Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
Highly positive and celebratory tone regarding the 2026 Revision Demoparty and the legacy of the group Razor 1911.
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- vintermann: There were many really nice demos on Revision this year. Hacker News favorite (and mine, too!) LFT put out another microcontroller demo, Sum Ergo Demonstro:<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=v8zKDotYh9A&is=xAbW7VZVGLn0986B" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=v8zKDotYh9A&is=xAbW7VZVGLn0986B</a><p>But I think my favorite so far from the ones I've seen has to be Second Nature, an OCS Amiga demo by Desire & The Twitch Elite, and music by Hoffman.
- masternight: Ah wow.<p>I really enjoyed the demoscene back in the 90s. Was never a part of it but I was always fascinated by the effects and music and ascii art that these guys created.<p>A BBS in my city always had the latest e-zines like Reality Check Network and Affinity, and others I forget. Reading up on the scene and about groups like Razor1911 was something I spent a lot of time on when I was younger.<p>Amazing demo and homage to the era.
- pogue: That was amazing, really great song & visuals too. Takes me back to the days when you couldn't close the keygen because the midi playing was such a banger.<p><a href="https://keygenmusic.tk/" rel="nofollow">https://keygenmusic.tk/</a>
- JetSetIlly: Superb demos this year at Revision. Triplet by Otomata Labs for the Atari 2600 is exceptional<p>Original release video (probably running on Stella)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ0A8Wvdxs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ0A8Wvdxs</a><p>And a video of it running on Gopher2600.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixFH22MxqEg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixFH22MxqEg</a>
- tetrisgm: Legendary demo group Razor 1911 submitted this beautiful demo as the closer for the Revision 2026 demo competition.<p>It is an homage to 40 years of hacking from the group.<p>For context, they were pioneers in both the demoscene and in the warez scene in the 80s-00s.
- uzyn: This is so sick!<p>Revision faded out the credits part, which is still really cool on its own. The full version (10m 16s) can be viewed at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnbYNudAyM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnbYNudAyM</a>
- rast1234: Executable here: <a href="https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=105954" rel="nofollow">https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=105954</a>
- amatecha: Oh man, I watched "non-live" earlier today but hearing the live vers with the crowd audio is amazing. So damn good <3
- magicalhippo: Really cool retro-mix, and some slick transitions.<p>Most of that was before my time though, so 1995 by Kewlers[1] hit harder for me, since that was when I really got into the demo scene and with it my drive to learn programming.<p>Glad the demo scene is alive and kicking, though I get why a lot is oriented around old hardware, modern hardware makes things too easy almost.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mtctbodNXY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mtctbodNXY</a> (20 years old this year, now I feel <i>really</i> old)
- NKosmatos: I upvote every post related to the demoscene due to my age, so I couldn't let this one, especially when it's coming from RZR.
Imagine if we could get a new release from FC as well in 2026 (40 years since their founding)!!!<p>More about Razor 1911 and Future Crew for the young readers of HN: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Crew" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Crew</a><p>P.S. Too many groups to mention, but these two hold a special place in my mind ;-)<p>P.S.2. Extra mention to the most famous Greek demo group - ASD (Andromeda Software Development) - <a href="https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1317" rel="nofollow">https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1317</a>
- Incipient: Demos used to have sizes - I can't see one for this, is it just an 'open' category? This thing is far too insane to be size limited, surely?
- tetrisgm: The song can be gotten for free / pay what you want at: <a href="https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/fighting-words-feat-goto80-master-boot-record" rel="nofollow">https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/fighting-words-feat-goto8...</a>
- WhitneyLand: Great music.<p>Bright White Lightning, but didn’t see a track name.<p>Overall, wow.
- allenu: Beautiful. Masterfully done. I love all the BBS-era aesthetics and callouts. I hadn't seen FILE_ID.DIZ art in forever.
- dom96: Absolutely amazing.<p>Nice to be reminded that Revision is still active, on my bucket list to visit at least once in my life.