Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps]

DemosceneVids · 241.2K views · 2015-02-07 · 16:19

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Overview

A 60fps capture of Future Crew's 1993 MS-DOS demo Second Reality, one of the best-known pieces of the demoscene. It runs about 16 minutes of real-time graphics and music effects on PC hardware of the era.

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HN commenters cite it as the landmark demo of the demoscene's golden era, and this capture lets people watch it without running it under DOS.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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Demoscene & retrocomputing Computer graphics & rendering

What people said

ChrisArchitect · 2023-10 · Strong recommendation
Nice little interview that touches on a number of the magical parts of the scene and the many elements and major sites. This guy only started in 1997? All good, but feel like that's just a bit 'after' the golden, significant era. There was definitely a change as PC/windows development happened ...right around then I'd say. But maybe that's just my take on it. Feel like references to some classic demos should be late 80s/early 90s for the sheer impact and that it was a much much more active scene then. Future Crew "Second Reality" forever. ;) [VIDEO]
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Flow · 2023-11 · Recommendation
Here's a 60fps video of the same demo. The demo-sceners work really hard to make everything 60fps(1 vbl), so watching it in any other frame-rate feels wrong. [VIDEO]
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herodoturtle · 2021-03 · Recommendation
Loved reading this comment, thanks for sharing. The demo scene is what got me into programming in my youth - in particular Denthor's BBS tuts, and many late night adventures in mode13h. Good times! > That was when Future Crew showed up with 2nd Reality and the double bouncing, transparent balls. I still remember the feeling of amazement and utter loss at seeing that :) Future Crew's 2nd Reality demo, for those that haven't seen it: [VIDEO]
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