Chronologia
Technical notes and supporting artifacts from a demoscene reverse-engineering scratch project.
Writeups
Starlite
Nordic Vision's Finnish 1994 PC demo: restored DIET binary, self-read overlay, fixed-point planar mapper, feedback field, run-glyph text, 640-pixel virtual grid plotter and four-opcode delta animation.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio, embedded video or H.264/MP4.
Fly
Anjovis's completed 1994 PC demo: exact scene chain, GUS-order scheduler, additive byte fields, source-row remapper, retained-address point morph, shared unchained-planar triangle filler, spike objects, authored-frame banks and mode-12h scroller.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio, embedded video or H.264/MP4.
The Final Option
Phantom Dezign's 1994 PC trackmo: custom loader/LZ grammar, exact 60-member file system, EMS asset paging, tracker-order scene clock, 2× interpolator, six-oscillator additive pixels, planar CRTC scrolling and vector geometry.
One continuous authored-vector GIF and two exact shipped-asset decodes; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
2 Cents
Mental Design's Assembly 1994 PC demo: exact FEXOS scene order, hard-coded GUS 220h path, Q10 polygon engines, self-shortened unrolled edge DDA, 120×120 relaxation field, Z-buffered objects and table-driven tunnel sampler.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
303
Acme's X'97-winning PC demo: retained Watcom module map, 45-record ALEX library, streaming LZW, x87-safe timer callbacks, custom captured-footage decoder, paired-pixel shaded texture spans, and connected marching-cubes traversal.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
Machines of Madness
Dubius' Assembly 1996 PC demo winner: PMODE/W controller, decoded 74-entry archive, twelve recovered child executables, LZW-family unpacker, 3D Studio scene inventory, self-patched x87/fixed-point renderer, material spans, six-view environment map and exact 64,000-pixel distorters.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; static front preview, no audio or H.264/MP4.
Socialism
Dominion's ninth-place Juhla 1995 PC demo: unpacked Turbo Pascal MZ, custom 320×240 planar VGA, exact 80×60 resampler and distortion loop, precomputed zoom maps, calculated 10×8 wire grid, PCX RLE, DAC fades and four-channel MOD structure.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs plus a direct credit decode; static front preview, no audio or H.264/MP4.
Mind Riot
Andromeda's all-Norwegian 1993 OCS/ECS design classic: high-resolution typography, transparent geometry, calculated circles, motion-traced wireframes, raytraced HAM frames and the Mirror panel object; a three-hunk low-memory conductor sequences six exact StoneCracker 3.00 overlays.
8 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Hindun tie kehdosta hautaan
Limbo's all-Finnish 1994 OCS/ECS demo: recursive triangle design, row distortion, vertical typography, illustrated greetings and a 4096-colour field; complete ending notes and a 632-byte backward-decompressing LoadSeg rebuilder.
7 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Logic
Pygmy Projects' all-Finnish Assembly 1995 AGA runner-up: sparse object-show design, environment mapping, field dots, texture city and ray tracing; fourteen native LoadSeg programs and the authors' targeted cache, VBR and player patch.
10 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Que?
The Black Lotus' all-Swedish Remedy 1995 AGA runner-up: wrapped type, reflective and deforming objects, an exact in-demo part ledger, thirteen LoadSeg executables, a shared 76-byte unpacking shell and the later per-part WHDLoad repairs.
9 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Sourcery
Offence's all-Norwegian 1992 OCS demo: a character-built presentation, two distinct mapped-logo passages, a deforming final object and a one-hunk loader that cycles three 64 KiB payloads through one chip-memory slot.
6 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Atmosphere
Stone Arts' all-Norwegian 1993 OCS demo: hand-drawn graphic identity, changing sliced geometry, custom-track loading, a relocation-free single-hunk core and raster-coupled hardware ownership.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Despair
iNSANE's all-Swedish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: transition-led visual design, exact three-hunk chip-memory layout, 591 relocations, banked high/low-nibble AGA palette construction, VBR-aware takeover and internal four-channel replay.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Neural Assault
Rage's all-Swedish ECC 1993 winner: direct silent A500 boot, cinema-framed semi-story, relocated two-stage raw-track loader, preservation-source call map, 19 PowerPacker members and both complete Fajser modules.
2 direct-runtime and 5 clearly bounded public-reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Maximum Overdrive II
Rage's all-Swedish three-disk Assembly 1994 AGA demo: framed scanline-video processing, late geometry and colour phases, exact DMS structure, and an 88-byte boot path that bulk-reads 889,344 bytes into a fixed-memory destination.
5 continuous silent GIFs in the article; no audio or published embedded video.
Aurora
Stellar's all-Finnish Scenario 1995 AGA winner and authored two-day production: stock-A1200 visual analysis, bounded replacement-ROM failure, a 704-byte Titanics overlay loader, 5 KiB streaming input, private literal/backreference depacker, hunk allocation and relocation handoff.
6 continuous silent GIFs in the article; no audio or published embedded video.
Illusion
Virtual Dreams / Fairlight's all-Finnish 1993 Computer Crossroads runner-up: preserved ADF, exact 736 KiB boot-block bulk read, video-only visual concordance, fourteen-phase call score, level-3 SNT! tracker replay, copper/blitter paths, self-relocation and hard-reset exit.
7 continuous silent GIFs in the article; no audio or published embedded video.
Brain-State-In-A-Box
Cryptoburners' all-Norwegian The Gathering 1994 AGA runner-up: original author archive, video-only visual concordance, voxel and recursive-feedback state map, hidden live controls, replacement-ROM failure boundary, and a 632-byte backwards depacker/private hunk loader around the packed inner executable.
7 continuous GIFs in the article at scene-appropriate 2, 4, or 5 fps; no audio or published embedded video.
Maximum Velocity
The Finnish Silents section's 1992 party-winning OCS/ECS full demo: complete direct silent run, authenticated original DMS, authored routine credits, valid custom boot block, raw 11-sector MFM track decoder, thirteen embedded DEFJAM depackers and one mapped ProTracker module.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; per-scene 1, 2, or 8 fps, with no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
End of the Misery
Sagazity's all-Swedish The Party 1993 two-disk OCS/ECS demo: complete direct silent run, authenticated original ADFs, physical disk swap, 46-byte relocated boot reader, EOM2 continuation identity, raw track layout and direct-hardware evidence.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
CCCP
Juliet+Case's all-Finnish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: complete direct silent run, authenticated party executable, recovered 704-byte streaming Titanics loader, fifteen internal segments, banked AGA palette code and three second-level StoneCracker blocks.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Sound Vision
Reflect's Finnish-Norwegian Assembly 1992 winner: authenticated original DMS, complete official silent traversal, self-authored effect inventory, raw-track loader, resident interrupt state and exact WHDLoad transition repairs.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Enigma
Phenomena's Swedish 1991 Amiga winner: authenticated raw-track chain, exact Q1.15 vector engines, triple-buffered worlds, procedural 800-point sphere, corrected 98-vertex two-plane OLLESBOLL wireframe, perspective text, eight-bank fractal and force-unwind controller.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Dala Horse
Razor 1911's all-Swedish Remedy 1995 AGA winner: complete silent archival viewing, authenticated release, reconstructed Crunch-Mania executable, 2,203 relocations, sixteen-part call chain, four indexed data containers and twenty-one inner compressed members.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Point Blank
Andromeda's all-Norwegian 1992 OCS/ECS full demo: complete direct silent run, validated party DMS, 52-byte boot program, raw 5,632-byte track loader, StoneCracker 3.00 recovery, fixed-address part chain, and preservation-level timing and blitter repairs.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Absolute Inebriation
Virtual Dreams' all-Finnish 1992 OCS/ECS trackmo: complete silent viewing, two checksum-verified DMS disks, raw 5,632-byte track loader, fixed-address part chain, and the 1,245-line preservation source's blitter, interrupt and stack repairs.
8 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Love
Virtual Dreams' Finnish-Norwegian South Sealand 1994 AGA winner: complete silent viewing, authenticated party archive, 704-byte outer loader, three recovered memory-aware segments, private bitstream decoder, and 413 relocations.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or H.264/MP4 asset.
Sequential
Andromeda's Norwegian Gathering 1994 winner: complete silent viewing, verified all-Norwegian credits, original DMS and boot-block anatomy, and a dissection of the sector-addressed loader exposed by its WHDLoad adapter.
6 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or H.264/MP4 asset.
C42
Juliet+Case's Finnish Assembly 1995 AGA demo: complete direct silent A1200 run, 704-byte outer hunk, nine reconstructed memory-aware segments, private bitstream depacker, 9,841 relocations, and preserved chunky transformation design.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4.
Four Years
Origo Dreamline's Assembly 1993 C64 demo winner: complete direct silent opening and main loop, original packed one-file release, multicolour bitmap, and a live PAL raster chain that reuses all eight hardware sprites for the moving objects.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4.
242
Virtual Dreams / Fairlight's Assembly 1993 Amiga runner-up: complete direct silent loop, clean one-file HD payload, three-hunk memory wrapper, original trackloader corroboration, word-coded scene sequencer, planar overlays, and bounded custom animation-packing analysis.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
&i
sYmptom's 9th-place The Party 1994 PC demo: exact archive and direct silent run, TMS/GUS player, six-channel module timeline, 17 custom sparse PAC animation streams, 542 delimited frames, bitmap/letter assets, and sampled human motion combined with realtime VGA geometry.
7 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
2nd Phobia
Noice The Party 1993 PC demo/BBS intro: PKLITE MZ expansion, corrected group spelling, GUS/no-sound selector, external Grim3 MOD, embedded RIX3 artwork, and VGA/DAC/retrace evidence.
30 sek
Noice TCC 1993 PC demo entry: Pascal MZ launcher chain, raw 64 KB VGA pages, mirrored brush rows, filled vector box, palette plasma, vector ball, and final scroller.
3k of innocence
Twaddler / Proxima 1995 2,912-byte COM intro: complete scene call sequence, Q11 Mandelbrot recurrence and screen mapping, unchained 80-byte VGA pitch, two-source radial table sampler, exact 300/301-to-320 feedback resampler, and interrupt-driven OPL event parser.
4K FLiGHT
Scoop TG95 PC 4K winner: PKLITE expansion, XOR text layer, FPU sine tables, generated corridor sections, z-recycle loop, object ordering, triangle spans, OPL timer music, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 6 runtime frames in the article.
4K iNTRO by MLJ/Xenogenesis
TG95 PC 4K third place: PKLITE expansion, fixed-point Mandelbrot table, twisted texture prelude, voxel horizon spans, plasma height map, and tweaked VGA planes.
4 Kings
Orange Assembly 1994 PC 64K: PKLITE and nested MZ boundary, GUS I/O selector, module-signature probes, direct public-video GIF analysis, bounded video-to-code concordance for sprite/title compositing, logo-band layer motion, spiral/radial feedback, red cellular texture, final illustrated card treatment, and an explicit no-fake-function-map unpacking boundary.
4 public-video GIFs and 1 Pouet still in the article.
7-Up The Cool Spot
The Humble Guys 26 August 1990 MS-DOS 16K cracktro: safe 5-second silent opening excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, NFO and later-scroller omission boundary, archive and payload hashes, non-MZ flat packed executable, PKWARE memory-check string, high-memory depacker map, and THG title/scroller runtime evidence.
1 safe silent opening MP4 and 1 corrected direct runtime still in the article; later contact-bearing scroller frames are not published.
Again
Orange September 1994 MS-DOS/GUS intro: Scene.org archive hashes, exact public Pouet GIF still, PKLITE/UNP parent launcher, external 8CHN INDEED.MOD, dynamically written nested PKLITE zoom.exe child, DOS EXEC handoff, direct GUS-port selector code, local DOSBox-X child crash boundary, and explicit no-fake-renderer-map note.
1 exact public Pouet GIF still in the article; local DOSBox-X captures only reached selector/black transition and are not published.
Ages
Happo Assembly 1996 PC demo ninth place: exact Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, NFO contact-material boundary, 40-second silent DOSBox-X opening, tiny outer MZ plus 1.9 MB overlay, embedded PMODE/W 1.22 image at 0xBD9A4, compressed object map, MIDAS/S3M/SB/GUS paths kept silent, PCX resource-name table, carved title/tunnel assets, and bounded runtime-to-resource concordance.
1 silent opening MP4 and 2 direct runtime stills in the article.
8192
The Svilit Two The Party 1993 PC intro second place: exact 8K RNC/MZ wrapper, B800 text-page animation, HSC/AdLib cue bytes, and strip reveal loop.
9 Fingers
Spaceballs' Norwegian 1993 Amiga classic: one continuous filmed-animation grammar, not eight unrelated effects; two raw-track disks, custom backward depacker, streamed bank schedule, residual animation source and WHDLoad timing corroboration.
8 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
8088 MPH
Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE Revision 2015 oldskool demo: real-hardware-to-code concordance for the source-order GIF/stills, final loader/part archive, CGA calibration, INT F8h part API, CRTC restarts, CPU/CGA/PIT lockstep, generated effect kernels, and 4-channel PC-speaker MOD VM.
1 source-order real-hardware GIF, 15 real-hardware stills, calibration references, pipeline map, and real-hardware-to-code concordance in the article.
ABC Monday Night Football Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 28 November 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro: TheDraw COM screen-save wrapper, decoded B800h character/attribute page, mode 2/3/7 guard, REP MOVSW row copy, CGA snow-safe 03DAh polling path, and RUNME.BAT pause/handoff.
1 decoded text page and 1 generated loader map in the article.
A Forest Software Loader
1995 MS-DOS software-loader cracktro: exact Demozoo/Scene.org source identity, single 2,640-byte COM archive, Starport-2-derived tag, direct silent DOSBox-X capture, tiny tail XOR decoder, decoded 386/VGA startup, mode-13h BIOS-font harvest, mode-0Dh planar starfield/text runtime, OPL/PIT paths documented without audible audio, and projection/glyph/keyboard-loop map.
1 silent MP4 and 1 direct runtime still in the article.
Ace Demo
Ace December 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: FLI/VOC player architecture, CT-VOICE setup, mode-13h playback, palette chunks, BRUN full frame, LC delta loops, retrace pacing, VOC repeat loop, and timestamped runtime frames.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 7 timestamped runtime frames, 2 contact sheets, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Acid Warp / Acidwarp
Noah Spurrier 1992 MS-DOS VGA procedural eye-candy classic: Borland MZ layout, mode-13h setup, 64 KiB offscreen buffer, shuffled 33-formula integer generator, lookup-table dist/angle math, progress line, REP MOVSW copy, DAC palette rotation/fade animation, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 9 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
After Burner 2
International Network of Crackers 14 October 1989 MS-DOS/EGA cracktro: source-limited 640x350 public frame, redacted old contact panel, EGA mode-10h plane geometry, solid fills, masked logo/bar/text candidates, graphics-font board-list renderer, and blocked Defacto2 handoff boundary.
1 redacted public frame and 1 generated boundary map in the article.
A Year of Agony
Hypnosis The Party 1993 PC demo twenty-first place: 1.1 KB multipart loader, stripped MZ/PKLITE DAT parts, UNP-expanded effect executables, no-sound documentation, EMS checks, BMP assets, raw VGA plane, and palette tables.
AirFrame
Prime Assembly 1994 64K intro: timestamped DOSBox-X Prime text, AirFrame title, green landscape flight, blue moire/vector cube, beige structural fly-through, GUS 8-channel MOD path, Mode X pager, bitstream image decoder, fixed-point vector renderer, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 12 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Alley Cat Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 26 December 1985 MS-DOS Alley Cat title-page graffiti: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, dominant magenta/cyan CGA palette evidence, IBM/title/Bill Williams/alley-art/pirate-footer region map, and full-page-copy, RLE, footer-strip-patch, graphics-mode text-writer, key-gate, and handoff implementation candidates.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
J-Bird Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 26 December 1985 MS-DOS two-screen J-Bird cracktro: public Demozoo warranty/key-gate and logo frames, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reductions, black/white text page, magenta/white/cyan logo page, contact sheet, layout map, and page-copy, text-writer, RLE, rectangle-compositor, key-gate, and handoff models.
2 public screenshots, 2 logical reductions, 1 contact sheet, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is a static two-screen wrapper.
Amnesia
Renaissance 1992 megademo: sparse intro GIF, bounded runtime-to-code concordance, clean-boot loader, custom LZ stub, protected-mode runtime, green line drawer, Mode X planar copy helpers, 03DAh/tick vblank pacing, DAC palette timing, vectors, and entropy/pattern loops.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 2 runtime frames in the article.
Antibar
Mr. Fanatic of SMA Posse 1992 4 KB-ish COM intro: runtime GIF-to-code boundary, XOR feedback decoder, high-memory RLE expansion, self-relocation, evolving 16-byte key schedule, checksum gate, DOS/BIOS text-output wrapper, final far handoff, and captured bottom text scroller.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 7 runtime frames, and 1 cropped scroller contact sheet in the article; GIF proves the repaired child executes, while the exact child scroller loop remains a deeper dump target.
Anti-svd
The Untouchables 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: complete direct keyed no-sound runtime, EXEPACK restore, tu.dat resource loader, linear/planar bitstream decoders, DAC fades, mask/OR block compositors, delta window restoration, and a four-plane CRTC strip ring with an IRQ-9 Space exit.
1 continuous direct-runtime card GIF; the article adds 2 direct stills and retains the generated loader/loop map as secondary evidence.
A New BBS Intro (Anarchy Boards)
Anarchy PC December 1993 board-ad intro: public Pouet welcome still with bounded screenshot-to-code concordance, custom MZ depacker, Borland runtime, GoldPlay/ProTracker tail, unchained VGA pages, RLE picture uploads, retrace-paced palette fades, CRTC page flips, and planar span filling.
1 public Pouet still in the article; local DOSBox-X capture did not reach useful visual frames.
Apache Cracktro
Miami Cracking Machine 8 July 1989 MS-DOS multi-renderer cracktro: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence with bounded visual-to-code concordance, shared Monochrome/CGA/EGA/Tandy selector shell, 640x350 EGA mode-10h title scene, planar A000h blue fill, stippled top mask, mirrored logo/lightning sprite blits, central C/text masks, and redacted exit text page.
3 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Aquarium
CNCD's Finnish ECC 1993 Amiga OCS/ECS demo: complete silent direct run, six restrained continuous GIFs, custom boot and eleven-sector trackloader, MFM checksum decoder, StoneCracker S401 depacking, token-driven part scheduler, The Player 5.0A music material, and a compact 3D finale.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, MP4 or H.264 video published.
Arkanoid ][ - The Revenge of DoH
The FiRM July 1989 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public greeting screen, 16 KiB COM relocation, INT 61h private service, segment patches, helper block copy, DOS 09h text print and BIOS key wait, memory resize, stack switch, path recovery, critical-error hook, option parser, hardware/config probes, and REVOFDOH.DAT EXEC boundary.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Archon Graffiti
IPL source-limited 1984 MS-DOS cracktro: public Demozoo frame, CGA 320x200 page reconstruction, palette measurement, page-region map, and probable static B800h blit/overlay loops.
1 public screenshot, 1 reduced CGA page, and 1 derived page map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Archon Graffiti (The Duplicators)
The Duplicators 27 December 1984 MS-DOS Archon title-page graffiti: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, grey/black/magenta/cyan CGA palette evidence, original title/authors/EA logo retention, visible DIPLICATORS footer, and full-page versus footer-strip patch loop models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Archon Graffiti (faked public domain)
faked public domain 1985 MS-DOS Archon title-page graffiti: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, pixel comparison against the other Archon-derived frames, unchanged title/authors/EA/prompt regions, public-domain/EA-demo-copy footer, and footer-strip copy/RLE/text-writer loop models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Animate
Schwartz Assembly 1995 PC 4K winner: complete direct runtime timeline, corrected two-renderer concordance, W. Collis depacker, generated sine/texture/slope/material tables, timer-driven cyan object field, later strip-derived gold mesh, shared quad rasterizer and 2x blend scaler, outward VGA smear, and final address-driven logo pattern.
1 full-run timeline, 3 continuous direct runtime GIFs, and 1 retained direct still in the article.
Assembler Instinct
Gollum The Party 1993 PC demo: recovered launcher and exact four-child EXEC chain, safe command-tail route, GUS-clocked complete direct Part I, bounded local Part II transition failure, full public-run concordance, three tracker modules, and numbered packed visual resources.
1 direct loader still, 1 direct timeline, 1 direct GIF, 1 public-reference timeline, and 1 public-reference GIF in the article; all page media are silent.
Atom
Sorcerers 1990 interactive text-mode intro: retained scheduled A/M/Z/S capture, static Ctrl-C/Esc exit path, one-bit PC-speaker clock, exact 256-word sine geometry, 31-pair mirrored dot ring, three fixed-cell phrase reveals, unclipped direct text writes, rolling sample feed, hardware events, and staged shutdown.
1 continuous uncropped silent GIF on this card; the article also identifies its retained host-cursor overlay and includes 1 editorial keyed-state sheet. No Atom MP4 is published.
AutoDuel Cracktro
The Grand Council 4 October 1988 MS-DOS cracktro: BAT-driven text card, redacted CP437 reconstruction, archive hashes, 1988 Grand Council text versus 1991 Software Pirates LOADIT boundary, tail-stub 41h decryptor, PSP parser, IVT hooks, timer/keyboard speed control, and DOS EXEC handoff.
1 redacted reconstructed text screen and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Autumn
Epsilon Wired 1995 PC 64 KB intro runner-up: complete direct six-minute runtime, held-Escape ending, PKLITE/UNP layout, temporary MikMod resource, six 64 KB work blocks, generated maps and palettes, cue-driven mirrored tunnel with unrolled OR compositor, textured 3D object pipeline with self-patched spans, and late coordinate-table radial warp.
1 complete runtime timeline, 3 continuous direct GIFs, and 1 final direct frame in the article.
Axe of Rage Cracktro
Miami Cracking Machine 30 August 1989 MS-DOS multi-renderer cracktro: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, shared Monochrome/CGA/EGA/Tandy selector shell, 640x350 EGA mode-10h title scene, planar A000h blue/black terrain masks, lightning line loop, multi-pass MCM logo blits, graphics text masks, and redacted exit text page.
3 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Back to Basic
The Inferiors TG94 PC demo rebuilt from a complete silent runtime route and UNP-expanded launcher: exact DOS EXEC order, tolerated missing .013, RIX viewers, BASIC-style effects, fake boot/disk screens, player switch, and final keyboard gate.
1 direct full-route concordance sheet and 1 continuous direct GIF in the article; both are silent and uncropped.
Bad Street Brawler
Bentley Sidwell Productions 17 May 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: 127-byte COM control path, raw file+007Fh B800h page, loader-layout-sensitive reveal sweep, final REP MOVSB painter, key gate, and decoded/runtime screenshots.
1 decoded CGA page, 1 DOSBox-X reveal contact sheet, and 1 generated copy-loop map in the article; no GIF because these are different artifact types and dimensions.
Ball Mania
Sorcerers 1991 MS-DOS demo: timer audio mixer, retrace-paced palette/scroller damage loops, fifteen exact sparse literal-span sprite sizes, six staged falling-ball records with complete Y sorting and background restoration, plus a separate phase-spaced three-ball ellipse whose Y selects prescaled depth cues.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 4 runtime frames in the article.
Breathtaker
Alien and Jaco's Finnish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: complete direct silent visual route, matching preserved archives, four-hunk executable, ten fixed-size StoneCracker S404 stage streams, hardware-level display shell, and a deliberately bounded persistent-black ending.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, MP4 or H.264 video.
Cybernetic
The Black Lotus's Swedish Gathering 1995 AGA demo: complete original-party-build route, eight continuous silent GIFs, April/September executable distinction, compressed HUNK overlay loader, and an exact 39-block data-container traversal.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, MP4 or H.264 video.
Banana Split
Hitech The Party 1994 PC fast intro second place: DOSBox-X memory-capture runtime-to-code concordance, custom MZ decoder, 80x50 VGA text-mode setup, HSC/AdLib player, mirrored reveal, random cell fill/clear, CP437 block art, BIOS-font scroller, and music-state side columns.
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Corporation for Public Cybercasting 2001 8 November 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: public 640x496 block-art card, blocked Defacto2 binary, 8x16-cell / 80-column evidence, CP437-style title construction, full-page copy, row-fragment, RLE-cell, ANSI, and bitmap-font renderer loop models, and blocked-handoff boundary.
1 public Demozoo still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Bart's Law
UltraForce 1991 playable VGA preview: recovered 203,361-byte image and 56-word relocation tail, live title/briefing/training route, exact 64 KB background copy, 13x13 crosshair save/restore, three target blitters, fixed background repair, twelve-state wave schedule, hit boxes, score/bar updates, palette fade, and cleanup.
1 original-archive DOSBox-X wrapper contact sheet in the article; the restored title, briefing, and training level were verified privately without changing site media.
Battlezone Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 7 January 1986 MS-DOS Battlezone title/menu graffiti: public Demozoo black/white frame, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, Aiken Drum cracker header, Software Pirates 86 credit, F1/F2 menu prompts, layout map, and page-copy, RLE, 1bpp expansion, vector-line, text-writer, and function-key handoff models.
1 public screenshot, 1 exact logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Happy Birthday
UltraForce May 1990 Sound Blaster/EGA demo: live-state-corrected main and cleanup, exact 10 kHz Creative Voice block, CT-VOICE relocation and guarded lifecycle, off-screen four-plane RLE picture, three write-mode-1 reveal kernels, eight-entry palette cycle, 200-line rewrite, 16x16 glyph expansion, and 216-row central-strip greeting scroll.
1 article-only DOSBox-X EGA contact sheet; the text-only card does not misrepresent its five different runtime states as one frame.
Bibo Ergo Sum
Valhalla TG95 PC 64K runner-up: complete keyed silent runtime route through the final VOTE fade, one-digit GUS selector, RNC stager, Technomancer RAW/XMS/VCPI kernel, GUS player, script engine, generated text/noise, and z-buffered texture spans.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Big, Bigger, Biggest
Infernals 1992 MS-DOS VGA megascroller: PKLITE/UNP plus second-stage loader, STMIK/Sound Blaster prompt, compressed title bitmaps, DAC crossfades, unchained VGA setup, 200x154 painted-font column decoder, CRTC panning loop, and starfield exit.
1 runtime GIF, 5 runtime frames, contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Big Deal
Acme X 1995 PC demo winner: public Demozoo PNG still references, documented failed private DOSBox-X/ZMBV capture boundary, VFS wrapper, PKLITE child EXEs, PolyPlayer/GUS sample bank, protected-mode parts, DAC fades, page copies, PIT timing, and Phong/object scene loops.
6 public Demozoo PNG stills in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Big Top Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 10 February 1986 MS-DOS two-screen Big Top title/high-score graffiti: public Demozoo title and high-score frames, Defacto2 access boundary, CGA 320x200 reductions, contact sheet, layout map, high-score name evidence, and page-copy, RLE, table-patch, text-writer, menu-key, and handoff models.
2 public screenshots, 2 logical reductions, 1 contact sheet, and 1 layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is a two-frame state comparison.
Bip 4 the Future
The Binary Poets TCC 1993 trackdemo: custom MZ depacker, GoldPlay setup, mode-13h palette ramps, point/sprite loops, sparkle cleanup, text-band shifter, and raw-frame tile reveal.
Blue Sky Demo v0.1
Delta September 1992 MS-DOS demo/loader: Hornet delta001 archive, packed MZ mover, LZ-style depacker, relocation stream, VGA/SB prompt path, DSP base probe, unchained planar setup, transparent picture blitter, CRTC pan scroller, retrace palette fades, PIT/keyboard wrappers, and sound-column loop.
2 image embeds in the article.
Boing
Illusion 1992 MS-DOS intro: timestamped logo/text capture, frame-derived GIF, bounded runtime/carrier concordance, PKLITE MZ entry-wrap carrier, high-memory copied unpacker, LSB-first bit reservoir, literal and match loops, segment normalization, relocation restore, and short cyan/red logo-card runtime sequence.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Bounce!
Destroy's CeBIT March 1991 MS-DOS intro: quiet/sound launcher reversal, 35 Hz planar redraw and 70 Hz speaker-service split, shifted three-plane logo blitter, closed two-axis delta paths, three masked star layers, 30,080-bit carry scroller, and independent forty-image phrase strip.
2 continuous uncropped twelve-second direct-runtime GIFs and 2 exact full-frame stills; no audio published.
Brushwood
Illusion 1992 MS-DOS intro: timestamped starfield/logo/text capture, frame-derived GIF, bounded runtime/carrier concordance, PKLITE MZ carrier constants, high-memory copied unpacker, literal and match inner loops, segment normalization, relocation restore, and 80-column purple text-script evidence.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Bubble Bobble Cracktro
The Humble Guys 7 February 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public Demozoo colour-bar frame, 15-byte XOR 45h decode stub, generated BIOS text-mode renderer, 107 repeated-cell writes, six DOS strings, key gate, memory resize/allocation geometry, Bubble.mcf EXEC boundary, and sidecar contact-material omission.
1 public frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Bugfixed
Acme The Party 1994 PC demo: original archive, exact encrypted VFS directory and rolling-XOR payload recovery, seven doubly packed child programs, virtual DOS handles and EXEC loader, PolyPlayer 2.0/GUS sample-bank route, and conservative program-to-runtime concordance.
5 continuous public-video GIFs in the article; all published media are silent.
Buster
TRB/TWC 1992 MS-DOS intro/dentro: cropped timestamped cube/sphere/title capture, frame-derived GIF, bounded runtime/carrier concordance, extensionless PKLITE MZ main executable, ProTracker M.K. module evidence, high-memory unpacker, DS-swapping match-copy loop, segment normalization, and relocation restore.
1 runtime GIF, 11 cropped runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Buttman
Twilight Zone 1992 MS-DOS demo/dentro: runtime-to-code concordance for the warning/card/title/dot-grid GIF, 29-file resource archive, TZPACK'92 modules, high-entry MZ carrier, XOR-literal unpack loop, match-copy path, segment normalization, relocation restore, and explicit renderer evidence boundaries.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Bogas Party Video
Bogas/Bogus Device The Party 1993 PC demo: Tran protected-mode player, decoded native JAF video GIFs, stream-to-player concordance, Jeskola Animation Format docs, two 16-gray-level delta streams, frame terminators, VGA playback markers, and optional GUS support.
2 native decoded JAF GIFs and 2 first-frame PNGs in the article; no crop, pad, or viewport capture.
Black Glass
Renaissance April 1992 MS-DOS vector demo: runtime GIF/stills, PKLITE expansion, raw 386 protected-mode extender, BIOS interrupt bridge, unchained Mode X pages, palette/vblank timing, scripted vector balls, depth insertion sort, planar blitter, dirty-strip restore loop, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 12 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Black Glass ][
Renaissance 1992 vector demo: XOR shell, custom LZ depacker, protected-mode bridge, .670 Digital/FM player, Mode X planes, palette timing, and glass/text loops.
Blackzone
Masque The Party 1993 PC intro third place: PKLITE party build, Chicken-Player GUS path, zone.dat loader, Mode-X texture mapper, line plotter, palette fades, and object projection loops.
Blitzkrieg Cracktro
The Humble Guys 2 September 1990 MS-DOS 32K cracktro: direct 30-second silent runtime excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, NFO contact-list omission boundary, packed flat COM carrier, DOS memory-resize and upward-copy relocator, custom second-stage unpacker with checksum gate, and bounded one-scene title/globe/roses/scroller runtime analysis.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Bill G Force
Complex Assembly 1995 64K intro: runtime-to-code concordance for the title/credit frames, badge overlay, light clusters, yellow grid, shaded object pass, no-sound timer fallback, render update loop, fixed-point vectors, textured spans, table compositing, and planar VGA copy.
1 runtime GIF and 8 timestamped runtime frames in the article.
Cabal Cracktro
The FiRM 16 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, MAMILOAD banner, full-IVT save/restore, INT 13h hook, XOR 66h DOS text screen, GITUM.FRM EXEC handoff, disk-read CX signatures, manual saved-flags editing, and fixed ES:015D patch-fill copy.
2 public Demozoo screens and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Cardiac
Infiny The Party 1993 PC demo with 1994 release metadata: LZEXE loader, embedded part executables, flat-real/XMS runtime, raster DAC timing, vector-ball object sorting, and planar VGA spans.
X-Mas Demo '90
Cascada November 1990 MS-DOS Christmas demo: direct keyed full runtime and normal return, three raw Space gates, LZEXE-restored MZ body, mode-0Dh loader, timer IRQ sample output, CRTC tree pages, lower-strip updater, packed-nibble scroller, retrace-sensitive fades, plane-rendered credits, and full PIT/vector/PIC cleanup.
1 direct runtime still, 1 six-frame direct runtime sheet, 10 decoded raw frames, 1 archive-frame GIF, 4 public stills, and 1 pipeline map in the article.
Cascada X-Mas '91
Cascada 1991 MS-DOS Christmas demo/music disk: PKLITE child payloads, setup-state file, direct DOSBox-X intro/splash frames, runtime-to-code concordance, planar VGA glyph loops, live DAC fades, file loader, and four-channel timer audio for LPT, PC speaker, and Sound Blaster.
2 direct runtime stills in the article; no GIF because the captured frame heights differ.
X-Mas '92
Cascada December 1992 MS-DOS Christmas demo: Twilight-packed launcher/parts, UNP-expanded intro and main MZ images, timestamped DOSBox-X opener/config/icicle frames, public later-screen references, mode-13h/unchained VGA setup, transparent planar blitters, service/file loader, LPT/PC-speaker/Sound Blaster audio paths, CRTC panning, palette fades, and glyph renderers.
1 public-reference GIF, 4 DOSBox-X runtime frames, 13 public stills, 1 pipeline map, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Catch Up!
Grif Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo, 7th in the PC demo competition and 2nd at Vár-party: Hungarian group context, Scene.org archive identity, release-text part list, public-video GIF/still references, private muted dummy-video crash boundary, PKLITE wrapper, huge overlay, 386 marker, and explicit packed-payload limit.
5 public-video GIFs and 3 public Demozoo stills in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
4K Intro by Calvin/Proxima
TG95 PC 4K runner-up: COM RNC loader, 247 binary animation masks, centered block grid, four-step framebuffer decay, vblank pacing, and motion-blur loop.
Calvin Screen (CIA Cracktro)
Crackers In Action and Live Wire 1988 MS-DOS CGA one-screen cracktro: 16 KB embedded CGA framebuffer copy, palette latch, key wait, exact archive/file hashes, and explicit contact-detail omission boundary.
1 decoded static CGA page in the article; no GIF because this is a one-screen non-animated graphic.
Caero
Plant and Electromotive Force The Party 1995 winner: complete natural no-sound DOSBox-X route, PMODE/RNC runtime, appended EMF resource archive, keyframed vector scenes, Hermite motion, glow/mix tables, and runtime-to-resource concordance.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Champions Of Krynn Cracktro
Pirates Sick Of Initials 1989 MS-DOS 4K cracktro: direct single-key silent DOSBox-X route, BBS-contact omission boundary, compact COM layout, private B800h text-stream decoder, BIOS tick timing, and missing START.EXE handoff map.
1 scripted-key silent runtime MP4 and 2 direct runtime stills in the article.
Chaos 3D
Dodger August 1992 MS-DOS demo: Borland C++ MZ shape, optional MiniMod music, pipeline-map-to-code concordance, SHAPES.DAT parser, 320x240 Mode X backend, fixed-point 386 projection, face sorting, Bresenham edge tables, and plane-mask polygon spans.
1 generated renderer dataflow map in the article; runtime capture still pending because no local Chaos 3D frames exist yet.
Christmas '93
Superiority Complex 1993 MS-DOS holiday demo: Borland C++ MZ, appended SCS-K10 resource directory, 44 named MAP/PAL/TXT/MOD assets, two embedded ProTracker modules, and multi-device sampled-audio setup.
Cronologia
Cascada 1991 MS-DOS multipart: exact PKLITE chain and resident BDA ABI, mode-13 reveals, planar presentation script, corrected Q8 vector transforms, live malformed-face expansion and raster guard, generated 8x8/16x16 vector-ball code and exact clear/stamp costs, time-part page/line loops, and 64/128-object end renderer.
4 direct runtime stills in the article; no GIF because the captured frame heights differ.
Classic
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster demo: self-opening MZ container, static A000h title ownership, exact palette rings and gradient writes, 16-row scroller/glyph column, four five-tick fixed-point lanes, planar mono mixer, and DMA/IRQ-driven visual service.
5 runtime screenshots, 1 short GIF, and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Closer
CNCD's The Party 1995 Amiga winner: complete direct silent AGA run, custom overlay executable, exact chunky animation and mapping banks, half-density c2p evidence, IFF ANIM structure, and ProTracker duration concordance.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
Collapse
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster demo: self-opening MZ container, exact 107-page opening scheduler, full-frame reveal, 44-point strip and glyph machinery, four player-owned meters and point bands, selective DAC fade, 20-page exit sequence, four fixed-point sample lanes, planar mono mixer, and DMA/IRQ visual hand-off.
5 runtime screenshots, 1 short GIF, and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Coldcut
UltraForce's October 1990 MS-DOS EGA demo: exact three-scroller builders and publishers, 1,363-frame CRTC path, anchored line-compare region, four-frame latch-copy panel, eight-mask opening wipes, CT-VOICE sample order and 11 status gates, and one-slot keyboard lifecycle.
2 native direct-runtime screenshots and 1 continuous six-second GIF; no audio.
COB
NoooN and Orange Saturne 1996 MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, original 10,000/16,000 polygon TXT claims, UNP-expanded 205 KB PMODE/W runtime, XMS/A20 evidence, Mode 13h startup, native 320x240 public-video GIF/still analysis, A000h 64K frame copy/clear path, 3DAh retrace wait, and GUS-only port programming evidence.
3 native public-video GIFs, 4 public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Compost
Orange The Party 1996 MS-DOS demo: Scene.org archive hashes, COMPOST.EXE/DATA.DAT/MOD.S3M split, custom 386 protected-mode runtime evidence, decoded DATA.DAT PCX/RIX3 art resources, direct public-video GIF/still analysis, runtime-to-code concordance for the palette-blend/full-frame compositor, radial-mask/card reveal, five-byte table compositor, 0xfa00 masked overlays, VGA DAC/A000h/retrace/PIT timing, and no named extender overclaim.
3 direct public-video GIFs, 5 direct public-video stills, 2 decoded resource contact sheets, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Coma Demo
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster intro: stable direct runtime, corrected four-channel event-row ownership, five-tick fixed-point lane builders, four-to-one DMA mixer, retrace-time callback, exact four-column meter deltas, 320x26 glyph/transition buffer, and guarded 44-particle cleanup.
