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Making of Second Reality / Future Crew

Mika Tuomi · 184.4K views · 2010-08-09 · 9:24

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Overview

Home video from 1993 showing Future Crew members at Mika Tuomi's home finishing the PC demo Second Reality shortly before release.

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HN people share it as rare behind-the-scenes footage of the making of a legendary demoscene production.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2011–2024

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Demoscene & retrocomputingHistory of computing
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What people said

mdaniel · 2024-03 · Recommendation

this video showed up in a recent thread about Second Reality and I had never seen it, so this audience may enjoy that, too: [VIDEO] ("Making of Second Reality / Future Crew")

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logbiscuitswave · 2021-03 · Recommendation

I had a 386/40DX that could run Second Reality, and I was blown away. When I upgraded to a 486/66DX2 the first thing I did was run Second Reality, and I was shocked at how much of the demo content I had missed before from parts being truncated. Also it’s worth noting that a lot of Second Reality’s source code got released to GitHub several years back: [LINK] and here’s an incredibly deep dive into the code: [LINK] Finally, here’s some rare footage of the creation of the legendary demo: [VIDEO] (English subtitles available)

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qingcharles · 2023-11 · Reference

Behind the Scenes: Future Crew putting the finishing touches on Second Reality a week before release... [VIDEO]

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Video by Mika Tuomi, played through YouTube.

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