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Prods I like

My opinionated list.
Highly incomplete for sure.
Mostly CPU-based, very few 3D accelerated which are of less interest to me.

In the MS-DOS era:

Typical PC machines were:

| Party        |  CPU            | RAM  | MS-DOS | GFX Card                 | SFX Card             | .TXT         |
|--------------|-----------------|------|--------|--------------------------|----------------------|--------------|
| Asm'93       | i486/33         | ?    | ?      | Tseng ET4000             | ?                    |              |
| Asm'94       | i486DX2/66      | 4MB  | 6.20   | fast LB VGA              | 1MB GUS/SB PRO 2.0   |              |
| Asm'95       | i486DX2/66      | 4MB  | 6.20   | 1MB VLB TSENG ET4000/W32 | 1MB GUS/SB PRO 2.0   |              |
| Wired'95     | i486DX2/66      | 8MB  | 6.3    | 1MB VLB TSENG ET4000/W32 | 1MB GUS/SB 16        |              |
| Asm'96       | Pentium 100     | 8MB  | 7.0    | 2MB PCI S3 SVGA-board    | 1MB GUS/SB PRO 2.0   |              |
| The Party 96 | Pentium 133     | 16MB | ?.?    | SVGA VESA 1.2            | SB16/GUS Max         |              |
| Wired'96     | Pentium 120     | 8MB  | 6.3    | Tseng Lab ET6000         | 1MB GUS/SB 16        |              |
| Asm'97       | Pentium 133     | 16MB | 7.0    | S3 964 2MB PCI VESA      | 1MB GUS/SB AWE32     | ASM97INV.TXT |
| Wired'97     | Pentium 166     | 8MB  | 6.3    | Tseng Lab ET6000         | 1MB GUS/SB 16        |              |
| Asm'98       | Pentium 233 MMX | 32MB | 7.0    | S3 964 2MB PCI VESA      | 1MB GUS/2MB SB AWE32 | ASM98INV.TXT |
| Wired'98     | Pentium 200 MMX | 32MB | 6.3    | Tseng Lab ET6000         | 1MB GUS/SB 16        | W98NFO20.TXT |

General resources

PC Demos CPU Rendering

year group title comments 🧡
1992 Renaissance Amnesia 🌐 📺 pretty aging, nice basic 3d with reflection @ 8'13
1992 Triton Crystal Dream 🌐 📺 80286 CPU
1993 Future Crew Second Reality 🌐 📺
1993 Triton Crystal Dream 2 🌐 📺 386 CPU
1994 Grif Catchup! 🌐 📺 Music is horrible, but style is nice for a '94 PC prod...
1995 Nooon Stars: Wondders of the world 🌐 📺
1995 Complex Dope 🌐 📺 like the big logo scrollers, boring 3d though...
1996 FEB Alto Knalo 🌐 📺 Impressive as of '96 but not as polished as other prods of the same era...
1996 Oxygene Contrast 🌐 📺 amiga team...
1996 Bomb Hard Rox 🌐 📺
1996 Orange Megablast 🌐 📺 unique orange style 🧡
1996 Coma Paimen 🌐 📺 unique Virne design 🧡
1996 Bomb Shian Lee 🌐 📺 love the style 🧡
1996 Oxygene Solex 🌐 📺 nice 3d for once
1996 Orange Super Television 🌐 📺
1996 Coma The Control 🌐 📺 unique Virne design
1996 Doomsday Vivid Experiment 🌐 📺
1996 Mist Xaos 🌐 📺 I like the epileptic style 🧡
1997 Bomb Eden 🌐 📺 Trip within one big 3d world with multiple 256 color palettes. Smooth on a P100 without 3dfx. making of
1997 Pulse Square 🌐 📺 16bpp for sure
1997 Orange The Secret Life Of Mr. Black 🌐 📺 unique orange style 🧡
1997 Eufrosyne Time zone + 13:00 🌐 📺 I like the style and the use of particles 🧡
1997 Mist Xaos 2 🌐 📺 epileptic style 🧡
1998 Bomb State of Mind 🌐 📺 well done!
1998 Purple & Blasphemy Kkowboy 🌐 📺 unique design... DOS is 640x480x16bpp and requires 48MB. Win32 is 512x384x16bpp.
1998 Purple Plastik 🌐 📺 P200 + SVGA VBE 2.0 640x4*0x16bpp
2008 Byterapers Renaissance 🌐 📺 runs on 486DX50 cpu
2015 Byterapers Relax ants 🌐 📺
2018 Byterapers Shattered Minds 🌐 📺
2022 CRTC & Hornet Area 5150 🌐 📺 runs on 4.77 Mhz 8088 w/ CGA 🧡

Modern PC demos

year group title comments 🧡
2014 Still Intrinsic Gravity 🌐 📺 Very nice op-art (optical art) demo! 🧡

PC 64k

year group title comments
1996 Eufrosyne Blind 🌐 📺
1996 Orange Deesbab 🌐 📺
1996 Pulse Famous Cyber People 🌐 📺
1996 Amable Junior 🌐 📺 I like the animated text
1997 The Black Lotus Stash 🌐 📺 Pentium 166 Mhz with VBE 2.0
1997 Fudge + Orange Pager-11 🌐 📺 p166 + 15bpp. Lots of particles.
2000 Farbrausch fr-08: .the .product 🌐 📺 D3D polygon filling only. All software packed and generated. Not a big fan, but technically impressive for sure. making of

