The surround effect was actually Dolby Surround. If you rip the S3Ms from the demo you'll discover the ship sounds are present in two copies - the "normal" one and a phase-shifted one. By lowering the playback volume of one sample while raising the other one you get the effect that the ships are flying from behind you to the front. Like all the best demo effects, simple but very effective.
Best demo ever. I still get goose bumps in the last part. Amazing presentation, amazing music. Nobody ever laid down the smack like that again since Asm 93. FC 93 forever!!
Oh man. Memories from college days when the internet was only for the colleges and you'd find ftp servers filled with this stuff. If you had a 486 DX/2, this demo rocked! It is amazing how young some of these coders were, coding this stuff in straight assembler language, and composing the music themselves. I do remember trying to run it on a 386 and that failed. Way too choppy, so when I upgrade to my 486 DX/2, my friends were all jealous that I could play this demo in utter smoothness. Ahh, those were the days. :) No graphics APIs around. They had to write all the algorithms themselves. Amazing stuff what some of these guys have done and moved on to. Yeah, by today's standards, this looks lame, but think how they had to create this stuff from scratch, write the music, and sync it to the graphics on-screen. And usually, it was just 5 to 10 coders/musicians total working together to put create something the showed off the power of PCs back then, as well as demonstrated their talents in writing engaging demos, with music that was awesome. Heck, techcno music, as well as trance, I feel originated from these demos in the 90's.
17 people are people who have no idea whose these people were (are) and what kind of impact they have had. WITHOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THIS DEMO AND ALL THE OTHER EARLY DEMOSCENERS YOU COULD FORGET ABOUT DOOM, QUAKE AND ALL THE OTHER MODERN GRAPHICS! Deepest respect for Future Crew, I wish someday they would release the source code. I really want to see the sources for Psi's Moire effect and Wildfire's plasma, which is in my opinion the most beautiful plasma I have ever seen in a demo!
Thanks for posting this! Oh the memories... I used to watch this way too much back in the days heh... I luv FC and music by Purple Motion and Skaven is always good. It's great to see their continued great work in Remedy (Alan Wake, Max Payne etc.).
omg. This video almost made me cry. Good to hear it back again. Ages ago, I had this on my 486, back in the potty training days. This arouses the good memories. Thumbs up for their work!
Ahh fond memories of this incredible demo. Future Crew, the legend of pc demos! I must have watched this demo 100+ times when I was in high school. The audio visual experience of this demo is still hard to beat and stands up well to the test of time. It's amazing what they achieved with such little hardware. I mean video cards didn't even support any 3d geometry back then. Thanks for the upload.
Wow this brings back memories, these guys invented their own audio playback, screamtracker... ol school mp3's :_) This was in the days a PC could hardly put an image on the screen. Much respect!
@SolonOO1 This demo was the same way. I just love it and it blew my mind. Even in this age of 1080p/3D super detailed viewing, gaming and listening. you just cant beat the feeling and the sould that goes into these animations. Thank you Stormblast0891 for uploading and sharing this Video of Epic proportions. If you've been reading my posts from the start you'll know I came here because I was bored. Well thanks to some coincidental naming, some fond memories and a little curiosity. I'm not now!
Future Crew was an amazing group. I used to run one of the 4 North American HQ BBSes for them back in the day. I still remember when Second Reality came out and I'd watch it over and over with all the lights off and the sound blaring.
Back at the time it wasn't that easy to deal with graphic modes, sound or even memory. Also the artist tools were modest. In hindsight, I think the true achievement of this demo is not so much the tricks themselves (which were mindblowing at the time anyway), but the overall presentation, timing and "polisheness". This is a true classic.
This is the most amazing demo I ever saw from that era. The things that Future Crew did with a 386/486 are just insane. This demo had real-time software generated animations running at 30 or 60 fps with zero skipping, tearing, or lag, with perfect synchronization to music that was also being mixed in real-time, on a 33MHz processor with a few MB of RAM. Windows calculator almost uses more RAM than this entire demo. My favorite part back then was the animation starting at 2:59.
I started programming mode 13 and mode x after this demo and discovered many of the tricks they pulled off. Lower resolution in X and Y for the plasma cube, but alternated drawing to hide it. No depth sorting for the marbles. Palette changing for the glenz ball bouncing. Simple stuff, but they still did it first, and made things that were impossible possible. It blew me away. Amazing stuff. Best demo ever made, I believe, at least in terms of the hardware they had to work with.
