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First post, by Grzyb

Posted on 2023-10-14, 10:14

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It's a well-known fact that the PC was originally designed as a boring business machine.
While various 8-bit platforms and the Amiga already had demos in the 80s, the PC had to wait until the 90s, when 386 became common.
There were only a few exceptions that could run on pre-386 PCs, listed on this page - http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/demo_reviews.html
A few more appeared in the recent years.
Anything else?

XT, back in the era:

nothing?

286, back in the era:

Megademo by The Space Pigs, 1990
Chronologia by Cascada, 1991
Vectdemo by Ultraforce, 1991
Crystal Dreams by Triton, 1992
DoWhackaDo by Renaissance + Shadow Productions, 1993
Legend by Impact Studios, 1994

XT, modern:

8088 Corruption by Trixter/Hornet, 2004
8088 Domination by Trixter/Hornet, 2014
8088 MPH by Hornet+CRTC+Desire, 2015
Three Shades of Gray by Alumni, 2016
Area 5150 by CRTC+Hornet, 2022

286, modern:

1991 Donut by Desire, 2013

Last edited by Grzyb on 2023-10-15, 05:03. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 7, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2023-10-14, 18:46

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Two demos that runs on a real XT computer:

8088 Corruption: released in 2004.
8088 Domination: released in 2014.

Both were made by Trixter (also known as MobyGamer in some parts of the internet), who is from the Hornet demogroup.

Some demos that runs on 286 CPUs:

DoWhackaDo: by Renaissance and Shadow Productions, released in 1993.
1991 Donut: by DESiRE, released in 2013.

Reply 2 of 7, by Grzyb

Posted on 2023-10-15, 05:12

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OK, added to the original post.

Surely there's plenty of pre-386 stuff in the game/BBS intros genre, but I think they belong in another thread.
For now, I'm only including "real" demos.

Żywotwór planetarny, jego gnijące błoto, jest świtem egzystencji, fazą wstępną, i wyłoni się z krwawych ciastomózgowych miedź miłująca...

Reply 3 of 7, by pan069

Posted on 2023-10-15, 09:09

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Some of my favourites:

Deadbeat BBS by Shadow Productions - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=29970
Stardream by Surprise!Productions - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2052
Mental Surgery by Future Crew - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1280
No Lamers Allowed by Paranoids - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4124

And of course DoWhackaDo, but you already had that masterpiece listed.

Edit:

And of course Dragnet by Dutch Computer Enterprise - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4068 how could I forget. 😀

Reply 4 of 7, by Jo22

Posted on 2023-10-15, 09:34

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Tronix's CGA dots (modern demo, 4.77 MHz XT).
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61483

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