Making of Second Reality / Future Crew

Mika Tuomi
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184K views · 16 years ago · documentary · historical

A making-of film from 1993 about Second Reality, the demo by the demoscene group Future Crew. It shows the young team working on one of the most famous PC demos of all time, on hardware with little memory and CPU.

HN people share it as rare footage of the legendary demo's creation, and as a window into what young coders could do with tiny machines.

“here’s some rare footage of the creation of the legendary demo”
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14 comments from Hacker News

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@mdaniel2024 · in “Second Reality code review (2013)”
this video showed up in a recent thread about Second Reality and I had never seen it, so this audience may enjoy that, too: ▶ this video ("Making of Second Reality / Future Crew")
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@jug2021 · in “Amiga Music Preservation”
Danko - Complications link Purple Motion of Future Crew - Unreal 2 link (composed by a 16 yo) Making of Second Reality with said Future Crew: ▶ this video 9 fingers - Spaceballs: link And making of: link Kefrens - Desert Dreams: link
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@logbiscuitswave2021 · in “Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany”
I had a 386/40DX that could run Second Reality, and I was blown away. When I upgraded to a 486/66DX2 the first thing I did was run Second Reality, and I was shocked at how much of the demo content I had missed before from parts being truncated. Also it’s worth noting that a lot of Second Reality’s source code got released to GitHub several years back: link and here’s an incredibly deep dive into the code: link Finally, here’s some rare footage of the creation of the legendary demo: ▶ this video (English subtitles available)
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@elvis702020 · in “Making of Second Reality / Future Crew (1993)”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@aw3c22015 · in “How misbehaving at school made one man a multimillionaire”
You might enjoy this video of people that age working on one of the most famous demos of all time: ▶ this video
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@subsystem2013 · in “Making of Second Reality / Future Crew”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@drKarl2011 · in “Demoscene nostalgia: Future Crew's Second Reality”
And as a bonus, the Making of: ▶ this video Amazing what this guys could do with so little memory and CPU.
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@ck22011 · in “Results from Assembly Summer 2011”
Wow check out 1993 - we have come soooo far: ▶ this video Listen to those hard drives! Netscape Navigator didn't come out until over a year later (December 1994) and IE 1.0 another year after that. Wow.
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@qingcharles2023 · in “Second Reality for Apple II”
Behind the Scenes: Future Crew putting the finishing touches on Second Reality a week before release... ▶ this video
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@elvis702020 · in “Demo or Die (1995)”
And here is a video of the making of the demo: ▶ this video
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@tpmx2019 · in “The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market”
I'm thinking the democoders could create scarcity. I'm imagining e.g. Future Crew making a Third reality. Or Triton making Crystal Dream III. Release at like a 300p video for the world and like AM audio mono sound quality and sell the binary to the highest bidder. Or perhaps smarter, release it at 1:1 quality for the first minute, but only for the first minute. ;) Edit: of course this would be a horrible future. Also, there's no way these now old guys could recreate the magic they experienced together in the early 90s. Example: ▶ this video (make sure to enable the thirdparty english subtitles)
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@Annatar2018 · in “DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs”
I do. They ushered a new era on the PC, where PC finally had something that could compare with the demo quality of Amiga demos. To be more concrete, it was "Second Reality" that they did it with: link and here's Future Crew making it: ▶ this video Europe and Summer school holidays. Perfect time to code.
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