1 direct masked runtime GIF and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Conqueror Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 29 March 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: MZ/Turbo C startup, FastGIF 2.0 viewer identity, decoded GIF87a 640x350 frame, 16-colour palette, 11,461-byte LZW stream, code-width growth, KwKwK cases, and viewer-library display boundary.
1 decoded archive frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Contagion
The Coexistence The Party 1994 third-place PC demo: XLINK wrapper, PMODE/W payload, linked assets, VGA selectors, z-buffered Gouraud, and mapped triangle loops.
Copper
Surprise! Productions The Party 1992 VGA raster demo: MyLZ unpacking, DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime capture, runtime-to-code concordance, CRTC start/offset tricks, horizontal wobble, DAC palette rastering, Attribute Controller color pages, Y zoom, and copper bars.
4 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 3 short GIFs in the article.
Copperfaked
Aardvark The Party 1993 PC 80K intro fifth place: PKLITE-packed MZ, no-music copper-routine release notes, nonstandard VGA-mode claims, memory/VGA text islands, port-pattern evidence, and DOSBox-X 640x480 transition probe.
The Message From The Cosmic Brothers
Complex's Finnish Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS video-demo: byte-identical core archives, complete eight-minute direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, RNC/FLATMAN loader markers, six-channel FastTracker module, and a bounded COSMIC.DAT compression argument.
8 direct silent runtime GIFs plus the earlier public comparison material; no MP4/H.264 media or audio.
CPU
UltraForce 1992 McAfee presentation: runtime-to-code concordance for the VGA frames/GIF, PKLITE selector launcher, display-specific packed payloads, VGA/EGA MZ wrap entry, custom depacker, DAC/page-sized asset files, page-and-sprite presentation rhythm, and bounded final-renderer limit for ship/satellite overlays.
1 runtime GIF, 6 runtime frames, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Crashtest
J-P/Rebels Assembly 1995 PC 4K third place: J-Packed COM, timer setup, generated radial/fractal/sine tables, vertical spans, object transforms, and byte depth tests.
Crystal Dream
Triton's Swedish Hackerence 1992 PC demo winner: complete silent effect route, one full end-scroller pass, clean DOS return, authenticated archive, mode-0Dh planar VGA, starfield and checkerboard vectors, glenz fills, raytraced pictures, compressed image loader, page flips, and IRQ timing.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 4 timestamp stills in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Crystal Dream 2
Triton's 1993 winner: complete direct silent run through the authored menu return, eight distinct GIFs, protected-mode overlay, depacker, VGA register engine, fixed-point matrix family, plasma loop, and chess renderer.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264, audio, contact sheet, or video embed.
Crystal Dream 3 Preview
Fat Albert Assembly 1993 spoof preview: shipped Turbo Pascal source, Borland BGI driver/fonts, AdLib FM calls, fake equalizer, mode-13h plasma, and a self-renamed GIFEXE payload.
Cycling
Abaddon 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: COM startup menus, custom ABA palette/RLE row-skip assets, retrace-paced palette shifts, CRTC wipes, text-mask renderer, moving-speck helper, and four-channel timer PCM mixer.
1 runtime GIF, 8 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 1 decoded asset contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
CyboMan
Gazebo The Party 1993 PC intro winner: RNC expansion, GUS/timer hub, particle text pages, planar panning, projected line spans, and final Mode-X texture loop.
Cyboman 2
Complex/Komplex The Party 1994 64K intro: fixed CYBO_FIX.EXE runtime capture, patterned backbuffer, sorted shaded triangle spans, self-modifying Gouraud scanline filler, clipped variant, object transform path, final title/credit card, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 5 runtime frames in the article.
Cyboman 3
Plant Juhla 1995 PC demo runner-up: DPMI/VCPI startup, RIX image staging, MikPlay S3M timing, table-driven 64K compositor, object records, radix face ordering, and patched triangle spans.
Da Clone
Halcyon June 1995 MS-DOS demo: restored W. Collis MZ, seventeen-page XMS store, eight-record HLNgfx/LZW resource stream, MIDAS order/row clock, Borland-real model transforms, depth quicksort, self-patched 16.16 edges, and paired overwrite/additive affine texture loops.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Das Grelle
Gollum TG94 PC intro winner: packed MZ wrapper, adaptive LZ asset decruncher, QIM/IMG picture formats, VGA helper kernels, font atlas, palette fades, and reveal loops.
Deadbeat BBS
Shadow Productions January 1992 MS-DOS 40K BBStro: public Pouet screenshot, PKLITE-family MZ carrier, raw depklite image map, sequencer/graphics-controller setup, and a bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the plane-strip uploads, restore lists, OR-composite rows, four-plane bulk copy, column painter, and tiny bob copy kernels.
1 public screenshot and 2 generated diagnostic maps in the article.
Debut / Debut CD Version
DarkZone RNC/original versus CD bugfix layout, GUS timing markers, 3600-dot morphs, shadebobs, glenz/XOR bitplanes, and tunnel path.
Deep
CNCD and Parallax's Finnish The Gathering 1995 Amiga winner: byte-identical public archives, complete direct silent A1200 run, twelve loadable HUNK parts in two resident batches, hard-disk and two-volume filename selection, shared backward StoneCracker-era depacking, hardware-timed copper/DMA ownership, and P61 replay identifiers.
5 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
Deesbab
Orange The Party 1996 PC 64K winner: direct 320x200 public DOSBox AVI GIFs, RNC1 MZ carrier, 292,150-byte unpacked runtime, embedded S3M/Dune evidence, BLASTER/ULTRASND parser code, retrace/PIT timing, DAC palette uploaders, A000h/offscreen 64K page paths, and runtime-to-code concordance for the particle/blob/tunnel mechanism.
3 direct public DOSBox AVI GIFs, 2 direct AVI stills, and 1 public Pouet screenshot in the article.
Decision In The Desert Cracktro
PTL Club 1987 MS-DOS cracktro: decoded CGA base page and two-frame top-band overlay GIF, decoded-visual-to-code concordance, exact B800 split-bank copy loops, BIOS keyboard gate, PTLLoad wrapper state restore, MAIN.PTL DOS EXEC handoff, and private contact text omission boundary.
1 decoded overlay-loop GIF, 3 same-size decoded stills, 1 contact strip, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Deadline
Purple NAID 1995 100K intro: W. Collis MZ wrapper, high-memory decoder, GUS/module probes, mode-13h setup, A000h write islands, and CRTC timing.
Delirium
Complex's Assembly 1992 Amiga runner-up: original custom disk, direct silent first-half run, documented newer-ROM compatibility boundary, official archival ending, OS-assisted trackdisk loader, six StoneCracker 4.01 streams, two P40B score layouts, copper-timed graphics, and a scripted blitter vector renderer.
5 continuous direct-silent GIFs and 3 continuous official Assembly-archive GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 published.
Delusion
Sonic PC The Party 1992 demo with 1993 Pouet release metadata: DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime title GIF and stills, runtime-to-code concordance for the title, transition/starfield, and delay-vector frames, Sonic PC lineage context, self-loading MZ overlay, Sound Blaster path, Mode X setup, vector loops, shadebobs, plasma, dual scroller, animation, and credits compositor.
5 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 title GIF in the article.
Desert Dream
Kefrens' Gathering 1993 Amiga winner: a complete direct silent two-disk run, corrected ADF and AROS boot boundary, raw MFM trackloader, PP20 depacker, Laxity Tracker modules and replay, music synchronization, and chained effect architecture.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
Destroy Megademo / X-Hausted
Destroy's January 1991 VGA megademo: exact five-child chain; all nine vector-ball model sequences and style/class workloads, Z/Y/X transform, stale-pivot ordering, six-traversal sphere traffic and four-page cleanup; plus an exponential-table polygon engine with guard-inclusive sort counts, fixed edge calls, fill/hidden-line modes, and 24K clear/upload floor.
2 continuous uncropped ten-second direct-runtime GIFs and 1 exact full-frame still; no audio published.
Die Hard Graffiti
TRIAD 11 November 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: public 640x400 text-card frame, blocked Defacto2 binary, 80x25 / 8x16-cell proof, visible CGA/EGA/VGA/Tandy choice semantics, full-page copy, row-fragment, BIOS, box-drawing, key-dispatch, and autodetect loop models, and blocked handoff boundary.
1 public Demozoo still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Dieetti-Intro / Caloriefree Diet Intro
Jeskola!Productions Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: RNC method-1 wrapper, UNP-expanded MZ, planar mode 0Dh, CRTC page flipping, retrace pacing, edge-table span filler, 386 transform helper, scroller state machine, and STMIK Sound Blaster path.
Dimension
RealTech The Party 1994 PC demo, fifth place: revision 0.99 LZEXE versus 1.02 flat 32-bit PMODE/W rewrite, exact 90-record DIM.RES recovery, 83 byte-identical assets, revised morph and AMF payloads, exact S3D meshes and M3D sequences, DSMI setup, and public-video visual concordance.
6 continuous silent public-video GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audio media is published.
Disorder
Halcyon's third-place Juhla 1995 MS-DOS full demo: COMPACK restoration, 1,111-relocation segmented image, exact S3M order/row schedule, five-panel twister, fixed-point woven spans, 36-layer line tunnel, specialized polygon family, 1,024-phase field, 500-point system, recovered late controller and radial ring engine.
5 continuous preservation-video GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
Distance
The Distance Programming Team 1991 MS-DOS demo: direct silent runtime, encrypted payloads, 140-column circular history, three exact 3,360-word A000 scatter maps with ordered collisions, 150-entry/600-port-write palette frames, 23-byte glyph insertion, raw key gates, and 1,199-position ending overlay.
1 continuous direct-runtime GIF plus 2 decoded payload stills in the article.
Dentro
Phoenix The Party 1993 PC 80K intro tail entry: PKLITE MZ wrapper, GUS-only fixed baseport notes, external ProTracker module, MOD-signature table, sparse/truncated sample tail, and emulator graphics-mode transition evidence.
Dole / Darkzone
Rune The Party 1994 PC fast intro third place: PMODE/W LE layout, WATCOM startup, DSIK/MOD sound, raw image assets, planar VGA setup, sprite restore slots, and transparent chunky-to-planar blitter.
D.O.S.
Andromeda's Norwegian Gathering 1992 Amiga runner-up: complete original-disk silent run through the endless authored end scroller, simulated Workbench display architecture, self-depacking Hunk launcher, four StoneCracker banks, canonical ProTracker concordance, copper-timed planar composition, and the final blitter vector engine.
8 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 published.
Double Tetris Cracktro
The Humble Guys December 1990 MS-DOS 8K cracktro: safe 12-second silent opening excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, contact-bearing sidecar/scroller omission boundary, old imploded ZIP member notes, flat packed COM wrapper, `LOADFIX -64` runtime route, first-stage private/UNP restore to 6,787 bytes, checksum gate, and explicit second-layer packed-image boundary.
1 safe silent opening MP4 and 1 direct runtime still in the article; later contact-bearing material is not published.
Dope
Complex TG95 winner: runtime GIF/stills, RNC-packed MZ stage chain, GUS module path, observed effect timeline, VGA/raster setup, 3D matrix/projector, polygon ordering, framebuffer loops, nibble matte, additive overlay, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 6 runtime frames in the article.
Dragnet
Dutch Computer Enterprise 1991 MS-DOS demo: packed MZ stages, CT-VOICE Sound Blaster/DMA, second-stage scheduler, exact 4/8/10-slice text lifetimes, palette loops, and a five-site ownership-safe trail repair with a 4,400-call script period.
1 public reference GIF, 1 public title frame, and 6 public reference frames in the article.
Dream
Jamm's Finnish The Party 1995 runner-up: complete silent direct run, eight restrained continuous GIFs, documented late non-return, PMODE/W, MIDAS/XM timing, resource chunks, VGA fades, fixed-point 3D, painter-sorted faces, and table-driven texture/light spans.
8 direct runtime GIFs in the article.
Dr Dooms Revenge Loader
Miami Cracking Machine 4 May 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro/loader: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, contact-block-redacted frame, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, row-fragment writer, centered title rows, game-list loop, any-key gate, and hidden loader handoff boundary.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Drift
Wild Light 64K intro: WWPACK, PMODE bridge, timer scheduler, palette lerp, fire filter, vector pipeline, waver text, and bit-indexed end scroller.
Drool This
Parallax's Finnish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: complete silent direct run, six restrained GIFs, modular LoadSeg schedule, PAL-frame budgets, real 68040 branch, paired eight-plane screens, texture and voxel phases, and a 62-frame IFF delta animation.
6 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 published.
Drunken
Drunken ROM Group 1991 MS-DOS board intro: fresh silent runtime, EXEPACK restore, one-byte-overrun nibble expander, active-display frame timing, exact seven-row pipelined scroller, and four music-event latches driving static red/blue masks through DAC indexes 0Ch..0Fh.
1 continuous direct-runtime masked GIF and 1 older masked runtime contact sheet.
Dunno
Sorcerers 1990 MS-DOS intro: EXEPACK-style wrapper, VGA text-mode font tricks, Attribute Controller smooth panning scroller, pre-expanded logo/member frame table, per-scanline border color writes, CRTC line-compare motion, PC-speaker tail sample, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 3 runtime frames, and 1 reconstructed still in the article.
DX Project
RealTech Assembly 1995 PC demo: PMODE/W LE runtime, REALTECH95 resource archive, resource-to-renderer concordance, SVGA/VBE 640x480 copy paths, PIT scheduler, C3D/T3D/M3D object pipeline, renderer table builders, and span filler loops.
No thumbnails yet: archive/resource evidence is code-derived and no direct local capture or extracted image asset is present.
Earl Weavers Baseball
PTL Club 4 May 1989 MS-DOS EGA cracktro/loader: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, contact-row-redacted public still, 640x350 mode-10h proof, canonical 16-colour palette histogram, A000h planar model, four-plane clear/copy loops, set/reset span writer, repeated border sprite loop, logo/stripe run tables, bitmap-font text loop, and unresolved WEAVER.ZIP handoff boundary.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Ecargxus
The Norwegian-led Phoney Coders' April 1992 MS-DOS full demo: complete 391.40-second silent no-Roland route, natural DOS return, brick spotlight, wild writer, filled vectors, mechanical engine, movie credits, planar VGA title expansion, dirty compositing, and edge/span filling.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 8 public stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 pipeline map in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Eclipse
Electromotive Force 100K intro, PKLITE unpacking, IRQ timing, planar reveal loops, projected-dot tunnel concordance, PIT-seeded point tables, integer projection/trails, and filled-vector core.
1 DOSBox-X runtime frame in the article; no GIF because only one public runtime frame is published.
The EGA Sinusscroller
Official Version April 1991 MS-DOS demo: restored -OV- LZ carrier, BIOS mode 10h, 72.83 Hz 16-row carry scroller, 400-sample sine, CRTC line-compare sweep, dual 40-slot XOR histories, reflected endpoints, and all-octant planar EGA line walker.
1 continuous direct silent main-screen GIF on the card; the article adds its matching direct 00:58 reference frame.
EKB
Skull November 1992 MS-DOS advert/demo: public Pouet screenshot, DOSBox-X preflight boundary, custom MZ entry wrapper, LZ-style bitstream depacker, relocation repair, 11-entry overlay resource table, 768-byte palette resource, VGA-sized visual resources, and embedded ProTracker module.
1 public intended-effect screenshot, 2 DOSBox-X preflight stills, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article; no generated GIF because these are different capture contexts.
Intro by EMF
Electromotive Force Hornet 1991 catalog entry with 1994 archive evidence: save-state-recovered real-mode body, exact 30x50 / 1,500-point unrolled sineflag, 882-word wave mesh, embedded seven-row flag scroller, three 15-star selective-erase layers, 16x14 page blitter, 881-retrace chrome scheduler, IRQ cleanup, and PKLITE handoff.
1 DOSBox-X no-sound runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because only a composite contact sheet is published.
Electric Gruyere
Da Cheez Brigade NAID 1995 demo: unreal-mode XMS setup, SNIBB/PSYKE data expansion, palette ramps, byte depth spans, and VGA plane expansion.
Elements
Xography mega-demo unpacking, vector balls, tube renderer, and end-loop analysis.
Extension
Pygmy Projects' Assembly 1993 Amiga winner: byte-identical archive routes, fixed-offset disk boot map, near-exact file-version payload concordance, fourteen music-position effect sections, blitter/copper handoffs, and packed CIA-timed four-channel replay.
8 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
Extremes
Byterapers' Assembly 1995 C64 winner: independent D64 and ZipCode preservation, true-drive loading, complete silent runtime, transformation-led direction, raster-span solid rendering, and the explicit Jate/Jeskola picture credit.
8 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Even Better Than The Real Thing!
The Phoney Coders' September 1992 Swedish MS-DOS multipart demo: complete silent interactive runtime coverage, verified loader return, exact five-child mapping, PKLITE/UNP parts, unchained VGA, CRTC reveals, sine and giant scrollers, Zax edge/span vectors, and closing movie credits.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 8 public stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 pipeline map in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Evil
CSG Productions September 1992 MS-DOS demo: Hornet evil.zip archive, late-entry packed MZ carrier, copied LZ-style depacker, relocation repair, VGA gate, Sound Blaster DSP probe, unchained VGA setup, transparent planar picture blitter, CRTC and attribute fine-pan scroller, palette rings, PIT/keyboard hooks, and CT-VOICE-style sound wrappers.
1 generated technical map in the article.
Evolution Graffiti
Spartacus 1 March 1986 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence with bounded visual-to-code concordance, public-safe frames, 320x200 odd/even B800h bank model, packed 2bpp masks, full-screen clear/copy loops, span writer, logo reveal variants, small bitmap text, palette remap, retrace wait, and keyboard/delay gate.
2 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
F40 Interceptor Loader
PTL Club 19 June 1989 MS-DOS text-mode loader: source-limited Demozoo/Scene.org/Defacto2 evidence, board-list-redacted public still, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, CP437 box helper, row-fragment STOSW writer, centered title rows, warning/prompt rows, BIOS key gate, and unverified F40 handoff boundary.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
F40 Pursuit Simulator Loader
New York Crackers 12 July 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: public 720x400 Demozoo text page with bounded visual-to-code concordance, 80x25 9x16 text-cell proof, green NYC block-logo mask loop, B800h page-copy alternative, table-driven box/string writer, road-course line-art model, face-record writer, ANSI/batch alternative, and key-gate handoff boundary.
1 public still and 1 generated layout map in the article.
A Necromancer Demo
Fairlight March 1992 MS-DOS intro: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the partial local probe, public Pouet GIF, generated code map, PKLITE CS=FFF0h carrier, FLT-SND loader, direct VGA setup, DAC/PIT/retrace control, glyph/rectangle helpers, overlays, and the recovered C0F5 transparent planar blitter.
Public Pouet screenshot, local startup probe contact sheet, generated runtime/code map, and bounded concordance in the article.
Envy
The Clan X 1995 PC intro: PKLITE MZ layout, unchained VGA setup, CRTC page starts, palette fades, fixed-point transforms, face sorting, and environment-map span loops.
Eradicator
Groundzero The Party 1993 PC 80K intro: normal MZ with custom relocation/copy front end, GUS-only NFO claim, internal ECHO.MOD and GUS Module Player v0.15 markers, palette-DAC setup, and graphics-mode transition probe.
Expression
Abstract Concepts X 1995 PC demo runner-up: inline public Demozoo screenshot-sequence GIF/stills, documented private DOSBox-X/ZMBV shell-only boundary, PKLITE MZ, ACR resource seeks, external S3M/GUS player, 70 Hz timer callbacks, active-band VGA filters, object transforms, face buckets, solid/additive spans, and terrain strips.
1 public screenshot-sequence GIF and 9 public PNG stills in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
E:XTRA
The Serpent The Gathering 1994 PC demo second place: BV2 decoder, wall texture slicing, path playback, grid collision, fixed-point wall spans, dirty columns, and palette fades.
Exodus
Sorcerers 1991 MS-DOS intro: prepared 79-row logo, generated perspective floor, exact 32-slot two-state radial dot field, deterministic respawn generator, collision-aware one-pixel cleanup, animated DAC ramp, scroller-shift address compensation and clean keyboard/mode handoff.
1 continuous direct no-music runtime GIF in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Facts of Life
Witan launcher/stager, LZEXE part chain, Mode X plane loaders, SB/GUS house-part RLE renderer, and final text compositor.
Faktory
Virtual Dreams' all-Nordic third-place The Party 1995 AGA demo: complete direct silent original runtime, editorial effect windows, intentional four-way scenes, stable end image, and a 704-byte overlay loader expanding five exact segments totalling 2,569,360 bytes.
4 direct-runtime and 8 supplementary video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
The Fascinating Nature of Moon
Orange Documents December 1995 MS-DOS/GUS intro: Scene.org archive hashes, safe INF.O/DIZ identity, direct public-video full-frame GIF/still evidence, monochrome card-player timeline, recovered loading/decrunching animation text, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite -d raw payload boundary, GUS port selector, module-format probes, Orange Documents credit strings, and runtime-to-code concordance for the 0xfa00 work buffer, 0x300-byte grey DAC upload, table-directed frame selector, 1-bit packed-frame expander, retrace pacing, keyboard controls, and A0000h full-frame blit.
2 direct public-video GIFs, 6 direct public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet PNG in the article.
Fastro / Party5
Strontium 90 The Party 1995 fast intro: direct DOSBox-X/X11 run, UNP-rebuilt MZ and corrected relocated-DS model, exact 295-vertex / 584-triangle sidecar format, radial mesh motion, fixed-point transform/projection, summed-Z face sort, scanline direct/blended rasterizer, full-frame trails, embedded PCX logo/brick texture/palette roles, alternating 320x400 VGA pages, and four-plane upload.
1 runtime GIF, 1 selected runtime frame, 1 runtime contact sheet, and 1 code map in the article.
Faery Tale Adventure
Fabulous Furlough 15 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: public 720x400 monochrome Demozoo still, 80x25 / 9x16 VGA text-cell proof, double-line framed header, centered strings, key-prompt boundary, and explicit no-binary/no-key-loop boundary.
1 public still and 1 generated text-screen layout map in the article.
Fakir Animation
Ultraforce April 1990 MS-DOS animation: decoded DeluxePaint ANM stills, stock EA PLAY.EXE boundary, exact LPF page/read and record-table workload, RunSkipDump byte/word inner loops, aggregate copy/fill/skip ledger, stop-only timing frames, repaint spike, loop repair, and mode-13h player path.
5 decoded ANM stills and 1 timeline contact sheet in the article.
Falling
CSG 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: Hornet archive, Sound Blaster setup prompt, indexed falling-man/radial picture, palette-phase runtime GIF, independent bottom credit strip, MZ wrapper, LZ91 depacker, relocation restore, far transfer, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 8 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Fiction
Force II The Party 1993 low-table PC demo: MASM loader, five GoldPlay executor shells, twelve MZ parts in .4C2 files, FD load-block assets, six M.K. modules, direct VGA/register markers, and Covox/SB/SB Pro/speaker setup.
Fighting for something
JapoTek Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, 10th-place result with title-spelling boundary, private dummy-audio DOSBox-X mode-switch boundary, public-video fight/VR-room/object/vase GIFs, slow Demozoo still sequence, PMODE/W LE executable, JPlay sound strings, JPK/JDIR resource directories, four JPlay module blocks, and JE3D7 scene/object/material names.
4 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, 19 Demozoo stills, and 1 1Hz Demozoo sequence GIF in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Finkel
Jamm The Party 1994 PC 64K third-place intro: RNC/PMODE payload, KPMI/GUS path, chunky rotozoom, planar point cloud, CRTC image scrolls, unrolled polygon spans, and morphing particle text.
Assembly '92 Invitation (Fishtro)
Future Crew 1992 MS-DOS invitation: corrected DOSBox-X fish-scene GIF/stills from verified FISHTRO.EXE with 486/Silence setup, runtime-to-code concordance for the continuous aquarium loop, oversized MZ payload, runtime memory carve, unchained VGA setup, RLE row decoder, palette reveal/rotation, fish-script choreography, object field, Scream Tracker module data, and timer-driven audio paths.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Floorshow
Digital Stimulation's June 1991 MS-DOS intro: PKLITE 1.03 carrier, exact 64,000-byte background RLE, 38 collision-safe stars, two-pixel 16-row scroller, retrace gate, and a checker floor animated entirely by four palette-pair swaps per frame.
1 continuous uncropped twelve-second direct-runtime GIF and 1 exact full-frame still; silent and limited to the early title/credit interval.
Eurasia 1st N64 Intro (Fistro)
Separate 1998 Nintendo 64 intro: public-video text-loop GIF and runtime-to-code concordance, V64 byte order, N64 runtime setup, scene tile parser, double-buffered display lists, RSP/RDP submission, RGB555 framebuffer morph loop, VI update path, and texture/logo phase.
1 public-video sequence GIF, 8 timestamped public-video frames, 1 full-scene reference, and detail crops in the article.
Funny
CSG Productions November 1992 MS-DOS demo: Hornet funny.zip archive, late-entry MZ carrier, copied depacker, Unicorn restore boundary, reconstructed Foundation asset frame, VGA/Sound Blaster gate, CT-VOICE and STMIK 0.2 audio paths, CRTC strip update, palette fades, PIT/keyboard hooks, bottom bars, and 13ED FEh-transparent planar blitter.
1 reconstructed frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Frogger 2 Cracktro
Software Pirates Inc. 1987 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: self-XOR COM body, masked CGA title/ad page, byte-stream RLE to B800h, STEAL 2 SPI container, sector table, startup patches, vector save/restore, INT 13h disk emulator, and Ctrl-Alt-Del escape wrapper.
3 masked/reference image embeds in the article.
Frantic
Confusion 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: public screenshot reference, CONFIG.EXE sound setup, raw keyboard gate, mode-13h-to-unchained-VGA transition, dynamic part-file loader, planar picture reader, CRTC column feed, bytecode strip renderer, palette fades, blitters, timer audio paths, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot in the article.
Friday the 13th
Crack Rat of T.B.S. 1991 MS-DOS cracktro/sound-demo splash: runtime-to-code concordance for the short title/failure contact sheet, self-reading MZ overlay, tagged MAING/ANIMA/MOD1 resources, CRC-checked inflater, mode-13h palette fade, point/RLE animation helpers, and Sound Blaster DMA mixer path.
1 DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because the published capture only proves the short title/failure path.
From My Heart
Halcyon Abduction 1996 MS-DOS demo: debugger-recovered WWPACK image, Tran PMODE boundary, exact six-stream PAH delta/RLE codec, 160x100 interpolation, four-page feedback, packed temporal filter, affine texture sampler, two indexed triangle paths, palette morphs and explicit order/row dispatcher.
4 locally decoded continuous PAH GIFs and 3 exact SCX resources in the article; one untiled front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Frustration
Orange August 1996 MS-DOS musicdisk: Scene.org archive hashes, direct public 320x240 Pouet screenshot, public-still-to-code concordance, six S3M modules by Cybelius, first-stage MZ plus nested PKLITE player boundary, hard-coded module/menu strings, MIDAS v0.40 setup text, ULTRASND/BLASTER evidence, and no-fake-animation boundary.
1 direct public Pouet screenshot in the article; no GIF because the production is a static musicdisk menu.
Fluid Motion
Valhalla TG95 PC 64K winner: complete direct no-sound runtime, released Setup-to-DemoVT chain, RNC shell, timer IRQ, mode-13h buffers, vector preprocessing, 3D projection, flat spans, and unrolled texture loops.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Full Moon
Virtual Dreams / Fairlight's The Party 1993 Amiga demo runner-up: complete direct AGA run, one-file Titanics-family streaming wrapper, framed corridor, rapid image and vector transformations, long layered greetings, and three-score runtime structure.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no tiled previews or online-video frames.
Flexible
Massive Wired 1995 PC 64 KB intro third place: WWPACK loader, generated radial maps, text blitter, palette fades, morphing object vectors, normal math, and unrolled texture spans.
Fleet
Fleet Assembly 1993 100K intro: custom setup, self-decoding nested-MZ loader, integrity check, module-packer evidence, verified 3D, bobs, fractal landscape, house vector, moviescroll, and cycle-sensitive flicker note.
Flight
Kosmic NAID 1995 third-place demo: runtime-to-code concordance for the setup UI, opening preload, bundled GIF/CMP/LZW assets, WGT resource sets, DSIK DSM module gates, FPU 3D projection/draw path, planet/terminal switch, road map sampler, full-frame copy, and VGA/DAC loops.
FLI
Realtime Wired 1995 PC 4K third place: LZEXE wrapper, timer and keyboard IRQ hooks, work segments, palette tables, diffusion pass, segment strips, recursive map generation, and self-patched fractal spans.
Fyvush
Jamm Assembly 1994 64K intro: RNC loader, GUS setup, tweaked VGA helpers, raster Hellraiser cube, planar texture columns, rotozoom, and final text fades.
Galactic Conqueror Cracktro
PTL Club 23 February 1989 source-limited MS-DOS EGA cracktro: contact-row-redacted Demozoo frame, 640x350 mode-10h proof, A000h four-plane addressing, sequencer map-mask copy loop, packed-picture decode models, key-gate handoff, and blocked Defacto2 artifact boundary.
1 redacted EGA frame and 1 generated planar display map in the article.
Galaxian Graffiti
Koyote Kid catalogue-derived 1984 MS-DOS cracktro: public Demozoo/RGstation frame evidence, Defacto2/RGstation binary-access boundary, palette variants, likely 320x200 RGBI/CGA-style display, static title/menu layout, and probable F1/F2 keyboard dispatch.
Public Demozoo/RGstation stills, contact sheet, and generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is untimed static states.
Gear Demo
Careless + Sonic Inc. + The Brain Slayer March 1992 MS-DOS intro: public Demozoo references, timestamped DOSBox-X phase frames, bounded runtime-to-code/package concordance, hand-built SONIC! MZ wrapper, LOADG/MAING packed payload, bitstream depacker, relocation repair, credit-card/reveal/main-loop phases, and bounded starfield/gear/scroller reconstruction.
6 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 2 Demozoo stills, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Genghis Khan Cracktro
PTL Club 27 December 1988 MS-DOS batch-wrapper cracktro: Scene.org archive, RUNME.BAT command stream, TITLE.PTL CP437 page, 640x400-to-80x25 text proof, TYPE read/write loop, CON CR/LF/cell model, PAUSE prompt merge, KHAN external-command handoff boundary, and contact-row-redacted public still.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Surprise! Productions' The Party 1993 runner-up: MyLZ depacker, resource table, GUS loader, DOSBox-X/Xvfb early and continuation captures, runtime-to-code concordance for intro/title motion, Mode X plane loops, plasma compositor, vector lines, checker/object clips, dot tunnel, and greetings scroller.
8 runtime stills, 2 contact sheets, and 7 short GIFs in the article.
Goldorak
Real-Time SIH 1995 PC demo winner: LZEXE front, FBOV overlay tail, XMS staging, fixed-point 3D, span fillers, VGA plane transfers, and GUS S3M playback.
Grand Prix Circuit: The Cycles Cracktro
Future Brain Incorporated 16 November 1989 MS-DOS/EGA cracktro: direct 10-second silent opening excerpt, contact-adjacent scroller cutoff, MZ entry hijack, original-game restore far jump, EGA/VGA probe, CGA fallback, widened CRTC stride, planar logo copy, ROM BIOS 8x8 font renderer, RCL carry-chain scroller, CRTC start-address motion, palette cycling, and keyboard-gated handoff.
1 safe silent opening MP4, 1 direct runtime still, 1 public title reference, and 1 generated execution map in the article.
GR8
Future Crew 1989/1990 PC demo: native red text-ring motion, 64 parsed vector glyphs, exact scaled-1000 transform costs, 11..125-call same-row gap-filling line work, six-OUT thick pixels, 32,000 plane-byte background restore, 48-divide stars, retrace page flips, and dormant linked PIT code.
1 fast runtime GIF and 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Gremlins Loader
Silicon Valley Swappe Shoppe June 1986 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: decoded raw CGA title page, COM file map, GREMLINS.BIN five-chunk DOS read loop, second-stage 0000:0600 bootstrap, low-memory image moves, PSP-like segment-zero setup, floppy DOR write, and missing-payload boundary.
1 binary-decoded CGA page and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the visible wrapper screen is static before the key gate.
Greentro
Keen Like Frogs TCC 1993 PC demo: 360x240 tweaked VGA, GoldPlay module path, TRIBUTE/X-ROAD loaders, four-plane blitters, vector-ball projection, LFD palette equalizer, and centered scaler.
Hard Hat Mack Graffiti
The Duplicators 21 August 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, four-colour RGBI/CGA palette evidence, title/credit/sprite/footer region map, and raw-page/RLE/text-sprite implementation models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Hardball 2 Cracktro
The FiRM 3 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, direct INT 21h IVT install, 64K resident block, XOR 66h DOS text screens, EGAVERS.Frm EXEC handoff, AH=4Bh hook gate, paragraph child-memory scanner, sparse 80 36 ?? ?? 63 39 pattern, exact patch bytes, and one-shot tail-chain boundary.
2 public Demozoo screens and 1 generated COM/INT 21h scanner map in the article.
Have You Seen My Ham?
Orange May 1994 MS-DOS/GUS 100K intro: public-still-to-code concordance, Scene.org archive hashes, public Pouet still, PKLITE/UNP parent launcher, embedded not.mod and waveo.exe extraction, child PKLITE expansion, GUS-only prompt, mouse INT 33h path, mode-13h setup, VGA retrace/DAC/A000h evidence, story/writer script, and explicit no-fake-GIF capture boundary.
1 public Pouet screenshot in the article; local DOSBox-X prompt captures are documented but not used as page media.
Headbanger's Ball
Access Denied March 1992 MS-DOS demo: decoded 768-byte-palette plus 64,000-byte DAT screens, timestamped splash frames, public vector-ball still, machine-speed object scaling, VOC/SB evidence, palette cycling, glyph-column scroller, and shaped ball/span loops.
1 sparse splash GIF, 3 runtime splash frames, decoded DAT stills, public vector-ball references, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Heavy Barrel Loader
Corporation for Public Cybercasting 2001 16 July 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: blocked Defacto2 binary, lower contact block redacted, large yellow Heavy Barrel title wordmark, low-colour title-card model, Motocross relationship, and explicit no-binary/no-copy-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Heartquake
Iguana's third-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: complete direct silent run, DemoVT shell/module regions, 65-entry resource bank, PMODE sidecars, source-confirmed landscape raycaster, morphs, and finite-difference water credits.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs plus the earlier public reference stills.
Heaven
Barti!/NoooN Assembly 1995 PC 4K runner-up: self-relocating COM, generated sine/fractal/tunnel tables, DOSBox-X runtime capture, runtime-to-code concordance for the cloud landscape, 64,000-pixel tunnel, torus, triple-donut clips, frame-counter timeline, and depth-tested spans.
4 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 4 short GIFs in the article.
Hellraiser
The Megabusters' 8th-place The Party 1994 PC demo: exact archive and MZ boundary, INT 50h resident GUS system, four soundtrack offsets, complete seventeen-child directory, byte-run/literal decompressor, segment fixups, controller sequence, and silent continuous visual evidence.
7 continuous silent Pouet-linked video GIFs in the article; direct dummy-audio GUS timing boundary documented.
Hex Appeal
Cascada's 1993 Swedish full demo: authenticated archive, chained-MZ loader, XMS staging, texture-cube projection, slimy panner internals, and a complete native-silent direct run.
8 direct silent runtime GIFs in the article.
Hi!
HikariWarriors 13 April 1991 MS-DOS demo: unpacked Turbo Pascal MZ, unchained 320x400 page reveal, 75 collision-aware stars in four speed tiers, saved-background sparkle, 180-block planar typewriter, independent DAC clocks, and CT-VOICE DMA sample chaining.
1 continuous direct silent main-screen GIF on the card; the article adds 1 matching direct loader still.
High Pressure
US / Razmaid and The Specialist NAID 1995 100K intro: PKLITE launcher, six embedded child MZs, S3M/GUS setup, Graphic Workshop stills, sprite mover, fire/text masks, Turbo C/x87 Julia differencing, and archive-to-code concordance.
Higher Desire
Miracle Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, sixth-place result, private muted DOSBox-X selector/mode-switch boundary, public-video GIF evidence, custom protected-mode kernel strings, GUS/Silence replay selector, VESA note, large appended data body, raycasted world, reflected object, vector, and Gouraud subsystem concordance.
3 public-video GIFs, 3 public-video stills, and 1 Demozoo still in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Hyla
Onyx Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: Borland MZ with self-read overlay, embedded ProTracker MOD, Sound Blaster/Covox paths, direct VGA setup, rotating wireframe text show, and PIC interval compatibility trap.
Hysteric Overload
Finnish Hysteria's Assembly 1992 PC demo: complete direct silent loop through the checker floor, extruded HSA form, cube, pencil, colored deforming solids, credits and authored restart, with PKLITE/data-loader and planar VGA/filled-vector concordance.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Holistic
Cascada VR Section's Assembly 1994 full demo: complete direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, protected-mode and paging launcher, named CDADAT object resources, POF families, environment-map evidence, exact SCX planar ring-scroller code, and correctly identified audio mixer loops.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Huge Crowd
NoooN and Orange The Party 1996 MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, Compack carrier, UNP-expanded 252 KB PMODE/W runtime, XMS/A20 requirement evidence, Mode 13h startup, timer/music-position scene gate at 0x4f6f, A000h 64K frame copies, 3DAh retrace wait, palette-table blending, mapper/editor remnants, direct public-video GIF/still analysis, and runtime-to-code concordance.
2 public-video GIFs, 4 public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Icefever
Xpose The Gathering 1994 PC demo third place: PKLITE/resource footer, TakeTracker 12-channel module, unchained VGA planes, CH4 planar assets, 386 blit/clear, fixed-point spans, and table-driven interference.
Illumination
Yodel The Party 1995 PC intro runner-up: PKLITE real-mode MZ, generated textures and blend tables, YMS timer path, tweaked planar VGA, self-patched triangle spans, and object scene callbacks.
Images
Epical Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo, 5th in the PC competition: complete direct silent main route, bounded direct space route, externally captured runtime motion, decompressed RNC2 carriers with restored handoff/player/credit records, two S3M data files, and 66 decoded GIF87a resources in SPACE.DAT.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 5 decoded SPACE.DAT resources in the article; no MP4/H.264 or audio media is published.
INC World
International Network of Crackers 1989/1990 CGA cracktro: timestamped DOSBox-X frames, embedded Megaton Man metadata, CGA mode-4 setup, unrolled title/credit byte-store renderers, hand-unrolled 13-frame ornament loop, speed presets, keyboard delay controls, exit text path, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 3 CGA runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Inconexia
Iguana + VangeliSTeam 1993 MS-DOS demo: DemoVT shell chain, source-backed VGA/timer loops, bouncing balls, mirrorball, plasma scroller, spiral, starfield, and fire credits.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Cracktro
New York Crackers 3 August 1989 source-limited MS-DOS text-page cracktro: public Demozoo 640x400 frame, 80x25 proof, white/black band layout, coloured cell-art title, B800h char/attribute model, page-copy and RLE-cell decode loops, ANSI alternative, and key-gate handoff.
