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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           |
|----------|-------------|------|--------|--------------------------|--------------------|
| 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 |
| Wired'96 | Pentium-120 | 8MB  | 6.3    | Tseng Lab ET6000         | 1MB GUS/SB 16      |
| Asm'97   | Pentium-166 | 16MB | ?      | SVGA VESA 1.2            | GUS Max/SB AWE32   |
| Wired'97 | Pentium-166 | 8MB  | 6.3    | Tseng Lab ET6000         | 1MB GUS/SB 16      |

General resources

PC Demos CPU Rendering

year group title comments 🧑
1992 Renaissance Amnesia 🌐 πŸ“Ί pretty aging, nice basic 3d with reflection @ 8'13
1992 Triton Crystal Dream 🌐 πŸ“Ί 80286 CPU
1993 Future Crew Second Reality 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1993 Triton Crystal Dream 2 🌐 πŸ“Ί 386 CPU
1994 Grif Catchup! 🌐 πŸ“Ί Music is horrible, but style is nice for a '94 PC prod...
1995 Nooon Stars: Wondders of the world 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1995 Complex Dope 🌐 πŸ“Ί like the big logo scrollers, boring 3d though...
1996 FEB Alto Knalo 🌐 πŸ“Ί Impressive as of '96 but not as polished as other prods of the same era...
1996 Oxygene Contrast 🌐 πŸ“Ί amiga team...
1996 Bomb Hard Rox 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1996 Orange Megablast 🌐 πŸ“Ί unique orange style 🧑
1996 Coma Paimen 🌐 πŸ“Ί unique Virne design 🧑
1996 Bomb Shian Lee 🌐 πŸ“Ί love the style 🧑
1996 Oxygene Solex 🌐 πŸ“Ί nice 3d for once
1996 Orange Super Television 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1996 Coma The Control 🌐 πŸ“Ί unique Virne design
1996 Doomsday Vivid Experiment 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1996 Mist Xaos 🌐 πŸ“Ί I like the epileptic style 🧑
1997 Bomb Eden 🌐 πŸ“Ί Trip within one big 3d world with multiple 256 color palettes. Smooth on a P100 without 3dfx. making of
1997 Pulse Square 🌐 πŸ“Ί 16bpp for sure
1997 Orange The Secret Life Of Mr. Black 🌐 πŸ“Ί unique orange style 🧑
1997 Eufrosyne Time zone + 13:00 🌐 πŸ“Ί I like the style and the use of particles 🧑
1997 Mist Xaos 2 🌐 πŸ“Ί epileptic style 🧑
1998 Bomb State of Mind 🌐 πŸ“Ί well done!
1998 Purple & Blasphemy Kkowboy 🌐 πŸ“Ί unique design...
1998 Purple Plastik 🌐 πŸ“Ί P200 + SVGA VBE 2.0 640x4x0 16bpp
2008 Byterapers Renaissance 🌐 πŸ“Ί runs on 486DX50 cpu
2022 CRTC & Hornet Area 5150 🌐 πŸ“Ί runs on 4.77 Mhz 8088 w/ CGA 🧑

Modern PC demos

year group title comments 🧑
2014 Still Intrinsic Gravity 🌐 πŸ“Ί Very nice op-art (optical art) demo! 🧑

PC 64k

year group title comments
1996 Eufrosyne Blind 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1996 Orange Deesbab 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1996 Pulse Famous Cyber People 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1996 Amable Junior 🌐 πŸ“Ί I like the animated text
1997 The Black Lotus Stash 🌐 πŸ“Ί Pentium 166 Mhz with VBE 2.0
1997 Fudge + Orange Pager-11 🌐 πŸ“Ί p166 + 15bpp. Lots of particles.
2000 Farbrausch fr-08: .theΒ .product 🌐 πŸ“Ί 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 🌐 πŸ“Ί 🧑
2016 Loonies Nexus 8 🌐 πŸ“Ί 8k remake of Nexus 7 / Andromeda (Amiga)
2020 Desire Memories 🌐 πŸ“Ί 256b MS-DOS
2023 7Dump Forever Reality 🌐 πŸ“Ί 4k remake of Second Reality 🧑

PC cracktros

year group title comments
1991 The Humble Guys Lemmings 🌐 πŸ“Ί

Amiga cracktros

year group title comments
1990 Miracle Trainer 🌐 πŸ“Ί
1995 Skid Row Trainer 🌐 πŸ“Ί exotica.org
1998 TRSI Arabian Nights trainer 🌐 πŸ“Ί nice font morphing

Amiga demos

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

Atari ST hardware

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

CPC hardware

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

C64 hardware

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

Sega hardware

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

Playstation hardware

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

PICO-8 virtual console

year group title comments
2016 [4mat] Ad Astra 🌐 πŸ“Ί Making of
2016 [4mat] oldskool fx 🌐 πŸ“Ί
2016 POD Orbys 🌐 πŸ“Ί

Other hardware or old-school feeling

year group title comments 🧑
2007 TVT YouScope 🌐 πŸ“Ί Oscilloscope in X/Y mode. Smart concept. 🧑
2021 Berzerk Studio Infernax 🌐 πŸ“Ί game
2023 BitBeamCannon DaemonClaw 🌐 πŸ“Ί game - nice parallax scroll

to be sorted...