Amiga demo disks featuring Steve Vizard

These unique software 'demos' were produced for the Amiga computer by the Australian demo group Decay in 1990, and feature Steve Vizard and Derryn Hinch in an unofficial capacity, screen-captured from their TV programs at the time. 'Demos' were audiovisual demonstrations of the multimedia capabilities of a computer in the form of a computer program.

Rival groups made up of artists, coders and musicians would compete to produce the best demos that could push the limits of a computer. In the days before the web, these demos were distributed on floppy disks (either swapped in person or sent in the mail) or downloaded (very slowly) by dialling into a bulletin board.

Donated by Craig Marshall.

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