1 public text-page frame and 1 generated layout map in the article.
Into the Dark
Halcyon Demolition 1996 MS-DOS winner: debugger-recovered WWPACK image, rotated S3M order-row clock, nine RIX3 resources, seven specialized scene blocks, procedural noise, instanced cube history, packed-page composites, self-patched texture kernels, Q10 geometry, generated radial lighting, timer palette interpolation, and five-tap feedback.
5 continuous video-only reference GIFs and 1 locally decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Innuendo
Halcyon Juhla 1996 MS-DOS demo: restored PMODE/W MZ, mixed-dimension RIX3 texture/light/font bank, complete S3M order-row schedule, six specialized copies of a fixed-point mesh engine, Q10 transforms, perspective projection, signed-area culling, stable 15-bit face radix sort, 16.16 triangle setup, and compact affine texture spans.
5 continuous video-only reference GIFs and 1 locally decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Ishido
The Humble Guys 1990 MS-DOS 16K cracktro/loader: direct silent gears-loader runtime excerpt, archive/NFO contact-material boundary, MZ/LZEXE v0.91 carrier, packed-entry depacker map, visible TASM/source-label fragments, mode-13h setup evidence, central gear animation, red bottom scroller, and video-only publication path.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Instant
Xtacy The Party 1993 PC intro: PKLITE-packed MZ, package/ranking conflict, depacker bitstream and back-reference loops, visible mode-13h VGA setup, sound-output labels, effect text, and packed tables.
Intro 1
Sorcerers April 1989 MS-DOS 32K intro: Pascal runtime, B800/B000 text-mode framebuffer selection, BIOS video-state setup, safe opening DOSBox-X frames/GIF, overlap-safe rectangle mover, bit-column text renderer, phase counters, 03DAh-paced FastMove loops, keyboard exit, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 2 direct DOSBox-X runtime frames, and 1 generated pipeline map in the article.
Intro 2
Sorcerers May 1989 MS-DOS 16K intro: Pascal runtime, DESQview guard, text-mode B800/B000 backend, moving 9-row flash band, overlap-safe rectangle mover, unrolled byte-stream column renderer, phase-triggered wide fills, BIOS keyboard-flag poke, high-rate INT 08h one-bit speaker tail, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 3 direct DOSBox-X runtime frames, and 1 generated pipeline map in the article.
JJ Demo
CodeBlasters 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: TCB/RIX depacker, ProTracker module, sound-device selector, RIX screens, shadowed mode-13h glyph pages, tweaked CRTC/sequencer setup, two-plane strip scroller, DAC fades, LPT/Sound Blaster/internal speaker paths, and runtime/archive-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 5 runtime frames, 1 runtime contact sheet, and 1 decoded RIX contact sheet in the article.
Internal Damage
Electromotive Force PKLITE runtime, recovered VGA code island, menu RLE, keyboard IRQ, projected-dot loops, planar strip renderers, and text compositor.
Just
Legend Design Wired 1995 PC demo runner-up: PMODE/W PMW1 layout, PBP resource loading, tweaked VGA setup, feedback texture maps, planar page flips, and DSIK/S3M playback.
Jouluporno 96
Orange and Complex December 1996 MS-DOS invitation: Scene.org archive hashes, direct public-video GIF/still slices, dedicated siwa-sync title-motion GIF, DOS4GW LE object table, DATAFILE.DAT resource names, MIDAS/MOD evidence, VESA errors, VGA retrace/DAC/PIT support, and runtime-to-code concordance for the title gag snapping to the sample-loop timing and reversing direction.
3 direct public-video GIFs, 4 direct public-video stills, and 1 public Pouet screenshot in the article.
Juhla 95 Invitation
Crypton and Orange January 1995 MS-DOS/GUS invitation: Scene.org archive hashes, public Pouet screenshot, Xvfb-observed DOSBox Der Piipo runtime theme GIF/still, package map GIF, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite raw protected-mode boundary, runtime-to-code/package concordance, embedded Finnish/English page scripts, GUS I/O selector loop, custom keyboard ISR, one-shot key reader, SPACE-driven graphics/theme state flip, ESC scan-code exit, GUSPLAY/PMODE credits, and bounded no-proof-yet note for distinct selectable visual themes.
1 runtime theme GIF, 1 runtime still, 1 direct public Pouet screenshot, and 1 package map GIF in the article.
Juhla '95 Part 2.5 Invitation
Orange June 1995 MS-DOS invitation: public-still-to-code concordance, Scene.org archive hashes, direct Pouet screenshot, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite raw protected-mode boundary, 386/VCPI/DPMI/A20 startup evidence, embedded Finnish invite text, WAYPOINT.S3M, GUS/ProTracker strings, and explicit no-fabricated-GIF boundary.
1 direct public Pouet screenshot in the article; no GIF because no trusted motion source was found.
Jump
Public NMI The Party 1992 MS-DOS demo: public Demozoo stills, timestamped DOSBox-X direct-part GIF/frames, runtime-to-code concordance for the DOS batch executable chain, GoldPlay setup path, BOBS plane-selected vectorball sprite stamps and DAC fade, LANDSCAP projection/planar-dot/dirty-list loops, SBOBS unrolled additive shadebobs, and UMDREH text-mode rotate finale.
1 direct-part runtime GIF, 6 runtime frames, and 4 public stills in the article.
Jungle Hunt Cracktro
PTL Club 7 December 1987 MS-DOS cracktro: decoded CGA page, exact CS:0f80 to B800:0000 16 KB word-copy loop, BIOS key gate, PTLLoad wrapper state restore, HUNT.PTL DOS EXEC handoff, and private contact text omission boundary.
1 binary-decoded CGA page and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the visible payload is static before the key gate.
Karma
Halcyon Scenario 1995 MS-DOS demo: intact relocatable MZ, exact RIX3 and 4-bit picture/animation formats, six H!V triangle meshes, MIDAS order-row schedule, fixed-point matrix transforms, signed-area culling, stable 13-bit face radix sort, scanline edge tables, and paired-pixel affine texture spans.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Knights Of Legend Cracktro
The Humble Guys 23 January 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public Demozoo colour-bar frame, 512-byte MZ header, single relocation into DS setup, pre-code string segment, inline BIOS text renderer, 107 repeated-cell writes, six DOS strings, key gate, RETF-to-PSP exit, and dead Start.exe handoff data boundary.
1 public frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Kings Of The Beach Cracktro
The FiRM 17 March 1989 MS-DOS loader shell: jump-over version banner, fixed stack, BIOS mode 02h setup, DOS 09h CP437 greeting print, INT 23h Ctrl-Break hook, BIOS key gate, memory resize, EXEC parameter block, vbgen handoff, and dormant template-code boundary.
2 images
The Firm Loader (1)
The FiRM August 1989 MS-DOS loader: state/IVT save-restore, display detector, CP437 coordinate-stream logo renderer, CGA-safe cell writer, blink redraw loop, INT 08h/09h/23h hooks, symmetric filename mutator, decoded gitum.000 EXEC handoff, and visual/archive-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot, 1 decoded screen, and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Kaare
Kaare Productions' 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: PKLITE restoration, EFX/STMIK ownership, exact DAC fade traffic, scanline-114 CRTC split and four-byte start bounce, 20 collision-guarded marker lifecycles, duplicated-lookahead 7x7/shaped paths, and bounded overlap-safe 6,400-byte curve-window shifts.
The King of the Round Table
Zwilight Tone TG94 PC intro second place: RNC inline key, virtual INT 21h music file, GUS cue table, CP437 block pages, Mode 13h gradient bands, and planar CRTC page flips.
Lakers vs Celtics and NBA Playoffs Cracktro
North American Pirate-Phreak Association September 1989 MS-DOS cracktro/info card: INC cross-listing note, compact MZ wrapper, Pascal short-string ANSI title card, relocated far-call write sequence, CP437 logo rows, runtime text-output path, and no preserved game handoff.
1 reconstructed ANSI screen and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Late Easter '92
Sonic PC June 1992 MS-DOS demo: public-still-to-code concordance, first-demo lineage context toward Delusion/Plan-B, dlz0 packed MZ carriers, Borland C loader/config UI, helper child handoff, mode-13h first-part palette/wipe/object/star/text loops, unchained VGA main part, STMIK 0.20 S3M sound path, planar blitters, script dispatcher, and DAC palette rings.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated pipeline map in the article; the screenshot is mapped to the first VGA child, not treated as runtime-video proof.
Licence To Kill
The FiRM 10 December 1989 MS-DOS cracktro loader: packed MZ hidden behind BOND.COM, reusable FIRM.SCR graphic sidecar, full/empty BOND.FRM archive split, FiRMLOADER-2 backward B0/B2 stream, relocation repair, command-tail E/T mode scan, INT 03h proxy/boundary, state snapshots, display/timing probes, protected decoder boundary, and packed child MZ stub.
1 public FiRM screen and 1 generated packed-loader map in the article.
Lasse Reinbong
Cubic Team / $eeN The Party 1995 PC intro winner: direct DOSBox-X runtime sequence, runtime-to-code concordance for reversefire/showpresent/vectorface/multimap/braid/late-credit phases, PMODE/W PMW1 payload, Watcom C++ runtime, IRQ/PIT music timing, fire diffusion, self-patched rotozoom blocks, polygon spans, procedural meshes, and wobble/tunnel renderers.
1 runtime GIF and 9 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Legend
Impact Studios The Party 1993 PC demo: custom MZ overlay loader, LZ depacker, twenty-six child blocks, GUS module payloads, planar picture copies, FLI packets, projected dots, polygon page flips, and generated texture masks.
Lethal Display 5
Bonzai The Party 1994 PC demo: direct silent beta runtime, documented competition crash, December preview versus May final package comparison, rebuilt PKLITE launcher, enlarged FILELINK sidecar, Walt MTM player identity, revised eight-channel Trap module, and period DOS/GUS troubleshooting.
5 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; explicit imagery is excluded.
Less is More
The Humanoid NAID 1995 100K intro winner: restored real-mode Mode 13h executable, hardcoded GUS-at-240h path, timer script, morphing dolphin, shaded/textured triangle fillers, span-clear trail, final tunnel writer, and static code-path concordance.
Lifeforms
Halcyon's Juhla 1995 2.5 PC demo third place: verified Finnish credits, complete direct silent DOSBox-X run, intentional rotating end tableau, W. Collis unpacking, nine RIX pages, XMS page moves, palette fades, reverse nonzero overlays, disk/span helpers, S3M order gates, mesh transform/projection, and fixed-point textured triangle spans.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, contact sheet, H.264/MP4, or third-party footage.
Lion
Epsilon Wired 1995 PC 4K winner: custom COM depacker, generated wave and texture tables, unrolled warp sampler, precomputed source field, rotating mesh, normal setup, and self-patched textured spans.
Little Green Men
Kosmic Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, ninth-place result, private dummy-audio DOSBox-X music-setup boundary, public-video rocket/marching/tunnel GIFs, slow Demozoo still sequence, PMODE/W MZ stub plus PMW1 overlay, WGT/setup strings, LGM.KOS sprite/GIF87a/WGT-font signatures, and separate S3M payload.
3 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, 12 Demozoo stills, and 1 1Hz Demozoo sequence GIF in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Locomotion
Onyx Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: PKLITE/UNP layout, self-read overlay assets, Mode X setup, RLE expander, planar blitters, palette stepper, particle loop, and fixed-point projection/fill paths.
Logical Thoughts
TDS Inc. The Party 1993 PC demo: PKLITE launcher, TDS decompression routine, embedded MZ chunks, RIX3 320x200 images, TDS-wrapped FAR music modules, and GUS-only setup evidence.
LO-RES
Marty Smith May 1984 MS-DOS demo: source-limited public screenshot pass over the CGA 160x100 sixteen-colour text-mode trick, two-pixel B800 cells, half-block glyph encoding, read-modify-write pixel stores, clear/span/line/circle loop models, and function-key demo shape.
1 public screenshot contact sheet and 1 generated CGA cell map in the article; no GIF because no runnable binary is currently available.
Lombard RAC Rally Cracktro
Future Brain Incorporated 29 April 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: packed MZ backward unpacker, restored entry hijack, original-game far-jump restore, EGA/VGA probe, mode-0Dh planar artwork, BIOS ROM-font RCL scroller, CRTC line-compare control, floppy-control port twiddle, CGA mode-06h fallback, split-bank CGA blitter, and keyboard-gated handoff.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated execution map in the article.
Lost in Space
HMD PC Section The Party 1993 PC demo ninth place: GUS-aware loader, 13-part DOS chain, LZEXE children, raw VGA pages, 8-channel module, 32-bit buffer copies, and PART5 moving-field renderer.
Luminous
Scoop TG95 PC demo runner-up: DOS/4GW launcher, PMODE/W parts, raw DSM/BMP/PCX assets, palette fades, planar VGA upload, textured polygon spans, and end scroller.
Lunatic
Extreme Computer Crossroad 1993 PC demo runner-up: public screenshot concordance for RNC-packed MZ shell, self-reading tail chunks, RLE expander, VGA retrace waits, planar blitters, span fills, DAC fades, CRTC page flips, vector helpers, and MOD replay setup.
1 screenshot-sequence GIF and 15 public PNG stills in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
M&D Demo
The Cat and Soc. Brigade July 1991 MS-DOS demo: source-matched double wrappers, ET4000 panorama loader, 64-point six-phase field, packed-font two-pixel scroller, 158 scanline commands, selective old-phase point-ring erasure, destructive 8x72-bit text serializer, and PIT-driven mixer/tone inner loops.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 3 exact direct stills, and 1 decoded PBM panorama in the article.
Mach 3
UltraForce catalog-1989/1990-build Sound Blaster musicdisk: live-state-backed 8x320 title-band carry scroller, exact EGA geometry and ROM-font menu, CT-VOICE ready-gate failure boundary, eleven 10 kHz voice blocks, two-byte sample-loader holes, text-song scheduler, raw-key latch, beatbox policy, and complete teardown.
1 verified DOSBox-X EGA startup still in the article; no GIF because only one useful graphics frame was captured.
Magic Carpet
Keen Like Frogs Wired 1995 PC 64 KB intro winner: frame-derived orbital/title and terrain-flyover sequence, RNC wrapper, temp DOS32 executable, palette remap tables, diamond-square height maps, fixed-point 3D, texture stamps, feedback frame writer, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Magic Johnson's Basketball Cracktro
The Grand Council 7 April 1989 MS-DOS .BAT cracktro: Scene.org ZIP hashes, RUNME.BAT command-interpreter path, GRAND.CRK text streaming, CP437 ECHO table rows, PAUSE key gate, missing mj payload boundary, distribution sidecar separation, and public redaction of old contact material.
1 redacted reconstructed screen and 1 generated flow map in the article.
The Magic Circle
The European Technology Assembly 1994 PC 64K intro sixth place: odd MZ tail entry, custom LZ wrapper, real-mode segment normalizer, compact relocation trailer, GUS-only notes, and verified part list.
Mantaray
CSG Productions December 1992 MS-DOS demo: Hornet MZ archive, late-entry LZ carrier, UNP-restored 506 KB runtime, visual/runtime-to-code concordance, VGA/SB/STMIK setup, 26-bank object selector, central 111x85 copy loop, sound-driven bar overlay, bottom strip helpers, DAC ramps, and keyboard filter.
1 public screenshot, 1 generated pipeline map, 1 recovered window-bank reconstruction, and 1 DOSBox-X setup prompt in the article.
Marble Madness Cracktro
PTL Club 19 July 1987 MS-DOS cracktro: masked binary-decoded CGA title page, direct CS:0f80 to B800:0000 16 KB word-copy loop, CGA mode-4 page layout, MAIN.PTL EXEC handoff, interrupt vector wrappers, keyboard exit handler, and cleanup path.
1 masked binary-decoded CGA page and 1 generated copy-loop map in the article; no GIF because the visible intro is static before the key wait.
Maple
DarkZone TG95 PC 64K third-place intro: complete keyed runtime, one-digit GUS selector, RNC stager, teal feedback field, shaded objects and head, morphing gold geometry, real-mode raster engine, and clean DOS return.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Mayday
Yodel Computer Crossroad 1993 PC demo third place: complete five-child runtime, DOS EXEC launcher, story frames, planar VGA effects, RLE image pages, shaded geometry, 1024-dot landscape, end scroller, CRT close, and natural DOS return.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Meaculpa
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster intro: direct looping and keyed-exit runs, star/title/framed-ball state machine, EXEPACK-style wrapper, XOR-decoded startup span, internal CRC inflater, RLE A000 frames, rectangle reveals, SB DMA, four-lane sequencer, and four-stream mixer.
2 directly playable silent MP4 runs in the article; 1 continuous untiled GIF on this card.
Megademo
The Space Pigs 1989/1990 MS-DOS megademo: chained MZ parts, LZEXE/EXEPACK restoration, BIOS-data-area setup handoff, planar RLE blitter, picture pans and hardware scrollers; plus a deep vectorballs frame loop with 34 shape records, SoA morphing, Q15 rotation, signed perspective, a constant-biased 25-bucket coarse-z painter, generated shaded stamps, selective two-page cleanup, and exact CRTC cadence.
4 public Pouet reference stills; local DOSBox runtime GIF still blocked by the setup/part-chain capture route.
Megademo 2
Bizzar The Party 1993 PC demo fourteenth place: direct no-input runtime through title, sphere, wire cube, cartoon-face effect, and held credit page; BAT-driven three-MZ chain; ASTROFLX.MOD; GLUCKO.GAS WAV; raw/SCX assets; and bounded third-part evidence.
1 directly playable silent MP4 in the article; 1 continuous untiled GIF on this card; no-input route holds before the third-part assets.
Megablast
Orange The Party 1996 PC demo runner-up: public-video motion GIFs, verified Pouet montage, direct RIX3 and PCX resource decodes, PMODE/W LE object extraction, music-stage dispatcher at 0x101f0, PCX/RLE decoder, palette/framebuffer paths, function-level analysis of remappers, byte fields, sine phases, and FPU geometry, plus a bounded runtime-to-code concordance mapping visible timeline families to recovered dispatcher/effect families.
3 public-video GIFs, 1 public screenshot, 4 direct archive stills, and 1 RIX contact sheet in the article.
MEN0VEN0M
AlFuuNi P0WER Assembly 1993 PC demo: GoldPlay-backed MZ player, external ProTracker module, ColoRIX RIX3 screen files, SCI screen-to-code concordance, DOS block loader, DAC upload, A000h copy, and retrace-held slideshow path.
No screenshots published: decoded SCI screens contain omitted crude/contact-like text, but the article maps the full screen order to code.
Menace Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 18 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, redacted text-title frame, public graphics presentation, video selector for mono/CGA/EGA/Tandy, 80x25 layout inference, adapter dispatch model, and explicit no-binary/no-inner-loop boundary.
3 public-safe frames and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Mental Blocks
New York Crackers 12 August 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro / loader: redacted Demozoo text page, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, static text-card layout, COMMAND.COM / TYPE / ANSI output alternatives, direct B800h page and string-writer alternatives, key-wait candidates, and DOSBox-style failed run handoff boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated layout map in the article.
Mentality
Mental Design 1993 MS-DOS dentro: EXOS container, embedded part executables, text morphing, planar glenz/interference, IFS point plotter, fractal zoomer, texture cubes, and end scroller.
Mental Surgery
Future Crew's 1991 MS-DOS demo matched from STMIK020 source to the restored release: exact 640-frame latch-scroller traffic, UFF lifetime queue, 79-column static-logo lifecycle, 15-frame equalizer delay and repair bound, and a 64-visit/32-update raster-split star loop.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 exact still from a muted Sound Blaster/equalizer run; no host audio was produced or published.
Microprose's Pirates
The FiRM 18 August 1989 MS-DOS cracktro / conversion loader: MZ executable hidden behind PIRATES.COM, physical-tail copy-up caveat, FiRMLOADER-2 backward B0/B2 stream, relocation repair, stack-threaded restored entry, SS-keyed decoder, BIOS text bytecode printer, state restore path, and FIRM.SCR row inflater.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader/screen map in the article.
Monopoly Loader
The FiRM 8 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: BBS/phone-table-redacted public Demozoo frame, blocked Defacto2 binary, large grey FiRM logo over starfield, red separator-rule layout, possible text/ANSI/graphics presentation models, and explicit no-binary/no-loader-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Miami Vice Cracktro
International Network of Crackers December 1989 MS-DOS cracktro wrapper: Turbo/Pascal-style MZ, COMSPEC /C Type ANSI side screens, RUNME.INC target read, missing mvg.exe boundary, public-safe INFO.INC render, board-list screenshot omission, CPU-speed busy delay loop, and unrolled centered title-line writer.
1 rendered ANSI screen and 1 generated runtime-flow map in the article.
Mindflow
Stellar's Assembly 1994 Amiga demo winner: complete direct AGA run, original SetPatch gate, 704-byte overlay root, exact 28-region chip/fast memory ledger, buffered bitstream decoder, private relocation pass, landscape, photographic credits, texture-mapped maze, fractal zoom, and Strobo's 1992 ProTracker module.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no tiled previews or online-video frames.
Minus 40 Degrees
Eterno Prod. Assembly 1993 PC demo: Borland real-mode MZ, self-reading executable overlay, embedded ProTracker MOD, AMP/MCP Sound Blaster/PAS/Aria drivers, VGA setup panel, and bitmap-like tail data.
Mobile: Destination Unknown
Spaceballs' Norwegian The Gathering 1993 demo: a complete direct run of Lone Starr's one-routine, one-disk solid flight, with continuous typography and geometry, custom MFM trackloading, prepared-motion boundary, and the original held ending.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 authored final still in the article; no audio, video encode, or contact sheet.
Model 0
Analogue SIH95 PC demo runner-up: custom ANR resource stream, GUS/S3M path, timer callbacks, mode 13h buffer, particle cloud, face buckets, self-patched triangle edges, and texture span fillers.
Monstra
Flash Production The Party 1992 MS-DOS demo: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for launcher/setup frames, renamed executable .FLE part captures, PKLITE process chain, MiniMod/output-device support, ProTracker modules, plasma/mandelbrot/flag/bob/message/logo loops, and VGA Line Compare timing limits.
1 overview GIF, startup/part frames, contact sheet, public screenshot, pipeline map, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Montezuma's Revenge Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: Demozoo 15 May 1986 metadata versus visible 1991 self-date, public screenshot, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, high-intensity CGA palette-0 evidence, layout map, 8x8 graphics text alignment, split-bank CGA row stepping, glyph expansion loops, return-key gate, and game-menu handoff model.
1 public screenshot, 1 exact logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Motocross Loader
Corporation for Public Cybercasting 2001 20 June 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: blocked Defacto2 binary, redacted low-colour CPC 2001 title card, visible block-logo/digit/credit layout, central grey icon, coordinate-composition model, and explicit no-binary/no-copy-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Motion
Avalanche Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: party/fixed archive split, PKLITE expansion, GUS autodetect, retrace page flips, DAC fades, dot interpolation, vector projection, and Mode X span loops.
Mystery
Masque Assembly 1995 MS-DOS demo, 11th in the PC demo competition: Scene.org single-EXE archive, PMODE/W loader surface, 2.24 MB appended payload, no-sound startup boundary, public video GIFs for terrain/face/tunnel/corridor sections, Demozoo still sequence, embedded SCRM/song-title markers, and 48 carved 128x128 GIF87a texture resources matching the late Doom-style corridor.
4 public-video GIFs, 1 public-video still, 11 public Demozoo stills plus 1Hz sequence, and 1 extracted-resource overview sheet in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
Necronomicon
Imagine Wired 1994 PC demo winner: Borland MZ, MIDAS modules, raw NECRONOM.DAT screens, Mode X plane masks, palette-bank overlays, slice reveal, bouncing tile, grid section, and fixed-point vectors.
Neuromancer Cracktro
Norwegian Cracking Company 29 October 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/bytecode-to-code concordance, 6016-byte Turbo Pascal-family MZ, 52 relocations, exact CS:IP entry, DS:0002 652-byte text bytecode stream, B800/B000 target helper, attribute/control byte interpreter, STOSW run loops, key wait, and missing neuro.ncc EXEC handoff.
1 public screenshot, 1 decoded page, and 1 generated renderer map in the article.
The Newcomer
Pyten/Pyton The Party 1993 last-place PC demo: Borland MZ pair, embedded RIX3 credit and portrait images, GUS-only gate, ULTRASND parsing, sample upload loops, and text-mode audio skit behavior.
Nexus 7
Andromeda's The Party 1994 winner, rebuilt from its original AGA executable: all 14 packed blocks recovered, exact replay-cue dispatcher, delta credit stream, blitter particles, sparse-grid projection, mapped-object and zoom loops, and the persistent 320-pixel ending rasterizer.
11 motion GIFs and the authored final still, placed after the code analysis.
Nightmare on Almstreet
Archive-only The Party 1993 PC 80K intro package: PKLITE-packed MZ, absent result-table match, GUS-support DIZ claim, embedded GUS diagnostic text, leaked M.K. marker, and packed text islands.
Noname
2000 A.D. 1993 MS-DOS demo: custom packed MZ loader, UNP-expanded show sequencer, exact M.K. module, MiniMod sound setup, 386/VGA checks, CRTC page motion, retrace waits, and vector/scroll effect blocks.
No Lamers Allowed
Paranoids December 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: direct 52.021576-second normal-exit run, exact source-to-release plotter/scroller/IRQ mapping, diagonal reveal, 365/360-point ledger and 51-call pre-roll, 320-column 10,240-write sine band, PIT/BIOS frame timer, live-render fade, full-IVT restoration, and DOS return.
1 direct runtime still, 1 six-frame direct sequence, 1 continuous runtime GIF, older timestamped frames, decoded/public stills, and 1 source/runtime map in the article.
Nope
Sorcerers 1990 MS-DOS intro/demo: runtime-to-code concordance for the keyed gate GIF/frames, corrected EXEPACK decode, root-file side effect, text-mode shooting gate, Ctrl-Alt-Del trap, proportional B800 scrollers, scripted column renderer, and high-rate PC-speaker timer ISR/VU bars.
1 reconstructed still, 1 keyed runtime GIF, 4 runtime frames, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Contrast
TFL-TDV Wired 1994 runner-up: source-backed C sequencer, MIDAS/PDFIK data flow, table-driven VGA modes, self-patched zoom/distort loops, multi-fire, waves, sprites, dots, and Wolfenstein-like mapping.
Voyages
HyperNova Wired 1994 third place: PKLITE/Borland shell, Xtracker DMF modules, PCX RLE loader, mode 13h draw library, palette fades, stamp/object loops, and planar VGA ending routines.
The Cult Intro
ISCH Crew Wired 1994 PC intro winner: modified LZEXE-family stubs, DamN asset records, GUS module setup, VGA helper loops, text renderer, scaler, span drawing, and starfield.
Once - The Intro
LaSerDance / Acme Wired 1994 PC intro runner-up: self-reading PKLITE part chain, HSC/AdLib loader, bitmap text, circular plasma, shaded smoky cube, image bridges, and self-modified maze mapper.
Weird
$PA/$PC Wired 1994 PC intro third place: PKLITE wrapper, Borland real-mode runtime, HSC/AdLib music, RLE-built masks, palette fades, VGA page/stencil blits, and compiler-assisted 3D span emitters.
No!
NoooN The Party 1994 runner-up: PKLITE expansion, XMS kernel, EOF resource archive, DLZ unpacker, executable part modules, script resource order, Mode X planes, tunnel resources, generated span code, and runtime-to-code concordance for the radial warp, gold object, green tunnel, and textured floor GIFs.
7 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 4 short GIFs in the article.
Nothing Compares to B-Ware
B-Ware The Party 1993 PC demo eighteenth place: batch-script timeline, GUS-only JMPROTR playback, LOADER/HUFFMAN decrunching, HUF/HUM resources, QuickBASIC BSAVE graphics, BRUN45 runtime, and many PKLITE-packed effect EXEs.
Nutz?!
Hyperopia Assembly 1996 MS-DOS/GUS demo: public-still/package analysis, Hornet/party ZIP comparison, MZ launcher, DPMI/VCPI and audio-environment strings, external FastTracker XM, large NUTZ.DAT resource slab, and bounded data-map evidence.
1 public Pouet still and 1 generated package byte-layout map in the article; no audio or runtime video is published for this pass.
Trek, the Last Generation
Official Version 1991 MS-DOS demo: fake PCAmiga shell, packed/UNP MZ layout, mode-13 text and palette loop, retrace-paced 20x20 block transitions, mode-0Dh/mode-0Eh planar loaders, timer attribute ISR, VRAM scroll copy, and an optimized planar line engine with vertical/horizontal paths, replace/XOR modes, and x-major byte-mask coalescing.
1 generated recovered code-path map in the article; runtime capture still pending because no usable local frames exist yet.
Christmas Demo 1992
Omicron December 1992 MS-DOS Christmas demo: PKLITE launcher, child sequence .010/.013/.011/.013/.012, GoldPlay setup, three MOD sidecars, raw VGA/table resources, public screenshot, generated archive maps, depacker inner-loop notes, and public-still/archive-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot and 3 generated technical images in the article.
Operation Stealth Cracktro
The Syndicate November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: safe 8-second silent opening excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, contact-bearing info/scroller omission boundary, direct route fixed by `LOADFIX -64`, PKLITE MZ carrier, private UNP-expanded 66,202-byte image, mode-13h full-screen copy, VGA DAC upload, BIOS-font scroller, and key-wait exit path.
1 safe silent opening MP4 and 1 direct runtime still in the article; late contact-style scroller text is not published.
Operation Wolf Cracktro
The FiRM 15 September 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: MZ executable renamed .COM, FiRMLOADER-2 copy-up stub, backward B0/B2 unpack stream, relocation repair loop, protected restored-entry boundary, direct IVT writer, display/CPU/timing probes, 64-byte XOR decoder island, and encoded FIRM.SCR screen payload.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Optic Nerve
The Silents protected-mode runtime, Mode X plane writes, and landscape loop.
Opticron
Craw Productions NAID 1995 demo winner: Borland overlay layout, custom .001 asset library, PIX decoders, VGA palette paths, 3D impossible-object loops, and page reveal masks.
Optimize
Feenix/Epical Assembly 1994 PC 4K third place: RNC2 COM loader, BIOS-font fire text, sine-table plasma/ribbon and line-pattern phases, self-patched stripes, generated fractal texture, CRTC page slides, planar edge spans, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 3 runtime frames in the article.
Optimal Torque
Dubius Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, eighth-place result, private muted DOSBox-X setup/no-sound/mode-switch boundary, public-video GIF evidence, slow Demozoo still sequence, PKLITE launcher, TrmPlay setup strings, 53-entry OPTIMAL.DAT directory, embedded child EXEs, PCX/TGA texture pages, PNT/SRF object resources, lookup/palette tables, and FastTracker XM payload.
3 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, 24 Demozoo stills, and 1 1Hz Demozoo sequence GIF in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Outta Time
Select TG94 PC intro third place: setup launcher, hidden MZ payload, PKLITE-style LZ restore, palette stills, 386 point loop, unrolled texture sampler, and planar mask blitters.
Obsession
Black Rain Assembly 1993 demo: DIET/DLZ unpacker, TBR image loader, Sound Blaster-era final, unchained VGA pages, menu wipes, palette fades, and masked line loops.
Overflow
The Black Rain Assembly 1995 MS-DOS demo, 13th in the PC demo competition: final-release archive identity, public-video GIFs for space/logo, torus, fire tunnel, purple spiral, and sky/lens sections, Demozoo hand/object still, private muted setup boundary, OVERFLOW.EXE Sound Blaster/GUS/Silence launcher, LZEXE DEMOVT part, PKLITE child parts, M.K. marker, and seven RIX3 image-resource headers in OVERF__.DAT.
5 public-video GIFs, 1 public-video still, and 1 public Demozoo still in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
Over The Edge
Sorrox TG95 PC demo: segmented MZ runtime, GUS path, SRX loader, Mode X plane spans, chunky quad filler, fixed-point mesh transforms, and table-driven tunnel effects.
Panic
Future Crew's complete silent runtime, sound-player timing dependency, eight distinct direct GIFs, packed stage chain, Mode X sampler, palette timing, text kernel, and RLE renderer.
8 direct runtime GIFs in the article.
Paperboy Cracktro
Bentley Sidwell Productions and The Prophet June 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro loader: decoded raw B800h title page, BSP generic COM shell, 16 KB REP MOVSB screen copy, Ctrl-Break exit handler, PSP memory shrink, EXEC parameter block, and missing Sprites.Bsp child boundary.
1 decoded CGA frame and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Paratrooper Graffiti
The Duplicators 23 September 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti title screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, bright cyan/magenta/white CGA palette evidence, title/text/footer region map, and input-gate implementation models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Performance
Logic Design's Bizarre 1995 PC demo winner: LZEXE process manager, eighteen embedded MZ children, relocation loader and intercepted exits, reused effect arena, runtime-restored WWPACK code, 104x64 affine reveal, aligned four-pixel tunnel mapper, clipped spans, polygon facing and two-pass radix sort.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
Peripheral Vision
Valhalla The Party 1994 PC 64K runner-up: nested RNC loader, music-driven scheduler, Mandelbrot square table, unrolled texture spans, lighted voxel paths, and CRTC text scroller.
Phenomenon
Alpha Force Productions Assembly 1993 demo: COM-style MZ entry, bitstream LZ depacker, DSMI setup, AMF/RIX assets, Mode X layer, palette fades, and planar draw loops.
Phenotype
Purge Wired 1995 PC demo third place: PMODE/W runtime, PUR resource table, timer hooks, planar VGA fades, texture feedback, and 3D span loops.
First Demo / Physical
The Physical Crew's 1991 First Demo: huge outline glyphs streamed one column per frame through a duplicated VGA ring, a 90-frame vertical CRTC waveform, scanline-228 split checker floor, latch-primed hardware-XOR upload, and optional 10.749 kHz backward-sample parallel-port DAC ISR.
1 public-safe DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because only a composite contact sheet is published.
Pizza
Post Mortem The Party 1993 PC demo: PKLITE launcher and child parts, custom PIZZA.DAT directory, 8-channel MOD, VGA palette/GRB images, vector data, and SB/SB Pro setup.
Placebo
Complex Assembly 1994 PC 64K intro fourth place: runtime-to-code concordance for the title/object/final-animation GIF, RNC/FlatMan loader, GUS music-counter scheduler, script font, tweaked VGA, fixed-point spline projection, texture spans, flat-buffer copy, and planar animation subsystem.
1 runtime GIF and 8 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Plasma
Bret Mulvey April 1988 MS-DOS/VGA demo: runtime-to-code concordance for the DOSBox-X palette-cycle clip, Turbo Pascal 4.0 source, mode-13h setup, raw 64 KB image file, midpoint-displacement field generator, RGB palette wheel, stable A000h framebuffer, and BIOS palette-block rotation loop.
1 fast palette-cycle GIF, 5 timestamped runtime frames, contact sheet, source-image render, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Plasma Intro
The Raven / The Brain December 1992 MS-DOS intro: sparse effect-only plasma sequence, recovered packed COM body, Mode-X-style VGA setup, PIT/retrace calibration, table-driven plasma fields, 4 KB table blitter, CRTC start-address helper, interrupt wrappers, OPL output path, omitted contact-screen boundary, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse GIF, effect-only frames, contact sheet, and recovered runtime map in the article.
Plan-B
Sonic PC Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: generated expanded-executable architecture map, DIET expansion, protected-mode shell, Sonic Music System, GUS setup, embedded MOD, VGA timing, star/text section, and span loops.
1 generated architecture map in the article.
Populous Cracktro
The FiRM 22 December 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, full-IVT save/restore, DOS INT 69h service install, direct INT 21h IVT install, 8192-byte resident block, stack switch, XOR 66h redacted text screen, POPULOUS.EXE EXEC handoff, AH=3Dh file-open scanner, 3B 46 0C 75 09 8B 46 branch signature, CD 69 patch, and INT 69h branch restore.
1 redacted public intro screen and 1 generated branch-restore map in the article.
The Portal
Flash Productions The Party 1993 PC demo: eight PKLITE MZ programs, four M.K. modules, Goldplay/GUS credits, VGA marker set, tiny config, and a 701 KB resource slab.
Poison
Satori The Party 1995 PC intro fourth place: RNC method-1 MZ/COM wrapper, inline key recovery, event tick, IRQ hooks, GUS timer path, palette/retrace helpers, triangle filler, and 2x2 chunky mapper.
Privtro
Irresistible Works Assembly 1993 intro: custom MZ/LZ wrapper, Borland Pascal runtime, PCX decoder, timer-hooked MOD path, palette accumulators, and 22x20 sine-scroller glyph loops.
Purity
Distortion The Party 1993 PC demo: PKLITE-expanded PMODE launcher, Tran/PMODE and GUS setup evidence, 2.58 MB monolithic data stream, exact Scramble MOD, and verified opening text sequence.
Project Angel
Impact Studios' The Party 1994 PC demo winner: false-size MZ carrier, complete 29-child and 10-resource schedule, two custom decompressors, XMS/private-interrupt substrate, self-patched 16.16 planar polygon filler, object choreography, live Voxel 360-Z and end-scroll engine.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; static front preview, no audio or H.264/MP4.
Project XYZ
Finnish Orange's Juhla 1995 PC demo runner-up: complete direct silent run through its original free-address route, natural return to DOS, decoded DATA.DAT PCX, BASKA.MOD/Dune evidence, PKLITE carrier, DAC fades, blur-history buffers, music gates, symmetric texture plotting, and fixed-point spiral geometry.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 decoded archive PCX in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Psychic Flight
Spirit Assembly 1994 PC 64K intro fifth place: custom LZ-style MZ wrapper, external Spirit Musixx driver, command-line sound probes, tweaked VGA pages, CRTC/AC panning, planar copy loops, palette fades, moving records, and scanline span fills.
Psychic Link / JUICE
Psychic Link v1.1 PMODE runtime, FLIB archive, RLE blitter, greets builder, plasma, and terrain/resource loops.
Putre Faction
Skull's October 1991 MS-DOS demo: restored six-EXE chain, direct silent runtime evidence, P1's six sine-bob records and two 344-pixel pages, P2's 271-byte reflection replay and paired displaced planar sprites, and P3's fourteen-record glyph queue over a generated 400-step CRTC path.
1 continuous ten-second direct-runtime GIF in the article; the moving P2 forms are sprites, not vector balls. No audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Racter Graffiti
IPL 1986 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public-safe contact-line-redacted Demozoo frame, 720x400-to-80x25 text-mode proof, ASCII title-box layout, clear-screen word-fill model, horizontal-rule writer, centered string loop, prompt/input gate, and strict no-binary-evidence boundary.
