The computer demo scene.

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  1. Gingerbread Demon

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    Demo of what can be achieved with a Commodore 64....



    Now I'd love to see modern programmers do that with PC hardware and exploit the hardware as much as they can.
     
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    I know there's still a demo scene but I haven't really looked into it..
    As for really getting all out of the hardware of today I think you need to run stuff like 3Dmark or another graphics/CPU benchmark or look for tech demos.

    The good old days..
    Just look for the Future Crew, they were really great back in the day.. ye gawds this is so long ago, the hardware of those days was so limited but they pulled it off and it all fit on a floppy.


    Future Crew -Second Reality

    Future Crew -Fishtro

    Also more demo crews existed.

    Complex -Dope
     
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  3. Strong stuff
     
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    I still have a working 80486 DX2 66Mhz machine.. bought it together with my brother in 1994 and those demos ran on it like a dream back then, guess they still would, when I have the time and the money I will have that machine sorted out good, check and replace all capacitors etc..
     
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    My goodness those PC demos were fan bloody tastic
     
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    Beginning at about 4:19 you can see the earliest version of the Babylon 5 space station.
     
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    ^^ Old tech seems indeed a tad amateurish when you look back at it, I mean the CGI of Captain Power looks like 20 year old game graphics nowadays..

    Yeah and you have to remember that there actually was no 3D hardware at all, this is all very VERY clever work.
     
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    It's all very maths intensive as well. Very clever work indeed.
     
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    This is probably the most impressive demo of what you can do with an 8088 that you will ever see:

     
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    I will say my interest in the demoscene was always more about the music than the demos themselves (but the demos themselves are great too).
     
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    I still have 8088 and 8086 machines... :shifty:

    I have to agree with you, Purple Motion, Skaven, The Lizard King, Jugi, and so on, what they could do with the tracker music was magic with the capital M, I've used the Scream Tracker for a while but I am a talentless hack so nothing good ever came out of it.. :biggrin:
     
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    Also.. game music of the old days was quite nice

    Epic Pinball Andriod (original) Robert A. Allen, Joshua Jensen.
     
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    That is very impressive, actually no that's fucking amazing...
     
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    I think my favorite part of the original Unreal game was the MOD-based soundtrack. That was great stuff!
     
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    https://modarchive.org/
    If it's a mod and not copyrighted or whatever nonsense you might be able to find them here.
     
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  17. Thats great music! Really lights up my synapsis. Its probably nostalgia but not much else hits my brain like that.
     
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    Cool, will look into those links soon too, there have been a few mods that I can vagually remember and which I no longer have, although I might have an old Win98 rig stashed away somewhere with a lot of oldschool stuff...
     
  20. Gingerbread Demon

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    OMG yes the Epic Pinball music was the best.