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Anyone remember this "Demo" that Creative Labs made to promote Sound Blaster 16? [1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLb9QDf51o https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Anyone remember this "Demo" that Creative Labs made to promote Sound Blaster 16? [1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLb9QDf51o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLb9QDf51o I guess people didn't realize that they were secretly in the demoscene ha ha! I wonder if it was some overly excited intern developer that whipped this up in his/her spare time? Creative Labs didn't seem like the kind of company that would allow time spent to develop stuff like this but I guess thats just speculation, I was in elementary school when this was released. I remember when my late father came home with a Sound Blaster 16 and installed it because I had been doing alright in school. I then spent a few days not doing my second grade homework but instead trying to figure out how to set up the SET BLASTER requirements for this card and figuring out how to get games to work with it. There was no internet, and I had no idea how I ever learned anything at all back then. The moment when Epic Pinball started playing music was so shocking that it is still imprinted in my head to this day!

djmips 4y ago
Let me recall how I learned back then because it's an interesting contrast. Magazine subscriptions (like Byte). Books from the library. Word of mouth (friends, computer stores). Television - there were a few like Bits and Bytes and The Computer Chronicles. And just hands on. A computer club if you were lucky!
- nebula8804 4y ago
  You were very lucky! All I had was trial and error and the occasional help from my dad. I never did learn to code until High School but when it came to troubleshooting and "IT" related stuff? Thats what I ended up becoming good at. That just required trial and error. Coding would have required me to figure out how to install a compiler. Later on we got TechTv but I think we had internet by then. Not really useful as I recall relying on my collection of webrings instead of search.

djmips 4y ago

Let me recall how I learned back then because it's an interesting contrast. Magazine subscriptions (like Byte). Books from the library. Word of mouth (friends, computer stores). Television - there were a few like Bits and Bytes and The Computer Chronicles. And just hands on. A computer club if you were lucky!

nebula8804 4y ago
You were very lucky! All I had was trial and error and the occasional help from my dad. I never did learn to code until High School but when it came to troubleshooting and "IT" related stuff? Thats what I ended up becoming good at. That just required trial and error. Coding would have required me to figure out how to install a compiler. Later on we got TechTv but I think we had internet by then. Not really useful as I recall relying on my collection of webrings instead of search.