1 public-safe cropped frame and 1 generated text-mode layout map in the article.
Railroad Tycoon Cracktro
Pirates Sick Of Initials 1990 MS-DOS 64K cracktro: direct safe early silent runtime excerpt, LZEXE-to-MZ unpack boundary, 714-relocation MZ image, video-mode/star-count command interface, PSI starfield/logo/scroller, and contact-scroll publication boundary.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Rax
Raxsoft 1987 EGA demo: sparse frame-derived clipped-line sequence, Microsoft C 4.0 MZ layout, mode-10h planar output, Space-key window states, 4096-color ordered dithering, direct EGA bit/map-mask writes, fixed-point rotation/projection, and span-based line clipping.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 7 timestamped DOSBox-X EGA frames, contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
1991 New Years Eve Demo
Razor 1911 1991 MS-DOS intro: corrected frame/code concordance, PKLITE-to-UNP image, 3,674-write steady loop, 250x9 hidden-strip scroller, software-paced clock, 32x34 transparent falling apple, later 120-step spark and 18-slot particle burst, quantified strip reveals, and IRQ1-to-IVT/PIC/video cleanup.
1 runtime GIF, 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, and public Demozoo references in the article.
Reanimator
RAGE PC The Party 1995 third-place demo: PMODE/W final, raw asset set, fixed-point object pipeline, face compiler, depth sort, edge table, and textured span loops.
Rebel Mind
Epical's fifth-place Assembly 1995 PC demo: authenticated release, complete GUS-timed silent runtime observation, terminal greetings state, eight distinct direct GIFs, MZ loader, large S3M/data `MIND.DAT`, MIDAS device surface, and HEGA/Feenix/Mikki credits.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264, audio, contact sheet, or video embed.
Roadrunner Rescue Cracktro
Five O 1987 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: masked binary-decoded title page, 58-byte live COM path, direct CS:0200 to B800:0000 page copy, BIOS key wait, text-mode restore, one-byte 3B41:FFFF write, COM RET exit, and preserved-file boundary showing no game payload is loaded.
1 masked decoded CGA page and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because this is a static key-wait screen.
Rebel Fun
UltraForce March 1990 EGA/Sound Blaster demo: successful untouched SB1 release run, UF cruncher, SBFMDRV/CT-VOICE path, raw four-plane picture, startup record extraction, two 320-bit ROM-font scrollers, exact visible-plane strip ownership, and twelve-draw-plus-blank lower overlay.
1 continuous uncropped direct silent runtime GIF and 1 decoded masked EGA still in the article.
Revolt
Shadow Productions 1991 8K-ish intro: PKLITE restore, exact frame/IRQ handoff, 127-triplet raster DAC pass, seven color bursts, five motion rings, planar layer ownership, padded latch-copy SHADOW logo with implicit cleanup, and a 27-tile, 3,756-pointer-stream unrolled band blitter.
1 DOSBox-X runtime frame in the article; no GIF because only one public runtime frame is published.
Req the Usual
Orange July 1995 MS-DOS/GUS 128K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, safe INFOFILE/DIZ identity, MZ/RNC1 carrier, 488 KB expanded protected-mode runtime, VCPI/DPMI/A20 startup diagnostics, GUS/8CHN evidence, direct public-video GIF/still analysis, video-to-code concordance for green full-page palette motion, 64K A000h page copies, masked picture/text overlay, embedded glyph-fed credits, retrace/DAC uploads, and 64-step palette fade machinery.
2 direct public-video GIFs, 4 direct public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Reversed Evolution
Virtual Visions The Party 1993 PC demo: Watcom/DOS4GW LE payload, two protected-mode objects, 4 MB memory need, AMP/GUS music, named voxel assets, and RE.LIB library boundary.
Rick Dangerous 2 Cracktro
Tristar and Red Sector Inc. 3 December 1990 MS-DOS 4K cracktro/board advert: redacted 12-second silent direct runtime excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, archive hash, `.COM`-suffixed MZ payload, LZEXE v0.91 `>COMEX` carrier, private restored MZ map, compact B800/B000 text-stream renderer, six-second title delay, key-wait flow, and explicit old contact-row omission.
1 redacted silent runtime MP4 and 1 redacted direct runtime still in the article; the old contact row is masked.
RQ Demo 0
Renaissance 1992 MS-DOS quickie: runtime-to-code concordance for the warning gate, sparse bar/text GIF, PKLITE/UNP MZ expansion, 60 Hz IVT/PIT keyboard hooks, unchained VGA bar generator, retrace-timed DAC pump, proportional text renderer, CRTC page reveal, and Sound Blaster-style four-channel mixer.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 5 graphics-mode runtime frames, 1 warning still, 1 contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Robot
Orange The Party 1994 MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: public-video motion GIFs, verified Pouet still, PKLITE carrier, 405 KB depklite-expanded body, GUS/no-sound setup prompt, reobot.mod/8CHN evidence, VGA retrace/DAC/CRTC/A000h constants, and bounded video-to-evidence concordance for the tunnel, wire/web, and logo clips.
3 public-video GIFs and 1 verified Pouet still in the article.
Safari Guns Fix Cracktro
DREAD 7 August 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/fix intro: direct static 5-second silent runtime smoke, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, archive and payload hashes, bounded BAT/NFO/ANSI sidecar roles, LZEXE v0.90 MZ carrier and packed-entry map, EGA+ check/string evidence, and one-screen Safari Guns hard-drive fix presentation.
1 short silent runtime smoke MP4 and 1 corrected direct runtime still in the article.
Saga
Dust Assembly 1993 fourth-place PC demo: timestamped runtime frames, runtime-to-code concordance, tiny COM overlay dispatcher, encrypted SAGA.DST archive, RLE decruncher, in.com palette fades, ball.com vec-ball/panel loops, 3d.com sorted primitives and chunky-to-planar spans, shadebob resources, timer/SB services, and end.com planar credit compositor.
1 runtime GIF, 11 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Saint
Halcyon and da Jormas Assembly 1997 MS-DOS demo: debugger-recovered BL20 relocator/depacker, exact 37-file virtual filesystem, INT 21h open/read/seek/execute shim, carved PMODE MZ, nine linked scene engines, explicit authored call chain, palette-combination tables, fixed-point camera interpolation, PIT/retrace calibration and locally decoded RIX3 bank.
6 continuous video-only reference GIFs and 1 locally decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one continuous front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
VGA by Scoopex
Scoopex 1991 MS-DOS intro: PKLITE restoration, exact planar setup traffic, raster DAC stream, 386 dword compositor, alternating direct-VGA/RAM-staging strips, one-column text shifter, selective row movement, 400-frame page lifecycle, CRTC motion, and corrected live-DAC fade-to-minimum.
Sea Dragon Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. January 1986 MS-DOS text-mode Sea Dragon setup/title graffiti: public Demozoo 720x400 frame, 80x25 9x16 text-grid evidence, repeated border text, Dan Rollins credit, Software Pirates modification line, no-sound prompt, layout map, and B800h char/attribute, banner, box-fill, vertical-text, and key-gate models.
1 public screenshot, 1 80x25 grid overlay, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
The Sea Robot of Love
Orange The Party 1995 PC intro third place: RNC/PMODE shell, custom 50 Hz VGA timing, GUS/player path, runtime-to-code concordance for the title/additive-line/mesh/height-field/text phases, timer-paced chunky buffers, additive line splats, mesh and height-field renderers, palette fades, and masked font credits.
1 runtime GIF and 10 timestamped runtime frames in the article.
Scroll Land
Twin Sectors Inc.'s July 1991 PC demo: byte-exact PKLITE restoration, dual 64K base pages, 600-byte palette conveyor, four-bank glyph gates, self-modifying colour seeds, scripted page switches, 200-point selective-restore sample trace, two-table drift, and exact CT-VOICE marker/VOC timing.
1 public Demozoo screenshot and 2 exact binary-decoded base screens; no local runtime GIF.
Search & Destroy Cracktro
PTL Club January 1988 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/archive-to-code concordance, decoded raw CGA title page, exact CS:0F80h to B800:0000 16 KiB copy loop, resident-size marker, diskette-table save/restore, IVT snapshot, keyboard emergency-exit hook, DOS EXEC block, missing S&D.DAT boundary, and public contact redaction.
1 decoded title page, 1 redacted text reconstruction, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
The Search For The Holy Halibut
Twilight Zone The Gathering 1993 PC demo winner: chained MZ parts, direct GUS probe, GUSOBJ cue sync, hard-coded mode 13h sprite blitters, point-object transforms, and 16-color planar credits wipe.
Second Reality
Future Crew's Assembly 1993 winner: reconstructed 79-file executable container, INT 21h virtual filesystem, exact child scheduler and DIS contract, two S3M payloads, corrected visual concordance, and deep source-level dissection of eight renderer inner loops.
8 audited six-second runtime GIFs; missing extraction timestamps are disclosed.
Semtex City
Jeskola and Complex's Juhla 1995 PC-demo winner: restored segmented engine, complete 11,285-tick controller, three indexed models, Q15 geometry, signed-area culling, 19-pass depth sort, interpolated triangle spans, temporal compositing, and portrait/particle feedback loops.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 6 stills and 4 direct RIX3 decodes; visuals are secondary to the restored-code analysis.
Shamus Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, four-colour RGBI palette measurement, 640x400-to-320x200 reconstruction, CGA palette-0 interpretation, and static title-page layout map.
1 public screenshot, 1 reduced logical frame, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because this is source-limited static-frame evidence.
Shortcut to Istanbul
TNT The Party 1993 PC demo: packed MZ launcher and setup, 732 KB custom STI.DAT stream, 386/VGA swap requirement, SB/SB Pro/Covox support, and resource-shape evidence.
Shoot
The Phoney Coders July 1992 MS-DOS VGA/no-sound demo: timestamped DOSBox-X intro/maze/ship/logo frames, NFO art/tooling evidence, wrapped-entry packed MZ layout, modified LZ-family depacker loops, relocation/far-return stub, scripted bitmap-player reconstruction, and explicit runtime-to-code evidence boundary.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 8 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 1 public still, and 1 technical map in the article.
Show
Majic 12 / Maxwood's Hammering 1994 PC demo winner: complete nine-minute direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, module-script loader, Cascada GUS replay, planar VGA effects, copper/raster trick, PIXEL line plotter, TMAP texture strips, DOOM scaler, and direct runtime-to-code concordance.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Sidewinder Cracktro
PTL Club 27 December 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro loader: decoded TITLE.PTL raw B800h page, 116-byte COM, DOS read straight into B800:0000, INT 42h vector patch, queued S plus Enter keyboard-buffer injection, and no-reset INT 20h exit.
1 decoded CGA frame and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Silence
Hysteria's Finnish Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS full demo: byte-identical archive variants, complete 3:41 direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, PKLITE wrapper, large overlay, HSA soundtrack labels, and MTM/RNC/GUS marker anchors.
8 direct silent runtime GIFs plus the earlier public comparison material; no MP4/H.264 media or audio.
Silence Of The Labs
Natas / Digital Labs / Cathedral Wired 1995 PC 4K runner-up: LZEXE wrapper, sine expansion, VGA scanline tricks, text masks, noise fields, tunnel sampler, fire diffusion, and point morph.
Silent Shadow Cracktro
Razor 1911 and Skillion 1990/1991 MS-DOS VGA cracktro: direct safe early silent runtime excerpt, date-conflict boundary, flat COM layout, VGA probe and fallback path, two PackBits-style RLE 320x200 picture pages, DAC setup, dual-scroller runtime, retrace pacing, and contact-material publication cutoff.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 2 direct runtime stills in the article.
Sinus Scroll Demo
The Brain Slayer 1992 MS-DOS 16K intro: fast native-capture yellow sine scroller GIF, timestamped DOSBox-X sine-scroller frames, runtime-to-code concordance, wrapped-entry LZ depacker, self-opening MAING overlay loader, PC Intro Engine resource inflater, mode-13h background save, glyph mask builder, and 320-column save-background sinus renderer.
1 fast runtime GIF, 6 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, and contact sheet in the article.
Sim City Loader
The Underground Council 26 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: node/contact-table-redacted public frame, public Sim City title/key-gate frame, blocked Defacto2 binary, 640x400 text-screen layout model, two-screen sequence inference, and explicit no-binary/no-loader-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still, 1 public title still, and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Skate or Die Text Loader
PTL Club 18 November 1988 source-limited MS-DOS text loader: contact-row-redacted Demozoo frame, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, likely COMMAND.COM batch loop, TYPE/ECHO console output paths, key-gate handoff, and blocked Defacto2 archive boundary.
1 redacted text-mode frame and 1 generated console map in the article.
Skenery '96 Invitation
Orange September 1996 MS-DOS/GUS invitation: Scene.org archive hashes, public Pouet screenshot, original package JPEG maps, MZ/RNC1 carrier, 329 KB expanded protected-mode payload, runtime-to-code concordance for the 0xfa00/0x3e80 framebuffer path, blended 0x300-byte DAC tables, script parser, 22-row masked bitmap-glyph blitter, form-feed page reset, VGA vblank timing, keyboard polling, and Oskari Tammelin GUS ProTracker driver evidence.
1 public 320x200 screenshot and 2 package JPEG map assets in the article; no invented runtime GIF.
Slideshow I
Future Crew's June 1990 MS-DOS slideshow: double-packed MZ restoration, exact counted-block FCPACK LZW, all nine decoded slides, twelve-member FC0 package, black-hidden linear frame copy, 32-step palette scheduler, asset-owned WAIT gate, four-channel 16.16 mixer, three output backends, and interrupt-frame row redirection.
1 continuous direct silent palette-transition GIF and 2 full-frame runtime stills; contact imagery and audio omitted.
Sleeptro
Trepaan The Party 1995 fast intro: MS-DOS MZ, PCX loaders, 6-channel FastTracker/GUS path, PIT hook, palette uploads, and symmetric fixed-point texture-warp loops.
Solstice
Valhalla Wired 1995 PC demo winner: PMODE/W PMW1 layout, MIDAS/S3M sound, DAT stream, Vrender object loader, planar VGA setup, warped chunky gathers, RGB split planes, and bucketed triangle spans.
So Be It
Xtacy's 4th-place The Party 1994 PC demo: complete direct silent DOSBox-X route, split MZ launcher and visual program, retained 471-entry Borland global-symbol directory, named tunnel/voxel/morph/16-colour/Phong/texture/environment/wave paths, eighteen raw VGA-sized pictures, and a separate ProTracker/Cascada GUS boundary.
6 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article.
Sonic Demo A
Sonic Inc. December 1991 MS-DOS SVGA demo: direct silent ET4000 route, packed/restored MZ and 44-member resource map, broken VBE-success path, five-band column reconstruction, CPU-scaled trail underflow, transparent rolling strip, separate music-owned point field, and exact bank/DAC/cleanup machinery.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF and 2 exact still references in the article.
Sorcerian Cracktro
The Humble Guys 30 March 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: high-memory arithmetic/LZ carrier, byte-exact 90ABh-byte Turbo Pascal/BGI restoration, 200 four-byte star records in five horizontal speed bands, exact 200-erase/200-plot selective repair, 32-step palette fade, and centered 41-byte THG.DAT record scheduler.
2 public stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Fast-intro by Sorrox
Sorrox The Party 1995 fast intro: PKLITE-expanded Borland MZ, PCX loader, 300-particle apple-mask walker, reversed text renderer, DAC fades, MOD/GUS setup, and GUS sample upload loops.
Space
UltraForce 1990 MS-DOS demo: LZEXE launcher, resident INT 21h read decoder, encrypted GRASP library, recovered script, library/script-to-code concordance, command table, clip slots, palette output, and rectangular move loops.
Space Fun
UltraForce 1990 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster demo: successful silent SB1 runtime, LZEXE restore, exact Creative driver/data paths, two byte-accounted 16-stamp bead trails, 1,094/1,152-frame state cycles, and a 139,776..142,989-write full-page compositor.
1 continuous uncropped 8-second runtime GIF plus the decoded, contact-masked UPC source atlas.
Space Jam
Fascination Assembly 1994 64K intro: GUSPlay timing, VGA page flips, palette fades, nibble blitters, vector matrices, scanline buffers, and planar span fillers.
Spacedemo
The CodeBlasters April 1991 MS-DOS EGA demo: twice-restored MZ, 15.9 kHz four-voice fixed-point mixer with exact score periods and cross-buffer PCM aliasing, 25-star/50-XOR repair frame, 1,040-write glyph workload, and an exact 1,000-phase no-redraw credits viewport.
1 continuous main-screen runtime GIF on the card; the article adds 1 exact-cycle credits GIF and 1 byte-exact 320x800 planar reconstruction.
Speed Ball Loader
Miami Cracking Machine 14 April 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro/loader: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, contact-block-redacted prompt still, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, row-fragment writer, centered strings, CGA/Tandy/EGA key gate, and exit-message path.
2 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Demo 1
The Space Pigs 1990 MS-DOS demo: EXEPACK restore, decoded mode-0Eh art, five-phase font renderer, frozen-CRTC control delay, and a quantified plane-3 producer/consumer loop with forty packed records, 1,280 VRAM bytes per tick, 80/96/192-tick state rhythms, and optional PC-speaker sample ISR.
1 decoded BILD.PCM still in the article; no GIF because only one useful visual frame is published.
Spdemo2 / Demo 2
The Space Pigs 1991 MS-DOS demo: PCM planar RLE logo, CRV-driven CRTC pan, three-plane tall font blitter, and a quantified 28-record plane-3 point loop with 61 shifts, 4..11 carry writes, a 16,960-frame settled cycle, and an authored 28-to-27-bit collision.
1 reconstructed planar logo and 1 DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because the useful artifacts are different dimensions.
Demo 3
The Space Pigs 1992 MS-DOS demo: LZEXE/UNP restore, mode 13h CRTC setup, custom whole-screen RLE decoder, visual/asset-to-code concordance, palette fade, glyph-column hardware scroller, moving strip overlays, and timer audio backends.
1 reconstructed RLE screen still in the article; no GIF because the DOSBox-X capture did not produce a useful live frame.
Spheres
Skull's 1991 VGA demo restored from PKLITE 1.13: a closed 15-frame sparse raster sphere ring rather than live ball geometry, 112,802 writes and 94,681 actual changes per cycle, exact 26-sample/25-divisor VGA calibration, four-phase hardware-panned slab, split-screen text bands, sparkle repair, and no full-page steady copy.
1 continuous direct-runtime GIF and 1 exact opener still, captured locally with sound disabled.
Sphinx
UltraForce 1990 MS-DOS VGA demo: exact 200-line signed face warp, next-frame opaque mouth patch, seven 700-column ribbon shifts, 628-column lower/rear and upper/front projector, fixed-address proportional glyph staging, 256-state vertical ring cycle, 1,151-pixel logo mask, 64-state DAC pulse, and complete exit.
1 silent DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet and 1 exact decoded source/FNT comparison in the article; text-only card, no GIF.
Stargate Graffiti
faked public domain 31 August 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti prompt screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 4x-to-320x200 reduction, bright yellow/red RGBI palette evidence, top-cropped title logo, and space-key gate implementation models.
1 public screenshot, 1 reduced logical frame, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because this is source-limited static-frame evidence.
The Spiral
Dataction Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: packed MZ loader, optional GUS prompt, external ProTracker MOD, Mode X spiral display, Sequencer alias-register compatibility trap, and rushed first-production notes.
The Stage Remake
THG FX's recovered 1991 assembly intro: PKLITE restoration, exact 135,874-byte resource map, 320x16 strip shift, dead-storage insertion quirk, 6,372-update command cycle, invariant 10,240-byte write budget, and one A000 band exposed twice by CRTC start-address and line-compare scanout.
1 direct silent runtime still and 1 continuous speed-cycle GIF in the article; the preview is one untiled capture frame.
Spy Hunter Cracktro (Imperial Warlords)
Imperial Warlords May 1985 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: masked title-page screenshot, SPYHUNT.TPG text-page load into B800:0000, keyboard-vector guard, 256-byte relocation stub, four 8000h-byte SPYHUNT.BIN reads, low-memory copy, and far handoff to 0100:0000.
1 masked title-page screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the intro evidence is a static text page.
Spy Hunter Cracktro
Mr. Fixit's 1984 256-byte MS-DOS cracktro/loader: CGA mode-4 three-line splash, segment normalization, stack relocation, scratch clear, two DOS image reads, floppy motor-control write, and far jump into the loaded Spy Hunter image.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the 256-byte loader splash is static.
Spam4kb
Tobo Assembly 1994 PC 4K runner-up: PKLITE MZ wrapper, fast timer IRQ, tweaked VGA/DAC setup, scripted object/depth-list lattice, DAC fade glue, noisy midpoint subdivision, skewed resample, self-patched span kernels, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 2 runtime frames in the article.
Spring!
Logic Design X 1995 PC intro winner: WWPACK/EXELOADER layout, appended child EXE table, byte-transform loader loop, GUS base probe, voice init, and IRQ/PIT sound hooks.
Squash-a-delic
Mental Design The Party 1993 PC 80K intro tail entry: EXOS/INT FF shell, concatenated MZ children, two RNC-packed payloads, GUS-only S3M path, embedded aivopesu module, palette DAC helpers, and retrace-paced VGA code.
Star Glider 2 Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 11 October 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: RUNME.BAT wrapper, reusable 4176-byte TheDraw COM display stub, decoded B800h text page, mode 2/3/7 guard, optional CGA snow-safe 03DAh path, REP MOVSW row copy, batch-file key wait, and missing sg2 payload boundary.
1 decoded text page and 1 generated loader/handoff map in the article.
StarPort BBS
Future Crew 13 September 1992 BBStro: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the cropped 640x350 DOSBox-X frames/GIF, starfield, station sprite, giant STARPORT sweep, WHQ badge, scroller text/data boundary, 6,400-byte STARPRT2.EXE, and packed MZ paragraph-copy wrapper.
6 cropped runtime frames, 1 cropped contact sheet, 1 short GIF, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
StarPort BBS Intro II
Future Crew 21 November 1993 VGA/AdLib BBStro: source-backed 1993-byte COM, Psi code, Skaven AdLib tune, runtime-to-code concordance for the DOSBox-X frames/GIF, planar mode 0Dh private buffer, palette and plane cycling, 70 Hz timer hook, BIOS-font 3D dot-letter geometry, and integrated AdLib row player.
6 DOSBox-X runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 1 short GIF, and source-backed runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Star Trek
Authentic Audio 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: complete direct silent runtime, corrected encrypted GRASP directory, exact read-time substitution, decoded GIF87a assets and ASCII controller, 50-pair center-out title reveal, five exact 15-bit-LFSR 16,000-pixel dissolves, 20-write fixed-point palette spreads, BIOS key gate, and normal unwind.
1 untiled direct runtime card still; the article adds 1 six-state direct runtime sheet and retains 1 older setup-only contact sheet.
Stars: Wonders of the World
NoooN Assembly 1995 PC demo winner: PKLITE/DPMI runtime, EOF resource table, DLZ depacker, music-position script, DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime capture, runtime-to-code concordance for title sweep, palette/photo chain, vector ribbon, flesh-warp, dog collage, and span/remap inner loops.
5 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 5 short GIFs in the article.
Stardream
Surprise! Productions Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime capture, MyLZ/UNP expansion, Mode 0Dh page flips, palette morphs, planar emitter concordance, twelve DOS text buffers, sine-dot plot/erase overlay, and warped-column multi-scroller loops.
7 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 4 short GIFs in the article.
Stateline
Complex's Finnish 1992 Amiga demo: complete silent direct A500 route, Open Eyes' modernist editorial design, restrained wireframe structures, fully designed greetings and contacts, six raw disk payloads, original hardware assumptions, and a continuously animated mouse-gated ending.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
State of the Art
Spaceballs' Norwegian The Party 1992 Amiga demo winner: complete direct silent A500 run, honest 1 MB chip-memory patch boundary, custom boot/trackloader, two exact ProTracker modules, CIA-timed four-channel replay, repeated exclusive-fill blitter kernels, scale/address tables, and eight continuous runtime GIFs.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no public audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
Stoned
Dust Assembly 1994 PC 4K winner: COM depacker, long startup calculation, unreal-mode GS window, extended-memory fractal maps, generated samplers and dword renderer, phase-table distortion, DAC palette paths, BIOS-font source-buffer greeting, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 2 runtime frames in the article.
Stickman's World
COMA Assembly 1995 64K runner-up: complete DOSBox-X/X11 runtime, PKLITE/UNP layout, manual sound setup, embedded S3M, 694-record stick stream, integer morph phases, clipped line DDA, sparse background scheduler, three interstitial gates, and clean exit concordance.
1 setup still, 1 timeline, and 2 short GIFs in the article.
Strumpsaft
The Unexpected Assembly 1993 PC demo: six PKLITE-packed parts, UNP-expanded MZ layouts, Pascal/ASM module names, Mode-X plane loops, timer hooks, palette fades, and STMIK paths.
Strike Eagle 2 Cracktro
The Underground Council 15 August 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/stub-to-code concordance, 714-byte Scene.org ZIP, 4176-byte TheDraw COM screen-save wrapper, exact runtime offsets, mode 2/3/7 gate, B800/B000 selection, 23-row REP MOVSW copy, disabled CGA snow-safe 03DAh path, immediate DOS exit, and bottom-prompt residue explanation.
1 public still, 1 decoded text page, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Stunter Cracktro
The Dream Team 3 November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: keyed post-gate VGA runtime excerpt, contact-heavy gate omission boundary, four-MZ Scene.org archive hashes, modified-marker LZEXE-style LOADER.EXE handoff, 1.TDT text gate and appended data, 2.TDT / LOAD.EXE VGA support strings, large TDT logo/starfield, huge colour-phase scroller, and video-only publication path.
1 post-gate silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Stunts Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 3 November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/info screen: Scene.org archive hashes, INCFO release-note context, direct silent runtime smoke, exact CP437/B800h page reconstruction, TheDraw COM metadata, 23-row 80-column cell copy, B800/B000 video-mode gate, CGA snow-safe alternate path, immediate DOS exit, and video-only publication path.
1 decoded text page and 1 short silent runtime smoke MP4 in the article.
Summer Holiday
Sorcerers May 1989 MS-DOS demo: normal MZ executable, embedded CGA BGI driver, text/card loops, PC-speaker bitstream ISR, and CGA-safe text memory helpers.
Super Television
Orange Assembly 1996 MS-DOS demo: public-video GIF timeline, PMODE/W LE executable, `data.dat` RIX/resource carving, S3M sidecar, Mode-X planar compositors, orb/lens image mixing, sine-table remaps, molten feedback, palette multiplication, retrace DAC uploads, GUS/SB/no-sound setup, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public-video contact sheet, 4 public-video GIFs, 1 decoded RIX contact sheet, and 5 direct archive stills in the article.
Superunknown
Five, And Then Some TG94 PC demo winner: source-assisted pass through UltraMID/MIDI, Mode-X paging, morph points, fire, fractal zoom, voxel terrain, IFS tendrils, dune relief, and surface flyover loops.
Sword Of The Samurai Cracktro
The FiRM 22 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, direct INT 13h IVT install, 64K resident block, XOR 66h text screen, SAMMY.Dat EXEC handoff, AX=0201 read hook, child-memory byte-pattern scanner, exact protected-loader patch bytes, and one-shot done flag.
2 public Demozoo screens and 1 generated patch-scanner map in the article.
Thunderblade Cracktro
The FiRM 4 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: visual/loader-to-code concordance, flat COM entry, direct INT 21h IVT install, DOS INT 69h service install, 64K resident block, XOR 66h redacted text screen, THUNDER.Frm EXEC handoff, AH=1Ch media-descriptor scanner, injected AL=F8h/8000h child patch, saved target, and 22-byte restore-copy service.
1 redacted public intro screen, 1 public exit screen, and 1 generated INT 21h/INT 69h map in the article.
Syllabization
tArzAn tuotanto / tAAt Assembly 1995 MS-DOS demo, 12th in the PC demo competition: party archive plus group mirror check, VGA/GUS/SB/no-sound MIDAS release notes, one-day-production boundary, tiny MZ front with 1.24 MB appended payload, public-video GIFs for tunnel/object/road sections, Demozoo title still, and S3M/MIDAS/ULTRASND tracker-surface evidence.
5 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, and 1 public Demozoo still in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
Symbology
Admire The Party 1993 PC 80K intro runner-up: layered EXE unpacking, Mode X setup, retrace-timed palette fades, column remapper, projective terrain/object kernels, and SB/SB Pro/GUS setup.
Tangle
Epical RNC-packed 100K intro, tweaked VGA setup, Mode-X planar loops, 3D projection, span fillers, and late bitplane paths.
Takeover
Epical December 1992 Finnish PC full demo: complete interactive no-music traversal through six packed executables, GoldPlay/ProTracker assets, direct file-to-visual concordance, loader VGA helpers, common backwards depacker, and distinct LZ-wrapped animated endpoint.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
BBS Hack's
The Brain Slayer 1992 MS-DOS VGA intro: runtime-to-code concordance for timestamped frames, self-opening packed MZ, preserved MAING overlay, rolling XOR script decode, mode-13h 12-pass reveal copier, DAC range rotation, dirty-list particle layer, bottom strip scroller, four-lane text overlay, and omitted contact-tail boundary.
1 runtime contact sheet and 2 selected runtime frames in the article.
Television
Orange's Assembly 1995 MS-DOS/GUS demo: complete direct silent original runtime through its authored return, eight distinct direct animations, 8-channel ALTERRAI.MOD/Dune evidence, packed MZ loader and relocation stub at 0xeb2c, GUS/SB/nosound strings, embedded tnldata/piccy.raw resource names, and a strict runtime-to-code boundary.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Tempesta
Soft One Productions' 12th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: exact archive and complete silent run, nine restored PKLITE MZ programs, thirteen-record XOR resource directory, five tracker modules, exact eight-child timeline, tall TIFF underwater artwork, point morphs, reflection and composed credits.
8 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
Xmas by The Code Blasters
The Code Blasters 1991 MS-DOS Christmas megademo: visual/archive-to-code concordance for decoded packed-resource stills, setup loader, DOS child EXEC path, TCB wrapper/depacker, RIX screens, planar logo, VGA plane loops, raster/text stage, 80-pixel-font scroller, ending tile script, and music IRQ path.
1 decoded contact sheet, 4 decoded RIX pages, 1 decoded planar logo, and visual/archive-to-code concordance in the article; no GIF because these are static resource pages.
Test Drive 2 Speed Shop Trainer
The Stealth Pirate Network 17 July 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro/trainer: public title/key-gate and missing-file screens, blocked Defacto2 binary, speed.dat/cars.dat dependency model, probable post-key file-open path, and explicit no-binary/no-patch-loop boundary.
3 public Demozoo stills and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Textmode Unlimited
HiTech The Party 1995 fast intro: complete DOSBox-X run, normal MZ segment map, BIOS 80x50 setup, live character-FFh font-plane rewrites, B800 word-band copies, two random unique clears, 40x78 eight-neighbour text-fire diffusion, exact retrace-counter arithmetic, final 4,000-cell table reveals, and embedded HSC/AdLib dispatcher.
1 runtime GIF, 2 selected runtime frames, 1 runtime contact sheet, 1 decoded B800 table sheet, and 1 code map in the article.
Their Finest Hour Graffiti
Byte Bandits Productions + The Underground Council 20 October 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro/advert: contact-row-redacted public 640x400 still, blocked Defacto2 binary, 16-scanline text-row cadence, plausible direct text, BIOS, screen-copy, and graphics-font renderer loops, and explicit no-binary/no-handoff-loop boundary.
1 redacted public still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
The Third Courier Text Loader
$print 15 October 1989 source-limited MS-DOS text loader: two public 640x400 text screens, blocked Defacto2 binary, release/info page, framed title/load prompt page, support/install-note boundary, likely 80x25 text layout class, and explicit no-binary/no-handoff-loop boundary.
2 public stills and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Xmas '91 by The Skyhawks
The Skyhawks 1991 multi-part MS-DOS Christmas demo: complete direct silent selector run and normal return, UNP-expanded child chain, mode-0Dh planar RLE pages, six exact 20x16 mode-13h objects, tweaked four-plane strip publication with synchronized CRTC scrolling and DAC bands, 199-row ending copy plus 20-stream rising text, RASP timer setup, and child-by-child Esc cleanup.
1 direct six-state sequence, 3 direct runtime stills, 1 full-frame runtime GIF, and 1 decoded planar source sheet in the article.
The Easy Way Out
KIP Brigade SIH95 PC demo third place: PKLITE/UNP expansion, embedded TEWO package, GUS-only music path, planar/RLE picture loaders, palette blends, fixed-point 3D, depth sort, and self-patched textured column filler.
The Party 91 Intro
TRSI and Surprise! Productions 1991 MS-DOS party intro: independently restored MZ depacker output, exact P91 packet traffic, sixty-record raster bank, 200-step CRTC consumer, 186-scanline DAC schedule, opaque glyph writer, five-page reveal cadence, palette fades, memory ownership, and closing lifecycle.
The Porno One Invitation Intro
Orange June 1996 MS-DOS invitation: Scene.org/Hornet archive hashes, direct Pouet 320x200 still, screenshot/script-to-code concordance, PKLITE MZ carrier, recovered phrase-script table, internal Hoplite/Der Piipo/Lemming credits, external hirmubiitles MOD, Phantom/Sonic GUS replay banner, and DOSBox-X runtime failure boundary.
1 direct public still in the article; no GIF because local DOSBox-X never reached the visible sequence.
The Real Thing
Capacala's 6th-place Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo: complete official fixed-package run from configuration to THE END, eight safe direct GIFs, original/fixed/patch archive relationship, PKLITE multipart parts, and shared REALTHNG.000 data body.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264, audio, contact sheet, video embed, or NSFW media.
The Royal Family
Orange The Party 1995 PC 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, MZ/RNC1 carrier, 158 KB expanded protected-mode runtime, 50 Hz custom-VGA warning, direct public-video full-frame GIF/still evidence, runtime-to-code concordance for the moving aperture/window, low-detail face/king fragments, mosaic noise, 17-entry DAC ramp, reduced work buffer, 3DAh retrace pacing, paired A0000h scanline expansion, and cyan-ramp compression strategy.
2 direct public-video GIFs, 5 direct public-video stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
The UFO Project
Orange and NoooN December 1995 MS-DOS demo: Hornet/Scene.org archive hashes, DIZ/NFO identity with private contacts omitted, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite-restored raw 386 protected-mode runtime, GUS/SB/MOD-player evidence, VGA retrace helper at 3DAh, UFO.UFO sidecar boundary, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the red classified-dossier sketch sequence, briefing-object/page layer, generated or table-driven red line-field/tunnel, scripted choice-page, and UFO/landscape ending insert.
3 public-video GIFs, 6 public-video stills, and 1 public-video contact sheet in the article.
TimeOut
Epical The Party 1993 PC 80K intro fourth place: single PKLITE MZ, depacker bitstream and back-reference loops, protected-mode setup fragments, A20/DPMI/VCPI clues, GUS base-port selection, PTMIK v0.3, and internal greeting text.
Titano Cracktro
The Dream Team 2 December 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: direct safe opening runtime excerpt, Scene.org archive hashes, text-sidecar contact boundary, MZ/LZEXE v0.91 carrier, packed-entry depacker map, decoded 8-plane IFF/ILBM `DATA.TDT` backdrop, resource-loader string fragments, red scroller overlay, and video-only publication path.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4, 3 direct runtime stills, and 1 decoded ILBM asset in the article.
Titswinkle Lost In Space
Shadow Productions September 1992 MS-DOS 64K intro: public playfield screenshot, local title/story capture, identical executable across mirror ZIPs, PKLITE-family MZ wrapper, XOR 49h story text block, CRTC/attribute panning, PIT/IRQ scheduler, DAC palette streamer, stack-fed strip blitters, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot, 3 timestamped runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, and 2 generated diagnostic maps in the article.
Toasted
Cubic Team and $eeN Assembly 1996 PC demo runner-up: full direct video-only DOSBox-X route, bugfix EXE plus final PAK/XM setup, archive variant hashes, PACK directory and party/final resource delta, DOS4GW-to-PMODE/W bugfix boundary, Cubic Sound System / Cubic Player / GUS / BLASTER string map, and runtime-to-resource concordance for voxel, distortion, demon, coaster, space-coaster, toast, and end-screen stages.
1 full silent runtime MP4 and 9 selected direct runtime frames in the article.
Too Complex
Shock! Exe'95 winning trackmo: final archive split, DLZ entry unpacker, internal resource directory, VGA palette loops, and effect-chunk map.
Toppler Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 7 November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: direct 24-second silent runtime excerpt, Scene.org archive hashes, contact-bearing release/batch sidecars omitted, LZEXE v0.91 MZ carrier, packed-entry depacker map, opaque `DATA.INC` picture payload boundary, encoded `TXT.INC` scroller stream analysis, and bounded one-scene picture/logo/scroller runtime evidence.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Torso
Soc. Brigade and The Cat's July 1991 PC-demo winner: flat-COM controller, exact 60/38/1-frame NIF codec, authored magenta object rather than live 3D, 8,315-iteration callback schedule, fixed RLE objects, palette/audio meters, selective stars, 40x24 sprite, and 15.9 kHz PC-speaker MOD mixer.
3 unmodified public Demozoo screenshots and 2 exact binary-decoded NIF frames; no local runtime capture or audible audio.
Trance
CCS The Party 1993 text-mode demo: Turbo Pascal MZ, B800 page copies, custom VGA font-plane writes, CRTC start-address tricks, fixed support-file seeks, and SB/LPT sample output.
Trekmo
Patrik Aalto's 13th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: exact restored PMODE/main/model/event region map, 1,198- and 2,253-polygon spacecraft banks, triple-buffered 320x240 Gouraud renderer, 153,600-byte software Z-buffer, GUS sample banks and custom event stream, and the original silent
The Dream Team and Tristar and Red Sector Inc. 16 August 1991 MS-DOS cracktro: direct muted DOSBox-X route requiring `LOADFIX -64`, safe six-second video-only title excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, contact-bearing NFO omission boundary, PKLITE MZ carrier and UNP-expanded map, raw 320x200 `OBRAZEK.DJA` picture decode, text DAC palette sidecar, ProTracker module sidecar boundary, and VGA retrace/DAC fade landmarks.
1 safe silent title MP4, 1 direct runtime still, and 1 decoded raw picture asset in the article.
Tsocka Bryan
Fraggabaharje The Party 1993 PC demo twentieth place: packed MZ, UNP-expanded 386 runtime, DPMI/VCPI/A20 setup clues, interactive LPT/SB/PAS16 audio selection, six-channel MOD playback, and a 31-frame VGA palette/screen bank.