Brings back great memories. Lot's of respect. ...thank you for future crew and whole oldschool demoscene for todays 3d game engines. The music, the artwork, the coding. Just way ahead of it's time. greetz from northern Finland!
In complete honesty, these are the most intelligent comments I have ever seen on any TH-cam video. Not that that's really saying much. Congrats to Future Crew, I wish I wasn't in 3rd grade when this happened so I could have experienced it firsthand.
Great post. Amazing what could be done real time back then. Commonly used computer special effects started here. Winner of assembly 93... hmmm... Happy 15th birthday!! (1993-2008).
this is the demo that made me hook my home stereo up to my pc. used to turn off the lights and watch it with the volume blasting. future crew are gods.
@SergeantLuke Another thing to note is that a lot of demoscene musicians and composers went on to contribute music to games such as the first-person shooter "Unreal" and so on. Four members of Future Crew, from what I've read, co-founded Remedy Entertainment (the folks behind Max Payne and Alan Wake), as well. They are respected coders :-)
Oh, brings back memories. Bought my GUS especially to enjoy this demo. And hey, where can I find more music like this? Never hear such cool music on the radio. Our own DJ Tiësto and Armin van Buuren do not seem to produce music as good as this, come on guys... ;)
seeing this makes me feel so nostalgic :D i was 13 years old when this fine demo was out. i remember watching this demo - first reaction i had was "WOW" - NO DOUBT (!). i'll always consider this demo as THE BEST demo ever made: great sound, great effects - can only assume & guess how much hard these guys worked to achive this master peice - awsome coders ! two thumbs up !!! my favorite part of this demo is the 'colors clouds mixing effect' + the sound of that section....
@SergeantLuke "Second Reality" was a demo by the demoscene group "Future Crew". Basically, it was a push of art and technology at a time when these graphics were really impressive on the PC. Search "Second Reality" on Wikipedia for details. I remember downloading this from a BBS on a modem and being blown away. Tons of visual effects and 3D graphics that were all done in *software*, without any 3D hardware at all. And, of course, the amazing music. To this, this soundtrack just blows my mind.
Oh i love to think back those great demo ages ..... every month i waited for the new cd come out in the stores where the demos were on. but THIS demo together with PANIC and Crystal Dreams 2 cant leave my memory...
To put it in context, this was the same year that Doom came out. This was revolutionary for its time. To think they pulled these graphics and effects off with no video hardware acceleration or OpenGL/D3D APIs is just mind blowing.
@Ensiferlul This was programmed from scratch on a 1993 PC running MS-DOS. It's kind of like making a version of Crysis that you can run on your cell phone.
@SolonOO1 my childhood was something that I jumped at the chance of playing but then something below that intrigued me more. If you cant get Second Reality to run on your computer you can buy it as part of this DVD video. as part of the eyecandy set. or something of the sort. Now that got me thinking. well it can't be a game. Which means it must be a video of sorts which lead me to this video. May i just say this is 9 and a half minutes of nostalgic perfection. All i could think about was
@colonelabruti u can't because in thouse years noone can even imagine that soon we'll be watching video in resolution above 320x240 This demo is actually use few non-standart resolution to get better perfomance and look at 1993 video cards.
God i remember this as life changing shit back in the day. From there I and my cousin started making mod files and fell in love with the scene. My cousin later commuted suicide RIP. He truly had the talent. It is sad when someon ends their life with no reason
First demo I ever seen. I heard mistakenly that the demo was for a general assembly language competition, and a bunch of smart kids decided to throw this together: a full multimedia demo doing stuff that was just not possible on the PC. I later learned about the history of them and the demoscene, so it became less impressive, but still VERY impressive. Even if flawed slightly, I'll remember my original thoughts forever. Amazing.
its always a win win situation with amazing demos like this: its either "I can't believe a standard PC DId that in real time" (1993) or "I cant believe a PC could do that in 1993!" ultimately amazing
Damn, that takes me back to the good ol days! I loved the music so much I recorded it to audio cassette so i could listen to it away fromt he computer. soo awesome!!
