Second Reality by Future Crew on a vintage 486.
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2022
- The Classic scene demo Second Reality by Future Crew
Find it at files.scene.org/view/parties/...
Run on vintage hardware.
Intel 486 dx2 66
32mb 70ns ram
Creative AWE64
ATI Mach32 VLB Video - Навчання та стиль
Was thinking of doing other demos. Any suggestions?
From the same era:
Unreal by Future Crew
Crystal Dream 2 by Triton
Dope by Complex
@@ruipinto6347 I just put up Crystal Dream 2.
Super Television or X14
This was peak demo scene imo.
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor the first time I ran this.
I remember I actually got my friends round and amazed them with it too 😁
Nostalgic, I remember running this back in the day on my 486DX 66Mhz. Truly stunning demo from future crew.
Sweet! Brings back memories. I remember sometimes upgrading my PC just to get these demos to run more smoothly (and of course games). Would like to see Crystal Dream II and Unreal please! The music in these demos were always half the joy. Those MODs….
I just recorded and put up Crystal Dream 2.
Yep, in ‘93 I upgraded from an 8 MHz clone to a 486/33 and loved running demos like this.
Good lord, does that bring back some memories! I may still have that buried somewhere on all those old floppies around here, plus I still have an old Pentium that could run it. That was some cutting edge stuff back then. Hard to believe that was nearly 30 years ago. Makes me wonder what became of those guys. Does that Future Crew outfit even still exist?
Pro tip: You can halve your boot time if you disable the extended memory check in the BIOS :) Thanks for the memories!
This is with the "Quick boot" option checked.
I haven’t seen this demo, but I have this track, played it with Fast Tracker 2.
The good old days, which is now 3 decades ago when this demo released. I also played it on my own 486 & Pentium1 back then.
Good lord, this brings back memories from my Core days.
I remember this being shown to the class back in 1993 or so.
Nice! My favorit demo of all times. Both the gfx and music was awesome.
Thanks for the awesome video! I wish it was on a CRT though.. There's so much delay when switching resolutions and the distortion really adds to the 90s experience!
we'd probably experience bad framerate video from it tho right?
@@JanaBuvari No, when synced correctly to the camera it's great. There are many other videos out there with recorder CRT screens and it's fine when done properly. In the worst case you get some awful rolling shutter issues, but framerates are not the issue here.
I've seen this before! A long, long time ago...
Abyss were one of the great Amiga coding groups back then, i can't remember this on a 486 though, it's a bit of a gem!
Probably missed this back in day because my PC might not have been beefy enough to run it! Very cool. Reminds me of Mind's Eye animation mixed with some c64 sid toons.
Loved that demo when it first came out. You need a Gravis Ultrasound card in that to truly do it justice.
It's one of my favorites. I wish I had a GUS, I'd love to hear the difference in it.
@@Veeb0rg I sold my GUS years ago, wish I hadn't now! Bought it especially to play Doom on!
Yeah I had the GUS MAX at that time, didn't even know it was so great for playing certain things as it was pretty bad for some other stuff, but I was just about 10 years old or so and my dad had bought it for me and I had no real experience with other soundcards. Lots of trouble with getting it to work sometimes but I got the hang of it. Later coupled it with a SBPRO to make life a little easier and to be able to play OPL FM music properly. I wish I still had it, worth a fortune by now. I just threw it away as if it was some piece of junk....
@@stefankoopmans2200 Yep, its soundblaster compatibility was pretty hit and miss. I ended up putting a SB16-ASP card in my PC as well as the GUS for software that didn't have a dedicated GUS option. But for software that did, the sound quality was much better. A bit of a performance boost too due to the GUS' huge DSP.
That LCD monitor is hiding bits of the demo during video mode changes (probably because it's taking a while to adjust to the different VGA signals). Maybe worth doing this again on a traditional CRT monitor. But then there will be refresh/line issues between that and the frame rate of the camera. Nicely done though! If you can grab a Gravis Ultrasound card from somewhere, it would off load the tracker mixing away from the CPU to the sound card, also giving a performance lift. None the less, great to see this again after so many years!
If I ever come across a GUS I could afford believe me it would be coming home with me.
This was rad. Thankyou OP
Very nice video and great machine!
Thanks, Its a work in progress.
Amazing how they recreated the "Final Reality" fly through scene.. oh wait, i stand corrected. i think FInal Reality copied that scene.
So awesome dude!
Thanks!
Back in the day, my 386 had a case very similar to that.
God i remember trying to run this on my old 486 dx 33 back in the day, no where near this frame rate. incase the fact is lost on anyone, graphics like this were WILDLY uncommon in 93, goes without saying, NO 3d acceleration is present here.
crazy what a difference just 33mhz can make.
epic
Great find a good beige CRT or LCD match the PC
My sx33 could barely do this demo.
Great but the turbo LED display seems to be malfunctioning. 😅
This case doesnt have the speed display, the green square is a case badge.
I have a CRT on a Pentium II, but you have an LCD on a 486 lol
Could be weirder, like trying to hook up a CRT to a modern Ryzen build and a Athlon 64 windows xp build at the same time, probably with a vga input selector... and that's just the beginning of the mess...
What happened to the colour palette on the title screen?
So cool
I see a familiar number of 32768, but back then, it was kB. Now, it's MB. PCs have literally 1024 times more DRAM these days.
16-bit ISA bus had bandwidth of 16.7MB/s one way. PCIe Gen 5 x16 with 128GB/s bandwidth can move data ~7,864 times faster!
4:40 - Yeah. And? :D
that was horrible back then its even more horrible now
How is it horrible? This is the demo that everyone and their grandmother sees as the "point of no return" for demoscene on the PC. It showed that the platform was indeed viable for the demoscene and not just "gaming and office-use".
I was an Amiga-user back then, and didn't really like it (come on, it was on a PC, PC sucks!!!). But I've come to like it over the years.