I remember always downloading these demos from local BBS's and just sitting back in the dark watching them on my 386 w/ 14" VGA monitor and I was completely blown away! I must have watched this demo over 100 times since it was created. The music is beyond amazing, Skaven and PM have never been matched in the tracking community. I remember these demos got me trying to make my own MOD's and S3M's. Great memories!
This was absolutely the best demo of it's time, I remember showing this to people on my 386dx40 with Sound Blaster 16 and it would blow their mind. I used it instead of video games to demonstrate the power of the computer. I wonder how many of the people that created this demo went on to be rockstar game engine developers, you know at least a few of them had to. Or died from drug over doses because nobody could come up with this unless they were high :D
This brings back such great memories. It amazed me that they could pull this off before any official 3D hardware actually was out on mainstream PCs. And, of course, the music blew me away and still does. Later, when playing the first Unreal game for PC, I was very happy to hear some of their compositions in the game...
I remember the first time I loaded this up on my brand new 256 color VGA with my Sound Blaster, I was blown away. Was a big fan of the crew back then, and remember being blown away by the music. Thanks for posting this.
The demo that inspired me to become a programmer for GFX in 1993. It grasped my FULL attention for months. The spirit of those days is gone. One day, I will look back and be even more thankful to these guys and actual unmentioned icons of all times of the computer age.
2nd Reality by Skaven will always be up there for me with all the huge rave hits. Acperience2, Camera's ready, Born Slippy, Res, Space Shanty. Song of life etc. Luv and peace.
I think what really set this demo apart from others, and made it so insanely popular, was the entertainment value. It wasn't just something for the nerds - everyone could enjoy it. With a storyline tied up the fast paced music, it was so much fun to watch over and over again. Ahh, the good ol' days...
This is awesome. Totally brings back memories from the early 90's. To this day, the music Purple Motion made sounds great. This totally blew me away on my old 486!!!
To this day I can still "sing" this music complete. Reminds me of the days when dudes used to crap their pants when they saw you running Stream Tracker and a GSZ download AT THE SAME TIME!!!
I actually was impressed at the time that it even was possible on a pc. Coming from an Amiga demos were always things you were looking forward to. This is by far the best pc demo i have seen at the time.
I still remember the first time I saw this demo with my SB Pro 8 bits in my AMD 386-33 Mhz: was simply amazing. What a great music, what a great effects. How was it possible in a PC, I thought? Today is still amazing, that music conserves the full demo's soul. Congratulations.
brings back old memories. First demo i ever saw from future crew was panic. Blew my mind. Class mate from my brother had fought in yugoslavia and bought himself a nice computer from the money he earned and started to koerier stuff for bbs systems. So the guy allways had the newest 0 day software. that was back in 93. i was used to speaker sound and upon hearing this i bought myself a soundblaster.
One of the greatest Demos ever written. I remeber this with a gravis Ultrasound Card, wich we bought that time, only to get this Demo run :D I'm not sure if i would call theses guys the true heros of the pre-internet age but for me these guys are the true heros of the PS-Area. They show the world that things, wich were said that only the Amiga can do are possible on the PC too and so they build the way for almost all graficengine used in modern games. Thanks for everything you have done FC!!
Oh good lord... does this bring back memories. I hadn't thought about this demo in eons. And USR Courier Dual Standards rocked our worlds back then. Man those were good days.
Pure 0wn4ge! This demo made my 386SX@20MHz sweat like hell back in the days. I remember the first time seeing it being played properly on a 486 in 1995. It was at an exibition I visited...well I pretty much saw nothing of the rest of the exhibition. Just watched in awe as this box was running the demo in loop mode over and over again. I even "ripped" the music on tape so that I could play it in my car, and now I have it on my MP3 player. Timeless classic, its fame is well deserved.
I remember downloading this off of a BBS back in the day and it took me forever but it was well worth it.....Ahh the days of the old 486....thanks for the memories dude!!!
First time i saw this was at "The Gathering" in 1992or something.... we where like hundreds of ppl seeing it for the first time! When it was done we where all silent. The the cheers started! It was AMAZING beyond anything back in the old days!
Ahh the classic demo.. i saw when i was in my teens.. But ya i did see this then.. Remember it quite well.. It made me thing soo much of what computers can do with the right coders..
