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Re:Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine by newobj on Sunday April 15, 2012 @12:56PM (#3844069)
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.

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Re:Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine by pjmlp on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:54PM (#3844196)
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.

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Re:Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine by newobj on Sunday April 15, 2012 @02:33PM (#3844280)
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.
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Re:Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine by pjmlp on Monday April 16, 2012 @02:40AM (#3846210)
There I agree with you.
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Re:Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine by vigo on Sunday April 15, 2012 @03:32PM (#3844458)
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 (:
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Re:Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine by pjmlp on Monday April 16, 2012 @02:50AM (#3846236)
1996?!

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

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