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Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps]

A 60fps capture of Future Crew's 1993 MS-DOS demo Second Reality, one of the best-known pieces of the demoscene. It runs about 16 minutes of real-time graphics and music effects on PC hardware of the era.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it as the landmark demo of the demoscene's golden era, and this capture lets people watch it without running it under DOS.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
DemosceneVids
Topic
demoscene
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2023

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

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Nice little interview that touches on a number of the magical parts of the scene and the many elements and major sites. This guy only started in 1997? All good, but feel like that's just a bit 'after' the golden, significant era. There was definitely …

    ChrisArchitect on Hacker News · 2023-10
    In What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form

  • Loved reading this comment, thanks for sharing. The demo scene is what got me into programming in my youth - in particular Denthor's BBS tuts, and many late night adventures in mode13h. Good times! > That was when Future Crew showed up with 2nd Reality …

    herodoturtle on Hacker News · 2021-03
    In Demoscene the Amiga Years Volume 1

  • Here's a 60fps video of the same demo. The demo-sceners work really hard to make everything 60fps(1 vbl), so watching it in any other frame-rate feels wrong. [VIDEO]

    Flow on Hacker News · 2023-11
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