@SolonOO1 Saw beneath was a list of ideal settings and configurations for a MS-Dos Emulator. Now hearing those words again made me almost giddy. the thought of CD-dot-dot-backslash-this that and the other just flooded back all these memories as a kid with my first pc running windows 95 Playing Descent was my first taste of 3D graphics in a game EVER. and I loved the sensation of it. I was 7 years old then so of course thinking that this was some demo of a game build in the same engine that MADE
Wow that was awesome. I ran into this vid when googling for the Second Reality soundtrack. Unless I'm getting rusty, I'm gonna guess this was recorded from execution on a 486 DX-33 (maybe DX2-66 but it seems just a hair too slow) with 4MB RAM...maybe 8MB at max. Anyway, if anyone is interested, it seems that wikipedia has some great info on this demo including current download links for both the demo and the soundtrack, AND an emulator to allow it to run on modern hardware in current OS's.
great stuff!!!impressive even now!!!iv got the whole thing in my mp3 playlist of course as an .S3M since than...its trilion years ago...Second Reality RULES!!!
I was never part of Future Crew, but I remember back in 1993 when I was 15 years old, taking 386 assembly code and literally taking basic math operations and using tricks to shave 1-3 clocks off of them to speed up code. Makes you a much more efficient programmer today, although if today code was written with that much care, we'd be doing Genome decoding with our Iphones...
this demo inspired a lot of us (including myself) to get into the scene... it's a shame those days are nothing more than a memory now. the new age of computers isn't what it once was unfortunately.
(\ Same here and glad I did. Holy cow- this demo is absolutely *mindblowing*. I remember what early 90s hardware was like and this is really something.
This was made in 1993 by a demoscene group called Future Crew. When they broke up, some of them stayed together and founded Remedy Entertainment. So when you call something an indie game, learn some history and try to learn to tell from a game to just a non-interactive demo!
1993. Running on a freaking 486DX2-66 (for me, at least). Stock VGA being tweaked to produce way more than 256 colors (in the plasma cloud scene). Real-time ray-tracing. To us, doing this on the technology of the time was like a PC of today rendering Toy Story 3 in real time.
Reminds me of Kefrens Desert Dream (Amiga) which was made the same year. I had both Amiga and PC back in those days, so i could run all demoes for both systems. :)
Thanks for this info about "Kefrens' Desert Dreams". Really seems, that FC was inspired a bit, but did an awesome composing, where Kef "glued" parts together. Those groups where showing how to get most out of those 111011001010100100111s :]
Oh what great memories. I remember seeing this in 1993. I still have the files but don't have a machine that can run it. (that I know how to configure anyway). I have a lot of other music files from Purple Motion. Funny thing - only WinAmp will play them. .mod files.
@SolonOO1 being 7 years old again half way through doing my homework, getting stuck and then as I'm working it out in my head and on paper the Windows 95 screen saver pops up and it's this maze thing. the computer navigating through a maze trying to find the smiley face at the end. every time it'd be different. and every time I'd try to work it out before the computer did. and I'd waste a good half hour mesmerized by the way it looked i knew the quality was bad but I couldn't take my eyes off
Of course. SR has even been ported to C64. Search for "Second Reality 64" For impressive Amiga 1200 demos, look for Starstruck by The Black Lotus and Lightshaft by Elude, to name a few
If you ever need to resurrect me from the grave and then send me to make a heroic feat - just put on me headphones with this music. Just be sure volume set to the maximum. It charges me more than anything else. Legendary music... The BEST.
My goodness. A realtime raytracer in 1993 without ANY accelerated graphics. And a particle system. This puts almost all of today's game industry to shame.
@DanMorin007 I don´t know about all of them but atleast some of them started companies like Futuremark (3DMark) and Remedy Entertainment (Death Rally, Max Payne, Alan Wake). Atleast one member of Future Crew became a millionaire by creating a company called Bitboys which specialized in mobile graphics and he later sold his share of the company to Ati.
@dbfbody i'm quite sure that second reality wasn't coded with assembly. c or something. but still this demo is one of the most important ones in the history of demo coding..
I remember my 486 DX/40 (then DX/50) was also able to pull it off nicely, except for the voxel/water part in the end, which was choppier than the rest of the demo. A 386 DX/40 on the other hand.... ;-)
Simply : it's art ! I was able to ran this demo on my Cyrix PR166 ( 133Mhz ), it was so impressive regarding games in these early year of 3D Game ( Commanche, X-Wing for example was not so beautiful than future crew demo )
The surround effect was actually Dolby Surround. If you rip the S3Ms from the demo you'll discover the ship sounds are present in two copies - the "normal" one and a phase-shifted one. By lowering the playback volume of one sample while raising the other one you get the effect that the ships are flying from behind you to the front.