Xmas '91
The Space Pigs 1991 MS-DOS Christmas demo: direct normal-exit graphics run, PKLITE/UNP restoration, embedded ILBM/ByteRun decoder, 24-copy eight-page Santa pose compositor, tracker-bit CRTC selection, pre-shifted Swedish text path, cycling saved-address snow repair, and exact timer/device teardown.
1 direct full-frame GIF, 1 runtime still, 1 four-frame sequence, and 2 decoded ILBM source sheets in the article.
Final Demo
Swedish The Yellow Ones' March 1993 goodbye demo: complete 278.68-second original silent route, natural DOS return, exact five-child visual map, ProTracker sidecar, shared unchained VGA, CRTC panning, palette animation, script text engine, and planar strip blitters.
6 direct continuous runtime GIFs plus archival public stills; no audio or H.264/MP4.
Xmas '92 (X-Mas Timer)
The Yellow Ones December 1992 MS-DOS Christmas demo: RNC method-1 wrapper, setup menus, two MODs, hidden PCX sidecars, PCX palette/RLE loader, snow/text support loops, unchained VGA helpers, CRTC panning, public runtime screenshot reference, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public runtime screenshot and 2 decoded PCX stills in the article; no GIF because local capture did not reach a usable temporal sequence.
Typhoid
Symptom The Party 1993 PC 80K intro: original buggy package plus fixed starter, split launcher and two packed MZ bodies, external Defrost MOD, Pascal/C runtime markers, and DOSBox-X capture-path failure note.
Ufo Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 24 November 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro: single-file TheDraw COM screen-save wrapper, decoded B800h character/attribute page, mode 2/3/7 guard, REP MOVSW row copy, optional CGA snow-safe 03DAh polling path, destructive row counter, and immediate DOS exit with no payload handoff.
1 decoded text page and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Uridium Cracktro
Canadian Pirates Inc. and PTL Club May 1988 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/archive-to-code concordance, README hidden-file protection note, byte comparison against Search & Destroy, decoded raw CGA page, exact CS:0F80h to B800:0000 16 KiB copy loop, MAIN.PTL EXEC boundary, IVT snapshot/restore, selected interrupt wrappers, and keyboard emergency hook.
1 decoded title page, 1 safe text reconstruction, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
U.S.S. Stinger Cracktro
Miami Cracking Machine 19 June 1989 MS-DOS multi-renderer cracktro: bounded visual-to-code concordance, source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, text-mode Monochrome/CGA/EGA/Tandy selector, 640x350 EGA mode-10h title scene, planar A000h span/logo/fringe model, slanted presenting text, redacted exit text page, and source-limited boundary.
3 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Ultima 3 Cracktro
ESP Pirates / Mr. Peace pre-1990 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: 1986/1988 date conflict, raw LOAD.COM page at file+0x0e80, exact B800h copy loop, masked contact block, DOS EXEC handoff, and LOADUP.ESP CGA helpers.
1 masked decoded CGA frame and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the intro screen is static.
Dentro Demo
Ultra Force DAT loader, VGA timing, and final scroller analysis.
Ultrawow
UltraForce August 1990 MS-DOS 16K intro: generated logo/ring compositor, 20 projected shaded vector balls, lifecycle-tight 43-step costs, high-index ownership gate, bootstrap scratch residue, asymmetric overlap repair, and byte-accounted RAM-to-A000h publication.
1 continuous DOSBox-X runtime GIF plus 1 secondary sampled-state contact sheet in the article.
Unleashed Power
Surprise! Productions TCC 1993 PC demo fourth place: loader chain, PKLITE expansion, GoldPlay setup, Mode X page flips, palette fades, polygon span fills, RLE assets, and hardware-scrolled final text.
Uneatable
The CoExistence's 14th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: complete corrected release beyond the party's missing-second-ARJ dungeon failure, exact 129-record appended bank, eight restored visual children, eight tracker regions, custom VAM/TCP/SZN data, and a direct silent run through the prolonged credits.
8 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
Untitled
Dust's The Party 1993 winner: complete direct silent original runtime through the authored credits, eight distinct animations, MZ overlay packer, encrypted archive, resident loader, 3D traversal/projection, face sorting, polyfill edge tables, transparent texture spans, tube, rotozoom, mapped objects, and landscape concordance.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Unreal
Future Crew's Assembly 1992 winner: complete 14:04 direct silent v1.1 run, eight distinct GIFs, loader/packfile structure, recovered child image, Mode 13h palette fades, and unrolled footprint loops.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no contact sheet, audio, or video embed.
Urgent
Pentagon Assembly 1993 low-table 100K intro: single PKLITE-packed MZ, Borland C++ runtime markers, script/error strings, geometric scene labels, internal speed terms, embedded Joop/Mahlzahn text fragments, HSC Player 1.1 music path, and bounded DOSBox-X probe.
Uitgeroeid
Ground Zero X 1995 PC demo third place: segmented MZ layout, GUS/MOD player, internal LZW-style unpacker, planar VGA setup, palette ramps, CRTC panning, table samplers, fractal loop, and text-plane credits.
Vanity & Apathy
Doomsday Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: PKLITE expansion, STMIK setup, generated plot streams, delay flag, sphere blitters, triple-sine plasma, Julia fixed point, and Venku latch-transfer strips.
Vivid Experiment
Doomsday Assembly 1996 PC demo third place: full direct video-only DOSBox-X route, PMODE/W compressed payload and decompressed image hash, two FastTracker XM modules, embedded position/pattern show scripts, 132 internal resource path tokens, and runtime-to-script concordance for cloud text, bitmap effects, water, bump, terrain, logo, and end-status stages.
1 full silent runtime MP4 and 9 selected non-explicit direct runtime frames in the article.
Vector Balls
Toddl 1991 MCGA/VGA vector-ball demo: bounded Q7 text-object parser, generated Q14 trig, exact X/Y/Z rotation, divide-by-64 perspective, stable painter queue and shade bands, 177-byte span blitter and zero-tile erase, all-angle framebuffer/logo-guard proof, exact object handoff and workload ledgers, plus measured 35 Hz paced versus unsynchronized fast publication.
2 continuous direct no-sound runtime GIFs, 1 five-frame fast-loop erase/redraw sequence, 1 decoded raw logo strip, and 1 decoded ball-tile sheet.
Vectra
The Physical Crew's 1991 MS-DOS demo: authenticated PKLITE restoration, Q11 Euler transforms, four-divide perspective, asymmetric edge DDAs, exact masked-span traffic, displayed/draw six-page cadence, per-page dirty rectangles, timer-scaled rotation, frame-stepped zoom, and a scan-code-swallowing INT 9 handler.
4 continuous uncropped direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or embedded video.
Vega
Ultra Force's 1990 MS-DOS demo: reproducible PKLITE restoration, exact raw picture layout, permissive command parser, CT-VOICE probe and repeating VOC path, shaded 8x8 glyph expansion, hidden-edge insertion, flat 2,624-byte strip shift, retrace-edge VGA publication, and complete loop traffic counts.
1 continuous uncropped direct no-sound runtime GIF and 1 full-frame still in the article.
VectorDemo
Ultra Force's 1991 MS-DOS vector engine: 12 embedded polygon models, 13 procedural point selections, exact Q8 transform and perspective workloads, farthest-vertex painter order, screen-space culling, scanline stencil shading, planar spans, and byte-accounted masked vector-ball atlas stamps.
2 continuous uncropped direct silent GIFs, 1 sparse overview GIF, and 7 timestamped stills in the article.
Verses
Assembly 1994 PC demo winner: complete direct silent Revision II run, exact two-release EMF resource-table and 8CHN music repack comparison, PMODE timer, image warps, IFS/kaleidoscope, twister, and shaded polygon engine.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs plus the earlier face-warp reference sequence.
Vertox
Taurus PC Division's 7th-place The Party 1994 demo: complete direct no-Sound-Blaster route, 54 KB resident LDS/TMM386/RasterSys/SBM system, exact 28-record encrypted overlay directory, rolling-XOR recovery, 22 child MZ programs, six high-memory data banks, and seventeen privately restored PKLITE stages.
7 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article.
Vicky
The Space Pigs 1991 MS-DOS demo: two-layer restore, stable silent runtime, four exact solid-object records, quantified fixed-point transform/projection and edge work, integer planar span filling, geometry-to-DAC shading, bounded two-page repair, complete player teardown, and a separate text-colour TSR outro.
1 continuous direct-runtime cube GIF plus decoded VGA prompt and page-stack evidence.
Virtual Vectors
Boris Ottlewski Assembly 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for startup/text screens, vector/texture/flag object GIF phases, packed MZ paragraph-copy wrapper, decoded 320x200+palette assets, 3DG1 object grammar, external MOD path, and vector/polygon renderer evidence limits.
1 runtime GIF, 11 runtime frames, 1 runtime contact sheet, decoded asset sheet, and bounded concordance in the article.
Visions of Light
Valhalla's 15th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: byte-exact FAT reconstruction of three
Legend Design Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo, 4th in the PC demo competition: German PC-group context, original/CD-ROM/Hornet fixed package comparison, 486/GUS/XMS requirement surface, no-sound local DOSBox-X mode-switch boundary, PKLITE fixed loaders, large OVL with WAVE/VOC sample headers, and public-video GIF/PNG visual concordance.
6 public-video GIFs and 6 public Demozoo stills in the article; no MP4/H.264 or audio media is published.
War Game Construction Set Cracktro
PTL Club 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: 117-byte COM loader, direct 16 KB W.PIC copy into B800h video memory, BIOS mode/key handling, exact archive/file hashes, and explicit contact-detail omission boundary.
1 decoded static CGA page in the article; no GIF because this is a static title screen.
Wasted Time
Paranoids Assembly 1993 PC demo: DLZ-packed MZ, Borland C++ runtime, 8CHN FastTracker data, SB/PAS drivers, chunky-to-planar VGA, retrace waits, and CRTC flips.
Wayfarer
Spaceballs' Norwegian The Gathering 1992 Amiga winner: complete 720-second silent direct run, realtime vector story, F-16 chase, projection-distortion greetings, separate end part, six-batch custom MFM trackloader, expansion-memory branch, and explicit final mouse gate.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 2 direct stills in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or contact sheet.
Weener
Funky Pickles / DarkZone and Gollum The Party 1994 fast intro winner: GUS sync, chunky stills, planar mode 12h image path, font stamping, and unrolled mode 13h span filler.
When God Is Having a Malfunction
Orange November 1994 MS-DOS/GUS under-64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, exact public Pouet still, UNP-restored PEZ.EXE runtime image, IE112694.EXE sidecar boundary, embedded makki.mod name, GUS-port selector, mode-13h setup, VGA DAC/retrace/CRTC evidence, timeline phase variables, table-driven dword renderer, scripted credits/greets, and explicit no-fake-GIF capture boundary.
1 exact public Pouet screenshot in the article; local DOSBox-X captures reached the GUS selector and black crash transition only, so no runtime GIF is published.
Wiered
SpaceStation The Party 1993 PC 80K intro: Borland/BGI MZ shell, MiniMod v0.03, broad sound selector, external PCX logos, one-pattern MOD, missing PLASMA.IMG reference, and vectorball/plasma captions.
White Death Cracktro
The Humble Guys 24 January 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public Demozoo colour-bar frame, 512-byte MZ header, single relocation into DS setup, pre-code string pool, inline BIOS text renderer, 107 repeated-cell writes, six DOS strings, key gate, RETF-to-PSP exit, and dead Start.exe data boundary.
1 public frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Wings Of Fury Cracktro
The Humble Guys 2 March 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: 15-byte XOR 45h COM decoder, generated text-mode colour-bar card, 102 BIOS repeated-cell writes, seven DOS strings, overlong right-edge spans, key gate, dashc.pes EXEC path, and sidecar contact-material boundary.
1 public prompt still, 1 generated reconstruction, and 1 generated technical map in the article.
White Heat
Pure Resistance NAID 1995 100K intro: restored MZ/S3M package, AMP/MCP sound setup, six-scene dispatcher, direct Mode 13h helpers, heat diffusion, 3D point clouds, sprite modes, final palette-shifting text rings, and static code-path concordance.
Who Else Can Upgrade a Robot
Orange Abduction 1995 winning MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, private INFOFILE contacts omitted, PKLITE MZ carrier, 325 KB depklite image, embedded title/credits/greets, GUS ProTracker/ULTRASND parser, Mode 13h/A000h path, RLE image decoder, palette-blend cues, CRTC panning, retrace waits, PIT calibration, and runtime-to-code concordance for the public Pouet GIF.
1 public Pouet GIF, 4 extracted public GIF frames, and 1 frame contact sheet in the article.
Wet Dreams
Witan 30 June 1991 MS-DOS multipart demo: exact Part 2 live-page loop with 28 collision-aware horizontal movers, three cadences, color-owned two-byte trail repair, 8x12 bobbing ornament, hidden 21x21 glyph source, direct 20-row VGA rail shift, timer cleanup defects, and KEYB-to-Part-3 handoff; private text omitted.
1 decoded public-safe asset sheet and 2 direct runtime stills in the article; no synthetic GIF from the sparse safe frames.
Witan 2
Witan February 1991 MS-DOS demo: direct silent runtime, exact opaque-sprite and three-window palette loops, unreachable text-wrap equality and overlapping linear drift, 15.143125-second 8 kHz ADPCM block, CT-VOICE/status/failure boundaries, interactive byte motion, and command-9 cleanup.
1 continuous direct-runtime GIF plus 1 secondary decoded/reconstructed still in the article.
X14
Finnish Orange, Juhla 1995: complete music-timed DOSBox-X route, stable final tableau, PKLITE shell, captured protected-mode image, DATA.DAT assets, custom VGA programming, and a detailed feedback-renderer reconstruction.
6 direct continuous runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4.
Xmas '91 by Xerox
Xerox 1991 MS-DOS Christmas demo: complete direct silent restored-executable run, corrected standard-offset RIX3 atlas, live RIX1-pixels/RIX3-palette composition, 5,756-byte upper-band shift, fixed 2x17 strip insertion, 840-frame sphere path, all-record particle updates, one-byte-early even/odd ending reveal, cumulative in-place DAC fade, and normal DOS return.
2 direct full-frame runtime GIFs, 1 direct six-state sequence, 1 direct runtime card still, 1 corrected RIX3 source sheet, and 1 decoded GIFEXE sidecar still.
Xmas '92
Swedish The Phoney Coders' 1992 multipart demo: complete interactive child coverage, original-loader DOS return, exact Escape-gate boundary, PKLITE/UNP chain, unchained VGA, palette morphs, planar page loaders, masked sprites, CRTC flips, and Zax font/timer stages.
6 direct continuous runtime GIFs plus 4 reconstructed archive stills; no audio or H.264/MP4.
X Mas 93
Dante The Party 1993 PC Christmas 80K intro sixth place: duplicate archive check, UNP-restored real-mode MZ, mode 13h DAC setup, center-out fill, rotating object spans, GUS-only GREAT.MOD loader, and timer ISR.
X'mas 93
Yodel The Party 1993 PC Christmas demo: packed MZ setup and main EXEs, UNP-expanded monolithic payload, runtime-capture boundary concordance, embedded 4-channel MOD, Covox/SB/PULSEFLOW setup, VGA/DAC/CRTC evidence, and custom resource tables.
No screenshots yet: DOSBox-X capture proved startup and 640x400 mode switch, then aborted before decodable effect frames.
Xtal
Finnish Complex Media Labs' 1995 MS-DOS demo: complete original-executable run through MIDAS No Sound, natural return to DOS, reverse-engineered 320x200 50 Hz VGA timing, PMODE/W scheduler, palette ramps, and table-driven face/crystal/tunnel renderers.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Yardemo
Renaissance May 1992 MS-DOS info/demo: frame-derived runtime sequence, Tran/C.C.Catch metadata, clean-DOS helper, dual XOR MZ loader layers, relocated LZ bitstream unpacker, VGA/386/V86/memory preflight, and bounded logo/text/vertical-bar runtime model.
1 runtime GIF, 13 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, contact sheet, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
yo!
Future Crew 1990 32K intro: VGA text-mode font-plane tricks, CRTC-panned B800 scrollers, exact per-cell object repair, 16-star ownership/lifetime loop, 240-write VU bars, PC speaker music, and keyboard LEDs.
1 runtime GIF, 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
You Am I You Am The Robot
Orange The Gathering 1996 PC 64K winner: Scene.org archive hashes, literal parrot sign for the name, RNC1/MZ carrier at 0x20, 451,582-byte expanded-image evidence, depacker staging and Huffman/back-reference loop notes, GUS/SB/no-sound release evidence, and direct public-video analysis of particles, robot text, tunnel feedback, terrain, greetings, float tunnel, credits, and Orange logo wash.
3 public-video GIFs, 6 public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Yersinia Pestis
tArzAn tuotanto's Juhla 2½ 1995 MS-DOS demo: two restored MZ layers, decoded XLC filesystem, complete S3M-row controller, Q7 mesh engines, planar checker, temporal blur and palette-bank decay, X-wing particles, generated landscape normals, and an exact four-neighbour antialias loop.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 4 stills in the article; visuals are secondary to the restored-code analysis.
Zaxxon Graffiti
faked public domain 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 4x-to-320x200 reduction, three-colour RGBI palette measurement, 8x8 grid alignment, and likely CGA BIOS/text/glyph-loop implementation shapes.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Zakje Plasmatat
Frituur Kraam X 1995 64K intro: PKLITE Pascal shell, BWSB/GUS setup, ASCII palette and mask assets, 160x100 fire smoothing, Mode-X-style 80x50 logo plasma, and palette fades.
ZIF
Parallax's Finnish Assembly 1995 Amiga winner: authenticated mirrored payloads, complete direct silent A1200 run, fifteen loadable HUNK parts, batched segment lifetime, vertical-blank scheduling, copper/raster ownership, 68020 surface-point rendering, and a P61A replay boundary.
6 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
Zweilight Zone
Capacala Assembly 1995 PC demo fourth place: public Demozoo vector/object stills, 1 Hz screenshot overview GIF, Scene.org archive hashes, CapaLoad/CEM startup, PKLITE MZ carrier with large appended body, MIDAS/GUS/SB/no-sound selector evidence, S3M module titles, and documented silent DOSBox-X menu-boundary run.
14 public Demozoo PNG stills and 1 slow screenshot-sequence GIF in the article; no published runtime video.
Nordic Vision's Finnish 1994 PC demo: restored DIET binary, self-read overlay, fixed-point planar mapper, feedback field, run-glyph text, 640-pixel virtual grid plotter and four-opcode delta animation.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio, embedded video or H.264/MP4.
Fly
Anjovis's completed 1994 PC demo: exact scene chain, GUS-order scheduler, additive byte fields, source-row remapper, retained-address point morph, shared unchained-planar triangle filler, spike objects, authored-frame banks and mode-12h scroller.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio, embedded video or H.264/MP4.
The Final Option
Phantom Dezign's 1994 PC trackmo: custom loader/LZ grammar, exact 60-member file system, EMS asset paging, tracker-order scene clock, 2× interpolator, six-oscillator additive pixels, planar CRTC scrolling and vector geometry.
One continuous authored-vector GIF and two exact shipped-asset decodes; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
2 Cents
Mental Design's Assembly 1994 PC demo: exact FEXOS scene order, hard-coded GUS 220h path, Q10 polygon engines, self-shortened unrolled edge DDA, 120×120 relaxation field, Z-buffered objects and table-driven tunnel sampler.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
303
Acme's X'97-winning PC demo: retained Watcom module map, 45-record ALEX library, streaming LZW, x87-safe timer callbacks, custom captured-footage decoder, paired-pixel shaded texture spans, and connected marching-cubes traversal.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
Machines of Madness
Dubius' Assembly 1996 PC demo winner: PMODE/W controller, decoded 74-entry archive, twelve recovered child executables, LZW-family unpacker, 3D Studio scene inventory, self-patched x87/fixed-point renderer, material spans, six-view environment map and exact 64,000-pixel distorters.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; static front preview, no audio or H.264/MP4.
Socialism
Dominion's ninth-place Juhla 1995 PC demo: unpacked Turbo Pascal MZ, custom 320×240 planar VGA, exact 80×60 resampler and distortion loop, precomputed zoom maps, calculated 10×8 wire grid, PCX RLE, DAC fades and four-channel MOD structure.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs plus a direct credit decode; static front preview, no audio or H.264/MP4.
Mind Riot
Andromeda's all-Norwegian 1993 OCS/ECS design classic: high-resolution typography, transparent geometry, calculated circles, motion-traced wireframes, raytraced HAM frames and the Mirror panel object; a three-hunk low-memory conductor sequences six exact StoneCracker 3.00 overlays.
8 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Hindun tie kehdosta hautaan
Limbo's all-Finnish 1994 OCS/ECS demo: recursive triangle design, row distortion, vertical typography, illustrated greetings and a 4096-colour field; complete ending notes and a 632-byte backward-decompressing LoadSeg rebuilder.
7 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Logic
Pygmy Projects' all-Finnish Assembly 1995 AGA runner-up: sparse object-show design, environment mapping, field dots, texture city and ray tracing; fourteen native LoadSeg programs and the authors' targeted cache, VBR and player patch.
10 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Que?
The Black Lotus' all-Swedish Remedy 1995 AGA runner-up: wrapped type, reflective and deforming objects, an exact in-demo part ledger, thirteen LoadSeg executables, a shared 76-byte unpacking shell and the later per-part WHDLoad repairs.
9 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Sourcery
Offence's all-Norwegian 1992 OCS demo: a character-built presentation, two distinct mapped-logo passages, a deforming final object and a one-hunk loader that cycles three 64 KiB payloads through one chip-memory slot.
6 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Atmosphere
Stone Arts' all-Norwegian 1993 OCS demo: hand-drawn graphic identity, changing sliced geometry, custom-track loading, a relocation-free single-hunk core and raster-coupled hardware ownership.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Despair
iNSANE's all-Swedish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: transition-led visual design, exact three-hunk chip-memory layout, 591 relocations, banked high/low-nibble AGA palette construction, VBR-aware takeover and internal four-channel replay.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Neural Assault
Rage's all-Swedish ECC 1993 winner: direct silent A500 boot, cinema-framed semi-story, relocated two-stage raw-track loader, preservation-source call map, 19 PowerPacker members and both complete Fajser modules.
2 direct-runtime and 5 clearly bounded public-reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
Maximum Overdrive II
Rage's all-Swedish three-disk Assembly 1994 AGA demo: framed scanline-video processing, late geometry and colour phases, exact DMS structure, and an 88-byte boot path that bulk-reads 889,344 bytes into a fixed-memory destination.
5 continuous silent GIFs in the article; no audio or published embedded video.
Aurora
Stellar's all-Finnish Scenario 1995 AGA winner and authored two-day production: stock-A1200 visual analysis, bounded replacement-ROM failure, a 704-byte Titanics overlay loader, 5 KiB streaming input, private literal/backreference depacker, hunk allocation and relocation handoff.
6 continuous silent GIFs in the article; no audio or published embedded video.
Illusion
Virtual Dreams / Fairlight's all-Finnish 1993 Computer Crossroads runner-up: preserved ADF, exact 736 KiB boot-block bulk read, video-only visual concordance, fourteen-phase call score, level-3 SNT! tracker replay, copper/blitter paths, self-relocation and hard-reset exit.
7 continuous silent GIFs in the article; no audio or published embedded video.
Brain-State-In-A-Box
Cryptoburners' all-Norwegian The Gathering 1994 AGA runner-up: original author archive, video-only visual concordance, voxel and recursive-feedback state map, hidden live controls, replacement-ROM failure boundary, and a 632-byte backwards depacker/private hunk loader around the packed inner executable.
7 continuous GIFs in the article at scene-appropriate 2, 4, or 5 fps; no audio or published embedded video.
Maximum Velocity
The Finnish Silents section's 1992 party-winning OCS/ECS full demo: complete direct silent run, authenticated original DMS, authored routine credits, valid custom boot block, raw 11-sector MFM track decoder, thirteen embedded DEFJAM depackers and one mapped ProTracker module.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; per-scene 1, 2, or 8 fps, with no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
End of the Misery
Sagazity's all-Swedish The Party 1993 two-disk OCS/ECS demo: complete direct silent run, authenticated original ADFs, physical disk swap, 46-byte relocated boot reader, EOM2 continuation identity, raw track layout and direct-hardware evidence.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
CCCP
Juliet+Case's all-Finnish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: complete direct silent run, authenticated party executable, recovered 704-byte streaming Titanics loader, fifteen internal segments, banked AGA palette code and three second-level StoneCracker blocks.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Sound Vision
Reflect's Finnish-Norwegian Assembly 1992 winner: authenticated original DMS, complete official silent traversal, self-authored effect inventory, raw-track loader, resident interrupt state and exact WHDLoad transition repairs.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Enigma
Phenomena's Swedish 1991 Amiga winner: authenticated raw-track chain, exact Q1.15 vector engines, triple-buffered worlds, procedural 800-point sphere, corrected 98-vertex two-plane OLLESBOLL wireframe, perspective text, eight-bank fractal and force-unwind controller.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Dala Horse
Razor 1911's all-Swedish Remedy 1995 AGA winner: complete silent archival viewing, authenticated release, reconstructed Crunch-Mania executable, 2,203 relocations, sixteen-part call chain, four indexed data containers and twenty-one inner compressed members.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Point Blank
Andromeda's all-Norwegian 1992 OCS/ECS full demo: complete direct silent run, validated party DMS, 52-byte boot program, raw 5,632-byte track loader, StoneCracker 3.00 recovery, fixed-address part chain, and preservation-level timing and blitter repairs.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Absolute Inebriation
Virtual Dreams' all-Finnish 1992 OCS/ECS trackmo: complete silent viewing, two checksum-verified DMS disks, raw 5,632-byte track loader, fixed-address part chain, and the 1,245-line preservation source's blitter, interrupt and stack repairs.
8 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Love
Virtual Dreams' Finnish-Norwegian South Sealand 1994 AGA winner: complete silent viewing, authenticated party archive, 704-byte outer loader, three recovered memory-aware segments, private bitstream decoder, and 413 relocations.
7 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or H.264/MP4 asset.
Sequential
Andromeda's Norwegian Gathering 1994 winner: complete silent viewing, verified all-Norwegian credits, original DMS and boot-block anatomy, and a dissection of the sector-addressed loader exposed by its WHDLoad adapter.
6 continuous GIFs in the article; no audio, embedded video, or H.264/MP4 asset.
C42
Juliet+Case's Finnish Assembly 1995 AGA demo: complete direct silent A1200 run, 704-byte outer hunk, nine reconstructed memory-aware segments, private bitstream depacker, 9,841 relocations, and preserved chunky transformation design.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4.
Four Years
Origo Dreamline's Assembly 1993 C64 demo winner: complete direct silent opening and main loop, original packed one-file release, multicolour bitmap, and a live PAL raster chain that reuses all eight hardware sprites for the moving objects.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4.
242
Virtual Dreams / Fairlight's Assembly 1993 Amiga runner-up: complete direct silent loop, clean one-file HD payload, three-hunk memory wrapper, original trackloader corroboration, word-coded scene sequencer, planar overlays, and bounded custom animation-packing analysis.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
&i
sYmptom's 9th-place The Party 1994 PC demo: exact archive and direct silent run, TMS/GUS player, six-channel module timeline, 17 custom sparse PAC animation streams, 542 delimited frames, bitmap/letter assets, and sampled human motion combined with realtime VGA geometry.
7 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
2nd Phobia
Noice The Party 1993 PC demo/BBS intro: PKLITE MZ expansion, corrected group spelling, GUS/no-sound selector, external Grim3 MOD, embedded RIX3 artwork, and VGA/DAC/retrace evidence.
30 sek
Noice TCC 1993 PC demo entry: Pascal MZ launcher chain, raw 64 KB VGA pages, mirrored brush rows, filled vector box, palette plasma, vector ball, and final scroller.
3k of innocence
Twaddler / Proxima 1995 2,912-byte COM intro: complete scene call sequence, Q11 Mandelbrot recurrence and screen mapping, unchained 80-byte VGA pitch, two-source radial table sampler, exact 300/301-to-320 feedback resampler, and interrupt-driven OPL event parser.
4K FLiGHT
Scoop TG95 PC 4K winner: PKLITE expansion, XOR text layer, FPU sine tables, generated corridor sections, z-recycle loop, object ordering, triangle spans, OPL timer music, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 6 runtime frames in the article.
4K iNTRO by MLJ/Xenogenesis
TG95 PC 4K third place: PKLITE expansion, fixed-point Mandelbrot table, twisted texture prelude, voxel horizon spans, plasma height map, and tweaked VGA planes.
4 Kings
Orange Assembly 1994 PC 64K: PKLITE and nested MZ boundary, GUS I/O selector, module-signature probes, direct public-video GIF analysis, bounded video-to-code concordance for sprite/title compositing, logo-band layer motion, spiral/radial feedback, red cellular texture, final illustrated card treatment, and an explicit no-fake-function-map unpacking boundary.
4 public-video GIFs and 1 Pouet still in the article.
7-Up The Cool Spot
The Humble Guys 26 August 1990 MS-DOS 16K cracktro: safe 5-second silent opening excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, NFO and later-scroller omission boundary, archive and payload hashes, non-MZ flat packed executable, PKWARE memory-check string, high-memory depacker map, and THG title/scroller runtime evidence.
1 safe silent opening MP4 and 1 corrected direct runtime still in the article; later contact-bearing scroller frames are not published.
Again
Orange September 1994 MS-DOS/GUS intro: Scene.org archive hashes, exact public Pouet GIF still, PKLITE/UNP parent launcher, external 8CHN INDEED.MOD, dynamically written nested PKLITE zoom.exe child, DOS EXEC handoff, direct GUS-port selector code, local DOSBox-X child crash boundary, and explicit no-fake-renderer-map note.
1 exact public Pouet GIF still in the article; local DOSBox-X captures only reached selector/black transition and are not published.
Ages
Happo Assembly 1996 PC demo ninth place: exact Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, NFO contact-material boundary, 40-second silent DOSBox-X opening, tiny outer MZ plus 1.9 MB overlay, embedded PMODE/W 1.22 image at 0xBD9A4, compressed object map, MIDAS/S3M/SB/GUS paths kept silent, PCX resource-name table, carved title/tunnel assets, and bounded runtime-to-resource concordance.
1 silent opening MP4 and 2 direct runtime stills in the article.
8192
The Svilit Two The Party 1993 PC intro second place: exact 8K RNC/MZ wrapper, B800 text-page animation, HSC/AdLib cue bytes, and strip reveal loop.
9 Fingers
Spaceballs' Norwegian 1993 Amiga classic: one continuous filmed-animation grammar, not eight unrelated effects; two raw-track disks, custom backward depacker, streamed bank schedule, residual animation source and WHDLoad timing corroboration.
8 continuous video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
8088 MPH
Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE Revision 2015 oldskool demo: real-hardware-to-code concordance for the source-order GIF/stills, final loader/part archive, CGA calibration, INT F8h part API, CRTC restarts, CPU/CGA/PIT lockstep, generated effect kernels, and 4-channel PC-speaker MOD VM.
1 source-order real-hardware GIF, 15 real-hardware stills, calibration references, pipeline map, and real-hardware-to-code concordance in the article.
ABC Monday Night Football Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 28 November 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro: TheDraw COM screen-save wrapper, decoded B800h character/attribute page, mode 2/3/7 guard, REP MOVSW row copy, CGA snow-safe 03DAh polling path, and RUNME.BAT pause/handoff.
1 decoded text page and 1 generated loader map in the article.
A Forest Software Loader
1995 MS-DOS software-loader cracktro: exact Demozoo/Scene.org source identity, single 2,640-byte COM archive, Starport-2-derived tag, direct silent DOSBox-X capture, tiny tail XOR decoder, decoded 386/VGA startup, mode-13h BIOS-font harvest, mode-0Dh planar starfield/text runtime, OPL/PIT paths documented without audible audio, and projection/glyph/keyboard-loop map.
1 silent MP4 and 1 direct runtime still in the article.
Ace Demo
Ace December 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: FLI/VOC player architecture, CT-VOICE setup, mode-13h playback, palette chunks, BRUN full frame, LC delta loops, retrace pacing, VOC repeat loop, and timestamped runtime frames.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 7 timestamped runtime frames, 2 contact sheets, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Acid Warp / Acidwarp
Noah Spurrier 1992 MS-DOS VGA procedural eye-candy classic: Borland MZ layout, mode-13h setup, 64 KiB offscreen buffer, shuffled 33-formula integer generator, lookup-table dist/angle math, progress line, REP MOVSW copy, DAC palette rotation/fade animation, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 9 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
After Burner 2
International Network of Crackers 14 October 1989 MS-DOS/EGA cracktro: source-limited 640x350 public frame, redacted old contact panel, EGA mode-10h plane geometry, solid fills, masked logo/bar/text candidates, graphics-font board-list renderer, and blocked Defacto2 handoff boundary.
1 redacted public frame and 1 generated boundary map in the article.
A Year of Agony
Hypnosis The Party 1993 PC demo twenty-first place: 1.1 KB multipart loader, stripped MZ/PKLITE DAT parts, UNP-expanded effect executables, no-sound documentation, EMS checks, BMP assets, raw VGA plane, and palette tables.
AirFrame
Prime Assembly 1994 64K intro: timestamped DOSBox-X Prime text, AirFrame title, green landscape flight, blue moire/vector cube, beige structural fly-through, GUS 8-channel MOD path, Mode X pager, bitstream image decoder, fixed-point vector renderer, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 12 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Alley Cat Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 26 December 1985 MS-DOS Alley Cat title-page graffiti: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, dominant magenta/cyan CGA palette evidence, IBM/title/Bill Williams/alley-art/pirate-footer region map, and full-page-copy, RLE, footer-strip-patch, graphics-mode text-writer, key-gate, and handoff implementation candidates.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
J-Bird Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 26 December 1985 MS-DOS two-screen J-Bird cracktro: public Demozoo warranty/key-gate and logo frames, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reductions, black/white text page, magenta/white/cyan logo page, contact sheet, layout map, and page-copy, text-writer, RLE, rectangle-compositor, key-gate, and handoff models.
2 public screenshots, 2 logical reductions, 1 contact sheet, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is a static two-screen wrapper.
Amnesia
Renaissance 1992 megademo: sparse intro GIF, bounded runtime-to-code concordance, clean-boot loader, custom LZ stub, protected-mode runtime, green line drawer, Mode X planar copy helpers, 03DAh/tick vblank pacing, DAC palette timing, vectors, and entropy/pattern loops.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 2 runtime frames in the article.
Antibar
Mr. Fanatic of SMA Posse 1992 4 KB-ish COM intro: runtime GIF-to-code boundary, XOR feedback decoder, high-memory RLE expansion, self-relocation, evolving 16-byte key schedule, checksum gate, DOS/BIOS text-output wrapper, final far handoff, and captured bottom text scroller.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 7 runtime frames, and 1 cropped scroller contact sheet in the article; GIF proves the repaired child executes, while the exact child scroller loop remains a deeper dump target.
Anti-svd
The Untouchables 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: complete direct keyed no-sound runtime, EXEPACK restore, tu.dat resource loader, linear/planar bitstream decoders, DAC fades, mask/OR block compositors, delta window restoration, and a four-plane CRTC strip ring with an IRQ-9 Space exit.
1 continuous direct-runtime card GIF; the article adds 2 direct stills and retains the generated loader/loop map as secondary evidence.
A New BBS Intro (Anarchy Boards)
Anarchy PC December 1993 board-ad intro: public Pouet welcome still with bounded screenshot-to-code concordance, custom MZ depacker, Borland runtime, GoldPlay/ProTracker tail, unchained VGA pages, RLE picture uploads, retrace-paced palette fades, CRTC page flips, and planar span filling.
1 public Pouet still in the article; local DOSBox-X capture did not reach useful visual frames.
Apache Cracktro
Miami Cracking Machine 8 July 1989 MS-DOS multi-renderer cracktro: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence with bounded visual-to-code concordance, shared Monochrome/CGA/EGA/Tandy selector shell, 640x350 EGA mode-10h title scene, planar A000h blue fill, stippled top mask, mirrored logo/lightning sprite blits, central C/text masks, and redacted exit text page.
3 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Aquarium
CNCD's Finnish ECC 1993 Amiga OCS/ECS demo: complete silent direct run, six restrained continuous GIFs, custom boot and eleven-sector trackloader, MFM checksum decoder, StoneCracker S401 depacking, token-driven part scheduler, The Player 5.0A music material, and a compact 3D finale.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, MP4 or H.264 video published.
Arkanoid ][ - The Revenge of DoH
The FiRM July 1989 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public greeting screen, 16 KiB COM relocation, INT 61h private service, segment patches, helper block copy, DOS 09h text print and BIOS key wait, memory resize, stack switch, path recovery, critical-error hook, option parser, hardware/config probes, and REVOFDOH.DAT EXEC boundary.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Archon Graffiti
IPL source-limited 1984 MS-DOS cracktro: public Demozoo frame, CGA 320x200 page reconstruction, palette measurement, page-region map, and probable static B800h blit/overlay loops.
1 public screenshot, 1 reduced CGA page, and 1 derived page map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Archon Graffiti (The Duplicators)
The Duplicators 27 December 1984 MS-DOS Archon title-page graffiti: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, grey/black/magenta/cyan CGA palette evidence, original title/authors/EA logo retention, visible DIPLICATORS footer, and full-page versus footer-strip patch loop models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Archon Graffiti (faked public domain)
faked public domain 1985 MS-DOS Archon title-page graffiti: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, pixel comparison against the other Archon-derived frames, unchanged title/authors/EA/prompt regions, public-domain/EA-demo-copy footer, and footer-strip copy/RLE/text-writer loop models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Animate
Schwartz Assembly 1995 PC 4K winner: complete direct runtime timeline, corrected two-renderer concordance, W. Collis depacker, generated sine/texture/slope/material tables, timer-driven cyan object field, later strip-derived gold mesh, shared quad rasterizer and 2x blend scaler, outward VGA smear, and final address-driven logo pattern.
1 full-run timeline, 3 continuous direct runtime GIFs, and 1 retained direct still in the article.
Assembler Instinct
Gollum The Party 1993 PC demo: recovered launcher and exact four-child EXEC chain, safe command-tail route, GUS-clocked complete direct Part I, bounded local Part II transition failure, full public-run concordance, three tracker modules, and numbered packed visual resources.
1 direct loader still, 1 direct timeline, 1 direct GIF, 1 public-reference timeline, and 1 public-reference GIF in the article; all page media are silent.
Atom
Sorcerers 1990 interactive text-mode intro: retained scheduled A/M/Z/S capture, static Ctrl-C/Esc exit path, one-bit PC-speaker clock, exact 256-word sine geometry, 31-pair mirrored dot ring, three fixed-cell phrase reveals, unclipped direct text writes, rolling sample feed, hardware events, and staged shutdown.
