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The most impressive one for me will always be fr-08, the .product, released in 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcrV_7JpXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?

The most impressive one for me will always be fr-08, the .product, released in 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcrV_7JpXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcrV_7JpXQ Pouet link if you want the binary: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221 It blew my mind when I first came across it in 2003, and it's still highly impressive even now.

pvitz 4y ago
My most favourite demo of 2000 was "Heaven 7" by Exceed [0]. That someone could do smooth raytracing (of course with many tricks, but still...) was mindblowing for me. [0] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5
twic 4y ago
The most impressive for me, in a slightly different way, is A Mind is Born, because it manages to do some simple but impactful sound and video in 256 bytes, on a Commodore 64: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26511266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26511266
- glouwbug 4y ago
  His other work is great too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0
- routerl 4y ago
  I still listen to that song just by itself. It's such an amazing demo.
  - twic 4y ago
    I was at a film festival, and saw a short film about AI or something. The film used just the music for the end credits! I told the director i appreciated the reference, and he was amazed someone recognised it.
bayindirh 4y ago
When I watched the '.the .product', my perspective about the computers have shifted dramatically and permanently. I became an high performance programming (not in HPC sense) enthusiast, and decided that performance and optimization matters. That path brought me to HPC, efficient and high performance programming and showed me how thinking about writing efficient code made a difference. Yes, you can't arrive to demoscene level wizardy in every application/tool you write, but optimizing the obvious and then some changes things a lot. Thinking about it again, possibly coming from C64 and early x86 hardware already primed me to "do more with less" mindset already, but '.the .product' get the things rolling.
nebula8804 4y ago
Ah man you just took me back to middle school. The 90s and the 2000s were such happy times in my life. Everything Farbrausch produced evokes such happy memories. For whatever reason I became obsessed with this lesser known demo called g-cube and watched it a lot in 2011. Just wanted to share(anyone remember it?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0gh5wnItw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0gh5wnItw

pvitz 4y ago

My most favourite demo of 2000 was "Heaven 7" by Exceed [0]. That someone could do smooth raytracing (of course with many tricks, but still...) was mindblowing for me. [0] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5

twic 4y ago

The most impressive for me, in a slightly different way, is A Mind is Born, because it manages to do some simple but impactful sound and video in 256 bytes, on a Commodore 64: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26511266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26511266

glouwbug 4y ago
His other work is great too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0
routerl 4y ago
I still listen to that song just by itself. It's such an amazing demo.
- twic 4y ago
  I was at a film festival, and saw a short film about AI or something. The film used just the music for the end credits! I told the director i appreciated the reference, and he was amazed someone recognised it.

bayindirh 4y ago

When I watched the '.the .product', my perspective about the computers have shifted dramatically and permanently. I became an high performance programming (not in HPC sense) enthusiast, and decided that performance and optimization matters. That path brought me to HPC, efficient and high performance programming and showed me how thinking about writing efficient code made a difference. Yes, you can't arrive to demoscene level wizardy in every application/tool you write, but optimizing the obvious and then some changes things a lot. Thinking about it again, possibly coming from C64 and early x86 hardware already primed me to "do more with less" mindset already, but '.the .product' get the things rolling.

nebula8804 4y ago

Ah man you just took me back to middle school. The 90s and the 2000s were such happy times in my life. Everything Farbrausch produced evokes such happy memories. For whatever reason I became obsessed with this lesser known demo called g-cube and watched it a lot in 2011. Just wanted to share(anyone remember it?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0gh5wnItw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0gh5wnItw