Hi everyone,
I usually write about Amiga or Commodore related topics, for example demos and games. Today I’ll do something different and write a bit about a demo that was made for MS-DOS based computer systems.
The name of the production is Second Reality and it was made by a Finnish demo group called Future Crew. It was released back in 1993 (soon 20 years old!) at the Assembly demo party in Finland. The demo invoked a positive response from the audience and won the competition it participated in.
There are so many things I like about this demo.. the effects, the design and the awesome music by Purple Motion to name a few.. it’s simply great!
I’ve embedded a video of the demo running below. Hope you’ll enjoy it! 🙂
What do you think about the demo? Did you enjoy it? 🙂 Hope to hear your opinions, so please comment away. 😉
You can download the demo via the link below:
http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F1993%2Fassembly93%2Fdemo%2F2nd_real.zip&fileinfo
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That was cool too.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Welcome.
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Won the competition – awesome! I was just thinking, you know, I wish I knew you “way back when”… as my son’s Xbox once got red ring disease & we just didn’t know what to do. But I bet you would have been able to get around it. You seem really clued up on all this stuff – you & Michael!
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Many thanks for the kind words. 🙂
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I love “plotters” and all kind of dot effects, but what you can see here in 2m:38s is just a slightly improved version of what we can see on 8-bit Atari. And these pictures…
OK. Maybe I am too snippy 😉
Really, I have mixed feelings about that demo. On one hand, it’s really impressing that “iNTEL inside” world was able to release such a prod in 1993. On the other hand though, in 1993 we – “iNTEL outside” community – had “Arte”(!!!), “Desert Dream”, “Hallucinations and Dreams”, to name few after a quick search…
Anyways, thanks for sharing!
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Hi mate,
Many thanks for commenting. 🙂
I know, I know, but remember that it was on a PC back then. 😉 Hehe.. We Amiga freaks had much better demos, but Future Crew really impressed me with this one. That is slogan I love, “Intel Outside”! 😀
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Second Reality was awesome! It made the PC almost feel like an Amiga 🙂
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Hehe.. it sure did. 🙂
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And let’s not forget the brilliant C64 version of Second Reality.
Love your blog mate, keep it up
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Hi Jon,
Many thanks for commenting! Much appreciated! 🙂 Oh yes, the C64 version is incredible.. I’m going to do a post about it soon. It truly deserves a mention.
Have a nice day!
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[…] Second Reality by Future Crew, the winner of the PC demo competition at the Assembly 1993. A legendary production that is still great to watch today. 🙂 Most of us interested in demos have watched it, but have you seen the behind the scenes video? […]
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