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Making of Second Reality / Future Crew
Home video from 1993 showing Future Crew members at Mika Tuomi's home finishing the PC demo Second Reality shortly before release.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people share it as rare behind-the-scenes footage of the making of a legendary demoscene production.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mika Tuomi
- Topic
- demoscene history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
logbiscuitswave on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germanythis video showed up in a recent thread about Second Reality and I had never seen it, so this audience may enjoy that, too: [VIDEO] ("Making of Second Reality / Future Crew")
mdaniel on Hacker News · 2024-03
In Second Reality code review (2013)
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.