Farb-Rausch Releases PC Demo Creation Software

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.

Comments

A case for 'anti-trust' action?

[beh]

Yes - you're right - I'm not serious about bringing the government anti-trust watchdogs in on this, but the move to release such a tool certainly is a smart way in staying *AT* the front.

If you're in the lead and make others use your tools to build their demos with, then you're at the advantage in you being able to always use a 'newer' more feature rich tool that will only be released AFTER you release you next latest and greatest demo...

If there was serious money in demos, M$ would probably follow THAT particular road as well. So it looks like Farb-Rausch has learnt from "the masters" in the field of keeping the competition at bay... ;-)

Heaven 7: another amazing 64KB demo

[psoriac]

In 2002 a group named exceed released a true 64KB demo (ok, it's 65536 bytes, close enough) called "Heaven 7" that was absolutely amazing for its time. You can check out their website here.