Dope by Complex (pc demo)

This demo was first shown at The Gathering 1995 demo party and ranked 1st place in the pc demo competition.
captured from: P3 800 MHz, S3 Trio3D, Gravis Ultrasound
HQ video at retronn.de/imports/dosvideo_q...

[@aiko150781]

The soundtrack is legendary. The demo itself is not bad either.

[@rafalkowalczyk5027]

i hope someday Jugi will share his code on GitHub for this

[@F2bnp]

The soundtrack is simply great in this one!

[@ashchaya7676]

I remember I went from watching and rewatching 1992 demos straight to this one. It was jaw dropping.

[@LERobbo]

2:45 I start shivering listening to this music. At 4:18 I'm losing my shit when the lead kicks in.
I literally remember this demo by its music.

[@SoundsofDecay]

Peak 90s, I haven't seen this since I was a kid. I'm very glad it has been preserved, and what a soundtrack!

[@sunspirerecords]

After all these years, just have to leave my sincere compliments. Dope - Complex, a very important piece of demoscene history. Much love and respect!

[@Markus-tn7wq]

The cat though 🥳

[@thepink772]

Genialne, wręcz ponadczasowe...

[@rafalkowalczyk5027]

code masterpiece

[@rafalkowalczyk5027]

this is true assembly prod, i love it!

[@eswareinmal...2767]

Loved it at the Nexus 7 Party on a Beamer Screen back in the DayZ.

[@jesperjohnsen5336]

❤❤

[@funcibus]

shit! at begin phong shading, one square root for pixel, very hard for computer of the epoch, consideraly that this demo run on a 386. This demo was developed 100% with assembly

[@donerlando9949]

To run this demo at this speed it needed a 486 @40Mhz or better.

[@yzimsx]

It's just plain old texture mapping, check "env mapping". None of the effects in this demo really are what the label says. :) I guess it was supposed to be a joke, but people bought it 100% and didn't get the joke. Which makes the joke all the more legendary.

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@yzimsx The cat scene isn't just "old texture mapping". Look at the shadow.

The "shadow" is env map reflection

[@LondenTower]

the music is so good, the PicoGUS just stopped working. 🤣

[@SebastianRuf-vienna]

Music made by Jugi

[@mindluge]

did Jugi or any of these great musicians like Groo ever have any kind of musical career? i love the music so much. with all the game music/chiptune revival, it would be great to see a vinyl record of the best of the demoscene music.

[@tubeMonger]

ua-cam.com/channels/nB6PiKg9khg3hIkeop2-DQ.html - he does demos still.

[@renaudg]

Yeah he would have deserved it. This style is basically what Eric Prydz does today (under his Pryda alias). I wonder if he used to watch demos !

[@funcibus]

yeah... for example, the creators of second reality, future crew, are same creators of max payne 1 and 2 🙂

[@one-bell]

@@funcibus And Alan Wake

[@bluebull399]

Calvin Harris dropped a whole album written in Octamed on the Amiga. 3 of the songs on there went on to become anthems here in the UK.
It's not your typical vosk pop (demo scene style) but it does borrow a lot of elements from the scene. It has a lot of chip tune instruments.
Eric Pryds is actually making demo style and he's building a huge following of non sceners. I reckon we are only a few more years away from the sound going mainstream.
Obviously, this "new" genre will have to be named, Greets would be a good name for it because it's a shout out to the whole scene. It would also spare us the monotony of having yet another music genre interjected with the words wave, core or style.

[@unfa00]

Are these graphics all done in software renderer or is there 3D acceleration present? Either way - crazy stuff for 1995!

Pure software rendering in 13h mode I believe, i.e. 256 colors and none of this 16M color bs :D

[@V3ntilator]

This song almost never got to the point, so i remixed it in 1995 to make this song even better. :D

[@DJLizardon]

I would love to hear it! :D

[@imperia777]

Give link then

[@HakiFPV]

2019

[@OpenGL4ever]

Even in 2022 this doesn't get old.