Like all the best demo effects, simple but very effective.
The last time I saw this I was 16.. I'm 31 now and it's still a very enjoyable experience! I remember wishing I could go to assembly '93.
Best demo ever. I still get goose bumps in the last part. Amazing presentation, amazing music. Nobody ever laid down the smack like that again since Asm 93. FC 93 forever!!
Oh man. Memories from college days when the internet was only for the colleges and you'd find ftp servers filled with this stuff.
If you had a 486 DX/2, this demo rocked! It is amazing how young some of these coders were, coding this stuff in straight assembler language, and composing the music themselves. I do remember trying to run it on a 386 and that failed. Way too choppy, so when I upgrade to my 486 DX/2, my friends were all jealous that I could play this demo in utter smoothness. Ahh, those were the days. :)
No graphics APIs around. They had to write all the algorithms themselves. Amazing stuff what some of these guys have done and moved on to.
Yeah, by today's standards, this looks lame, but think how they had to create this stuff from scratch, write the music, and sync it to the graphics on-screen. And usually, it was just 5 to 10 coders/musicians total working together to put create something the showed off the power of PCs back then, as well as demonstrated their talents in writing engaging demos, with music that was awesome. Heck, techcno music, as well as trance, I feel originated from these demos in the 90's.
17 people are people who have no idea whose these people were (are) and what kind of impact they have had.
WITHOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THIS DEMO AND ALL THE OTHER EARLY DEMOSCENERS YOU COULD FORGET ABOUT DOOM, QUAKE AND ALL THE OTHER MODERN GRAPHICS!
Deepest respect for Future Crew, I wish someday they would release the source code. I really want to see the sources for Psi's Moire effect and Wildfire's plasma, which is in my opinion the most beautiful plasma I have ever seen in a demo!
Thanks for posting this! Oh the memories... I used to watch this way too much back in the days heh... I luv FC and music by Purple Motion and Skaven is always good. It's great to see their continued great work in Remedy (Alan Wake, Max Payne etc.).
Had 486 DX 40MHz oc-ed to 50MHz back in 1994. This demo always brought tears to my eyes... I started programming because of this demo. A classic!
This was the best (back in the day)! Really glad to see this posted here!
omg. This video almost made me cry. Good to hear it back again. Ages ago, I had this on my 486, back in the potty training days. This arouses the good memories. Thumbs up for their work!
Ahh fond memories of this incredible demo. Future Crew, the legend of pc demos! I must have watched this demo 100+ times when I was in high school. The audio visual experience of this demo is still hard to beat and stands up well to the test of time. It's amazing what they achieved with such little hardware. I mean video cards didn't even support any 3d geometry back then. Thanks for the upload.
I must have watched this dozens of times back in the 90s. Still enjoy it today. Still an amazing show of incredible code work.
I watch this 5 times per year. Every fuckin time I get fuckin goosebumps.
Wow this brings back memories, these guys invented their own audio playback, screamtracker... ol school mp3's :_)
This was in the days a PC could hardly put an image on the screen.
Much respect!
@SolonOO1 This demo was the same way. I just love it and it blew my mind. Even in this age of 1080p/3D super detailed viewing, gaming and listening. you just cant beat the feeling and the sould that goes into these animations. Thank you Stormblast0891 for uploading and sharing this Video of Epic proportions. If you've been reading my posts from the start you'll know I came here because I was bored. Well thanks to some coincidental naming, some fond memories and a little curiosity. I'm not now!
Future Crew was an amazing group. I used to run one of the 4 North American HQ BBSes for them back in the day.
I still remember when Second Reality came out and I'd watch it over and over with all the lights off and the sound blaring.
Back at the time it wasn't that easy to deal with graphic modes, sound or even memory. Also the artist tools were modest. In hindsight, I think the true achievement of this demo is not so much the tricks themselves (which were mindblowing at the time anyway), but the overall presentation, timing and "polisheness". This is a true classic.
It's hard to believe this was all the way back from 1993. Many years later, this still looks and sounds effin' impressive.