1 continuous uncropped silent GIF on this card; the article also identifies its retained host-cursor overlay and includes 1 editorial keyed-state sheet. No Atom MP4 is published.
AutoDuel Cracktro
The Grand Council 4 October 1988 MS-DOS cracktro: BAT-driven text card, redacted CP437 reconstruction, archive hashes, 1988 Grand Council text versus 1991 Software Pirates LOADIT boundary, tail-stub 41h decryptor, PSP parser, IVT hooks, timer/keyboard speed control, and DOS EXEC handoff.
1 redacted reconstructed text screen and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Autumn
Epsilon Wired 1995 PC 64 KB intro runner-up: complete direct six-minute runtime, held-Escape ending, PKLITE/UNP layout, temporary MikMod resource, six 64 KB work blocks, generated maps and palettes, cue-driven mirrored tunnel with unrolled OR compositor, textured 3D object pipeline with self-patched spans, and late coordinate-table radial warp.
1 complete runtime timeline, 3 continuous direct GIFs, and 1 final direct frame in the article.
Axe of Rage Cracktro
Miami Cracking Machine 30 August 1989 MS-DOS multi-renderer cracktro: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, shared Monochrome/CGA/EGA/Tandy selector shell, 640x350 EGA mode-10h title scene, planar A000h blue/black terrain masks, lightning line loop, multi-pass MCM logo blits, graphics text masks, and redacted exit text page.
3 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Back to Basic
The Inferiors TG94 PC demo rebuilt from a complete silent runtime route and UNP-expanded launcher: exact DOS EXEC order, tolerated missing .013, RIX viewers, BASIC-style effects, fake boot/disk screens, player switch, and final keyboard gate.
1 direct full-route concordance sheet and 1 continuous direct GIF in the article; both are silent and uncropped.
Bad Street Brawler
Bentley Sidwell Productions 17 May 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: 127-byte COM control path, raw file+007Fh B800h page, loader-layout-sensitive reveal sweep, final REP MOVSB painter, key gate, and decoded/runtime screenshots.
1 decoded CGA page, 1 DOSBox-X reveal contact sheet, and 1 generated copy-loop map in the article; no GIF because these are different artifact types and dimensions.
Ball Mania
Sorcerers 1991 MS-DOS demo: timer audio mixer, retrace-paced palette/scroller damage loops, fifteen exact sparse literal-span sprite sizes, six staged falling-ball records with complete Y sorting and background restoration, plus a separate phase-spaced three-ball ellipse whose Y selects prescaled depth cues.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 4 runtime frames in the article.
Breathtaker
Alien and Jaco's Finnish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: complete direct silent visual route, matching preserved archives, four-hunk executable, ten fixed-size StoneCracker S404 stage streams, hardware-level display shell, and a deliberately bounded persistent-black ending.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, MP4 or H.264 video.
Cybernetic
The Black Lotus's Swedish Gathering 1995 AGA demo: complete original-party-build route, eight continuous silent GIFs, April/September executable distinction, compressed HUNK overlay loader, and an exact 39-block data-container traversal.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, MP4 or H.264 video.
Banana Split
Hitech The Party 1994 PC fast intro second place: DOSBox-X memory-capture runtime-to-code concordance, custom MZ decoder, 80x50 VGA text-mode setup, HSC/AdLib player, mirrored reveal, random cell fill/clear, CP437 block art, BIOS-font scroller, and music-state side columns.
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Corporation for Public Cybercasting 2001 8 November 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: public 640x496 block-art card, blocked Defacto2 binary, 8x16-cell / 80-column evidence, CP437-style title construction, full-page copy, row-fragment, RLE-cell, ANSI, and bitmap-font renderer loop models, and blocked-handoff boundary.
1 public Demozoo still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Bart's Law
UltraForce 1991 playable VGA preview: recovered 203,361-byte image and 56-word relocation tail, live title/briefing/training route, exact 64 KB background copy, 13x13 crosshair save/restore, three target blitters, fixed background repair, twelve-state wave schedule, hit boxes, score/bar updates, palette fade, and cleanup.
1 original-archive DOSBox-X wrapper contact sheet in the article; the restored title, briefing, and training level were verified privately without changing site media.
Battlezone Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 7 January 1986 MS-DOS Battlezone title/menu graffiti: public Demozoo black/white frame, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, Aiken Drum cracker header, Software Pirates 86 credit, F1/F2 menu prompts, layout map, and page-copy, RLE, 1bpp expansion, vector-line, text-writer, and function-key handoff models.
1 public screenshot, 1 exact logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Happy Birthday
UltraForce May 1990 Sound Blaster/EGA demo: live-state-corrected main and cleanup, exact 10 kHz Creative Voice block, CT-VOICE relocation and guarded lifecycle, off-screen four-plane RLE picture, three write-mode-1 reveal kernels, eight-entry palette cycle, 200-line rewrite, 16x16 glyph expansion, and 216-row central-strip greeting scroll.
1 article-only DOSBox-X EGA contact sheet; the text-only card does not misrepresent its five different runtime states as one frame.
Bibo Ergo Sum
Valhalla TG95 PC 64K runner-up: complete keyed silent runtime route through the final VOTE fade, one-digit GUS selector, RNC stager, Technomancer RAW/XMS/VCPI kernel, GUS player, script engine, generated text/noise, and z-buffered texture spans.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Big, Bigger, Biggest
Infernals 1992 MS-DOS VGA megascroller: PKLITE/UNP plus second-stage loader, STMIK/Sound Blaster prompt, compressed title bitmaps, DAC crossfades, unchained VGA setup, 200x154 painted-font column decoder, CRTC panning loop, and starfield exit.
1 runtime GIF, 5 runtime frames, contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Big Deal
Acme X 1995 PC demo winner: public Demozoo PNG still references, documented failed private DOSBox-X/ZMBV capture boundary, VFS wrapper, PKLITE child EXEs, PolyPlayer/GUS sample bank, protected-mode parts, DAC fades, page copies, PIT timing, and Phong/object scene loops.
6 public Demozoo PNG stills in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Big Top Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 10 February 1986 MS-DOS two-screen Big Top title/high-score graffiti: public Demozoo title and high-score frames, Defacto2 access boundary, CGA 320x200 reductions, contact sheet, layout map, high-score name evidence, and page-copy, RLE, table-patch, text-writer, menu-key, and handoff models.
2 public screenshots, 2 logical reductions, 1 contact sheet, and 1 layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is a two-frame state comparison.
Bip 4 the Future
The Binary Poets TCC 1993 trackdemo: custom MZ depacker, GoldPlay setup, mode-13h palette ramps, point/sprite loops, sparkle cleanup, text-band shifter, and raw-frame tile reveal.
Blue Sky Demo v0.1
Delta September 1992 MS-DOS demo/loader: Hornet delta001 archive, packed MZ mover, LZ-style depacker, relocation stream, VGA/SB prompt path, DSP base probe, unchained planar setup, transparent picture blitter, CRTC pan scroller, retrace palette fades, PIT/keyboard wrappers, and sound-column loop.
2 image embeds in the article.
Boing
Illusion 1992 MS-DOS intro: timestamped logo/text capture, frame-derived GIF, bounded runtime/carrier concordance, PKLITE MZ entry-wrap carrier, high-memory copied unpacker, LSB-first bit reservoir, literal and match loops, segment normalization, relocation restore, and short cyan/red logo-card runtime sequence.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Bounce!
Destroy's CeBIT March 1991 MS-DOS intro: quiet/sound launcher reversal, 35 Hz planar redraw and 70 Hz speaker-service split, shifted three-plane logo blitter, closed two-axis delta paths, three masked star layers, 30,080-bit carry scroller, and independent forty-image phrase strip.
2 continuous uncropped twelve-second direct-runtime GIFs and 2 exact full-frame stills; no audio published.
Brushwood
Illusion 1992 MS-DOS intro: timestamped starfield/logo/text capture, frame-derived GIF, bounded runtime/carrier concordance, PKLITE MZ carrier constants, high-memory copied unpacker, literal and match inner loops, segment normalization, relocation restore, and 80-column purple text-script evidence.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Bubble Bobble Cracktro
The Humble Guys 7 February 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public Demozoo colour-bar frame, 15-byte XOR 45h decode stub, generated BIOS text-mode renderer, 107 repeated-cell writes, six DOS strings, key gate, memory resize/allocation geometry, Bubble.mcf EXEC boundary, and sidecar contact-material omission.
1 public frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Bugfixed
Acme The Party 1994 PC demo: original archive, exact encrypted VFS directory and rolling-XOR payload recovery, seven doubly packed child programs, virtual DOS handles and EXEC loader, PolyPlayer 2.0/GUS sample-bank route, and conservative program-to-runtime concordance.
5 continuous public-video GIFs in the article; all published media are silent.
Buster
TRB/TWC 1992 MS-DOS intro/dentro: cropped timestamped cube/sphere/title capture, frame-derived GIF, bounded runtime/carrier concordance, extensionless PKLITE MZ main executable, ProTracker M.K. module evidence, high-memory unpacker, DS-swapping match-copy loop, segment normalization, and relocation restore.
1 runtime GIF, 11 cropped runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Buttman
Twilight Zone 1992 MS-DOS demo/dentro: runtime-to-code concordance for the warning/card/title/dot-grid GIF, 29-file resource archive, TZPACK'92 modules, high-entry MZ carrier, XOR-literal unpack loop, match-copy path, segment normalization, relocation restore, and explicit renderer evidence boundaries.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Bogas Party Video
Bogas/Bogus Device The Party 1993 PC demo: Tran protected-mode player, decoded native JAF video GIFs, stream-to-player concordance, Jeskola Animation Format docs, two 16-gray-level delta streams, frame terminators, VGA playback markers, and optional GUS support.
2 native decoded JAF GIFs and 2 first-frame PNGs in the article; no crop, pad, or viewport capture.
Black Glass
Renaissance April 1992 MS-DOS vector demo: runtime GIF/stills, PKLITE expansion, raw 386 protected-mode extender, BIOS interrupt bridge, unchained Mode X pages, palette/vblank timing, scripted vector balls, depth insertion sort, planar blitter, dirty-strip restore loop, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 12 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Black Glass ][
Renaissance 1992 vector demo: XOR shell, custom LZ depacker, protected-mode bridge, .670 Digital/FM player, Mode X planes, palette timing, and glass/text loops.
Blackzone
Masque The Party 1993 PC intro third place: PKLITE party build, Chicken-Player GUS path, zone.dat loader, Mode-X texture mapper, line plotter, palette fades, and object projection loops.
Blitzkrieg Cracktro
The Humble Guys 2 September 1990 MS-DOS 32K cracktro: direct 30-second silent runtime excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, NFO contact-list omission boundary, packed flat COM carrier, DOS memory-resize and upward-copy relocator, custom second-stage unpacker with checksum gate, and bounded one-scene title/globe/roses/scroller runtime analysis.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Bill G Force
Complex Assembly 1995 64K intro: runtime-to-code concordance for the title/credit frames, badge overlay, light clusters, yellow grid, shaded object pass, no-sound timer fallback, render update loop, fixed-point vectors, textured spans, table compositing, and planar VGA copy.
1 runtime GIF and 8 timestamped runtime frames in the article.
Cabal Cracktro
The FiRM 16 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, MAMILOAD banner, full-IVT save/restore, INT 13h hook, XOR 66h DOS text screen, GITUM.FRM EXEC handoff, disk-read CX signatures, manual saved-flags editing, and fixed ES:015D patch-fill copy.
2 public Demozoo screens and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Cardiac
Infiny The Party 1993 PC demo with 1994 release metadata: LZEXE loader, embedded part executables, flat-real/XMS runtime, raster DAC timing, vector-ball object sorting, and planar VGA spans.
X-Mas Demo '90
Cascada November 1990 MS-DOS Christmas demo: direct keyed full runtime and normal return, three raw Space gates, LZEXE-restored MZ body, mode-0Dh loader, timer IRQ sample output, CRTC tree pages, lower-strip updater, packed-nibble scroller, retrace-sensitive fades, plane-rendered credits, and full PIT/vector/PIC cleanup.
1 direct runtime still, 1 six-frame direct runtime sheet, 10 decoded raw frames, 1 archive-frame GIF, 4 public stills, and 1 pipeline map in the article.
Cascada X-Mas '91
Cascada 1991 MS-DOS Christmas demo/music disk: PKLITE child payloads, setup-state file, direct DOSBox-X intro/splash frames, runtime-to-code concordance, planar VGA glyph loops, live DAC fades, file loader, and four-channel timer audio for LPT, PC speaker, and Sound Blaster.
2 direct runtime stills in the article; no GIF because the captured frame heights differ.
X-Mas '92
Cascada December 1992 MS-DOS Christmas demo: Twilight-packed launcher/parts, UNP-expanded intro and main MZ images, timestamped DOSBox-X opener/config/icicle frames, public later-screen references, mode-13h/unchained VGA setup, transparent planar blitters, service/file loader, LPT/PC-speaker/Sound Blaster audio paths, CRTC panning, palette fades, and glyph renderers.
1 public-reference GIF, 4 DOSBox-X runtime frames, 13 public stills, 1 pipeline map, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Catch Up!
Grif Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo, 7th in the PC demo competition and 2nd at Vár-party: Hungarian group context, Scene.org archive identity, release-text part list, public-video GIF/still references, private muted dummy-video crash boundary, PKLITE wrapper, huge overlay, 386 marker, and explicit packed-payload limit.
5 public-video GIFs and 3 public Demozoo stills in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
4K Intro by Calvin/Proxima
TG95 PC 4K runner-up: COM RNC loader, 247 binary animation masks, centered block grid, four-step framebuffer decay, vblank pacing, and motion-blur loop.
Calvin Screen (CIA Cracktro)
Crackers In Action and Live Wire 1988 MS-DOS CGA one-screen cracktro: 16 KB embedded CGA framebuffer copy, palette latch, key wait, exact archive/file hashes, and explicit contact-detail omission boundary.
1 decoded static CGA page in the article; no GIF because this is a one-screen non-animated graphic.
Caero
Plant and Electromotive Force The Party 1995 winner: complete natural no-sound DOSBox-X route, PMODE/RNC runtime, appended EMF resource archive, keyframed vector scenes, Hermite motion, glow/mix tables, and runtime-to-resource concordance.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Champions Of Krynn Cracktro
Pirates Sick Of Initials 1989 MS-DOS 4K cracktro: direct single-key silent DOSBox-X route, BBS-contact omission boundary, compact COM layout, private B800h text-stream decoder, BIOS tick timing, and missing START.EXE handoff map.
1 scripted-key silent runtime MP4 and 2 direct runtime stills in the article.
Chaos 3D
Dodger August 1992 MS-DOS demo: Borland C++ MZ shape, optional MiniMod music, pipeline-map-to-code concordance, SHAPES.DAT parser, 320x240 Mode X backend, fixed-point 386 projection, face sorting, Bresenham edge tables, and plane-mask polygon spans.
1 generated renderer dataflow map in the article; runtime capture still pending because no local Chaos 3D frames exist yet.
Christmas '93
Superiority Complex 1993 MS-DOS holiday demo: Borland C++ MZ, appended SCS-K10 resource directory, 44 named MAP/PAL/TXT/MOD assets, two embedded ProTracker modules, and multi-device sampled-audio setup.
Cronologia
Cascada 1991 MS-DOS multipart: exact PKLITE chain and resident BDA ABI, mode-13 reveals, planar presentation script, corrected Q8 vector transforms, live malformed-face expansion and raster guard, generated 8x8/16x16 vector-ball code and exact clear/stamp costs, time-part page/line loops, and 64/128-object end renderer.
4 direct runtime stills in the article; no GIF because the captured frame heights differ.
Classic
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster demo: self-opening MZ container, static A000h title ownership, exact palette rings and gradient writes, 16-row scroller/glyph column, four five-tick fixed-point lanes, planar mono mixer, and DMA/IRQ-driven visual service.
5 runtime screenshots, 1 short GIF, and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Closer
CNCD's The Party 1995 Amiga winner: complete direct silent AGA run, custom overlay executable, exact chunky animation and mapping banks, half-density c2p evidence, IFF ANIM structure, and ProTracker duration concordance.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
Collapse
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster demo: self-opening MZ container, exact 107-page opening scheduler, full-frame reveal, 44-point strip and glyph machinery, four player-owned meters and point bands, selective DAC fade, 20-page exit sequence, four fixed-point sample lanes, planar mono mixer, and DMA/IRQ visual hand-off.
5 runtime screenshots, 1 short GIF, and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Coldcut
UltraForce's October 1990 MS-DOS EGA demo: exact three-scroller builders and publishers, 1,363-frame CRTC path, anchored line-compare region, four-frame latch-copy panel, eight-mask opening wipes, CT-VOICE sample order and 11 status gates, and one-slot keyboard lifecycle.
2 native direct-runtime screenshots and 1 continuous six-second GIF; no audio.
COB
NoooN and Orange Saturne 1996 MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, original 10,000/16,000 polygon TXT claims, UNP-expanded 205 KB PMODE/W runtime, XMS/A20 evidence, Mode 13h startup, native 320x240 public-video GIF/still analysis, A000h 64K frame copy/clear path, 3DAh retrace wait, and GUS-only port programming evidence.
3 native public-video GIFs, 4 public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Compost
Orange The Party 1996 MS-DOS demo: Scene.org archive hashes, COMPOST.EXE/DATA.DAT/MOD.S3M split, custom 386 protected-mode runtime evidence, decoded DATA.DAT PCX/RIX3 art resources, direct public-video GIF/still analysis, runtime-to-code concordance for the palette-blend/full-frame compositor, radial-mask/card reveal, five-byte table compositor, 0xfa00 masked overlays, VGA DAC/A000h/retrace/PIT timing, and no named extender overclaim.
3 direct public-video GIFs, 5 direct public-video stills, 2 decoded resource contact sheets, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Coma Demo
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster intro: stable direct runtime, corrected four-channel event-row ownership, five-tick fixed-point lane builders, four-to-one DMA mixer, retrace-time callback, exact four-column meter deltas, 320x26 glyph/transition buffer, and guarded 44-particle cleanup.
1 direct masked runtime GIF and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Conqueror Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 29 March 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: MZ/Turbo C startup, FastGIF 2.0 viewer identity, decoded GIF87a 640x350 frame, 16-colour palette, 11,461-byte LZW stream, code-width growth, KwKwK cases, and viewer-library display boundary.
1 decoded archive frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Contagion
The Coexistence The Party 1994 third-place PC demo: XLINK wrapper, PMODE/W payload, linked assets, VGA selectors, z-buffered Gouraud, and mapped triangle loops.
Copper
Surprise! Productions The Party 1992 VGA raster demo: MyLZ unpacking, DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime capture, runtime-to-code concordance, CRTC start/offset tricks, horizontal wobble, DAC palette rastering, Attribute Controller color pages, Y zoom, and copper bars.
4 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 3 short GIFs in the article.
Copperfaked
Aardvark The Party 1993 PC 80K intro fifth place: PKLITE-packed MZ, no-music copper-routine release notes, nonstandard VGA-mode claims, memory/VGA text islands, port-pattern evidence, and DOSBox-X 640x480 transition probe.
The Message From The Cosmic Brothers
Complex's Finnish Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS video-demo: byte-identical core archives, complete eight-minute direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, RNC/FLATMAN loader markers, six-channel FastTracker module, and a bounded COSMIC.DAT compression argument.
8 direct silent runtime GIFs plus the earlier public comparison material; no MP4/H.264 media or audio.
CPU
UltraForce 1992 McAfee presentation: runtime-to-code concordance for the VGA frames/GIF, PKLITE selector launcher, display-specific packed payloads, VGA/EGA MZ wrap entry, custom depacker, DAC/page-sized asset files, page-and-sprite presentation rhythm, and bounded final-renderer limit for ship/satellite overlays.
1 runtime GIF, 6 runtime frames, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Crashtest
J-P/Rebels Assembly 1995 PC 4K third place: J-Packed COM, timer setup, generated radial/fractal/sine tables, vertical spans, object transforms, and byte depth tests.
Crystal Dream
Triton's Swedish Hackerence 1992 PC demo winner: complete silent effect route, one full end-scroller pass, clean DOS return, authenticated archive, mode-0Dh planar VGA, starfield and checkerboard vectors, glenz fills, raytraced pictures, compressed image loader, page flips, and IRQ timing.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 4 timestamp stills in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Crystal Dream 2
Triton's 1993 winner: complete direct silent run through the authored menu return, eight distinct GIFs, protected-mode overlay, depacker, VGA register engine, fixed-point matrix family, plasma loop, and chess renderer.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264, audio, contact sheet, or video embed.
Crystal Dream 3 Preview
Fat Albert Assembly 1993 spoof preview: shipped Turbo Pascal source, Borland BGI driver/fonts, AdLib FM calls, fake equalizer, mode-13h plasma, and a self-renamed GIFEXE payload.
Cycling
Abaddon 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: COM startup menus, custom ABA palette/RLE row-skip assets, retrace-paced palette shifts, CRTC wipes, text-mask renderer, moving-speck helper, and four-channel timer PCM mixer.
1 runtime GIF, 8 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 1 decoded asset contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
CyboMan
Gazebo The Party 1993 PC intro winner: RNC expansion, GUS/timer hub, particle text pages, planar panning, projected line spans, and final Mode-X texture loop.
Cyboman 2
Complex/Komplex The Party 1994 64K intro: fixed CYBO_FIX.EXE runtime capture, patterned backbuffer, sorted shaded triangle spans, self-modifying Gouraud scanline filler, clipped variant, object transform path, final title/credit card, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 5 runtime frames in the article.
Cyboman 3
Plant Juhla 1995 PC demo runner-up: DPMI/VCPI startup, RIX image staging, MikPlay S3M timing, table-driven 64K compositor, object records, radix face ordering, and patched triangle spans.
Da Clone
Halcyon June 1995 MS-DOS demo: restored W. Collis MZ, seventeen-page XMS store, eight-record HLNgfx/LZW resource stream, MIDAS order/row clock, Borland-real model transforms, depth quicksort, self-patched 16.16 edges, and paired overwrite/additive affine texture loops.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Das Grelle
Gollum TG94 PC intro winner: packed MZ wrapper, adaptive LZ asset decruncher, QIM/IMG picture formats, VGA helper kernels, font atlas, palette fades, and reveal loops.
Deadbeat BBS
Shadow Productions January 1992 MS-DOS 40K BBStro: public Pouet screenshot, PKLITE-family MZ carrier, raw depklite image map, sequencer/graphics-controller setup, and a bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the plane-strip uploads, restore lists, OR-composite rows, four-plane bulk copy, column painter, and tiny bob copy kernels.
1 public screenshot and 2 generated diagnostic maps in the article.
Debut / Debut CD Version
DarkZone RNC/original versus CD bugfix layout, GUS timing markers, 3600-dot morphs, shadebobs, glenz/XOR bitplanes, and tunnel path.
Deep
CNCD and Parallax's Finnish The Gathering 1995 Amiga winner: byte-identical public archives, complete direct silent A1200 run, twelve loadable HUNK parts in two resident batches, hard-disk and two-volume filename selection, shared backward StoneCracker-era depacking, hardware-timed copper/DMA ownership, and P61 replay identifiers.
5 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
Deesbab
Orange The Party 1996 PC 64K winner: direct 320x200 public DOSBox AVI GIFs, RNC1 MZ carrier, 292,150-byte unpacked runtime, embedded S3M/Dune evidence, BLASTER/ULTRASND parser code, retrace/PIT timing, DAC palette uploaders, A000h/offscreen 64K page paths, and runtime-to-code concordance for the particle/blob/tunnel mechanism.
3 direct public DOSBox AVI GIFs, 2 direct AVI stills, and 1 public Pouet screenshot in the article.
Decision In The Desert Cracktro
PTL Club 1987 MS-DOS cracktro: decoded CGA base page and two-frame top-band overlay GIF, decoded-visual-to-code concordance, exact B800 split-bank copy loops, BIOS keyboard gate, PTLLoad wrapper state restore, MAIN.PTL DOS EXEC handoff, and private contact text omission boundary.
1 decoded overlay-loop GIF, 3 same-size decoded stills, 1 contact strip, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Deadline
Purple NAID 1995 100K intro: W. Collis MZ wrapper, high-memory decoder, GUS/module probes, mode-13h setup, A000h write islands, and CRTC timing.
Delirium
Complex's Assembly 1992 Amiga runner-up: original custom disk, direct silent first-half run, documented newer-ROM compatibility boundary, official archival ending, OS-assisted trackdisk loader, six StoneCracker 4.01 streams, two P40B score layouts, copper-timed graphics, and a scripted blitter vector renderer.
5 continuous direct-silent GIFs and 3 continuous official Assembly-archive GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 published.
Delusion
Sonic PC The Party 1992 demo with 1993 Pouet release metadata: DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime title GIF and stills, runtime-to-code concordance for the title, transition/starfield, and delay-vector frames, Sonic PC lineage context, self-loading MZ overlay, Sound Blaster path, Mode X setup, vector loops, shadebobs, plasma, dual scroller, animation, and credits compositor.
5 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 title GIF in the article.
Desert Dream
Kefrens' Gathering 1993 Amiga winner: a complete direct silent two-disk run, corrected ADF and AROS boot boundary, raw MFM trackloader, PP20 depacker, Laxity Tracker modules and replay, music synchronization, and chained effect architecture.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
Destroy Megademo / X-Hausted
Destroy's January 1991 VGA megademo: exact five-child chain; all nine vector-ball model sequences and style/class workloads, Z/Y/X transform, stale-pivot ordering, six-traversal sphere traffic and four-page cleanup; plus an exponential-table polygon engine with guard-inclusive sort counts, fixed edge calls, fill/hidden-line modes, and 24K clear/upload floor.
2 continuous uncropped ten-second direct-runtime GIFs and 1 exact full-frame still; no audio published.
Die Hard Graffiti
TRIAD 11 November 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: public 640x400 text-card frame, blocked Defacto2 binary, 80x25 / 8x16-cell proof, visible CGA/EGA/VGA/Tandy choice semantics, full-page copy, row-fragment, BIOS, box-drawing, key-dispatch, and autodetect loop models, and blocked handoff boundary.
1 public Demozoo still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Dieetti-Intro / Caloriefree Diet Intro
Jeskola!Productions Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: RNC method-1 wrapper, UNP-expanded MZ, planar mode 0Dh, CRTC page flipping, retrace pacing, edge-table span filler, 386 transform helper, scroller state machine, and STMIK Sound Blaster path.
Dimension
RealTech The Party 1994 PC demo, fifth place: revision 0.99 LZEXE versus 1.02 flat 32-bit PMODE/W rewrite, exact 90-record DIM.RES recovery, 83 byte-identical assets, revised morph and AMF payloads, exact S3D meshes and M3D sequences, DSMI setup, and public-video visual concordance.
6 continuous silent public-video GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audio media is published.
Disorder
Halcyon's third-place Juhla 1995 MS-DOS full demo: COMPACK restoration, 1,111-relocation segmented image, exact S3M order/row schedule, five-panel twister, fixed-point woven spans, 36-layer line tunnel, specialized polygon family, 1,024-phase field, 500-point system, recovered late controller and radial ring engine.
5 continuous preservation-video GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
Distance
The Distance Programming Team 1991 MS-DOS demo: direct silent runtime, encrypted payloads, 140-column circular history, three exact 3,360-word A000 scatter maps with ordered collisions, 150-entry/600-port-write palette frames, 23-byte glyph insertion, raw key gates, and 1,199-position ending overlay.
1 continuous direct-runtime GIF plus 2 decoded payload stills in the article.
Dentro
Phoenix The Party 1993 PC 80K intro tail entry: PKLITE MZ wrapper, GUS-only fixed baseport notes, external ProTracker module, MOD-signature table, sparse/truncated sample tail, and emulator graphics-mode transition evidence.
Dole / Darkzone
Rune The Party 1994 PC fast intro third place: PMODE/W LE layout, WATCOM startup, DSIK/MOD sound, raw image assets, planar VGA setup, sprite restore slots, and transparent chunky-to-planar blitter.
D.O.S.
Andromeda's Norwegian Gathering 1992 Amiga runner-up: complete original-disk silent run through the endless authored end scroller, simulated Workbench display architecture, self-depacking Hunk launcher, four StoneCracker banks, canonical ProTracker concordance, copper-timed planar composition, and the final blitter vector engine.
8 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 published.
Double Tetris Cracktro
The Humble Guys December 1990 MS-DOS 8K cracktro: safe 12-second silent opening excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, contact-bearing sidecar/scroller omission boundary, old imploded ZIP member notes, flat packed COM wrapper, `LOADFIX -64` runtime route, first-stage private/UNP restore to 6,787 bytes, checksum gate, and explicit second-layer packed-image boundary.
1 safe silent opening MP4 and 1 direct runtime still in the article; later contact-bearing material is not published.
Dope
Complex TG95 winner: runtime GIF/stills, RNC-packed MZ stage chain, GUS module path, observed effect timeline, VGA/raster setup, 3D matrix/projector, polygon ordering, framebuffer loops, nibble matte, additive overlay, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 6 runtime frames in the article.
Dragnet
Dutch Computer Enterprise 1991 MS-DOS demo: packed MZ stages, CT-VOICE Sound Blaster/DMA, second-stage scheduler, exact 4/8/10-slice text lifetimes, palette loops, and a five-site ownership-safe trail repair with a 4,400-call script period.
1 public reference GIF, 1 public title frame, and 6 public reference frames in the article.
Dream
Jamm's Finnish The Party 1995 runner-up: complete silent direct run, eight restrained continuous GIFs, documented late non-return, PMODE/W, MIDAS/XM timing, resource chunks, VGA fades, fixed-point 3D, painter-sorted faces, and table-driven texture/light spans.
8 direct runtime GIFs in the article.
Dr Dooms Revenge Loader
Miami Cracking Machine 4 May 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro/loader: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, contact-block-redacted frame, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, row-fragment writer, centered title rows, game-list loop, any-key gate, and hidden loader handoff boundary.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Drift
Wild Light 64K intro: WWPACK, PMODE bridge, timer scheduler, palette lerp, fire filter, vector pipeline, waver text, and bit-indexed end scroller.
Drool This
Parallax's Finnish Assembly 1994 AGA demo: complete silent direct run, six restrained GIFs, modular LoadSeg schedule, PAL-frame budgets, real 68040 branch, paired eight-plane screens, texture and voxel phases, and a 62-frame IFF delta animation.
6 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 published.
Drunken
Drunken ROM Group 1991 MS-DOS board intro: fresh silent runtime, EXEPACK restore, one-byte-overrun nibble expander, active-display frame timing, exact seven-row pipelined scroller, and four music-event latches driving static red/blue masks through DAC indexes 0Ch..0Fh.
1 continuous direct-runtime masked GIF and 1 older masked runtime contact sheet.
Dunno
Sorcerers 1990 MS-DOS intro: EXEPACK-style wrapper, VGA text-mode font tricks, Attribute Controller smooth panning scroller, pre-expanded logo/member frame table, per-scanline border color writes, CRTC line-compare motion, PC-speaker tail sample, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 3 runtime frames, and 1 reconstructed still in the article.
DX Project
RealTech Assembly 1995 PC demo: PMODE/W LE runtime, REALTECH95 resource archive, resource-to-renderer concordance, SVGA/VBE 640x480 copy paths, PIT scheduler, C3D/T3D/M3D object pipeline, renderer table builders, and span filler loops.
No thumbnails yet: archive/resource evidence is code-derived and no direct local capture or extracted image asset is present.
Earl Weavers Baseball
PTL Club 4 May 1989 MS-DOS EGA cracktro/loader: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, contact-row-redacted public still, 640x350 mode-10h proof, canonical 16-colour palette histogram, A000h planar model, four-plane clear/copy loops, set/reset span writer, repeated border sprite loop, logo/stripe run tables, bitmap-font text loop, and unresolved WEAVER.ZIP handoff boundary.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Ecargxus
The Norwegian-led Phoney Coders' April 1992 MS-DOS full demo: complete 391.40-second silent no-Roland route, natural DOS return, brick spotlight, wild writer, filled vectors, mechanical engine, movie credits, planar VGA title expansion, dirty compositing, and edge/span filling.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 8 public stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 pipeline map in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Eclipse
Electromotive Force 100K intro, PKLITE unpacking, IRQ timing, planar reveal loops, projected-dot tunnel concordance, PIT-seeded point tables, integer projection/trails, and filled-vector core.
1 DOSBox-X runtime frame in the article; no GIF because only one public runtime frame is published.
The EGA Sinusscroller
Official Version April 1991 MS-DOS demo: restored -OV- LZ carrier, BIOS mode 10h, 72.83 Hz 16-row carry scroller, 400-sample sine, CRTC line-compare sweep, dual 40-slot XOR histories, reflected endpoints, and all-octant planar EGA line walker.
1 continuous direct silent main-screen GIF on the card; the article adds its matching direct 00:58 reference frame.
EKB
Skull November 1992 MS-DOS advert/demo: public Pouet screenshot, DOSBox-X preflight boundary, custom MZ entry wrapper, LZ-style bitstream depacker, relocation repair, 11-entry overlay resource table, 768-byte palette resource, VGA-sized visual resources, and embedded ProTracker module.
1 public intended-effect screenshot, 2 DOSBox-X preflight stills, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article; no generated GIF because these are different capture contexts.
Intro by EMF
Electromotive Force Hornet 1991 catalog entry with 1994 archive evidence: save-state-recovered real-mode body, exact 30x50 / 1,500-point unrolled sineflag, 882-word wave mesh, embedded seven-row flag scroller, three 15-star selective-erase layers, 16x14 page blitter, 881-retrace chrome scheduler, IRQ cleanup, and PKLITE handoff.
1 DOSBox-X no-sound runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because only a composite contact sheet is published.
Electric Gruyere
Da Cheez Brigade NAID 1995 demo: unreal-mode XMS setup, SNIBB/PSYKE data expansion, palette ramps, byte depth spans, and VGA plane expansion.
Elements
Xography mega-demo unpacking, vector balls, tube renderer, and end-loop analysis.
Extension
Pygmy Projects' Assembly 1993 Amiga winner: byte-identical archive routes, fixed-offset disk boot map, near-exact file-version payload concordance, fourteen music-position effect sections, blitter/copper handoffs, and packed CIA-timed four-channel replay.
8 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264 video.
Extremes
Byterapers' Assembly 1995 C64 winner: independent D64 and ZipCode preservation, true-drive loading, complete silent runtime, transformation-led direction, raster-span solid rendering, and the explicit Jate/Jeskola picture credit.
8 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Even Better Than The Real Thing!
The Phoney Coders' September 1992 Swedish MS-DOS multipart demo: complete silent interactive runtime coverage, verified loader return, exact five-child mapping, PKLITE/UNP parts, unchained VGA, CRTC reveals, sine and giant scrollers, Zax edge/span vectors, and closing movie credits.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 8 public stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 pipeline map in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Evil
CSG Productions September 1992 MS-DOS demo: Hornet evil.zip archive, late-entry packed MZ carrier, copied LZ-style depacker, relocation repair, VGA gate, Sound Blaster DSP probe, unchained VGA setup, transparent planar picture blitter, CRTC and attribute fine-pan scroller, palette rings, PIT/keyboard hooks, and CT-VOICE-style sound wrappers.
1 generated technical map in the article.
Evolution Graffiti
Spartacus 1 March 1986 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence with bounded visual-to-code concordance, public-safe frames, 320x200 odd/even B800h bank model, packed 2bpp masks, full-screen clear/copy loops, span writer, logo reveal variants, small bitmap text, palette remap, retrace wait, and keyboard/delay gate.
2 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
F40 Interceptor Loader
PTL Club 19 June 1989 MS-DOS text-mode loader: source-limited Demozoo/Scene.org/Defacto2 evidence, board-list-redacted public still, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, CP437 box helper, row-fragment STOSW writer, centered title rows, warning/prompt rows, BIOS key gate, and unverified F40 handoff boundary.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
F40 Pursuit Simulator Loader
New York Crackers 12 July 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: public 720x400 Demozoo text page with bounded visual-to-code concordance, 80x25 9x16 text-cell proof, green NYC block-logo mask loop, B800h page-copy alternative, table-driven box/string writer, road-course line-art model, face-record writer, ANSI/batch alternative, and key-gate handoff boundary.
1 public still and 1 generated layout map in the article.
A Necromancer Demo
Fairlight March 1992 MS-DOS intro: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the partial local probe, public Pouet GIF, generated code map, PKLITE CS=FFF0h carrier, FLT-SND loader, direct VGA setup, DAC/PIT/retrace control, glyph/rectangle helpers, overlays, and the recovered C0F5 transparent planar blitter.
Public Pouet screenshot, local startup probe contact sheet, generated runtime/code map, and bounded concordance in the article.
Envy
The Clan X 1995 PC intro: PKLITE MZ layout, unchained VGA setup, CRTC page starts, palette fades, fixed-point transforms, face sorting, and environment-map span loops.
Eradicator
Groundzero The Party 1993 PC 80K intro: normal MZ with custom relocation/copy front end, GUS-only NFO claim, internal ECHO.MOD and GUS Module Player v0.15 markers, palette-DAC setup, and graphics-mode transition probe.
Expression
Abstract Concepts X 1995 PC demo runner-up: inline public Demozoo screenshot-sequence GIF/stills, documented private DOSBox-X/ZMBV shell-only boundary, PKLITE MZ, ACR resource seeks, external S3M/GUS player, 70 Hz timer callbacks, active-band VGA filters, object transforms, face buckets, solid/additive spans, and terrain strips.
1 public screenshot-sequence GIF and 9 public PNG stills in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
E:XTRA
The Serpent The Gathering 1994 PC demo second place: BV2 decoder, wall texture slicing, path playback, grid collision, fixed-point wall spans, dirty columns, and palette fades.
Exodus
Sorcerers 1991 MS-DOS intro: prepared 79-row logo, generated perspective floor, exact 32-slot two-state radial dot field, deterministic respawn generator, collision-aware one-pixel cleanup, animated DAC ramp, scroller-shift address compensation and clean keyboard/mode handoff.
1 continuous direct no-music runtime GIF in the article; no audio, embedded video, or retained/published H.264/MP4 asset.
Facts of Life
Witan launcher/stager, LZEXE part chain, Mode X plane loaders, SB/GUS house-part RLE renderer, and final text compositor.
Faktory
Virtual Dreams' all-Nordic third-place The Party 1995 AGA demo: complete direct silent original runtime, editorial effect windows, intentional four-way scenes, stable end image, and a 704-byte overlay loader expanding five exact segments totalling 2,569,360 bytes.
4 direct-runtime and 8 supplementary video-only reference GIFs; no audio or published embedded video.
