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Making of Second Reality / Future Crew

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Home video from 1993 showing Future Crew members at Mika Tuomi's home finishing the PC demo Second Reality shortly before release.

HN people share it as rare behind-the-scenes footage of the making of a legendary demoscene production.

8 comments from Hacker News

@mdaniel2024-03 · 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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@logbiscuitswave2021-03 · 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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@qingcharles2023-11 · in “Second Reality for Apple II”

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

@jug2021-08 · 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

@tpmx2019-10 · 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)