This is the most amazing demo I ever saw from that era. The things that Future Crew did with a 386/486 are just insane. This demo had real-time software generated animations running at 30 or 60 fps with zero skipping, tearing, or lag, with perfect synchronization to music that was also being mixed in real-time, on a 33MHz processor with a few MB of RAM. Windows calculator almost uses more RAM than this entire demo. My favorite part back then was the animation starting at 2:59.
3:00... still one of my favorite visuals
I started programming mode 13 and mode x after this demo and discovered many of the tricks they pulled off. Lower resolution in X and Y for the plasma cube, but alternated drawing to hide it. No depth sorting for the marbles. Palette changing for the glenz ball bouncing. Simple stuff, but they still did it first, and made things that were impossible possible. It blew me away. Amazing stuff. Best demo ever made, I believe, at least in terms of the hardware they had to work with.
Brings back great memories. Lot's of respect. ...thank you for future crew and whole oldschool demoscene for todays 3d game engines. The music, the artwork, the coding. Just way ahead of it's time. greetz from northern Finland!
In complete honesty, these are the most intelligent comments I have ever seen on any TH-cam video. Not that that's really saying much.
Congrats to Future Crew, I wish I wasn't in 3rd grade when this happened so I could have experienced it firsthand.
This is the BEST VIDEO I'VE EVER SEEN. True old school........
Respect you, guys!
Esto fue lo primero que vi en mi primer pc, y cada vez que lo veía flipaba aún más. Es increible, para los 90 era lo más. Qué bueno!!!
Great post. Amazing what could be done real time back then. Commonly used computer special effects started here.
Winner of assembly 93... hmmm...
Happy 15th birthday!! (1993-2008).
This was a shockin trip... I learned how to use trackers by listening and studying PM's Second Reality...
Thanks again for putting this here.
Black Lotus later did some amazing demos as well. They were like the newer Future Crew
in fact TBL demos are very impressive, some even more stylish then FC!
this is the demo that made me hook my home stereo up to my pc. used to turn off the lights and watch it with the volume blasting.
future crew are gods.
@SergeantLuke Another thing to note is that a lot of demoscene musicians and composers went on to contribute music to games such as the first-person shooter "Unreal" and so on. Four members of Future Crew, from what I've read, co-founded Remedy Entertainment (the folks behind Max Payne and Alan Wake), as well. They are respected coders :-)
Oh, brings back memories. Bought my GUS especially to enjoy this demo. And hey, where can I find more music like this? Never hear such cool music on the radio. Our own DJ Tiësto and Armin van Buuren do not seem to produce music as good as this, come on guys... ;)
seeing this makes me feel so nostalgic :D
i was 13 years old when this fine demo was out. i remember watching this demo - first reaction i had was "WOW" - NO DOUBT (!). i'll always consider this demo as THE BEST demo ever made: great sound, great effects - can only assume & guess how much hard these guys worked to achive this master peice - awsome coders ! two thumbs up !!!
my favorite part of this demo is the 'colors clouds mixing effect' + the sound of that section....
This demo was the reason I bought a Gravis Ultrasound. Thanks for the flash back
Man... one thing i always loved about the demoscene... the music. Never fails.
@SergeantLuke "Second Reality" was a demo by the demoscene group "Future Crew". Basically, it was a push of art and technology at a time when these graphics were really impressive on the PC. Search "Second Reality" on Wikipedia for details.
I remember downloading this from a BBS on a modem and being blown away. Tons of visual effects and 3D graphics that were all done in *software*, without any 3D hardware at all. And, of course, the amazing music. To this, this soundtrack just blows my mind.
Oh my god I remember seeing this 11 years ago and reminiscing about how I saw it 16 years before that. I'm getting old...
Oh i love to think back those great demo ages ..... every month i waited for the new cd come out in the stores where the demos were on. but THIS demo together with PANIC and Crystal Dreams 2 cant leave my memory...
To put it in context, this was the same year that Doom came out. This was revolutionary for its time.
To think they pulled these graphics and effects off with no video hardware acceleration or OpenGL/D3D APIs is just mind blowing.
@Ensiferlul This was programmed from scratch on a 1993 PC running MS-DOS. It's kind of like making a version of Crysis that you can run on your cell phone.
Oh my god I remember running this on my 286 back in 1995 when I was in college. Thanks for posting this!
@SolonOO1 my childhood was something that I jumped at the chance of playing but then something below that intrigued me more. If you cant get Second Reality to run on your computer you can buy it as part of this DVD video. as part of the eyecandy set. or something of the sort. Now that got me thinking. well it can't be a game. Which means it must be a video of sorts which lead me to this video.