PC 8k, 4K or less

year group title comments 🧡
1995 Schwartz Animate 🌐 📺 🧡
2016 Loonies Nexus 8 🌐 📺 8k remake of Nexus 7 / Andromeda (Amiga)
2020 Desire Memories 🌐 📺 256b MS-DOS
2023 7Dump Forever Reality 🌐 📺 4k remake of Second Reality 🧡

PC cracktros

year group title comments 🧡
1991 The Humble Guys Lemmings 🌐 📺 nostalgia... 🧡

Amiga cracktros

year group title comments 🧡
1992 Melon Dezign KGB cracked by Ministry 🌐 📺
1990 Miracle Trainer 🌐 📺
1995 Skid Row Trainer 🌐 📺 exotica.org 🧡
1998 TRSI Arabian Nights trainer 🌐 📺 nice font morphing

Amiga demos

year group title comments 🧡
1994 NGC Animatunes 🌐 📺
Unique Interparallactic 🌐 📺 quiet polished
2019 The Black Lotus Eon 🌐 📺 🧡
2019 The deadliners + Lemon. + Oxygen De Profundis 🌐 📺 🧡
2020 Offence Chillobits 🌐 📺 Amiga 500
2020 Lemon. Colombia 🌐 📺 nice style and ideas
2020 The Electronic Knights Hologon 🌐 📺 A500 masterpiece 🧡
2020 Planet Jazz Sax Offender 🌐 📺 Amiga 500 - nice polished style
2022 Desire Ramontic Gateway 🌐 📺 40k
2023 Flex Sojourn of the Soul 🌐 📺 Nice design. Heavy graphics and videos...

Atari ST hardware

year group title comments 🧡
1999 Equinox Virtual Escape 🌐 📺 nice bouncing dragon ball @ 1'55
2017 SMFX Execution 🌐 📺
2017 Effect Gave it a try 🌐 📺
2019 SFMX Motus 🌐 📺
2021 Overlanders FirST Love 🌐 📺 🧡
2023 Effect Accross the borders 🌐 📺

CPC hardware

year group title comments 🧡
2011 Batman Group Batman Forever 🌐 📺 🧡
2013 Condense Phortem 🌐 📺
2013 Vanity Still Rising 🌐 📺 making of
2017 Logon System Logon's Run 🌐 📺 clever scrolling technic
2018 Condense phX 🌐 📺 🧡
2021 Benediction & Arkos Can robot take control? 🌐 📺

C64 hardware

year group title comments 🧡
1997 Smash Designs & The Obsessed Maniacs Second Reality 64 🌐 📺
2000 Crest & Oxyron Deus Ex Machina 🌐 📺
2008 Exceed Cauldron 🌐 📺
2008 Booze Design Edge of Disgrace 🌐 📺
2010 Shape Artillery 🌐 📺
2010 Glance Snapshot 🌐 📺
2010 Fairlight We are new 🌐 📺 Very nice and polished 🧡
2013 Censor Design Wonderland XII 🌐 📺
2014 Fairlight Redefinition 🌐 📺
2014 Fairlight & Prosonix We are all connected 🌐 📺 🧡
2014 Censor Design Comaland 🌐 📺 🧡
2016 Arsenic Incoherent Nightmare 🌐 📺
2018 Censor Design The Star Wars Demo 🌐 📺 quality content and lovely ideas. i love the Z6PO fx. 🧡
2021 Bonzai Bromance 🌐 📺 love the polished vintage style 🧡
2023 Bonzai + Pretzel Logic Mojo 🌐 📺 still an incredible style for this C64 prod 🧡
2023 Censor Design Wonderland XIV 🌐 📺 another great design 🧡
2024 Fairlight 13:37 🌐 📺 🧡
2025 Booze Design! Codeboys & Endians 🌐 📺
2025 Extend We are the anomaly 🌐 📺

Sega hardware

year group title comments
2017 Resistance Masiaka 🌐 📺 Megadrive - nice style
2016 [Psidium/Sim/Slimeball] Be No Sqr 🌐 📺 Master System

Playstation hardware

year group title comments
1999 Paradox Ape Escape Cracktro 🌐 📺
2000 Paradox Anpanman Cracktro 🌐 📺
2003 SoopaDoopa Aura for Laura 🌐 📺 PSX 2

PICO-8 virtual console

year group title comments
2016 [4mat] Ad Astra 🌐 📺 Making of
2016 [4mat] oldskool fx 🌐 📺
2016 POD Orbys 🌐 📺
2025 Konsumer Nuova 🌐 📺

Other hardware or old-school feeling

year group title comments 🧡
2007 TVT YouScope 🌐 📺 Oscilloscope in X/Y mode. Smart concept. 🧡
2021 Berzerk Studio Infernax 🌐 📺 game
2023 BitBeamCannon DaemonClaw 🌐 📺 game - nice parallax scroll
2024 Timeline 2 https://tic80.com/play?cart=3823
2024 Juan J. Martínez Alien Intruder i286 MS-DOS and Adlib

to be sorted...