Making of Second Reality / Future Crew
Mika Tuomi2 HN recommenders · 2011–2024
184K views · documentary · evergreen · Uploaded 2010-08-09
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.
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8 comments from Hacker News
Wow check out 1993 - we have come soooo far: [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.
Because he's finnish it reminds me of this 1993 video of Future Crew making the PC demo "Second Reality": [VIDEO] (There's high quality english subtitles there.) Finished product: [LINK] [LINK]
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: [VIDEO] Europe and Summer school holidays. Perfect time to code.
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: [VIDEO] (make sure to enable the thirdparty english subtitles)
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: [VIDEO] (English subtitles available)
Danko - Complications [LINK] Purple Motion of Future Crew - Unreal 2 [LINK] (composed by a 16 yo) Making of Second Reality with said Future Crew: [VIDEO] 9 fingers - Spaceballs: [LINK] And making of: [LINK] Kefrens - Desert Dreams: [LINK]
Behind the Scenes: Future Crew putting the finishing touches on Second Reality a week before release... [VIDEO]
this 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")