May i just say this is 9 and a half minutes of nostalgic perfection. All i could think about was
This is truly the one that set the demo standard ! i love it !!
Wow. I've never left a comment on youTube but this gets my first. You just took me back to 1994. Cheers!
Man, this still gives me goosebumps. Some of the greatest demo music ever made!
One short word - GREAT. I'll always remember this superb demo.
The best ever. Started a revolution.
Good old times.
Unforgettable music, excellent coding
some of them are active in the company "Remedy Entertainment" where they developed this game called MAX PAYNE.
They are still awesome
Oh my god I remember seeing this 2 and 13 years ago and reminiscing about how I saw it in 1995. I'm even older now...
@colonelabruti u can't because in thouse years noone can even imagine that soon we'll be watching video in resolution above 320x240
This demo is actually use few non-standart resolution to get better perfomance and look at 1993 video cards.
God i remember this as life changing shit back in the day. From there I and my cousin started making mod files and fell in love with the scene. My cousin later commuted suicide RIP. He truly had the talent. It is sad when someon ends their life with no reason
i was 11 at that time and was watching it with my cousin on his 386DX. i was amazed. and still I am... a cornerstone.
Memories. Man, Purple Motion made some great mod-tracks.
I was amazed my 486 33mhz was able to pull this demo off. :D
imagine this being the first demo you ever saw... that's how it was for me. can't even describe it.
First demo I ever seen. I heard mistakenly that the demo was for a general assembly language competition, and a bunch of smart kids decided to throw this together: a full multimedia demo doing stuff that was just not possible on the PC. I later learned about the history of them and the demoscene, so it became less impressive, but still VERY impressive. Even if flawed slightly, I'll remember my original thoughts forever. Amazing.
its always a win win situation with amazing demos like this: its either "I can't believe a standard PC DId that in real time" (1993) or "I cant believe a PC could do that in 1993!"
ultimately amazing
Damn, that takes me back to the good ol days! I loved the music so much I recorded it to audio cassette so i could listen to it away fromt he computer. soo awesome!!
@SolonOO1 Saw beneath was a list of ideal settings and configurations for a MS-Dos Emulator. Now hearing those words again made me almost giddy. the thought of CD-dot-dot-backslash-this that and the other just flooded back all these memories as a kid with my first pc running windows 95 Playing Descent was my first taste of 3D graphics in a game EVER. and I loved the sensation of it. I was 7 years old then so of course thinking that this was some demo of a game build in the same engine that MADE
Wow that was awesome. I ran into this vid when googling for the Second Reality soundtrack. Unless I'm getting rusty, I'm gonna guess this was recorded from execution on a 486 DX-33 (maybe DX2-66 but it seems just a hair too slow) with 4MB RAM...maybe 8MB at max. Anyway, if anyone is interested, it seems that wikipedia has some great info on this demo including current download links for both the demo and the soundtrack, AND an emulator to allow it to run on modern hardware in current OS's.
great stuff!!!impressive even now!!!iv got the whole thing in my mp3 playlist of course as an .S3M since than...its trilion years ago...Second Reality RULES!!!
I was absolutely amazed when I first saw this back in late '93. Wicked demo!
I was never part of Future Crew, but I remember back in 1993 when I was 15 years old, taking 386 assembly code and literally taking basic math operations and using tricks to shave 1-3 clocks off of them to speed up code. Makes you a much more efficient programmer today, although if today code was written with that much care, we'd be doing Genome decoding with our Iphones...
Brings back good memories... this was the demo that got me to buy a Gravis Ultrasound.
the days of programs in assembler....
this really opened my eyes when I first saw thier -art form-.
this demo inspired a lot of us (including myself) to get into the scene... it's a shame those days are nothing more than a memory now. the new age of computers isn't what it once was unfortunately.
It is almost 20 years old demo but still one of the BEST.
holy crap this is awesome. I remember having this up on my BBS back in the day lol.
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Same here and glad I did. Holy cow- this demo is absolutely *mindblowing*. I remember what early 90s hardware was like and this is really something.
Isn't the guys of FC from Finland, because I'm too :)
Awesome, just awesome! This is, really, one of the best demos the world has ever seen.
