MindCandy 1: PC Demos

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This Video-DVD is a compilation of 42 of the greatest PC demos of the past 10 years, scene by scene optimized for best possible performance in framerate and audio/video quality on your TV. For the demos you can switch to a special audio commentary track for 1st hand background stories, spoken by the demo creators or the MindCandy crew. Furthermore the DVD includes a 16-minute featurette on the history and making of demos with exclusive interviews, a 12-page color booklet, stylish menu music by demoscene musicians and more. The DVD can be played back on any standard DVD-player (see FAQ). More detailed information about the DVD is available at my dedicated MindCandy website at www.mindcandy.de (english and german lanugage) and at the website of the MindCandy crew at www.mindcandydvd.com. The best place for questions and feedback regarding the DVD is the official MindCandy forum.

The DVD content:

Side 1 contains modern "eye-candy" demos with lots of color and 3D effects, who will impress everyone, demo sceners as well as people who just want to sit back and watch cool computer animations from their couch. Included demos are: Wonder, 604, Kosmiset Avaruus Sienet, Further, Chrome, Volatile, Tesla, Broadband, Mikrostrange, Moral Hard Candy, TE-2RB, Le Petit Prince, Energia, Gerbera, Lapsus, Enlight the Surreal, Experimental, Live Evil, The Nonstop Ibiza Experience, Codename Chinadoll, Art and Kasparov.
 

Side 2 provides an overview of classic “oldschool” PC demos. These are the demos you just can't get running anymore, or never got running properly due to a "wrong" sound- or graphiccard. You'll get a kick watching them again, while ignorant people just might think you're crazy :) Included demos are: Second Reality, Megademo, Cronologia, Unreal, Amnesia, Panic, Crystal Dream 2, Show, Verses, Dope, X14, Stars: Wonders of the World, Reve, Paimen, Inside, Megablast, 303, Saint, Square and Riprap.

The project was in the making for more than two and a half years, and it couldn't be in better hands: the authors of the MindCandy DVD are those people who gave the worldwide computer-demo scene it's first internet home in 1992 and managed it till 1998: Hornet (Trixter, Phoenix, Stony, Snowman) and Fusecon (Dan Wright, creator of the original Hornet archive).