The Fascinating Nature of Moon
Orange Documents December 1995 MS-DOS/GUS intro: Scene.org archive hashes, safe INF.O/DIZ identity, direct public-video full-frame GIF/still evidence, monochrome card-player timeline, recovered loading/decrunching animation text, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite -d raw payload boundary, GUS port selector, module-format probes, Orange Documents credit strings, and runtime-to-code concordance for the 0xfa00 work buffer, 0x300-byte grey DAC upload, table-directed frame selector, 1-bit packed-frame expander, retrace pacing, keyboard controls, and A0000h full-frame blit.
2 direct public-video GIFs, 6 direct public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet PNG in the article.
Fastro / Party5
Fabulous Furlough 15 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: public 720x400 monochrome Demozoo still, 80x25 / 9x16 VGA text-cell proof, double-line framed header, centered strings, key-prompt boundary, and explicit no-binary/no-key-loop boundary.
1 public still and 1 generated text-screen layout map in the article.
Fakir Animation
Ultraforce April 1990 MS-DOS animation: decoded DeluxePaint ANM stills, stock EA PLAY.EXE boundary, exact LPF page/read and record-table workload, RunSkipDump byte/word inner loops, aggregate copy/fill/skip ledger, stop-only timing frames, repaint spike, loop repair, and mode-13h player path.
5 decoded ANM stills and 1 timeline contact sheet in the article.
Falling
CSG 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: Hornet archive, Sound Blaster setup prompt, indexed falling-man/radial picture, palette-phase runtime GIF, independent bottom credit strip, MZ wrapper, LZ91 depacker, relocation restore, far transfer, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF, 8 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Fiction
Force II The Party 1993 low-table PC demo: MASM loader, five GoldPlay executor shells, twelve MZ parts in .4C2 files, FD load-block assets, six M.K. modules, direct VGA/register markers, and Covox/SB/SB Pro/speaker setup.
Fighting for something
JapoTek Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, 10th-place result with title-spelling boundary, private dummy-audio DOSBox-X mode-switch boundary, public-video fight/VR-room/object/vase GIFs, slow Demozoo still sequence, PMODE/W LE executable, JPlay sound strings, JPK/JDIR resource directories, four JPlay module blocks, and JE3D7 scene/object/material names.
4 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, 19 Demozoo stills, and 1 1Hz Demozoo sequence GIF in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Finkel
Jamm The Party 1994 PC 64K third-place intro: RNC/PMODE payload, KPMI/GUS path, chunky rotozoom, planar point cloud, CRTC image scrolls, unrolled polygon spans, and morphing particle text.
Assembly '92 Invitation (Fishtro)
Future Crew 1992 MS-DOS invitation: corrected DOSBox-X fish-scene GIF/stills from verified FISHTRO.EXE with 486/Silence setup, runtime-to-code concordance for the continuous aquarium loop, oversized MZ payload, runtime memory carve, unchained VGA setup, RLE row decoder, palette reveal/rotation, fish-script choreography, object field, Scream Tracker module data, and timer-driven audio paths.
1 runtime GIF, 10 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Floorshow
Digital Stimulation's June 1991 MS-DOS intro: PKLITE 1.03 carrier, exact 64,000-byte background RLE, 38 collision-safe stars, two-pixel 16-row scroller, retrace gate, and a checker floor animated entirely by four palette-pair swaps per frame.
1 continuous uncropped twelve-second direct-runtime GIF and 1 exact full-frame still; silent and limited to the early title/credit interval.
Eurasia 1st N64 Intro (Fistro)
Separate 1998 Nintendo 64 intro: public-video text-loop GIF and runtime-to-code concordance, V64 byte order, N64 runtime setup, scene tile parser, double-buffered display lists, RSP/RDP submission, RGB555 framebuffer morph loop, VI update path, and texture/logo phase.
1 public-video sequence GIF, 8 timestamped public-video frames, 1 full-scene reference, and detail crops in the article.
Funny
CSG Productions November 1992 MS-DOS demo: Hornet funny.zip archive, late-entry MZ carrier, copied depacker, Unicorn restore boundary, reconstructed Foundation asset frame, VGA/Sound Blaster gate, CT-VOICE and STMIK 0.2 audio paths, CRTC strip update, palette fades, PIT/keyboard hooks, bottom bars, and 13ED FEh-transparent planar blitter.
1 reconstructed frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Frogger 2 Cracktro
Software Pirates Inc. 1987 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: self-XOR COM body, masked CGA title/ad page, byte-stream RLE to B800h, STEAL 2 SPI container, sector table, startup patches, vector save/restore, INT 13h disk emulator, and Ctrl-Alt-Del escape wrapper.
3 masked/reference image embeds in the article.
Frantic
Confusion 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: public screenshot reference, CONFIG.EXE sound setup, raw keyboard gate, mode-13h-to-unchained-VGA transition, dynamic part-file loader, planar picture reader, CRTC column feed, bytecode strip renderer, palette fades, blitters, timer audio paths, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot in the article.
Friday the 13th
Crack Rat of T.B.S. 1991 MS-DOS cracktro/sound-demo splash: runtime-to-code concordance for the short title/failure contact sheet, self-reading MZ overlay, tagged MAING/ANIMA/MOD1 resources, CRC-checked inflater, mode-13h palette fade, point/RLE animation helpers, and Sound Blaster DMA mixer path.
1 DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because the published capture only proves the short title/failure path.
From My Heart
Halcyon Abduction 1996 MS-DOS demo: debugger-recovered WWPACK image, Tran PMODE boundary, exact six-stream PAH delta/RLE codec, 160x100 interpolation, four-page feedback, packed temporal filter, affine texture sampler, two indexed triangle paths, palette morphs and explicit order/row dispatcher.
4 locally decoded continuous PAH GIFs and 3 exact SCX resources in the article; one untiled front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Frustration
Orange August 1996 MS-DOS musicdisk: Scene.org archive hashes, direct public 320x240 Pouet screenshot, public-still-to-code concordance, six S3M modules by Cybelius, first-stage MZ plus nested PKLITE player boundary, hard-coded module/menu strings, MIDAS v0.40 setup text, ULTRASND/BLASTER evidence, and no-fake-animation boundary.
1 direct public Pouet screenshot in the article; no GIF because the production is a static musicdisk menu.
Fluid Motion
Valhalla TG95 PC 64K winner: complete direct no-sound runtime, released Setup-to-DemoVT chain, RNC shell, timer IRQ, mode-13h buffers, vector preprocessing, 3D projection, flat spans, and unrolled texture loops.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Full Moon
Virtual Dreams / Fairlight's The Party 1993 Amiga demo runner-up: complete direct AGA run, one-file Titanics-family streaming wrapper, framed corridor, rapid image and vector transformations, long layered greetings, and three-score runtime structure.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no tiled previews or online-video frames.
Flexible
Massive Wired 1995 PC 64 KB intro third place: WWPACK loader, generated radial maps, text blitter, palette fades, morphing object vectors, normal math, and unrolled texture spans.
Fleet
Fleet Assembly 1993 100K intro: custom setup, self-decoding nested-MZ loader, integrity check, module-packer evidence, verified 3D, bobs, fractal landscape, house vector, moviescroll, and cycle-sensitive flicker note.
Flight
Kosmic NAID 1995 third-place demo: runtime-to-code concordance for the setup UI, opening preload, bundled GIF/CMP/LZW assets, WGT resource sets, DSIK DSM module gates, FPU 3D projection/draw path, planet/terminal switch, road map sampler, full-frame copy, and VGA/DAC loops.
FLI
Realtime Wired 1995 PC 4K third place: LZEXE wrapper, timer and keyboard IRQ hooks, work segments, palette tables, diffusion pass, segment strips, recursive map generation, and self-patched fractal spans.
Fyvush
Jamm Assembly 1994 64K intro: RNC loader, GUS setup, tweaked VGA helpers, raster Hellraiser cube, planar texture columns, rotozoom, and final text fades.
Galactic Conqueror Cracktro
PTL Club 23 February 1989 source-limited MS-DOS EGA cracktro: contact-row-redacted Demozoo frame, 640x350 mode-10h proof, A000h four-plane addressing, sequencer map-mask copy loop, packed-picture decode models, key-gate handoff, and blocked Defacto2 artifact boundary.
1 redacted EGA frame and 1 generated planar display map in the article.
Galaxian Graffiti
Koyote Kid catalogue-derived 1984 MS-DOS cracktro: public Demozoo/RGstation frame evidence, Defacto2/RGstation binary-access boundary, palette variants, likely 320x200 RGBI/CGA-style display, static title/menu layout, and probable F1/F2 keyboard dispatch.
Public Demozoo/RGstation stills, contact sheet, and generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is untimed static states.
Gear Demo
Careless + Sonic Inc. + The Brain Slayer March 1992 MS-DOS intro: public Demozoo references, timestamped DOSBox-X phase frames, bounded runtime-to-code/package concordance, hand-built SONIC! MZ wrapper, LOADG/MAING packed payload, bitstream depacker, relocation repair, credit-card/reveal/main-loop phases, and bounded starfield/gear/scroller reconstruction.
6 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 2 Demozoo stills, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Genghis Khan Cracktro
PTL Club 27 December 1988 MS-DOS batch-wrapper cracktro: Scene.org archive, RUNME.BAT command stream, TITLE.PTL CP437 page, 640x400-to-80x25 text proof, TYPE read/write loop, CON CR/LF/cell model, PAUSE prompt merge, KHAN external-command handoff boundary, and contact-row-redacted public still.
1 public-safe still and 1 generated technical map in the article.
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Surprise! Productions' The Party 1993 runner-up: MyLZ depacker, resource table, GUS loader, DOSBox-X/Xvfb early and continuation captures, runtime-to-code concordance for intro/title motion, Mode X plane loops, plasma compositor, vector lines, checker/object clips, dot tunnel, and greetings scroller.
8 runtime stills, 2 contact sheets, and 7 short GIFs in the article.
Goldorak
Real-Time SIH 1995 PC demo winner: LZEXE front, FBOV overlay tail, XMS staging, fixed-point 3D, span fillers, VGA plane transfers, and GUS S3M playback.
Grand Prix Circuit: The Cycles Cracktro
Future Brain Incorporated 16 November 1989 MS-DOS/EGA cracktro: direct 10-second silent opening excerpt, contact-adjacent scroller cutoff, MZ entry hijack, original-game restore far jump, EGA/VGA probe, CGA fallback, widened CRTC stride, planar logo copy, ROM BIOS 8x8 font renderer, RCL carry-chain scroller, CRTC start-address motion, palette cycling, and keyboard-gated handoff.
1 safe silent opening MP4, 1 direct runtime still, 1 public title reference, and 1 generated execution map in the article.
GR8
Future Crew 1989/1990 PC demo: native red text-ring motion, 64 parsed vector glyphs, exact scaled-1000 transform costs, 11..125-call same-row gap-filling line work, six-OUT thick pixels, 32,000 plane-byte background restore, 48-divide stars, retrace page flips, and dormant linked PIT code.
1 fast runtime GIF and 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Gremlins Loader
Silicon Valley Swappe Shoppe June 1986 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: decoded raw CGA title page, COM file map, GREMLINS.BIN five-chunk DOS read loop, second-stage 0000:0600 bootstrap, low-memory image moves, PSP-like segment-zero setup, floppy DOR write, and missing-payload boundary.
1 binary-decoded CGA page and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the visible wrapper screen is static before the key gate.
Greentro
Keen Like Frogs TCC 1993 PC demo: 360x240 tweaked VGA, GoldPlay module path, TRIBUTE/X-ROAD loaders, four-plane blitters, vector-ball projection, LFD palette equalizer, and centered scaler.
Hard Hat Mack Graffiti
The Duplicators 21 August 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, four-colour RGBI/CGA palette evidence, title/credit/sprite/footer region map, and raw-page/RLE/text-sprite implementation models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Hardball 2 Cracktro
The FiRM 3 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, direct INT 21h IVT install, 64K resident block, XOR 66h DOS text screens, EGAVERS.Frm EXEC handoff, AH=4Bh hook gate, paragraph child-memory scanner, sparse 80 36 ?? ?? 63 39 pattern, exact patch bytes, and one-shot tail-chain boundary.
2 public Demozoo screens and 1 generated COM/INT 21h scanner map in the article.
Have You Seen My Ham?
Orange May 1994 MS-DOS/GUS 100K intro: public-still-to-code concordance, Scene.org archive hashes, public Pouet still, PKLITE/UNP parent launcher, embedded not.mod and waveo.exe extraction, child PKLITE expansion, GUS-only prompt, mouse INT 33h path, mode-13h setup, VGA retrace/DAC/A000h evidence, story/writer script, and explicit no-fake-GIF capture boundary.
1 public Pouet screenshot in the article; local DOSBox-X prompt captures are documented but not used as page media.
Headbanger's Ball
Access Denied March 1992 MS-DOS demo: decoded 768-byte-palette plus 64,000-byte DAT screens, timestamped splash frames, public vector-ball still, machine-speed object scaling, VOC/SB evidence, palette cycling, glyph-column scroller, and shaped ball/span loops.
1 sparse splash GIF, 3 runtime splash frames, decoded DAT stills, public vector-ball references, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Heavy Barrel Loader
Corporation for Public Cybercasting 2001 16 July 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: blocked Defacto2 binary, lower contact block redacted, large yellow Heavy Barrel title wordmark, low-colour title-card model, Motocross relationship, and explicit no-binary/no-copy-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Heartquake
Iguana's third-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: complete direct silent run, DemoVT shell/module regions, 65-entry resource bank, PMODE sidecars, source-confirmed landscape raycaster, morphs, and finite-difference water credits.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs plus the earlier public reference stills.
Heaven
Barti!/NoooN Assembly 1995 PC 4K runner-up: self-relocating COM, generated sine/fractal/tunnel tables, DOSBox-X runtime capture, runtime-to-code concordance for the cloud landscape, 64,000-pixel tunnel, torus, triple-donut clips, frame-counter timeline, and depth-tested spans.
4 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 4 short GIFs in the article.
Hellraiser
The Megabusters' 8th-place The Party 1994 PC demo: exact archive and MZ boundary, INT 50h resident GUS system, four soundtrack offsets, complete seventeen-child directory, byte-run/literal decompressor, segment fixups, controller sequence, and silent continuous visual evidence.
7 continuous silent Pouet-linked video GIFs in the article; direct dummy-audio GUS timing boundary documented.
Hex Appeal
Cascada's 1993 Swedish full demo: authenticated archive, chained-MZ loader, XMS staging, texture-cube projection, slimy panner internals, and a complete native-silent direct run.
8 direct silent runtime GIFs in the article.
Hi!
HikariWarriors 13 April 1991 MS-DOS demo: unpacked Turbo Pascal MZ, unchained 320x400 page reveal, 75 collision-aware stars in four speed tiers, saved-background sparkle, 180-block planar typewriter, independent DAC clocks, and CT-VOICE DMA sample chaining.
1 continuous direct silent main-screen GIF on the card; the article adds 1 matching direct loader still.
High Pressure
US / Razmaid and The Specialist NAID 1995 100K intro: PKLITE launcher, six embedded child MZs, S3M/GUS setup, Graphic Workshop stills, sprite mover, fire/text masks, Turbo C/x87 Julia differencing, and archive-to-code concordance.
Higher Desire
Miracle Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, sixth-place result, private muted DOSBox-X selector/mode-switch boundary, public-video GIF evidence, custom protected-mode kernel strings, GUS/Silence replay selector, VESA note, large appended data body, raycasted world, reflected object, vector, and Gouraud subsystem concordance.
3 public-video GIFs, 3 public-video stills, and 1 Demozoo still in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Hyla
Onyx Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: Borland MZ with self-read overlay, embedded ProTracker MOD, Sound Blaster/Covox paths, direct VGA setup, rotating wireframe text show, and PIC interval compatibility trap.
Hysteric Overload
Finnish Hysteria's Assembly 1992 PC demo: complete direct silent loop through the checker floor, extruded HSA form, cube, pencil, colored deforming solids, credits and authored restart, with PKLITE/data-loader and planar VGA/filled-vector concordance.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Holistic
Cascada VR Section's Assembly 1994 full demo: complete direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, protected-mode and paging launcher, named CDADAT object resources, POF families, environment-map evidence, exact SCX planar ring-scroller code, and correctly identified audio mixer loops.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Huge Crowd
NoooN and Orange The Party 1996 MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, Compack carrier, UNP-expanded 252 KB PMODE/W runtime, XMS/A20 requirement evidence, Mode 13h startup, timer/music-position scene gate at 0x4f6f, A000h 64K frame copies, 3DAh retrace wait, palette-table blending, mapper/editor remnants, direct public-video GIF/still analysis, and runtime-to-code concordance.
2 public-video GIFs, 4 public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Icefever
Xpose The Gathering 1994 PC demo third place: PKLITE/resource footer, TakeTracker 12-channel module, unchained VGA planes, CH4 planar assets, 386 blit/clear, fixed-point spans, and table-driven interference.
Illumination
Yodel The Party 1995 PC intro runner-up: PKLITE real-mode MZ, generated textures and blend tables, YMS timer path, tweaked planar VGA, self-patched triangle spans, and object scene callbacks.
Images
Epical Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo, 5th in the PC competition: complete direct silent main route, bounded direct space route, externally captured runtime motion, decompressed RNC2 carriers with restored handoff/player/credit records, two S3M data files, and 66 decoded GIF87a resources in SPACE.DAT.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 5 decoded SPACE.DAT resources in the article; no MP4/H.264 or audio media is published.
INC World
International Network of Crackers 1989/1990 CGA cracktro: timestamped DOSBox-X frames, embedded Megaton Man metadata, CGA mode-4 setup, unrolled title/credit byte-store renderers, hand-unrolled 13-frame ornament loop, speed presets, keyboard delay controls, exit text path, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 3 CGA runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Inconexia
Iguana + VangeliSTeam 1993 MS-DOS demo: DemoVT shell chain, source-backed VGA/timer loops, bouncing balls, mirrorball, plasma scroller, spiral, starfield, and fire credits.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Cracktro
New York Crackers 3 August 1989 source-limited MS-DOS text-page cracktro: public Demozoo 640x400 frame, 80x25 proof, white/black band layout, coloured cell-art title, B800h char/attribute model, page-copy and RLE-cell decode loops, ANSI alternative, and key-gate handoff.
1 public text-page frame and 1 generated layout map in the article.
Into the Dark
Halcyon Demolition 1996 MS-DOS winner: debugger-recovered WWPACK image, rotated S3M order-row clock, nine RIX3 resources, seven specialized scene blocks, procedural noise, instanced cube history, packed-page composites, self-patched texture kernels, Q10 geometry, generated radial lighting, timer palette interpolation, and five-tap feedback.
5 continuous video-only reference GIFs and 1 locally decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Innuendo
Halcyon Juhla 1996 MS-DOS demo: restored PMODE/W MZ, mixed-dimension RIX3 texture/light/font bank, complete S3M order-row schedule, six specialized copies of a fixed-point mesh engine, Q10 transforms, perspective projection, signed-area culling, stable 15-bit face radix sort, 16.16 triangle setup, and compact affine texture spans.
5 continuous video-only reference GIFs and 1 locally decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Ishido
The Humble Guys 1990 MS-DOS 16K cracktro/loader: direct silent gears-loader runtime excerpt, archive/NFO contact-material boundary, MZ/LZEXE v0.91 carrier, packed-entry depacker map, visible TASM/source-label fragments, mode-13h setup evidence, central gear animation, red bottom scroller, and video-only publication path.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Instant
Xtacy The Party 1993 PC intro: PKLITE-packed MZ, package/ranking conflict, depacker bitstream and back-reference loops, visible mode-13h VGA setup, sound-output labels, effect text, and packed tables.
Intro 1
Sorcerers April 1989 MS-DOS 32K intro: Pascal runtime, B800/B000 text-mode framebuffer selection, BIOS video-state setup, safe opening DOSBox-X frames/GIF, overlap-safe rectangle mover, bit-column text renderer, phase counters, 03DAh-paced FastMove loops, keyboard exit, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 2 direct DOSBox-X runtime frames, and 1 generated pipeline map in the article.
Intro 2
Sorcerers May 1989 MS-DOS 16K intro: Pascal runtime, DESQview guard, text-mode B800/B000 backend, moving 9-row flash band, overlap-safe rectangle mover, unrolled byte-stream column renderer, phase-triggered wide fills, BIOS keyboard-flag poke, high-rate INT 08h one-bit speaker tail, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 3 direct DOSBox-X runtime frames, and 1 generated pipeline map in the article.
JJ Demo
CodeBlasters 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: TCB/RIX depacker, ProTracker module, sound-device selector, RIX screens, shadowed mode-13h glyph pages, tweaked CRTC/sequencer setup, two-plane strip scroller, DAC fades, LPT/Sound Blaster/internal speaker paths, and runtime/archive-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 5 runtime frames, 1 runtime contact sheet, and 1 decoded RIX contact sheet in the article.
Internal Damage
Electromotive Force PKLITE runtime, recovered VGA code island, menu RLE, keyboard IRQ, projected-dot loops, planar strip renderers, and text compositor.
Just
Legend Design Wired 1995 PC demo runner-up: PMODE/W PMW1 layout, PBP resource loading, tweaked VGA setup, feedback texture maps, planar page flips, and DSIK/S3M playback.
Jouluporno 96
Orange and Complex December 1996 MS-DOS invitation: Scene.org archive hashes, direct public-video GIF/still slices, dedicated siwa-sync title-motion GIF, DOS4GW LE object table, DATAFILE.DAT resource names, MIDAS/MOD evidence, VESA errors, VGA retrace/DAC/PIT support, and runtime-to-code concordance for the title gag snapping to the sample-loop timing and reversing direction.
3 direct public-video GIFs, 4 direct public-video stills, and 1 public Pouet screenshot in the article.
Juhla 95 Invitation
Crypton and Orange January 1995 MS-DOS/GUS invitation: Scene.org archive hashes, public Pouet screenshot, Xvfb-observed DOSBox Der Piipo runtime theme GIF/still, package map GIF, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite raw protected-mode boundary, runtime-to-code/package concordance, embedded Finnish/English page scripts, GUS I/O selector loop, custom keyboard ISR, one-shot key reader, SPACE-driven graphics/theme state flip, ESC scan-code exit, GUSPLAY/PMODE credits, and bounded no-proof-yet note for distinct selectable visual themes.
1 runtime theme GIF, 1 runtime still, 1 direct public Pouet screenshot, and 1 package map GIF in the article.
Juhla '95 Part 2.5 Invitation
Orange June 1995 MS-DOS invitation: public-still-to-code concordance, Scene.org archive hashes, direct Pouet screenshot, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite raw protected-mode boundary, 386/VCPI/DPMI/A20 startup evidence, embedded Finnish invite text, WAYPOINT.S3M, GUS/ProTracker strings, and explicit no-fabricated-GIF boundary.
1 direct public Pouet screenshot in the article; no GIF because no trusted motion source was found.
Jump
Public NMI The Party 1992 MS-DOS demo: public Demozoo stills, timestamped DOSBox-X direct-part GIF/frames, runtime-to-code concordance for the DOS batch executable chain, GoldPlay setup path, BOBS plane-selected vectorball sprite stamps and DAC fade, LANDSCAP projection/planar-dot/dirty-list loops, SBOBS unrolled additive shadebobs, and UMDREH text-mode rotate finale.
1 direct-part runtime GIF, 6 runtime frames, and 4 public stills in the article.
Jungle Hunt Cracktro
PTL Club 7 December 1987 MS-DOS cracktro: decoded CGA page, exact CS:0f80 to B800:0000 16 KB word-copy loop, BIOS key gate, PTLLoad wrapper state restore, HUNT.PTL DOS EXEC handoff, and private contact text omission boundary.
1 binary-decoded CGA page and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the visible payload is static before the key gate.
Karma
Halcyon Scenario 1995 MS-DOS demo: intact relocatable MZ, exact RIX3 and 4-bit picture/animation formats, six H!V triangle meshes, MIDAS order-row schedule, fixed-point matrix transforms, signed-area culling, stable 13-bit face radix sort, scanline edge tables, and paired-pixel affine texture spans.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one untiled static front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
Knights Of Legend Cracktro
The Humble Guys 23 January 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public Demozoo colour-bar frame, 512-byte MZ header, single relocation into DS setup, pre-code string segment, inline BIOS text renderer, 107 repeated-cell writes, six DOS strings, key gate, RETF-to-PSP exit, and dead Start.exe handoff data boundary.
1 public frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Kings Of The Beach Cracktro
The FiRM 17 March 1989 MS-DOS loader shell: jump-over version banner, fixed stack, BIOS mode 02h setup, DOS 09h CP437 greeting print, INT 23h Ctrl-Break hook, BIOS key gate, memory resize, EXEC parameter block, vbgen handoff, and dormant template-code boundary.
2 images
The Firm Loader (1)
The FiRM August 1989 MS-DOS loader: state/IVT save-restore, display detector, CP437 coordinate-stream logo renderer, CGA-safe cell writer, blink redraw loop, INT 08h/09h/23h hooks, symmetric filename mutator, decoded gitum.000 EXEC handoff, and visual/archive-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot, 1 decoded screen, and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Kaare
Kaare Productions' 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: PKLITE restoration, EFX/STMIK ownership, exact DAC fade traffic, scanline-114 CRTC split and four-byte start bounce, 20 collision-guarded marker lifecycles, duplicated-lookahead 7x7/shaped paths, and bounded overlap-safe 6,400-byte curve-window shifts.
The King of the Round Table
Zwilight Tone TG94 PC intro second place: RNC inline key, virtual INT 21h music file, GUS cue table, CP437 block pages, Mode 13h gradient bands, and planar CRTC page flips.
Lakers vs Celtics and NBA Playoffs Cracktro
North American Pirate-Phreak Association September 1989 MS-DOS cracktro/info card: INC cross-listing note, compact MZ wrapper, Pascal short-string ANSI title card, relocated far-call write sequence, CP437 logo rows, runtime text-output path, and no preserved game handoff.
1 reconstructed ANSI screen and 1 generated runtime map in the article.
Late Easter '92
Sonic PC June 1992 MS-DOS demo: public-still-to-code concordance, first-demo lineage context toward Delusion/Plan-B, dlz0 packed MZ carriers, Borland C loader/config UI, helper child handoff, mode-13h first-part palette/wipe/object/star/text loops, unchained VGA main part, STMIK 0.20 S3M sound path, planar blitters, script dispatcher, and DAC palette rings.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated pipeline map in the article; the screenshot is mapped to the first VGA child, not treated as runtime-video proof.
Licence To Kill
The FiRM 10 December 1989 MS-DOS cracktro loader: packed MZ hidden behind BOND.COM, reusable FIRM.SCR graphic sidecar, full/empty BOND.FRM archive split, FiRMLOADER-2 backward B0/B2 stream, relocation repair, command-tail E/T mode scan, INT 03h proxy/boundary, state snapshots, display/timing probes, protected decoder boundary, and packed child MZ stub.
1 public FiRM screen and 1 generated packed-loader map in the article.
Lasse Reinbong
Cubic Team / $eeN The Party 1995 PC intro winner: direct DOSBox-X runtime sequence, runtime-to-code concordance for reversefire/showpresent/vectorface/multimap/braid/late-credit phases, PMODE/W PMW1 payload, Watcom C++ runtime, IRQ/PIT music timing, fire diffusion, self-patched rotozoom blocks, polygon spans, procedural meshes, and wobble/tunnel renderers.
1 runtime GIF and 9 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Legend
Impact Studios The Party 1993 PC demo: custom MZ overlay loader, LZ depacker, twenty-six child blocks, GUS module payloads, planar picture copies, FLI packets, projected dots, polygon page flips, and generated texture masks.
Lethal Display 5
Bonzai The Party 1994 PC demo: direct silent beta runtime, documented competition crash, December preview versus May final package comparison, rebuilt PKLITE launcher, enlarged FILELINK sidecar, Walt MTM player identity, revised eight-channel Trap module, and period DOS/GUS troubleshooting.
5 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; explicit imagery is excluded.
Less is More
The Humanoid NAID 1995 100K intro winner: restored real-mode Mode 13h executable, hardcoded GUS-at-240h path, timer script, morphing dolphin, shaded/textured triangle fillers, span-clear trail, final tunnel writer, and static code-path concordance.
Lifeforms
Halcyon's Juhla 1995 2.5 PC demo third place: verified Finnish credits, complete direct silent DOSBox-X run, intentional rotating end tableau, W. Collis unpacking, nine RIX pages, XMS page moves, palette fades, reverse nonzero overlays, disk/span helpers, S3M order gates, mesh transform/projection, and fixed-point textured triangle spans.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, contact sheet, H.264/MP4, or third-party footage.
Lion
Epsilon Wired 1995 PC 4K winner: custom COM depacker, generated wave and texture tables, unrolled warp sampler, precomputed source field, rotating mesh, normal setup, and self-patched textured spans.
Little Green Men
Kosmic Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, ninth-place result, private dummy-audio DOSBox-X music-setup boundary, public-video rocket/marching/tunnel GIFs, slow Demozoo still sequence, PMODE/W MZ stub plus PMW1 overlay, WGT/setup strings, LGM.KOS sprite/GIF87a/WGT-font signatures, and separate S3M payload.
3 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, 12 Demozoo stills, and 1 1Hz Demozoo sequence GIF in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Locomotion
Onyx Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: PKLITE/UNP layout, self-read overlay assets, Mode X setup, RLE expander, planar blitters, palette stepper, particle loop, and fixed-point projection/fill paths.
Logical Thoughts
TDS Inc. The Party 1993 PC demo: PKLITE launcher, TDS decompression routine, embedded MZ chunks, RIX3 320x200 images, TDS-wrapped FAR music modules, and GUS-only setup evidence.
LO-RES
Marty Smith May 1984 MS-DOS demo: source-limited public screenshot pass over the CGA 160x100 sixteen-colour text-mode trick, two-pixel B800 cells, half-block glyph encoding, read-modify-write pixel stores, clear/span/line/circle loop models, and function-key demo shape.
1 public screenshot contact sheet and 1 generated CGA cell map in the article; no GIF because no runnable binary is currently available.
Lombard RAC Rally Cracktro
Future Brain Incorporated 29 April 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: packed MZ backward unpacker, restored entry hijack, original-game far-jump restore, EGA/VGA probe, mode-0Dh planar artwork, BIOS ROM-font RCL scroller, CRTC line-compare control, floppy-control port twiddle, CGA mode-06h fallback, split-bank CGA blitter, and keyboard-gated handoff.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated execution map in the article.
Lost in Space
HMD PC Section The Party 1993 PC demo ninth place: GUS-aware loader, 13-part DOS chain, LZEXE children, raw VGA pages, 8-channel module, 32-bit buffer copies, and PART5 moving-field renderer.
Luminous
Scoop TG95 PC demo runner-up: DOS/4GW launcher, PMODE/W parts, raw DSM/BMP/PCX assets, palette fades, planar VGA upload, textured polygon spans, and end scroller.
Lunatic
Extreme Computer Crossroad 1993 PC demo runner-up: public screenshot concordance for RNC-packed MZ shell, self-reading tail chunks, RLE expander, VGA retrace waits, planar blitters, span fills, DAC fades, CRTC page flips, vector helpers, and MOD replay setup.
1 screenshot-sequence GIF and 15 public PNG stills in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
M&D Demo
The Cat and Soc. Brigade July 1991 MS-DOS demo: source-matched double wrappers, ET4000 panorama loader, 64-point six-phase field, packed-font two-pixel scroller, 158 scanline commands, selective old-phase point-ring erasure, destructive 8x72-bit text serializer, and PIT-driven mixer/tone inner loops.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 3 exact direct stills, and 1 decoded PBM panorama in the article.
Mach 3
UltraForce catalog-1989/1990-build Sound Blaster musicdisk: live-state-backed 8x320 title-band carry scroller, exact EGA geometry and ROM-font menu, CT-VOICE ready-gate failure boundary, eleven 10 kHz voice blocks, two-byte sample-loader holes, text-song scheduler, raw-key latch, beatbox policy, and complete teardown.
1 verified DOSBox-X EGA startup still in the article; no GIF because only one useful graphics frame was captured.
Magic Carpet
Keen Like Frogs Wired 1995 PC 64 KB intro winner: frame-derived orbital/title and terrain-flyover sequence, RNC wrapper, temp DOS32 executable, palette remap tables, diamond-square height maps, fixed-point 3D, texture stamps, feedback frame writer, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 runtime GIF and 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Magic Johnson's Basketball Cracktro
The Grand Council 7 April 1989 MS-DOS .BAT cracktro: Scene.org ZIP hashes, RUNME.BAT command-interpreter path, GRAND.CRK text streaming, CP437 ECHO table rows, PAUSE key gate, missing mj payload boundary, distribution sidecar separation, and public redaction of old contact material.
1 redacted reconstructed screen and 1 generated flow map in the article.
The Magic Circle
The European Technology Assembly 1994 PC 64K intro sixth place: odd MZ tail entry, custom LZ wrapper, real-mode segment normalizer, compact relocation trailer, GUS-only notes, and verified part list.
Mantaray
CSG Productions December 1992 MS-DOS demo: Hornet MZ archive, late-entry LZ carrier, UNP-restored 506 KB runtime, visual/runtime-to-code concordance, VGA/SB/STMIK setup, 26-bank object selector, central 111x85 copy loop, sound-driven bar overlay, bottom strip helpers, DAC ramps, and keyboard filter.
1 public screenshot, 1 generated pipeline map, 1 recovered window-bank reconstruction, and 1 DOSBox-X setup prompt in the article.
Marble Madness Cracktro
PTL Club 19 July 1987 MS-DOS cracktro: masked binary-decoded CGA title page, direct CS:0f80 to B800:0000 16 KB word-copy loop, CGA mode-4 page layout, MAIN.PTL EXEC handoff, interrupt vector wrappers, keyboard exit handler, and cleanup path.
1 masked binary-decoded CGA page and 1 generated copy-loop map in the article; no GIF because the visible intro is static before the key wait.
Maple
DarkZone TG95 PC 64K third-place intro: complete keyed runtime, one-digit GUS selector, RNC stager, teal feedback field, shaded objects and head, morphing gold geometry, real-mode raster engine, and clean DOS return.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Mayday
Yodel Computer Crossroad 1993 PC demo third place: complete five-child runtime, DOS EXEC launcher, story frames, planar VGA effects, RLE image pages, shaded geometry, 1024-dot landscape, end scroller, CRT close, and natural DOS return.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF in the article; no tiled preview.
Meaculpa
The Brain Slayer 1991 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster intro: direct looping and keyed-exit runs, star/title/framed-ball state machine, EXEPACK-style wrapper, XOR-decoded startup span, internal CRC inflater, RLE A000 frames, rectangle reveals, SB DMA, four-lane sequencer, and four-stream mixer.
2 directly playable silent MP4 runs in the article; 1 continuous untiled GIF on this card.
Megademo
The Space Pigs 1989/1990 MS-DOS megademo: chained MZ parts, LZEXE/EXEPACK restoration, BIOS-data-area setup handoff, planar RLE blitter, picture pans and hardware scrollers; plus a deep vectorballs frame loop with 34 shape records, SoA morphing, Q15 rotation, signed perspective, a constant-biased 25-bucket coarse-z painter, generated shaded stamps, selective two-page cleanup, and exact CRTC cadence.
4 public Pouet reference stills; local DOSBox runtime GIF still blocked by the setup/part-chain capture route.
Megademo 2
Bizzar The Party 1993 PC demo fourteenth place: direct no-input runtime through title, sphere, wire cube, cartoon-face effect, and held credit page; BAT-driven three-MZ chain; ASTROFLX.MOD; GLUCKO.GAS WAV; raw/SCX assets; and bounded third-part evidence.
1 directly playable silent MP4 in the article; 1 continuous untiled GIF on this card; no-input route holds before the third-part assets.
Megablast
Orange The Party 1996 PC demo runner-up: public-video motion GIFs, verified Pouet montage, direct RIX3 and PCX resource decodes, PMODE/W LE object extraction, music-stage dispatcher at 0x101f0, PCX/RLE decoder, palette/framebuffer paths, function-level analysis of remappers, byte fields, sine phases, and FPU geometry, plus a bounded runtime-to-code concordance mapping visible timeline families to recovered dispatcher/effect families.
3 public-video GIFs, 1 public screenshot, 4 direct archive stills, and 1 RIX contact sheet in the article.
MEN0VEN0M
AlFuuNi P0WER Assembly 1993 PC demo: GoldPlay-backed MZ player, external ProTracker module, ColoRIX RIX3 screen files, SCI screen-to-code concordance, DOS block loader, DAC upload, A000h copy, and retrace-held slideshow path.
No screenshots published: decoded SCI screens contain omitted crude/contact-like text, but the article maps the full screen order to code.
Menace Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 18 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro: Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, redacted text-title frame, public graphics presentation, video selector for mono/CGA/EGA/Tandy, 80x25 layout inference, adapter dispatch model, and explicit no-binary/no-inner-loop boundary.
3 public-safe frames and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Mental Blocks
New York Crackers 12 August 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro / loader: redacted Demozoo text page, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, static text-card layout, COMMAND.COM / TYPE / ANSI output alternatives, direct B800h page and string-writer alternatives, key-wait candidates, and DOSBox-style failed run handoff boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated layout map in the article.
Mentality
Mental Design 1993 MS-DOS dentro: EXOS container, embedded part executables, text morphing, planar glenz/interference, IFS point plotter, fractal zoomer, texture cubes, and end scroller.
Mental Surgery
Future Crew's 1991 MS-DOS demo matched from STMIK020 source to the restored release: exact 640-frame latch-scroller traffic, UFF lifetime queue, 79-column static-logo lifecycle, 15-frame equalizer delay and repair bound, and a 64-visit/32-update raster-split star loop.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 exact still from a muted Sound Blaster/equalizer run; no host audio was produced or published.
Microprose's Pirates
The FiRM 18 August 1989 MS-DOS cracktro / conversion loader: MZ executable hidden behind PIRATES.COM, physical-tail copy-up caveat, FiRMLOADER-2 backward B0/B2 stream, relocation repair, stack-threaded restored entry, SS-keyed decoder, BIOS text bytecode printer, state restore path, and FIRM.SCR row inflater.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader/screen map in the article.
Monopoly Loader
The FiRM 8 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: BBS/phone-table-redacted public Demozoo frame, blocked Defacto2 binary, large grey FiRM logo over starfield, red separator-rule layout, possible text/ANSI/graphics presentation models, and explicit no-binary/no-loader-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Miami Vice Cracktro
International Network of Crackers December 1989 MS-DOS cracktro wrapper: Turbo/Pascal-style MZ, COMSPEC /C Type ANSI side screens, RUNME.INC target read, missing mvg.exe boundary, public-safe INFO.INC render, board-list screenshot omission, CPU-speed busy delay loop, and unrolled centered title-line writer.