I remember using Second Reality as a benchmark for a new 486 - to see how far the sword comes out. :) Remember this was all done in realtime on machines with about 2-3% the processing power of current mid-range PCs - without 3d hardware. Oh, and the music. Still blows me to another dimension, all these years hence.
First thing I saw on a computer that I can remember. I was 5 at the time so it took a couple years for me to grasp the true significance of the demo, but its one of the reasons I'm such a geek today. IMO one of the greatest demos of all time.
Well, can't say anything for the rest of you, but this one is one of the things you looked at, listened to over and over again for your own indulgence... you got the goose bumps and.. simply becuse of that the guys deserve cred.
These guys were my world in the 90's. Totally got me into graphics coding. I wanted to know immediately how to do it. I didn't like computers until I could make music with them. That was my doorway. Changed my world, I wish I could tell them, how they helped me in so many ways.
From a time when the public had just upgraded to 256 colors, here comes this demo. Some people had 4-color CGA, some had 16-color EGA, but seeing the 'photorealistic' images on the computer screen and any motion in 256c was so new in 1993, one huge thing this demo brought to many people. Thanks Psi! Of course this wouldn't have been possible without the musical genius from Skaven and Purple Motion, thanks guys!
I remember watching this a long, long LONG time ago. Back when it was unimaginable to have this running on your 386. I was lost for words at the last part.
you guys were so far ahead of everybody else back then (most dont even have a damn idea about the hard/soft ware proportions), I'd assume that since then ya'all aquired gazillion more skills, especially since PCs have now become so much more powerfull!
Man... this is just as awesome as it was all those years ago. I cant wait to see the winner from assembly 2008 at the end of this month. Future Crew are legend.
This demo got me interested hard-core into the demo scene. I went all kind of crazy and even set up a multi-line BBS back in the day highly dedicated to demos, mods, 669, xm, stm, s3m, etc etc.. I still love watching these demos. The stuff they pulled off back then is nothing short of amazing.
Wow blast from the past. I was sorting through some old .S3M files in Impulse Tracker and came across the tunes from this. I met some of the guys from Future Crew years back at an ECTS show in London... some of them formed Remedy Entertainment (who made Max Payne). Cool guys!
THE BEST DEMO ALL TIME!! i have it since 1993 (on my 386) It was the winner of an Assembly Competition on 1993 and shows what you can do with 1.3 megabytes and perfect ,skilled Assembly programming!
I remember when I got this demo back in the 1990s, I thought it was JUST AMAZING that my old PC could make that kind of graphics and sound - being used to the old ZX Spectrum when growing up, and some old IBM XTs when studying.. BEST DEMO EVER!
Holy crap... I can't believe I stumbled on this. I TOTALLY remember this. I remember a couple of times I'd bring a girl into my basement from school, and I'd show them this demo, and they were like... WTF are you showing this to me for. I couldn't believe they didn't think it was cool. They would leave totally weirded out, and no one got laid. I spent a zillion hours downloading this from a BBS, and ran it on my NEC 14" monitor, on my 386 DX... I was like, oh man, I'm soo cool...
At that time in 1993. for the first time all Amiga users felt in danger when being near PC :D I remember watching this on a some Trident VGA card, 486DX2/66 and Gravis Ultra Sound....it was way way ahead of the time and years in front of all Amiga demo's.
Remember folks this was 1993. Windows 95 was still 2-3 years away, there were no mp3s let alone iPods, the internet was barely known to the public. The hard-core enthusiasts that created these demos pushed the envelope of what was possible with personal computers. These are the true heros of the pre-internet age.
Let's face it, these guys in their time were second to none. Today it's hard to imagine the impact this demo had back then. The know-how and specs weren't even readily available and the hardware limited. The guys had to write their own rasterizers, sound players etc. and master a whole range of techniques that weren't yet commonly in use. I salute to them as true pioneers.
The most interesting thing we discovered was that you can get the music files, and there are some unused instruments in the end song. If you omit the looping you can hear them.
Warms my heart to see many people saying our work got them interested in graphics programming and computers.
Trug / Future Crew
I remember always downloading these demos from local BBS's and just sitting back in the dark watching them on my 386 w/ 14" VGA monitor and I was completely blown away! I must have watched this demo over 100 times since it was created. The music is beyond amazing, Skaven and PM have never been matched in the tracking community. I remember these demos got me trying to make my own MOD's and S3M's. Great memories!