You need to be so über to write this in assembly, these guys are unbelievable. Loved Scream Tracker too
This was made in 1993 by a demoscene group called Future Crew. When they broke up, some of them stayed together and founded Remedy Entertainment. So when you call something an indie game, learn some history and try to learn to tell from a game to just a non-interactive demo!
1993. Running on a freaking 486DX2-66 (for me, at least). Stock VGA being tweaked to produce way more than 256 colors (in the plasma cloud scene). Real-time ray-tracing. To us, doing this on the technology of the time was like a PC of today rendering Toy Story 3 in real time.
Reminds me of Kefrens Desert Dream (Amiga) which was made the same year.
I had both Amiga and PC back in those days, so i could run all demoes for both systems. :)
ahh a buddy of mine showed this to me in like 94, I was amazed :)
thanks for posting it
Actually, the track "Nightvision" by Alexander Brandon was originally in a 1996 KFMF demo of the same name.
Thanks for this info about "Kefrens' Desert Dreams". Really seems, that FC was inspired a bit, but did an awesome composing, where Kef "glued" parts together.
Those groups where showing how to get most out of those 111011001010100100111s :]
I hope the Future Crew guys started their own business (or got great jobs) and have been happy and successful, both personally and professionally.
These people must have known the hardware they were working on down to clock-by-clock timing. Absolutely amazing.
future crew...the only guys who could bring up against amiga at this time..part of my youth! loved their demos
Same here, but I had a 130mb hdd back in '93. I really miss the old BBS days where I got this demo.
Даже сейчас смотрится великолепно!
А в те годы эту демку каждый день крутил на компе...
Oh what great memories. I remember seeing this in 1993. I still have the files but don't have a machine that can run it. (that I know how to configure anyway). I have a lot of other music files from Purple Motion. Funny thing - only WinAmp will play them. .mod files.
@SolonOO1 being 7 years old again half way through doing my homework, getting stuck and then as I'm working it out in my head and on paper the Windows 95 screen saver pops up and it's this maze thing. the computer navigating through a maze trying to find the smiley face at the end. every time it'd be different. and every time I'd try to work it out before the computer did. and I'd waste a good half hour mesmerized by the way it looked i knew the quality was bad but I couldn't take my eyes off
No longer available?! That's crap. This video was awesome, and I LOVED being able to watch it regularly without booting DOS.
Thanks for posting this! Wish it had the end credits + music, though!
DOS where the days! Remember running this demo on my 486sx with 4mb ram and 16mg harddrive.
@THkaas
Yeah, Check the wikipedia page, there are links at the bottom.
Brings back wonderful memories.
Considering that the video is 19 years old, this is pretty badass in 1993 :P
Of course. SR has even been ported to C64. Search for "Second Reality 64"
For impressive Amiga 1200 demos, look for Starstruck by The Black Lotus and Lightshaft by Elude, to name a few
an outstanding piece of digital art!
If you ever need to resurrect me from the grave and then send me to make a heroic feat - just put on me headphones with this music. Just be sure volume set to the maximum.
It charges me more than anything else. Legendary music... The BEST.
My goodness. A realtime raytracer in 1993 without ANY accelerated graphics. And a particle system. This puts almost all of today's game industry to shame.
Purple Motion did really good job with the music.. one of the best tracks ever..
@DanMorin007 I don´t know about all of them but atleast some of them started companies like Futuremark (3DMark) and Remedy Entertainment (Death Rally, Max Payne, Alan Wake). Atleast one member of Future Crew became a millionaire by creating a company called Bitboys which specialized in mobile graphics and he later sold his share of the company to Ati.
Yeah, I fully agree with this. Skaven's music on the credits is just too often forgotten about.
@dbfbody i'm quite sure that second reality wasn't coded with assembly. c or something. but still this demo is one of the most important ones in the history of demo coding..
I remember my 486 DX/40 (then DX/50) was also able to pull it off nicely, except for the voxel/water part in the end, which was choppier than the rest of the demo. A 386 DX/40 on the other hand.... ;-)
Danny talking bout that demoscene. AWWW YEAH!!!
Simply : it's art !
I was able to ran this demo on my Cyrix PR166 ( 133Mhz ), it was so impressive regarding games in these early year of 3D Game ( Commanche, X-Wing for example was not so beautiful than future crew demo )
The music is really awesome!
October 2013, this demo will be 20 years old.. that's a long time