run the demo?
@@diavanille6179 no, the drive would flash for a change of disk, you had to swap disks pretty sharpish or it would crash, this demo was one of the reasons I upgraded from the a500 to the 1200 and an external floppy drive, this and hired guns (4 disks iirc), bards tale (2 disks), the chaos Engine (2 disks), top notch games
Thanks RMC-The cave for leading me here
Awesome! After all these years the Amiga still rules!
heck.. I'm 14 again.
I also use 5 bits for my age INT, and I just wrapped because overflow.
Still amazed in 2018
Pop the two disks in, switch off the lights and enjoy!
OOOOH!
Check Posh Buddy out with a second DF1.....
How the other half live
20:27 in...the best hard dance music I've ever heard. Has resonated with me since I was in my teens blasting this out of my TV. I still love it.
Loved this back in the day. I still have my set of PD disks including this. :)
Oh my god... as if this is still about...remember monging to this after a nights raving!!
This demo was put on 3 disks of 880KB each. Yes, KiloBYTES. 880KB was the Amiga format in those days on DD floppy disks. The PC could only get 720KB out of the same disks.
It really comes to show how far we’ve advanced in technology
How the hell can this sound soo good in 2017???? :)
Edward Snowden Still good in 2018, loving it 😀
And in 2019
Still great in 2020!
2021 ;)
@@RWL2012 2022! 😜
I'm pretty sure I bought an external disk drive for this demo!! Brilliant stuff!
Big up all the two disk drives crew out there who enjoyed this back in the 90's :)
aaaammmiiigggaaa rruuullleeesss forever
30yrs tomorrow since this was released. 💀
See, even rolf harris spoilt that.
He seems to know where 2 little boys are.
"I feel like I'm 9 years old again on my commodore Amiga 500!!! that's getting a big fatt LIKE!!!" :D
Why would anyone dislike this? Idiots.
This was the maddest thing I’d ever seen at time
Amiga kick asss back then! BuZzzin in early 90s!
And your thoughts will be slowed down , amiga forever
fookin class, want my amiga 500 back, (we used to have sensible world of soccer nights) where have the years gone?
Used to have this tape way back when. Classic!
This was awesome man I used to listen to this after school 1993
176Mb. (480p version)
Cripes, bit of a blast from the past. Remember getting a disk of this for my Amiga all those moons ago...
Awesome
Shit, just realised I was 12 when this came out. Music then is the dogs, music now is bollocks!
Takes me back, utterly amazing mix, thank jeebus I had an external drive for my Amiga to play interrupted, this was groundbreaking compared to today's technology.
Jeez. This brings back a ton of memories.
Best Amiga demo ever! Fact!
I used to put this on the big telly back in the 90s when I had people round after a gig , went down a storm
wow...thank you for uploading.....I lost many a night getting ready with this mix for a night out......nuff respect
WOW... i never saw the whole of this on the amiga coz it would always crash after about 15-20 mins... Amazing!!!!
This is what my dreams are made of
I remember you could only play all of it if you had an external floppy. Ah good times :)
Takes me back to the old days on my Amiga 500, love to get an mp3 of it
A masterpiece
Sitting looking over hong kong, pissed and loving it
This Demo planted a Virus in my Brain. Hearing Electronical Music since then...
I remember this demo being really hard to run on anything but a completely stock unexpanded Amiga 500... The good news is the music is good, but after the first 5 minutes you've pretty much seen the entire demo.
surfitlive Yeah, and even though this does repeat a lot, the visuals do progress a little throughout, they’re always well matched to the audio.
love this....
1:50 or so sounds a lot like the Futurama theme, but it didn't exist yet.
I had this disk
G'Day Rolf here
OMG, So different not on Acid! Great upload. Thanks for the memories
nice one....saves me getting the old 1200,s....600's....500's out the loft....or setting up uaex on the xbox...20 odd years of getting blitzed to this!!
This is so fucking awesome, thanks for uploading this. It's all excellent, but the tune at 18:17 is just especially fantastic.