Yes
That brings back so many good memories
The memories it brings back. Its priceless really!
386DX/40MHz with a SoundBlaster 2.0 here... I was 13 years old and speechless...
Same here buddy!
SB: "I am a talking parrot, please talk to me. -Parrot"
Modern: "I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you said. -Alexa"
Exactly the same, just 33MHz :)
I was around 16 when I saw this demo for the first time. Speechless, too.
Same!!
This was absolutely the best demo of it's time, I remember showing this to people on my 386dx40 with Sound Blaster 16 and it would blow their mind. I used it instead of video games to demonstrate the power of the computer. I wonder how many of the people that created this demo went on to be rockstar game engine developers, you know at least a few of them had to. Or died from drug over doses because nobody could come up with this unless they were high :D
+Barnacules Nerdgasm They went on to become futuremark, of 3dmark fame.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Some of them still work for Remedy Entertainment, famous for Games like Max Payne and Alan Wake
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Let's not forget everything fit on a 3,5" disk … 1,45MB.
or Gravis Ultrasound
Эх, как давно это было и как приятно вспоминать!
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I did. :)
Me
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I was blown away the first time I saw this! Second Reality was and is outstand for its time. Those were the times!!
Да у меня до сих пор мурашки по коже, как в первый раз!! Хранится на почётнейшем месте в моей коробочке с аудионаркотиками. Изредка употребляю. )))))
This brings back such great memories. It amazed me that they could pull this off before any official 3D hardware actually was out on mainstream PCs. And, of course, the music blew me away and still does. Later, when playing the first Unreal game for PC, I was very happy to hear some of their compositions in the game...
I watched this a dozen of times in the good old days. Man this was / is amazing!
Wow, i remember this so well, rivited to the screen many a time in awe. Thanks for posting.
Truly entered another reality with this one, nice job.
I remember the first time I loaded this up on my brand new 256 color VGA with my Sound Blaster, I was blown away. Was a big fan of the crew back then, and remember being blown away by the music. Thanks for posting this.
Unbeatable - the best demo ever! I remember seeing this all those years ago, and it blew me away!
The 1992 assembly was my first Big Demoparty that i attended. Damn I miss those times.
I was blown away by this then and now.
Thanks for posting this! Sure brings back a lot of memories!
NAUGHTY OR NICE ITS THE JINGLE GRUMPS!!!
The irony of this being a youtube video is just... it's delicious. This demo was a life changing event for me. - Ariel
The demo that inspired me to become a programmer for GFX in 1993. It grasped my FULL attention for months. The spirit of those days is gone. One day, I will look back and be even more thankful to these guys and actual unmentioned icons of all times of the computer age.
Back in time, superb. I've seen all their demo's, the best group around showing impossible things were possible. ;)
2nd Reality by Skaven will always be up there for me with all the huge rave hits. Acperience2, Camera's ready, Born Slippy, Res, Space Shanty. Song of life etc.
Luv and peace.
This demo brings back the memories. I watched it so many times on my old 486. Always loved it. Still one of the best demos ever.
music in this still sounds so awesome..all these yrs later
I think what really set this demo apart from others, and made it so insanely popular, was the entertainment value. It wasn't just something for the nerds - everyone could enjoy it. With a storyline tied up the fast paced music, it was so much fun to watch over and over again. Ahh, the good ol' days...
I remember this so vividly! Probably THE BEST demo ever!
still gives me goosebumps 20 years later
If you were too young to watch it back in the days and still believe it's one of the best ever made, raise your hand(s).
(okay, maybe you should check out a HD encoding first :P)
This is awesome. Totally brings back memories from the early 90's. To this day, the music Purple Motion made sounds great. This totally blew me away on my old 486!!!
damn, i have being looking for this since decade....i love it
To this day I can still "sing" this music complete. Reminds me of the days when dudes used to crap their pants when they saw you running Stream Tracker and a GSZ download AT THE SAME TIME!!!
I actually was impressed at the time that it even was possible on a pc. Coming from an Amiga demos were always things you were looking forward to. This is by far the best pc demo i have seen at the time.
I always listen while I program the software, it gives me the inspiration
OMFG, this takes me back!! I was 16 when this came out. Purple Motion and Skaven were my childhood heroes!
This was mindblowing
I still remember the first time I saw this demo with my SB Pro 8 bits in my AMD 386-33 Mhz: was simply amazing. What a great music, what a great effects. How was it possible in a PC, I thought?
