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Making of Second Reality / Future Crew

Mika Tuomi

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A behind-the-scenes home video from 1993 showing members of the demoscene group Future Crew finishing their legendary PC demo, Second Reality.

Home video from making of Second Reality / Future Crew in 1993. Most of the demo group went to home place of Mika Tuomi (Trug / Future Crew) to finalize the demo. Video was filmed by Tomi Suominen.

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What people say. Shared by retrocomputing enthusiasts as a nostalgic look at the 1990s demoscene and the creation of a landmark PC demo.

logbiscuitswaveon Hacker News • Recommends

On “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: link to this video (English subtitles available)
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On “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: link to this video ("Making of Second Reality / Future Crew")
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ck2on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Results from Assembly Summer 2011”

Wow check out 1993 - we have come soooo far: link to 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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johanschon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]”

Because he's finnish it reminds me of this 1993 video of Future Crew making the PC demo "Second Reality": link to this video (There's high quality english subtitles there.) Finished product: link link
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Annataron Hacker News • Mentions

On “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: link to this video Europe and Summer school holidays. Perfect time to code.
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tpmxon Hacker News • Mentions

On “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: link to this video (make sure to enable the thirdparty english subtitles)
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jugon Hacker News • Mentions

On “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: link to this video 9 fingers - Spaceballs: link And making of: link Kefrens - Desert Dreams: link
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On “Second Reality for Apple II”

Behind the Scenes: Future Crew putting the finishing touches on Second Reality a week before release... link to this video
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