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State of the Art…sweet!
That is by far the most impressive Ti99/4A demo I’ve ever seen. Neat to see these still being made… seems there are a few tricks left to squeeze out of these old machines.
My favorite all-time demo is Crystal Dream II by Triton. Ran on PC DOS back in 1993. It looks primitive today, but the amount of skill and creativity required to put all of this on a single floppy disk was remarkable.
Pretty sure the Triton team was only three teenagers… they not only programmed the whole thing themselves, but created their own raytracing engines and wrote their own music tracker, then created memory-efficient sound samples, and THEN composed the music which is STILL GREAT.
The “middle sequence” starting at 3:00 is my favorite. It celebrates the beauty of mathematics in a way which is just pure joy… you can feel it, man.
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I had a T!99 It was The State of the art PC in it’s time. First PC with a 16 bit processor and animated graphics called Sprites. You could also get a 5.5" floppy drive with a whopping 5K of storage, before that you had to store on an Audio tape drive…