Today is still amazing, that music conserves the full demo's soul.
Congratulations.
on 1992 my 386-Sx 20 didn't have enough power to display this great gfx and i was angry. Then i listened to this wonderful music and i was happy.
The voxel sequence brings back fond memories. :)
Absolutely fantastic. This is from what was one of the best eras in computer history.
brings back old memories. First demo i ever saw from future crew was panic. Blew my mind. Class mate from my brother had fought in yugoslavia and bought himself a nice computer from the money he earned and started to koerier stuff for bbs systems. So the guy allways had the newest 0 day software. that was back in 93. i was used to speaker sound and upon hearing this i bought myself a soundblaster.
Ah memories! I can't even recall how many times I watched this when I was a freshman in highschool!
One of the greatest Demos ever written. I remeber this with a gravis Ultrasound Card, wich we bought that time, only to get this Demo run :D I'm not sure if i would call theses guys the true heros of the pre-internet age but for me these guys are the true heros of the PS-Area. They show the world that things, wich were said that only the Amiga can do are possible on the PC too and so they build the way for almost all graficengine used in modern games. Thanks for everything you have done FC!!
Its nice to review this demo... nice old times!
Oh good lord... does this bring back memories. I hadn't thought about this demo in eons. And USR Courier Dual Standards rocked our worlds back then. Man those were good days.
Pure 0wn4ge!
This demo made my 386SX@20MHz sweat like hell back in the days. I remember the first time seeing it being played properly on a 486 in 1995. It was at an exibition I visited...well I pretty much saw nothing of the rest of the exhibition. Just watched in awe as this box was running the demo in loop mode over and over again.
I even "ripped" the music on tape so that I could play it in my car, and now I have it on my MP3 player.
Timeless classic, its fame is well deserved.
Wow this takes me back... That was THE BOMB :-) We usually let it rolling at parties back in the day..
Sends shivers down my spine even after all these years...
This video is as amazing and artistic as it was 20 years ago. And the music remains incredible.
I remember downloading this off of a BBS back in the day and it took me forever but it was well worth it.....Ahh the days of the old 486....thanks for the memories dude!!!
First time i saw this was at "The Gathering" in 1992or something.... we where like hundreds of ppl seeing it for the first time! When it was done we where all silent.
The the cheers started! It was AMAZING beyond anything back in the old days!
Ahh the classic demo.. i saw when i was in my teens.. But ya i did see this then.. Remember it quite well.. It made me thing soo much of what computers can do with the right coders..
Crank it UP! Love love LOVE this demo!! :D
WOW! You are legends in my eyes!
I remember my 386 struggeling at some scenes of this demo :)
Rinse Veltman Mine was a 386 sx
just saw the title in recommendation and instantly remembered this classic. good times.
I remember using Second Reality as a benchmark for a new 486 - to see how far the sword comes out. :) Remember this was all done in realtime on machines with about 2-3% the processing power of current mid-range PCs - without 3d hardware.
Oh, and the music. Still blows me to another dimension, all these years hence.
First thing I saw on a computer that I can remember. I was 5 at the time so it took a couple years for me to grasp the true significance of the demo, but its one of the reasons I'm such a geek today. IMO one of the greatest demos of all time.
Good memories! I remember being quite impressed when I first saw this.
This is the demo I grew up with!
Goosebumps all over the place!
had these demo, amazing!!!
I am getting old. Loved this one, always used this demo to show off the power of my 486 in combination with my Gravis Ultrasound... ;D
Well, can't say anything for the rest of you, but this one is one of the things you looked at, listened to over and over again for your own indulgence... you got the goose bumps and.. simply becuse of that the guys deserve cred.
! So, after over 15 years later i find this music again!!! SO GOOD!
A masterpiece.
Badass Demo! Glad i found it on UA-cam. I always started this demo in the mid 90s to show off the power of my Gravis ultrasound and my 486 DX2/66. :D
One of my favourites too !
These guys were my world in the 90's. Totally got me into graphics coding. I wanted to know immediately how to do it. I didn't like computers until I could make music with them. That was my doorway. Changed my world, I wish I could tell them, how they helped me in so many ways.
The demo scene never died. =) It's still alive an kicking.
Oh how I enjoyed this then, and again now! .. being 40 now I still love this demo :) Good things never go out of style!
