Retro Memories
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People who might get epilepsy - do not play this video. tl;dr: It's computer-generated animation back from the late 90s. Most were written in Assembly and took very little storage - 64k was a max.
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@Dreece - Second reality was mind-blowing at the time
I don't know if many remember this, but Future Crew, developers of Second Reality demo, founded Futuremark bought by UL (Underwriters Laboratories) if this still doesn't ring any bells - the markers of 3DMarks
Demoscene - Wikipedia
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I don't know if many remember this, but Future Crew, developers of Second Reality demo, founded Futuremark bought by UL (Underwriters Laboratories) if this still doesn't ring any bells - the markers of 3DMarks
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Future Crew opened up the scene on the PC indeed, well considering their huge demo filesizes lol (for the time)
In recent years the 4k demoscene blew me away, next level wizardry.
In stark contrast, I myself created a couple of demos back in the day on the sinclair and the pc, not the Amiga though, was too busy other hobbies when I had the Amigas.
Elevated was unbelievable: (music and graphics all from one4096 4066 bytes executable)
*Try it for yourselves, simply amazing, download link: scene.org file archive :: rgba_tbc_elevated_2016.zip
In recent years the 4k demoscene blew me away, next level wizardry.
In stark contrast, I myself created a couple of demos back in the day on the sinclair and the pc, not the Amiga though, was too busy other hobbies when I had the Amigas.
Elevated was unbelievable: (music and graphics all from one
*Try it for yourselves, simply amazing, download link: scene.org file archive :: rgba_tbc_elevated_2016.zip
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Some of my all time favorites:
Some of these groups released their toolkits & the sources of these demos on github. The demos are nice, but the source code from a software developers view is usually just a mess and difficult to work with
I used to unpack/decrpyt binaries of such demos/cracktros/intros/keygens/patches to get the chiptunes (music files) for my collection.
If you're interested in the music files from such demos take a look at the modarchive project:
modarchive.org
Some of these groups released their toolkits & the sources of these demos on github. The demos are nice, but the source code from a software developers view is usually just a mess and difficult to work with
I used to unpack/decrpyt binaries of such demos/cracktros/intros/keygens/patches to get the chiptunes (music files) for my collection.
If you're interested in the music files from such demos take a look at the modarchive project:
The Mod Archive v4.0b - A distinctive collection of modules
tracker.modarchive.org
tracker.modarchive.org
You know I never submitted my tracks to any of the archives, its great to see the modarchive is still alive, I remember way back when it was just an ftp site.
I wrote a fair few synth tracks back in the day, AY primarily, did play with AHX for a while too. Then Soundtracker got me hooked followed by protracker then octamed and finally landed in fasttracker and buzz. These days its primarily Studio One with vsts and a few real keyboards.
Thinking back I loved the tracks by zuitek in the speccy demoscene.
This fella kept busy during lockdown:
Been considering picking up a Next, but already have a huge list of things I haven't got round to playing with so on a purchase pause until I clear my list (and inventory lol).
I wrote a fair few synth tracks back in the day, AY primarily, did play with AHX for a while too. Then Soundtracker got me hooked followed by protracker then octamed and finally landed in fasttracker and buzz. These days its primarily Studio One with vsts and a few real keyboards.
Thinking back I loved the tracks by zuitek in the speccy demoscene.
This fella kept busy during lockdown:
Been considering picking up a Next, but already have a huge list of things I haven't got round to playing with so on a purchase pause until I clear my list (and inventory lol).