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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Did you realize there was a port of Second Reality to the Commodore 64? I didn't! Now I do.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

I didn't! Thank you for the link!

I've been a big fan of the Textmode demo competition since I ran into it for the first time about two years ago.

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astralpancakes · . Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12

I'm not sure if it was "true" textmode or just made to look like it, but some years ago I remember seeing a demo that looked like the view from a computer screen running DOS, set to the sound of typing and two guys talking in Finnish. It starts out as a view of Turbo C++ (or somesuch -- looked like DOS edit.com with the blue background). One of the guys loads up code for various effects and talks about how he's making a demo for a small party coming up (the party at which the demo in question eventually appeared, naturally), while his friend makes snide comments. At one point he actually acknowledges one of the effects looks pretty nice, to which the reply is "of course, I ripped it straight from a tutorial".
Towards the end they realize their demo needs graphics, so they load up Deluxe Paint, draw a boobie, then declare themselves done and head out for pizza.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Man, Deluxe Paint is the baker's pancakes. Why doesn't it still exist?
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Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

Pointlessly awesome technical exercises sums up most demo scenes, doesn't it!
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

While we're on the subject, someone... did a parody of Second Reality.

The guy who posted it doesn't seem to understand the concept.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

What are these demoscene videoes demos of anyway?
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Effects, basically. Second Reality was popular for its 3D rendering without a 3D accelerator. Wikipedia has an entry.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Demonstrations of people's ability to run code so close to the machine that you get ridiculously nice graphical effects in a small amount of space.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

And, at least in the days before graphics accelerator card, demonstrations of how to push the hardware in new and largely unexplored directions. As you say, as elegantly as possible.

Also demonstrations of musical and visual prowess for team members. It's sort of a synergistic melange of music, graphic art, and coding.

Here's the original demo. Or a video of it, anyway.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

I've always seen demos as a vehicle for music more than a showcase of hardware trickery, like an abstract video clip on the chart show of the mind or whatever overtly pretentiously sounding way you want to put it.
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Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

I wouldn't exactly call a Sam Coupé emulator for PSP a pointless technical exercise, but I'm not sure exactly for whom it's intended. Still, the world is a more beautiful place for it existing.

(Actually, who the hell am I to talk? I just downloaded the guy's BBC Micro emulator.)

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Why the hell doesn't Future Crew's "Panic" get more love? I remember it as being the more artistically balanced of the two (vs. Second Reality).

Amazing what they could get a 386 to do. (and funny, then, that part of the big finale seems to be a now-unimpressive flight through a polygon city; I guess it's probably as close as they come to a "pure" 3D engine, but the other stuff had better aesthetics.) The C=64 port is pretty astounding in its own right too.

EDIT: I'd love it if someone could point me to a copy of Panic online, and see if my memory of it bears out.
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How about DooM for Intellivision?

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parkbench · . Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 145

I liked FFX on NES:

I think in the end though, it turned out to be a mockup and not much a rom hack.

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parkbench · . Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 145

I can't speak for the demos, but I can say that DOSBox in general is a pretty painless process. You're just mounting things essentially. If you want to get fancy you can, but it tends to be pretty straightforward.