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Looking for good DOS demos

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I'm looking for some good DOS demos. What qualifies as "good" to me? Demos with 3d polygons, raytraced pics, good music, basically anything you'd see in an Amiga demo. The machine I'll be running these on is a 486SX2 at 50MHz, 4MB RAM, VGA, and Soundblaster Pro.

Now don't say Crystal Dream I or II, or Megademo, or Unreal, or Second Reality. I have all of those already and have watched them several times.
added on the 2015-03-14 18:15:55 by ncovert ncovert
I recommend find the lists "Trixter's Mobylist" and/or his 'PC Demos Explained', on oldskool.org. They were listing DOS demos even in the days of those, but of course, some of the later ones you will need a pentium to watch, and some maybe also some form of GUS.
added on the 2015-03-14 22:31:14 by darwin darwin
Amnesia by Renaissance deserves more recognition.
added on the 2015-03-14 22:32:55 by TomoAlien TomoAlien
Well first of all pretty much all earlier orange demos (at least Project XYZ, x14, Television, Super Television...), and also

Catchup! by grif
Verses by EMF
The Message From The Cosmic Brothers by Komplex and
Evolver by Jeskola!

should be about the best you can get from that setup. Most pre-1995 demos sucked anyway :)
added on the 2015-03-15 00:22:52 by noby noby
Solstice should run on this.
This is a good list of stuff that will work on your hardware.
added on the 2015-03-15 03:15:35 by trixter trixter
^^ The 4k list needs poor guy and the demo list lacks livestock featured mfx stuff.
added on the 2015-03-15 10:16:02 by tomaes tomaes
Also Tao and Singularity by Satori.
added on the 2015-03-15 10:17:59 by tomaes tomaes
Chronologia by Cascada
every jeskola intro obv

... there are a zillion of others, a lot of them by now obscure swedish groups.
added on the 2015-03-17 18:17:12 by jeskola jeskola
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2937 meets your specs,
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=301 might work, too.

But 4MB is heavily constrained, most demos from later 90s eat up several MB more, and even many 386 boards could handle 16MB or more.

BTW, I guess the CPU is a DX type - the SX one was the neutered version without FPU.
added on the 2015-03-18 05:31:55 by T$ T$
^^ I also had a SX2/50 back in the days(tm), those were not that uncommon.
added on the 2015-03-18 11:11:22 by tomaes tomaes
Almost anything by Camorra
added on the 2015-03-20 00:51:06 by Psychad Psychad
Look up Imphobia magazine and take a look at their charts
added on the 2015-03-20 04:34:11 by Wutz Wutz
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Verses / EMF has allready been mentioned. Next would be Caero / EMF+Plant..
added on the 2015-03-21 01:14:23 by rudi rudi
and of course Xtal / Complex.
added on the 2015-03-21 01:15:56 by rudi rudi

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