Skip to content

Comment on Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engineparent

Comments

Really, the demo scene, which started out in the 80's, was using Watcom C++? Watch the behind scenes video of Second Reality (1993). They're coding Pascal and (duh) assembly.

The demoscene was really born out of cracks/intros/loaders which means its origins are C64/Apple/Atari etc and assembly language.

In a very distance past, Watcom C++ used to be the best optimizing compiler for MS-DOS.

It was also the first to support extended memory in MS-DOS.

I'm not arguing the existence of Watcom C++ 9.5/386 :) But let's be clear the first version of Watcom C++ was released in 1993. To suggest the demoscene started there is ludicrous.

There I agree with you.

yeps. almost correct. scene started with c64. pc scene / first demo came out from future crew : second reality. also in 1996, smash designs created second reality 100% same fx via C64 (:

1996?!

I don't understand your comment. There were lots of PC demos in the late 80's.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.