27:05 RIP Mark KD (he made the "Loading" graphic). One of Covid's early victims and someone who I miss dearly.
Platform?
It’s an Amiga demo
@@lego5745 Thanks. It'd be nice if the uploader included that in the description.
I think it was only on Amiga ever.
still as amazing as when i first witnessed it on my A1200 in 92 loved it since! So many ripped samples from this, N-joi and later the chemicals with it began in africa to name but two!
so does anyone still have the original floppies and/or Jesus on E's roms?
this demo is a feat that must be celebrated and shown proper respect!
i wish i had this demo so i could go and watch it on my amiga ;(
Rolf Harriss makes this even more controversial now.
They must have known...
pissed in crete....loving it again
18:11 what tune is this?
Fucking great music!
Just a great demo overall :)
Jesus, I didn't know the Amiga could sound so awesome 0.o
I have an amiga 2000hd laying around, maybe I should see if I can play this demo on it :D
brings back memories....how ironic though that the original was 2x 880k floppy disks, i wonder how big this video version is!
1:45 - 2:12 12:50 - 13:17 so good ^_^
1:45. Sonz of a loop da loop era ' far out'
Anyone know if there's a 20th Anniversary gig in tribute to this piece of art?
If not, why not and where shall we have it!!!
"the two little boys aren't here at the moment....I'm bumming them in my cellar" actual transcription from the Operation Yewtree investigation.
Shameless plug: soundcloud.com/spoonwizard/jesus-on-es-remake
Hey, I just listened to that before re-listening to the original. The remake is excellent. However, it's missing the dirty quality that really makes the music stand out on the original. We have new shiny hardware to thank for that. Not a criticism of your remake though. It's pretty perfect on modern production hardware. The limitations you had to work with back then give the original some real punch. You are no doubt etched into the memories of many thousands of people just like me that will never, ever forget having a copy of this demo for the first time and wishing they had the patience and skill to produce it. Especially the music. I was but a lowly BBS sysop distributing it. BTW, your shameless plug should have pointed out that YOU actually made the original.
Thanks Jamie. I didn't want to hijack this thread so kept my comment succinct. :) You're right that the remake has lost the grungy charm of the 8-bit original, but hopefully I made up for that with the instrument choices and production values. That said, it still sounds rough to me!
This music forever changed my teenaged mind for the better in the early 1990s. Living in the suburban US I had no access to anything like this other than the demoscene, but once I knew this sound existed, it was off to the races.
Thank you x 1,000,000!!
Wow that was incredible - well done :).
Echo.. long time bud... still at it I see... Fish
epic!!!
Kiss the Alderman
Kiss the Alderman
Kiss the Alderman
JETJOOBOY Nooooo! NOT IN THE SPRINTER ROBERT.
Stop the Clock Ernie!
Were all the tracks resquenced?
Haha, init! My 500 is in the loft still. Going to get it down tomorrow and see how the little minx fires up. This has to have been the pinnacle of music creation on the Amiga. So wicked and creative. 3D Demo II was excellent as well, as was the stuff Jesper Kyd did, but this takes the biscuit.
Respect to the man in the ice cream van!!! Ace mate :-)
I managed to get this working with just one disc drive very hard to do and not recommended
OMG! Me too! :D
These were the days..
Them days when the government were not obliged to tell you to gamble responsibly..
you should see some of the push ent 64k demos mate the sound and quality is goood
This shoudl really be 50Hz - and frame sync - like other demos on RUclips - seems slightly off.
yeah Was great om my Amiga 1200
FPS is too slow it was faster than this, thanks for uploading though :)
it sounds a bit like Lords of the Acid - lets get high, but not sure if it is the exact same thing....
9:17....oh dear!
I remember playing this on my A600 then later on my A1200 absolutely brilliant demo...
reminds me of my Amiga 500 *sigh*
edddie was misssed out on credits as were his samples used dave kinda borrowed them lol