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Farb-Rausch Releases PC Demo Creation Software

Posted by simoniker on from the rsi-demo-maker dept.

RaD Man [ACiD] writes "Farb-Rausch, one of the best-known groups at the forefront of the PC demoscene, has just released Werkkzeug, a fully featured, freely downloadable PC demo creation tool used to make the visually stunning and award-winning demo The Popular Demo. Not only have they freely published the creation tools, but they've also released the original datafiles for The Popular Demo as well." We also recently featured a 96kb FPS demo from the same authors.

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  1. Wrong one... by Dwedit · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's this about "The Popular Demo" being 64k? It's actually 8,854,016 bytes long.

  2. 64KB INTRO! by rexguo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is "Poem for a horse", not "The Popular Demo". This 64K intro was shown at SIGGRAPH'03.

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  3. Popular demo not a 64kb demo by octal666 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The popular demo is not a 64kb demo, farb-rausch are good, but the popular demo is a 8Mb demo, as it can be seen if you just follow the link to pouet.net.

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  4. 3d engine, texture+music, and even a speech synth! by PommeFritz · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was stunned when I downloaded Farb-rausch's "Candytron" 64K demo.

    It contains a 3d engine, procedural texture creation, realtime music synthesizer AND also a speech synthesizer! The music in some of their demos is actually accompanied by a (robotic) singer! You can even make out the words...

    Farb-rausch rule, IMHO :-)

  5. for more info on demos and the demoscene: by spiny · · Score: 5, Informative
    a few links:

    orange juice (news site): http://www.ojuice.net">


    pouet (demo archive with discussion): http://www.pouet.net


    scene.org (pretty much all demos since 1993 ...) : http://www.scene.org



    those three have plenty of links to other sites too. nearly all platforms still have strong demo scenes active, from the Oric (no really!) through to the Atari Falcon (and ST/e)


    you don't have to be a programmer to take part either, if you can pixel or weild a graphics tablet, knock up a catch chip choon or an entire mp3 album you'll fit right in.

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  6. Re:mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Goodness; does no one here know HTML? Here are the four "the.popular.demo" mirror sites, as links: And, by the way, "the.popular.demo" is 8.2MB, not 64KB as stated in the article. (Rather a difference, so expect a long download time.)
  7. Re:Demopaja was still the first by kb · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it's not. Demopaja is "only" (not to say anything against it, it's one of the coolest tools even for producing videos ;) a timeline editor for external plugin DLLs, so to say a tool that demosceners can use to concentrate on coding their own effects while leaving the dirty direction work to the artists. .werkkzeug on the other hand is a complete, closed content development system which does not support linking your own code (because we never needed that, Chaos always implemented what the others wanted) but includes everything from texture generation, mesh generation/editing, timeline editing, post-processing effects and a few other things.

    So you can't even compare both tools, as they've got radically different uses within the same context.

    Oh, and in fact the only thing that we claim that hasn't done before is the completely nondestructive modular texture and model editing. We know we haven't invented texture generation itself or demomakers, don't worry. Damn, I used those tools back on the C64 when I was 14, so... ;)

    kb / farbrausch