The demoscene is a global computer art subculture centered on creating real-time non-interactive audio-visual presentations called demos, with the Amiga serving as one of its most iconic platforms throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. Amiga demos showcased the hardware's capabilities through effects like copper bars, plasma, and 3D wireframes, pushing the custom chipset to its limits using techniques such as raster bars and hardware scrolling. Participants, known as sceners, competed at events called demoparties to release productions ranging from small 4KB intros to elaborate demos with tracked music and complex graphics.