• Demoscene of the 90's

    From MeaTLoTioN@80:774/81 to All on Thu Sep 6 03:40:10 2018
    Hey guys,

    What was your favourite demo from the 90's?

    Mine has to be Future Crew's entry for Assembly '93 called "2nd Reality".
    That, I think, is one of the main reasons why I got into BBS's in the first place.

    I have it stored at TQW if anyone is interested :)

    /BR
    MeaTLoTioN aka Christian

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  • From Necromaster@80:774/0 to MeaTLoTioN on Thu Sep 6 07:58:11 2018
    On 09/06/18, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

    Hey guys,

    What was your favourite demo from the 90's?

    Mine has to be Future Crew's entry for Assembly '93 called "2nd Reality". That, I think, is one of the main reasons why I got into BBS's in the first place.

    I have it stored at TQW if anyone is interested :)


    I liked several on the Amiga... one that I remember was called 9-fingers :)

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  • From Cranksy@80:774/35 to MeaTLoTioN on Sun Sep 9 12:09:55 2018
    What was your favourite demo from the 90's?

    Mine has to be Future Crew's entry for Assembly '93 called "2nd Reality". That, I think, is one of the main reasons why I got into BBS's in the first place.

    I think I saw Dope by Complex first. But of course Second Reality in
    definitely the most famous.

    I preferred the out there stuff by Orange and NoooN. Specifically Starz and NO!. I keep saying I'm going to do a bass guitar cover of that someday. But
    I'm way out of practice.

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@80:774/81 to Cranksy on Mon Sep 10 09:34:18 2018
    I preferred the out there stuff by Orange and NoooN. Specifically Starz and NO!. I keep saying I'm going to do a bass guitar cover of that someday. But I'm way out of practice.

    I haven't heard of that one so I will go look it up. As for the bass guitar,
    I also have a bass guitar, and I am also way out of practice lol.

    Best regards,
    Christian.

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  • From blakespot@80:774/22 to MeaTLoTioN on Fri May 17 10:50:52 2019
    I first encountered scenedemos on the Amiga 2000 in 1989 or so. The first
    demo I ever saw on that platform was Raster Magic by Megaforce ( http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13481 ). I didn't even know what kind of thing it was, but I must have watched it 100 different times in the days
    after I downloaded it from a local BBS. My favorite oldschool Amiga demo is probably Phenomena's Enigma ( http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=394 ).
    Arte was also awesome ( http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1477 ), from Sanity. There are some amazing, recent OCS/ECS demos that have landed as well, and they blow the mind and are technically miles beyond anything from decades earlier, but I can't really point to just which of these new demos is the
    best to me.

    I moved to PC in 1994 and my favorite group there was Future Crew, with 2nd Reality being my favorite of that era (
    http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63 ). Another of my very favorites on DOS is Dope by Complex ( http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=37 ). I had (and
    have since sold and then much more recently re-created) a 5x86 160MHz DOS machine with a Gravis UltraSound and a 2MB VLB Tseng ET4000/W32p video card (the best chipset for that class of machine for demos) to watch these demos. (So I can't watch demos after 1996/7 very well.) I would not mind building a
    P3 DOS PC or a AMD-Thunderbird-based unit for later DOS demos.

    I also have an Atari 520ST w/ 4MB RAM and some of the recent demos for that platform are amazing. Really great what they can wring out of that hardware. Also use a PAL Atari 800XL for demos on that platform, but I'm pretty new to it.

    Cheers.

    bp

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