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niteshad

The Daily Demoscene

Feb 22, 2009 17:47

Since I didn't post any demos on Saturday, everyone gets to see two of them today. This time, we take a look at what is arguably one of the most famous demos of all time, Future Crew's Second Reality released in 1993 (the year I graduated high school and first discovered Unix and the Internet ( Read more... )

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praecorloth February 23 2009, 00:28:30 UTC

Fastest pre-pentium machine I had was an AMD 486 dx4 120mhz with 16 megs of RAM and a Trident video card. That thing was balls fast yo! :)

niteshad February 23 2009, 01:08:13 UTC

You're lucky! The fastest machine I had, prior to buying my Pentium 90 Packard Bell, was a Tandy 1000 TL/2 with a 286 on an 8086 motherboard clocked to either 8 MHz or 4.77 MHz, 640k of RAM and a 20 Meg HDD.

After I bought the Pentium, the next computer I bought was a Toshiba Satellite 2135CS with a 486 DX4 75 MHz with 8 megs of RAM (later upgraded to 24 megs) and a 540MB HDD (later upgraded to 2.1GB) It ran some kind of Chips & Technologies graphics hardware, which was a bit interesting to get X running on it. Though, until 1999 when I finally retired that laptop, it was my main Linux box.

glacial23 February 23 2009, 00:55:36 UTC

I still love this demo, and watch it in DOSBox on occasion.

niteshad February 23 2009, 01:09:55 UTC

It's the demo I've seen most frequently and most frequently talked about too. Watch this space though, my explorations are just getting started and there's some very good stuff waiting just around the corner!

stormgren February 23 2009, 01:21:15 UTC

And contains my favorite sound sample.

I have the soundfile for this ripped into apple lossless, it's a regular part of my car playlist.

niteshad February 23 2009, 01:24:50 UTC

Now I will visualize you cranking this one up as the PT Cruiser hits the pavement every morning.