From a time when the public had just upgraded to 256 colors, here comes this demo. Some people had 4-color CGA, some had 16-color EGA, but seeing the 'photorealistic' images on the computer screen and any motion in 256c was so new in 1993, one huge thing this demo brought to many people. Thanks Psi! Of course this wouldn't have been possible without the musical genius from Skaven and Purple Motion, thanks guys!
When this came out... on those pc's... IT WAS MINDBLOWING! I remember how small it was... but what they did....
I remember watching this a long, long LONG time ago. Back when it was unimaginable to have this running on your 386. I was lost for words at the last part.
you guys were so far ahead of everybody else back then (most dont even have a damn idea about the hard/soft ware proportions), I'd assume that since then ya'all aquired gazillion more skills, especially since PCs have now become so much more powerfull!
Future Crew ROCKED! Ahh, so many good memories when I hear this music...
热泪盈眶！
"I am not an atomic playboy"
Sweet, sweet memories, thanks for this!!
Man... this is just as awesome as it was all those years ago. I cant wait to see the winner from assembly 2008 at the end of this month. Future Crew are legend.
This demo got me interested hard-core into the demo scene. I went all kind of crazy and even set up a multi-line BBS back in the day highly dedicated to demos, mods, 669, xm, stm, s3m, etc etc.. I still love watching these demos. The stuff they pulled off back then is nothing short of amazing.
Wow blast from the past. I was sorting through some old .S3M files in Impulse Tracker and came across the tunes from this. I met some of the guys from Future Crew years back at an ECTS show in London... some of them formed Remedy Entertainment (who made Max Payne). Cool guys!
Awesome... Takes me back to when it struggled to run on my 386dx2... :)
THE BEST DEMO ALL TIME!! i have it since 1993 (on my 386) It was the winner of an Assembly Competition on 1993 and shows what you can do with 1.3 megabytes and perfect ,skilled Assembly programming!
The soundtrack is unforgettable.
CLASSIC!
I remember when I got this demo back in the 1990s, I thought it was JUST AMAZING that my old PC could make that kind of graphics and sound - being used to the old ZX Spectrum when growing up, and some old IBM XTs when studying.. BEST DEMO EVER!
Holy crap... I can't believe I stumbled on this. I TOTALLY remember this. I remember a couple of times I'd bring a girl into my basement from school, and I'd show them this demo, and they were like... WTF are you showing this to me for. I couldn't believe they didn't think it was cool. They would leave totally weirded out, and no one got laid. I spent a zillion hours downloading this from a BBS, and ran it on my NEC 14" monitor, on my 386 DX... I was like, oh man, I'm soo cool...
It was crazy they could accomplish this. I was amazed back then and i'm still amazed.
damn this brings back the memories!! and unreal haha wow ya. god those were the days.
This has to me the BEST tracked demo ever. Best music.
I remember watching this in awe, around 1994 :)
can't count the number of times i've watched this since it came out. it still looks like the future to me.
I remember when this was used as a bench mark for the cards at the time.
Man how far we have come !
Oh man, this and the Trident 8900 helped me sell soooo many PC's in the mid 90's. Respect.
I can't even imagine the sort of ingenuity it must have took to make this! I wasn't even born when this was made, but damn that's impressive!
At that time in 1993. for the first time all Amiga users felt in danger when being near PC :D I remember watching this on a some Trident VGA card, 486DX2/66 and Gravis Ultra Sound....it was way way ahead of the time and years in front of all Amiga demo's.
I loved that demo. I also played it to deaty on my 486DX4/100. Great music.
Remember folks this was 1993. Windows 95 was still 2-3 years away, there were no mp3s let alone iPods, the internet was barely known to the public.
The hard-core enthusiasts that created these demos pushed the envelope of what was possible with personal computers. These are the true heros of the pre-internet age.
Let's face it, these guys in their time were second to none. Today it's hard to imagine the impact this demo had back then. The know-how and specs weren't even readily available and the hardware limited. The guys had to write their own rasterizers, sound players etc. and master a whole range of techniques that weren't yet commonly in use. I salute to them as true pioneers.
It was so great to see this again at Assembly 2013 ;)
This is one of the best demos ever existed.
The most interesting thing we discovered was that you can get the music files, and there are some unused instruments in the end song. If you omit the looping you can hear them.