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Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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That Dynamic Duo disk at the beginning reminded me of my friend who got his house raided in 1987 for exchanging (not selling) cracked computer games for the C64 at the age of 18 in super rural Germany. He still managed to get into the army as an officer.

Somebody needed to hack the Soviets! CCC were beasts

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First time the shout outs weren’t just respect or cheese. RIP, til Valhalla. PS: I never knew Westbam (of Love Parade fame?!) was involved.

Different Westbam. The DJ you're thinking of is still alive.

Thank you

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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post #37

My first time hearing the name RAZOR1911 was on the cracktro for GTA IV, which had this banger of a music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4-9PsZHqI

The game was notoriously hard to crack too. Rockstar had a lot of former demosceners, so they put all sorts of protection that would mess with the game.

I recall my friend describing Nico being randomly drunk, or vehicles suddenly accelerating. Razor eventually nailed it iirc

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

#54

The song can be gotten for free / pay what you want at: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/fighting-words-feat-goto8...

In addition, here is the Bright White Lightning discography:

https://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/album/bad-teeth-data024

https://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-nails-data038

Having not seen anything from them since 2014, so I am very happy for another track.

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

#55

Demos used to have sizes - I can't see one for this, is it just an 'open' category? This thing is far too insane to be size limited, surely?

This came up in the Discord party chat, basically there isn't a size limit in the rules[1], but going beyond 2GB would be concerning that it's not a real-time demo but instead just playback of animation.

[1] https://2026.revision-party.net/competitions/pc/

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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I upvote every post related to the demoscene due to my age, so I couldn't let this one, especially when it's coming from RZR. Imagine if we could get a new release from FC as well in 2026 (40 years since their founding)!!! More about Razor 1911 and Future Crew for the young readers of HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Crew P.S. Too many groups to mention, but these two…

ASD - Spin lives rent free in my head. I remember a colleague explaining how the morphing between meshes was really just random noise but the proximity and speed made it look like a real transformation. So cool. Should out to TheBlackLotus, Fairlight, Orange, CNCD also for those of you who want to look up epic demos.

I also liked Triton. They made great demos and also FastTracker 2!

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ASD - Spin lives rent free in my head. I remember a colleague explaining how the morphing between meshes was really just random noise but the proximity and speed made it look like a real transformation. So cool. Should out to TheBlackLotus, Fairlight, Orange, CNCD also for those of you who want to look up epic demos.

I also liked Triton. They made great demos and also FastTracker 2!

FT2 was written in Borland Pascal 7 and TASM, btw.
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