1 rendered ANSI screen and 1 generated runtime-flow map in the article.
Mindflow
Stellar's Assembly 1994 Amiga demo winner: complete direct AGA run, original SetPatch gate, 704-byte overlay root, exact 28-region chip/fast memory ledger, buffered bitstream decoder, private relocation pass, landscape, photographic credits, texture-mapped maze, fractal zoom, and Strobo's 1992 ProTracker module.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no tiled previews or online-video frames.
Minus 40 Degrees
Eterno Prod. Assembly 1993 PC demo: Borland real-mode MZ, self-reading executable overlay, embedded ProTracker MOD, AMP/MCP Sound Blaster/PAS/Aria drivers, VGA setup panel, and bitmap-like tail data.
Mobile: Destination Unknown
Spaceballs' Norwegian The Gathering 1993 demo: a complete direct run of Lone Starr's one-routine, one-disk solid flight, with continuous typography and geometry, custom MFM trackloading, prepared-motion boundary, and the original held ending.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 authored final still in the article; no audio, video encode, or contact sheet.
Model 0
Analogue SIH95 PC demo runner-up: custom ANR resource stream, GUS/S3M path, timer callbacks, mode 13h buffer, particle cloud, face buckets, self-patched triangle edges, and texture span fillers.
Monstra
Flash Production The Party 1992 MS-DOS demo: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for launcher/setup frames, renamed executable .FLE part captures, PKLITE process chain, MiniMod/output-device support, ProTracker modules, plasma/mandelbrot/flag/bob/message/logo loops, and VGA Line Compare timing limits.
1 overview GIF, startup/part frames, contact sheet, public screenshot, pipeline map, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Montezuma's Revenge Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: Demozoo 15 May 1986 metadata versus visible 1991 self-date, public screenshot, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, high-intensity CGA palette-0 evidence, layout map, 8x8 graphics text alignment, split-bank CGA row stepping, glyph expansion loops, return-key gate, and game-menu handoff model.
1 public screenshot, 1 exact logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Motocross Loader
Corporation for Public Cybercasting 2001 20 June 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: blocked Defacto2 binary, redacted low-colour CPC 2001 title card, visible block-logo/digit/credit layout, central grey icon, coordinate-composition model, and explicit no-binary/no-copy-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Motion
Avalanche Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: party/fixed archive split, PKLITE expansion, GUS autodetect, retrace page flips, DAC fades, dot interpolation, vector projection, and Mode X span loops.
Mystery
Masque Assembly 1995 MS-DOS demo, 11th in the PC demo competition: Scene.org single-EXE archive, PMODE/W loader surface, 2.24 MB appended payload, no-sound startup boundary, public video GIFs for terrain/face/tunnel/corridor sections, Demozoo still sequence, embedded SCRM/song-title markers, and 48 carved 128x128 GIF87a texture resources matching the late Doom-style corridor.
4 public-video GIFs, 1 public-video still, 11 public Demozoo stills plus 1Hz sequence, and 1 extracted-resource overview sheet in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
Necronomicon
Imagine Wired 1994 PC demo winner: Borland MZ, MIDAS modules, raw NECRONOM.DAT screens, Mode X plane masks, palette-bank overlays, slice reveal, bouncing tile, grid section, and fixed-point vectors.
Neuromancer Cracktro
Norwegian Cracking Company 29 October 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/bytecode-to-code concordance, 6016-byte Turbo Pascal-family MZ, 52 relocations, exact CS:IP entry, DS:0002 652-byte text bytecode stream, B800/B000 target helper, attribute/control byte interpreter, STOSW run loops, key wait, and missing neuro.ncc EXEC handoff.
1 public screenshot, 1 decoded page, and 1 generated renderer map in the article.
The Newcomer
Pyten/Pyton The Party 1993 last-place PC demo: Borland MZ pair, embedded RIX3 credit and portrait images, GUS-only gate, ULTRASND parsing, sample upload loops, and text-mode audio skit behavior.
Nexus 7
Andromeda's The Party 1994 winner, rebuilt from its original AGA executable: all 14 packed blocks recovered, exact replay-cue dispatcher, delta credit stream, blitter particles, sparse-grid projection, mapped-object and zoom loops, and the persistent 320-pixel ending rasterizer.
11 motion GIFs and the authored final still, placed after the code analysis.
Nightmare on Almstreet
Archive-only The Party 1993 PC 80K intro package: PKLITE-packed MZ, absent result-table match, GUS-support DIZ claim, embedded GUS diagnostic text, leaked M.K. marker, and packed text islands.
Noname
2000 A.D. 1993 MS-DOS demo: custom packed MZ loader, UNP-expanded show sequencer, exact M.K. module, MiniMod sound setup, 386/VGA checks, CRTC page motion, retrace waits, and vector/scroll effect blocks.
No Lamers Allowed
Paranoids December 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: direct 52.021576-second normal-exit run, exact source-to-release plotter/scroller/IRQ mapping, diagonal reveal, 365/360-point ledger and 51-call pre-roll, 320-column 10,240-write sine band, PIT/BIOS frame timer, live-render fade, full-IVT restoration, and DOS return.
1 direct runtime still, 1 six-frame direct sequence, 1 continuous runtime GIF, older timestamped frames, decoded/public stills, and 1 source/runtime map in the article.
Nope
Sorcerers 1990 MS-DOS intro/demo: runtime-to-code concordance for the keyed gate GIF/frames, corrected EXEPACK decode, root-file side effect, text-mode shooting gate, Ctrl-Alt-Del trap, proportional B800 scrollers, scripted column renderer, and high-rate PC-speaker timer ISR/VU bars.
1 reconstructed still, 1 keyed runtime GIF, 4 runtime frames, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Contrast
TFL-TDV Wired 1994 runner-up: source-backed C sequencer, MIDAS/PDFIK data flow, table-driven VGA modes, self-patched zoom/distort loops, multi-fire, waves, sprites, dots, and Wolfenstein-like mapping.
Voyages
HyperNova Wired 1994 third place: PKLITE/Borland shell, Xtracker DMF modules, PCX RLE loader, mode 13h draw library, palette fades, stamp/object loops, and planar VGA ending routines.
The Cult Intro
ISCH Crew Wired 1994 PC intro winner: modified LZEXE-family stubs, DamN asset records, GUS module setup, VGA helper loops, text renderer, scaler, span drawing, and starfield.
Once - The Intro
LaSerDance / Acme Wired 1994 PC intro runner-up: self-reading PKLITE part chain, HSC/AdLib loader, bitmap text, circular plasma, shaded smoky cube, image bridges, and self-modified maze mapper.
Weird
$PA/$PC Wired 1994 PC intro third place: PKLITE wrapper, Borland real-mode runtime, HSC/AdLib music, RLE-built masks, palette fades, VGA page/stencil blits, and compiler-assisted 3D span emitters.
No!
NoooN The Party 1994 runner-up: PKLITE expansion, XMS kernel, EOF resource archive, DLZ unpacker, executable part modules, script resource order, Mode X planes, tunnel resources, generated span code, and runtime-to-code concordance for the radial warp, gold object, green tunnel, and textured floor GIFs.
7 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 4 short GIFs in the article.
Nothing Compares to B-Ware
B-Ware The Party 1993 PC demo eighteenth place: batch-script timeline, GUS-only JMPROTR playback, LOADER/HUFFMAN decrunching, HUF/HUM resources, QuickBASIC BSAVE graphics, BRUN45 runtime, and many PKLITE-packed effect EXEs.
Nutz?!
Hyperopia Assembly 1996 MS-DOS/GUS demo: public-still/package analysis, Hornet/party ZIP comparison, MZ launcher, DPMI/VCPI and audio-environment strings, external FastTracker XM, large NUTZ.DAT resource slab, and bounded data-map evidence.
1 public Pouet still and 1 generated package byte-layout map in the article; no audio or runtime video is published for this pass.
Trek, the Last Generation
Official Version 1991 MS-DOS demo: fake PCAmiga shell, packed/UNP MZ layout, mode-13 text and palette loop, retrace-paced 20x20 block transitions, mode-0Dh/mode-0Eh planar loaders, timer attribute ISR, VRAM scroll copy, and an optimized planar line engine with vertical/horizontal paths, replace/XOR modes, and x-major byte-mask coalescing.
1 generated recovered code-path map in the article; runtime capture still pending because no usable local frames exist yet.
Christmas Demo 1992
Omicron December 1992 MS-DOS Christmas demo: PKLITE launcher, child sequence .010/.013/.011/.013/.012, GoldPlay setup, three MOD sidecars, raw VGA/table resources, public screenshot, generated archive maps, depacker inner-loop notes, and public-still/archive-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot and 3 generated technical images in the article.
Operation Stealth Cracktro
The Syndicate November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: safe 8-second silent opening excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, contact-bearing info/scroller omission boundary, direct route fixed by `LOADFIX -64`, PKLITE MZ carrier, private UNP-expanded 66,202-byte image, mode-13h full-screen copy, VGA DAC upload, BIOS-font scroller, and key-wait exit path.
1 safe silent opening MP4 and 1 direct runtime still in the article; late contact-style scroller text is not published.
Operation Wolf Cracktro
The FiRM 15 September 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: MZ executable renamed .COM, FiRMLOADER-2 copy-up stub, backward B0/B2 unpack stream, relocation repair loop, protected restored-entry boundary, direct IVT writer, display/CPU/timing probes, 64-byte XOR decoder island, and encoded FIRM.SCR screen payload.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Optic Nerve
The Silents protected-mode runtime, Mode X plane writes, and landscape loop.
Opticron
Craw Productions NAID 1995 demo winner: Borland overlay layout, custom .001 asset library, PIX decoders, VGA palette paths, 3D impossible-object loops, and page reveal masks.
Optimize
Feenix/Epical Assembly 1994 PC 4K third place: RNC2 COM loader, BIOS-font fire text, sine-table plasma/ribbon and line-pattern phases, self-patched stripes, generated fractal texture, CRTC page slides, planar edge spans, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 3 runtime frames in the article.
Optimal Torque
Dubius Assembly 1995 PC demo: Scene.org/Pouet/Demozoo identity, eighth-place result, private muted DOSBox-X setup/no-sound/mode-switch boundary, public-video GIF evidence, slow Demozoo still sequence, PKLITE launcher, TrmPlay setup strings, 53-entry OPTIMAL.DAT directory, embedded child EXEs, PCX/TGA texture pages, PNT/SRF object resources, lookup/palette tables, and FastTracker XM payload.
3 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, 24 Demozoo stills, and 1 1Hz Demozoo sequence GIF in the article; no new H.264/MP4 media.
Outta Time
Select TG94 PC intro third place: setup launcher, hidden MZ payload, PKLITE-style LZ restore, palette stills, 386 point loop, unrolled texture sampler, and planar mask blitters.
Obsession
Black Rain Assembly 1993 demo: DIET/DLZ unpacker, TBR image loader, Sound Blaster-era final, unchained VGA pages, menu wipes, palette fades, and masked line loops.
Overflow
The Black Rain Assembly 1995 MS-DOS demo, 13th in the PC demo competition: final-release archive identity, public-video GIFs for space/logo, torus, fire tunnel, purple spiral, and sky/lens sections, Demozoo hand/object still, private muted setup boundary, OVERFLOW.EXE Sound Blaster/GUS/Silence launcher, LZEXE DEMOVT part, PKLITE child parts, M.K. marker, and seven RIX3 image-resource headers in OVERF__.DAT.
5 public-video GIFs, 1 public-video still, and 1 public Demozoo still in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
Over The Edge
Sorrox TG95 PC demo: segmented MZ runtime, GUS path, SRX loader, Mode X plane spans, chunky quad filler, fixed-point mesh transforms, and table-driven tunnel effects.
Panic
Future Crew's complete silent runtime, sound-player timing dependency, eight distinct direct GIFs, packed stage chain, Mode X sampler, palette timing, text kernel, and RLE renderer.
8 direct runtime GIFs in the article.
Paperboy Cracktro
Bentley Sidwell Productions and The Prophet June 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro loader: decoded raw B800h title page, BSP generic COM shell, 16 KB REP MOVSB screen copy, Ctrl-Break exit handler, PSP memory shrink, EXEC parameter block, and missing Sprites.Bsp child boundary.
1 decoded CGA frame and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Paratrooper Graffiti
The Duplicators 23 September 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti title screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 2x-to-320x200 reduction, bright cyan/magenta/white CGA palette evidence, title/text/footer region map, and input-gate implementation models.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Performance
Logic Design's Bizarre 1995 PC demo winner: LZEXE process manager, eighteen embedded MZ children, relocation loader and intercepted exits, reused effect arena, runtime-restored WWPACK code, 104x64 affine reveal, aligned four-pixel tunnel mapper, clipped spans, polygon facing and two-pass radix sort.
5 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; one untiled preview, no audio or embedded video.
Peripheral Vision
Valhalla The Party 1994 PC 64K runner-up: nested RNC loader, music-driven scheduler, Mandelbrot square table, unrolled texture spans, lighted voxel paths, and CRTC text scroller.
Phenomenon
Alpha Force Productions Assembly 1993 demo: COM-style MZ entry, bitstream LZ depacker, DSMI setup, AMF/RIX assets, Mode X layer, palette fades, and planar draw loops.
Phenotype
Purge Wired 1995 PC demo third place: PMODE/W runtime, PUR resource table, timer hooks, planar VGA fades, texture feedback, and 3D span loops.
First Demo / Physical
The Physical Crew's 1991 First Demo: huge outline glyphs streamed one column per frame through a duplicated VGA ring, a 90-frame vertical CRTC waveform, scanline-228 split checker floor, latch-primed hardware-XOR upload, and optional 10.749 kHz backward-sample parallel-port DAC ISR.
1 public-safe DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because only a composite contact sheet is published.
Pizza
Post Mortem The Party 1993 PC demo: PKLITE launcher and child parts, custom PIZZA.DAT directory, 8-channel MOD, VGA palette/GRB images, vector data, and SB/SB Pro setup.
Placebo
Complex Assembly 1994 PC 64K intro fourth place: runtime-to-code concordance for the title/object/final-animation GIF, RNC/FlatMan loader, GUS music-counter scheduler, script font, tweaked VGA, fixed-point spline projection, texture spans, flat-buffer copy, and planar animation subsystem.
1 runtime GIF and 8 timestamped DOSBox-X frames in the article.
Plasma
Bret Mulvey April 1988 MS-DOS/VGA demo: runtime-to-code concordance for the DOSBox-X palette-cycle clip, Turbo Pascal 4.0 source, mode-13h setup, raw 64 KB image file, midpoint-displacement field generator, RGB palette wheel, stable A000h framebuffer, and BIOS palette-block rotation loop.
1 fast palette-cycle GIF, 5 timestamped runtime frames, contact sheet, source-image render, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Plasma Intro
The Raven / The Brain December 1992 MS-DOS intro: sparse effect-only plasma sequence, recovered packed COM body, Mode-X-style VGA setup, PIT/retrace calibration, table-driven plasma fields, 4 KB table blitter, CRTC start-address helper, interrupt wrappers, OPL output path, omitted contact-screen boundary, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse GIF, effect-only frames, contact sheet, and recovered runtime map in the article.
Plan-B
Sonic PC Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: generated expanded-executable architecture map, DIET expansion, protected-mode shell, Sonic Music System, GUS setup, embedded MOD, VGA timing, star/text section, and span loops.
1 generated architecture map in the article.
Populous Cracktro
The FiRM 22 December 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, full-IVT save/restore, DOS INT 69h service install, direct INT 21h IVT install, 8192-byte resident block, stack switch, XOR 66h redacted text screen, POPULOUS.EXE EXEC handoff, AH=3Dh file-open scanner, 3B 46 0C 75 09 8B 46 branch signature, CD 69 patch, and INT 69h branch restore.
1 redacted public intro screen and 1 generated branch-restore map in the article.
The Portal
Flash Productions The Party 1993 PC demo: eight PKLITE MZ programs, four M.K. modules, Goldplay/GUS credits, VGA marker set, tiny config, and a 701 KB resource slab.
Poison
Satori The Party 1995 PC intro fourth place: RNC method-1 MZ/COM wrapper, inline key recovery, event tick, IRQ hooks, GUS timer path, palette/retrace helpers, triangle filler, and 2x2 chunky mapper.
Privtro
Irresistible Works Assembly 1993 intro: custom MZ/LZ wrapper, Borland Pascal runtime, PCX decoder, timer-hooked MOD path, palette accumulators, and 22x20 sine-scroller glyph loops.
Purity
Distortion The Party 1993 PC demo: PKLITE-expanded PMODE launcher, Tran/PMODE and GUS setup evidence, 2.58 MB monolithic data stream, exact Scramble MOD, and verified opening text sequence.
Project Angel
Impact Studios' The Party 1994 PC demo winner: false-size MZ carrier, complete 29-child and 10-resource schedule, two custom decompressors, XMS/private-interrupt substrate, self-patched 16.16 planar polygon filler, object choreography, live Voxel 360-Z and end-scroll engine.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs; static front preview, no audio or H.264/MP4.
Project XYZ
Finnish Orange's Juhla 1995 PC demo runner-up: complete direct silent run through its original free-address route, natural return to DOS, decoded DATA.DAT PCX, BASKA.MOD/Dune evidence, PKLITE carrier, DAC fades, blur-history buffers, music gates, symmetric texture plotting, and fixed-point spiral geometry.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 1 decoded archive PCX in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Psychic Flight
Spirit Assembly 1994 PC 64K intro fifth place: custom LZ-style MZ wrapper, external Spirit Musixx driver, command-line sound probes, tweaked VGA pages, CRTC/AC panning, planar copy loops, palette fades, moving records, and scanline span fills.
Psychic Link / JUICE
Psychic Link v1.1 PMODE runtime, FLIB archive, RLE blitter, greets builder, plasma, and terrain/resource loops.
Putre Faction
Skull's October 1991 MS-DOS demo: restored six-EXE chain, direct silent runtime evidence, P1's six sine-bob records and two 344-pixel pages, P2's 271-byte reflection replay and paired displaced planar sprites, and P3's fourteen-record glyph queue over a generated 400-step CRTC path.
1 continuous ten-second direct-runtime GIF in the article; the moving P2 forms are sprites, not vector balls. No audio or H.264/MP4 media.
Racter Graffiti
IPL 1986 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public-safe contact-line-redacted Demozoo frame, 720x400-to-80x25 text-mode proof, ASCII title-box layout, clear-screen word-fill model, horizontal-rule writer, centered string loop, prompt/input gate, and strict no-binary-evidence boundary.
1 public-safe cropped frame and 1 generated text-mode layout map in the article.
Railroad Tycoon Cracktro
Pirates Sick Of Initials 1990 MS-DOS 64K cracktro: direct safe early silent runtime excerpt, LZEXE-to-MZ unpack boundary, 714-relocation MZ image, video-mode/star-count command interface, PSI starfield/logo/scroller, and contact-scroll publication boundary.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Rax
Raxsoft 1987 EGA demo: sparse frame-derived clipped-line sequence, Microsoft C 4.0 MZ layout, mode-10h planar output, Space-key window states, 4096-color ordered dithering, direct EGA bit/map-mask writes, fixed-point rotation/projection, and span-based line clipping.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 7 timestamped DOSBox-X EGA frames, contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
1991 New Years Eve Demo
Razor 1911 1991 MS-DOS intro: corrected frame/code concordance, PKLITE-to-UNP image, 3,674-write steady loop, 250x9 hidden-strip scroller, software-paced clock, 32x34 transparent falling apple, later 120-step spark and 18-slot particle burst, quantified strip reveals, and IRQ1-to-IVT/PIC/video cleanup.
1 runtime GIF, 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, and public Demozoo references in the article.
Reanimator
RAGE PC The Party 1995 third-place demo: PMODE/W final, raw asset set, fixed-point object pipeline, face compiler, depth sort, edge table, and textured span loops.
Rebel Mind
Epical's fifth-place Assembly 1995 PC demo: authenticated release, complete GUS-timed silent runtime observation, terminal greetings state, eight distinct direct GIFs, MZ loader, large S3M/data `MIND.DAT`, MIDAS device surface, and HEGA/Feenix/Mikki credits.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264, audio, contact sheet, or video embed.
Roadrunner Rescue Cracktro
Five O 1987 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: masked binary-decoded title page, 58-byte live COM path, direct CS:0200 to B800:0000 page copy, BIOS key wait, text-mode restore, one-byte 3B41:FFFF write, COM RET exit, and preserved-file boundary showing no game payload is loaded.
1 masked decoded CGA page and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because this is a static key-wait screen.
Rebel Fun
UltraForce March 1990 EGA/Sound Blaster demo: successful untouched SB1 release run, UF cruncher, SBFMDRV/CT-VOICE path, raw four-plane picture, startup record extraction, two 320-bit ROM-font scrollers, exact visible-plane strip ownership, and twelve-draw-plus-blank lower overlay.
1 continuous uncropped direct silent runtime GIF and 1 decoded masked EGA still in the article.
Revolt
Shadow Productions 1991 8K-ish intro: PKLITE restore, exact frame/IRQ handoff, 127-triplet raster DAC pass, seven color bursts, five motion rings, planar layer ownership, padded latch-copy SHADOW logo with implicit cleanup, and a 27-tile, 3,756-pointer-stream unrolled band blitter.
1 DOSBox-X runtime frame in the article; no GIF because only one public runtime frame is published.
Req the Usual
Orange July 1995 MS-DOS/GUS 128K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, safe INFOFILE/DIZ identity, MZ/RNC1 carrier, 488 KB expanded protected-mode runtime, VCPI/DPMI/A20 startup diagnostics, GUS/8CHN evidence, direct public-video GIF/still analysis, video-to-code concordance for green full-page palette motion, 64K A000h page copies, masked picture/text overlay, embedded glyph-fed credits, retrace/DAC uploads, and 64-step palette fade machinery.
2 direct public-video GIFs, 4 direct public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Reversed Evolution
Virtual Visions The Party 1993 PC demo: Watcom/DOS4GW LE payload, two protected-mode objects, 4 MB memory need, AMP/GUS music, named voxel assets, and RE.LIB library boundary.
Rick Dangerous 2 Cracktro
Tristar and Red Sector Inc. 3 December 1990 MS-DOS 4K cracktro/board advert: redacted 12-second silent direct runtime excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, archive hash, `.COM`-suffixed MZ payload, LZEXE v0.91 `>COMEX` carrier, private restored MZ map, compact B800/B000 text-stream renderer, six-second title delay, key-wait flow, and explicit old contact-row omission.
1 redacted silent runtime MP4 and 1 redacted direct runtime still in the article; the old contact row is masked.
RQ Demo 0
Renaissance 1992 MS-DOS quickie: runtime-to-code concordance for the warning gate, sparse bar/text GIF, PKLITE/UNP MZ expansion, 60 Hz IVT/PIT keyboard hooks, unchained VGA bar generator, retrace-timed DAC pump, proportional text renderer, CRTC page reveal, and Sound Blaster-style four-channel mixer.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 5 graphics-mode runtime frames, 1 warning still, 1 contact sheet, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Robot
Orange The Party 1994 MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: public-video motion GIFs, verified Pouet still, PKLITE carrier, 405 KB depklite-expanded body, GUS/no-sound setup prompt, reobot.mod/8CHN evidence, VGA retrace/DAC/CRTC/A000h constants, and bounded video-to-evidence concordance for the tunnel, wire/web, and logo clips.
3 public-video GIFs and 1 verified Pouet still in the article.
Safari Guns Fix Cracktro
DREAD 7 August 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/fix intro: direct static 5-second silent runtime smoke, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, archive and payload hashes, bounded BAT/NFO/ANSI sidecar roles, LZEXE v0.90 MZ carrier and packed-entry map, EGA+ check/string evidence, and one-screen Safari Guns hard-drive fix presentation.
1 short silent runtime smoke MP4 and 1 corrected direct runtime still in the article.
Saga
Dust Assembly 1993 fourth-place PC demo: timestamped runtime frames, runtime-to-code concordance, tiny COM overlay dispatcher, encrypted SAGA.DST archive, RLE decruncher, in.com palette fades, ball.com vec-ball/panel loops, 3d.com sorted primitives and chunky-to-planar spans, shadebob resources, timer/SB services, and end.com planar credit compositor.
1 runtime GIF, 11 runtime frames, and 1 contact sheet in the article.
Saint
Halcyon and da Jormas Assembly 1997 MS-DOS demo: debugger-recovered BL20 relocator/depacker, exact 37-file virtual filesystem, INT 21h open/read/seek/execute shim, carved PMODE MZ, nine linked scene engines, explicit authored call chain, palette-combination tables, fixed-point camera interpolation, PIT/retrace calibration and locally decoded RIX3 bank.
6 continuous video-only reference GIFs and 1 locally decoded RIX3 resource plate in the article; one continuous front-page preview, no audio or embedded video.
VGA by Scoopex
Scoopex 1991 MS-DOS intro: PKLITE restoration, exact planar setup traffic, raster DAC stream, 386 dword compositor, alternating direct-VGA/RAM-staging strips, one-column text shifter, selective row movement, 400-frame page lifecycle, CRTC motion, and corrected live-DAC fade-to-minimum.
Sea Dragon Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. January 1986 MS-DOS text-mode Sea Dragon setup/title graffiti: public Demozoo 720x400 frame, 80x25 9x16 text-grid evidence, repeated border text, Dan Rollins credit, Software Pirates modification line, no-sound prompt, layout map, and B800h char/attribute, banner, box-fill, vertical-text, and key-gate models.
1 public screenshot, 1 80x25 grid overlay, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
The Sea Robot of Love
Orange The Party 1995 PC intro third place: RNC/PMODE shell, custom 50 Hz VGA timing, GUS/player path, runtime-to-code concordance for the title/additive-line/mesh/height-field/text phases, timer-paced chunky buffers, additive line splats, mesh and height-field renderers, palette fades, and masked font credits.
1 runtime GIF and 10 timestamped runtime frames in the article.
Scroll Land
Twin Sectors Inc.'s July 1991 PC demo: byte-exact PKLITE restoration, dual 64K base pages, 600-byte palette conveyor, four-bank glyph gates, self-modifying colour seeds, scripted page switches, 200-point selective-restore sample trace, two-table drift, and exact CT-VOICE marker/VOC timing.
1 public Demozoo screenshot and 2 exact binary-decoded base screens; no local runtime GIF.
Search & Destroy Cracktro
PTL Club January 1988 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/archive-to-code concordance, decoded raw CGA title page, exact CS:0F80h to B800:0000 16 KiB copy loop, resident-size marker, diskette-table save/restore, IVT snapshot, keyboard emergency-exit hook, DOS EXEC block, missing S&D.DAT boundary, and public contact redaction.
1 decoded title page, 1 redacted text reconstruction, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
The Search For The Holy Halibut
Twilight Zone The Gathering 1993 PC demo winner: chained MZ parts, direct GUS probe, GUSOBJ cue sync, hard-coded mode 13h sprite blitters, point-object transforms, and 16-color planar credits wipe.
Second Reality
Future Crew's Assembly 1993 winner: reconstructed 79-file executable container, INT 21h virtual filesystem, exact child scheduler and DIS contract, two S3M payloads, corrected visual concordance, and deep source-level dissection of eight renderer inner loops.
8 audited six-second runtime GIFs; missing extraction timestamps are disclosed.
Semtex City
Jeskola and Complex's Juhla 1995 PC-demo winner: restored segmented engine, complete 11,285-tick controller, three indexed models, Q15 geometry, signed-area culling, 19-pass depth sort, interpolated triangle spans, temporal compositing, and portrait/particle feedback loops.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs, 6 stills and 4 direct RIX3 decodes; visuals are secondary to the restored-code analysis.
Shamus Graffiti
Software Pirates Inc. 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, four-colour RGBI palette measurement, 640x400-to-320x200 reconstruction, CGA palette-0 interpretation, and static title-page layout map.
1 public screenshot, 1 reduced logical frame, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because this is source-limited static-frame evidence.
Shortcut to Istanbul
TNT The Party 1993 PC demo: packed MZ launcher and setup, 732 KB custom STI.DAT stream, 386/VGA swap requirement, SB/SB Pro/Covox support, and resource-shape evidence.
Shoot
The Phoney Coders July 1992 MS-DOS VGA/no-sound demo: timestamped DOSBox-X intro/maze/ship/logo frames, NFO art/tooling evidence, wrapped-entry packed MZ layout, modified LZ-family depacker loops, relocation/far-return stub, scripted bitmap-player reconstruction, and explicit runtime-to-code evidence boundary.
1 sparse runtime GIF, 8 runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 1 public still, and 1 technical map in the article.
Show
Majic 12 / Maxwood's Hammering 1994 PC demo winner: complete nine-minute direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, module-script loader, Cascada GUS replay, planar VGA effects, copper/raster trick, PIXEL line plotter, TMAP texture strips, DOOM scaler, and direct runtime-to-code concordance.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Sidewinder Cracktro
PTL Club 27 December 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro loader: decoded TITLE.PTL raw B800h page, 116-byte COM, DOS read straight into B800:0000, INT 42h vector patch, queued S plus Enter keyboard-buffer injection, and no-reset INT 20h exit.
1 decoded CGA frame and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Silence
Hysteria's Finnish Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS full demo: byte-identical archive variants, complete 3:41 direct silent original runtime, eight distinct animations, PKLITE wrapper, large overlay, HSA soundtrack labels, and MTM/RNC/GUS marker anchors.
8 direct silent runtime GIFs plus the earlier public comparison material; no MP4/H.264 media or audio.
Silence Of The Labs
Natas / Digital Labs / Cathedral Wired 1995 PC 4K runner-up: LZEXE wrapper, sine expansion, VGA scanline tricks, text masks, noise fields, tunnel sampler, fire diffusion, and point morph.
Silent Shadow Cracktro
Razor 1911 and Skillion 1990/1991 MS-DOS VGA cracktro: direct safe early silent runtime excerpt, date-conflict boundary, flat COM layout, VGA probe and fallback path, two PackBits-style RLE 320x200 picture pages, DAC setup, dual-scroller runtime, retrace pacing, and contact-material publication cutoff.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 2 direct runtime stills in the article.
Sinus Scroll Demo
The Brain Slayer 1992 MS-DOS 16K intro: fast native-capture yellow sine scroller GIF, timestamped DOSBox-X sine-scroller frames, runtime-to-code concordance, wrapped-entry LZ depacker, self-opening MAING overlay loader, PC Intro Engine resource inflater, mode-13h background save, glyph mask builder, and 320-column save-background sinus renderer.
1 fast runtime GIF, 6 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, and contact sheet in the article.
Sim City Loader
The Underground Council 26 September 1989 source-limited MS-DOS loader: node/contact-table-redacted public frame, public Sim City title/key-gate frame, blocked Defacto2 binary, 640x400 text-screen layout model, two-screen sequence inference, and explicit no-binary/no-loader-loop boundary.
1 public-safe redacted still, 1 public title still, and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Skate or Die Text Loader
PTL Club 18 November 1988 source-limited MS-DOS text loader: contact-row-redacted Demozoo frame, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, likely COMMAND.COM batch loop, TYPE/ECHO console output paths, key-gate handoff, and blocked Defacto2 archive boundary.
1 redacted text-mode frame and 1 generated console map in the article.
Skenery '96 Invitation
Orange September 1996 MS-DOS/GUS invitation: Scene.org archive hashes, public Pouet screenshot, original package JPEG maps, MZ/RNC1 carrier, 329 KB expanded protected-mode payload, runtime-to-code concordance for the 0xfa00/0x3e80 framebuffer path, blended 0x300-byte DAC tables, script parser, 22-row masked bitmap-glyph blitter, form-feed page reset, VGA vblank timing, keyboard polling, and Oskari Tammelin GUS ProTracker driver evidence.
1 public 320x200 screenshot and 2 package JPEG map assets in the article; no invented runtime GIF.
Slideshow I
Future Crew's June 1990 MS-DOS slideshow: double-packed MZ restoration, exact counted-block FCPACK LZW, all nine decoded slides, twelve-member FC0 package, black-hidden linear frame copy, 32-step palette scheduler, asset-owned WAIT gate, four-channel 16.16 mixer, three output backends, and interrupt-frame row redirection.
1 continuous direct silent palette-transition GIF and 2 full-frame runtime stills; contact imagery and audio omitted.
Sleeptro
Trepaan The Party 1995 fast intro: MS-DOS MZ, PCX loaders, 6-channel FastTracker/GUS path, PIT hook, palette uploads, and symmetric fixed-point texture-warp loops.
Solstice
Valhalla Wired 1995 PC demo winner: PMODE/W PMW1 layout, MIDAS/S3M sound, DAT stream, Vrender object loader, planar VGA setup, warped chunky gathers, RGB split planes, and bucketed triangle spans.
So Be It
Xtacy's 4th-place The Party 1994 PC demo: complete direct silent DOSBox-X route, split MZ launcher and visual program, retained 471-entry Borland global-symbol directory, named tunnel/voxel/morph/16-colour/Phong/texture/environment/wave paths, eighteen raw VGA-sized pictures, and a separate ProTracker/Cascada GUS boundary.
6 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article.
Sonic Demo A
Sonic Inc. December 1991 MS-DOS SVGA demo: direct silent ET4000 route, packed/restored MZ and 44-member resource map, broken VBE-success path, five-band column reconstruction, CPU-scaled trail underflow, transparent rolling strip, separate music-owned point field, and exact bank/DAC/cleanup machinery.
1 continuous direct runtime GIF and 2 exact still references in the article.
Sorcerian Cracktro
The Humble Guys 30 March 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: high-memory arithmetic/LZ carrier, byte-exact 90ABh-byte Turbo Pascal/BGI restoration, 200 four-byte star records in five horizontal speed bands, exact 200-erase/200-plot selective repair, 32-step palette fade, and centered 41-byte THG.DAT record scheduler.
2 public stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Fast-intro by Sorrox
Sorrox The Party 1995 fast intro: PKLITE-expanded Borland MZ, PCX loader, 300-particle apple-mask walker, reversed text renderer, DAC fades, MOD/GUS setup, and GUS sample upload loops.
Space
UltraForce 1990 MS-DOS demo: LZEXE launcher, resident INT 21h read decoder, encrypted GRASP library, recovered script, library/script-to-code concordance, command table, clip slots, palette output, and rectangular move loops.
Space Fun
UltraForce 1990 MS-DOS VGA/Sound Blaster demo: successful silent SB1 runtime, LZEXE restore, exact Creative driver/data paths, two byte-accounted 16-stamp bead trails, 1,094/1,152-frame state cycles, and a 139,776..142,989-write full-page compositor.
1 continuous uncropped 8-second runtime GIF plus the decoded, contact-masked UPC source atlas.
Space Jam
Fascination Assembly 1994 64K intro: GUSPlay timing, VGA page flips, palette fades, nibble blitters, vector matrices, scanline buffers, and planar span fillers.
Spacedemo
The CodeBlasters April 1991 MS-DOS EGA demo: twice-restored MZ, 15.9 kHz four-voice fixed-point mixer with exact score periods and cross-buffer PCM aliasing, 25-star/50-XOR repair frame, 1,040-write glyph workload, and an exact 1,000-phase no-redraw credits viewport.
1 continuous main-screen runtime GIF on the card; the article adds 1 exact-cycle credits GIF and 1 byte-exact 320x800 planar reconstruction.
Speed Ball Loader
Miami Cracking Machine 14 April 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro/loader: source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, contact-block-redacted prompt still, 640x400-to-80x25 proof, B800h char/attribute model, row-fragment writer, centered strings, CGA/Tandy/EGA key gate, and exit-message path.
2 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Demo 1
The Space Pigs 1990 MS-DOS demo: EXEPACK restore, decoded mode-0Eh art, five-phase font renderer, frozen-CRTC control delay, and a quantified plane-3 producer/consumer loop with forty packed records, 1,280 VRAM bytes per tick, 80/96/192-tick state rhythms, and optional PC-speaker sample ISR.
1 decoded BILD.PCM still in the article; no GIF because only one useful visual frame is published.
Spdemo2 / Demo 2
The Space Pigs 1991 MS-DOS demo: PCM planar RLE logo, CRV-driven CRTC pan, three-plane tall font blitter, and a quantified 28-record plane-3 point loop with 61 shifts, 4..11 carry writes, a 16,960-frame settled cycle, and an authored 28-to-27-bit collision.
1 reconstructed planar logo and 1 DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet in the article; no GIF because the useful artifacts are different dimensions.
Demo 3
The Space Pigs 1992 MS-DOS demo: LZEXE/UNP restore, mode 13h CRTC setup, custom whole-screen RLE decoder, visual/asset-to-code concordance, palette fade, glyph-column hardware scroller, moving strip overlays, and timer audio backends.
1 reconstructed RLE screen still in the article; no GIF because the DOSBox-X capture did not produce a useful live frame.
Spheres
Skull's 1991 VGA demo restored from PKLITE 1.13: a closed 15-frame sparse raster sphere ring rather than live ball geometry, 112,802 writes and 94,681 actual changes per cycle, exact 26-sample/25-divisor VGA calibration, four-phase hardware-panned slab, split-screen text bands, sparkle repair, and no full-page steady copy.
1 continuous direct-runtime GIF and 1 exact opener still, captured locally with sound disabled.
Sphinx
UltraForce 1990 MS-DOS VGA demo: exact 200-line signed face warp, next-frame opaque mouth patch, seven 700-column ribbon shifts, 628-column lower/rear and upper/front projector, fixed-address proportional glyph staging, 256-state vertical ring cycle, 1,151-pixel logo mask, 64-state DAC pulse, and complete exit.
1 silent DOSBox-X runtime contact sheet and 1 exact decoded source/FNT comparison in the article; text-only card, no GIF.
Stargate Graffiti
faked public domain 31 August 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti prompt screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 4x-to-320x200 reduction, bright yellow/red RGBI palette evidence, top-cropped title logo, and space-key gate implementation models.
1 public screenshot, 1 reduced logical frame, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because this is source-limited static-frame evidence.
The Spiral
Dataction Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: packed MZ loader, optional GUS prompt, external ProTracker MOD, Mode X spiral display, Sequencer alias-register compatibility trap, and rushed first-production notes.
The Stage Remake
THG FX's recovered 1991 assembly intro: PKLITE restoration, exact 135,874-byte resource map, 320x16 strip shift, dead-storage insertion quirk, 6,372-update command cycle, invariant 10,240-byte write budget, and one A000 band exposed twice by CRTC start-address and line-compare scanout.
1 direct silent runtime still and 1 continuous speed-cycle GIF in the article; the preview is one untiled capture frame.
Spy Hunter Cracktro (Imperial Warlords)
Imperial Warlords May 1985 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: masked title-page screenshot, SPYHUNT.TPG text-page load into B800:0000, keyboard-vector guard, 256-byte relocation stub, four 8000h-byte SPYHUNT.BIN reads, low-memory copy, and far handoff to 0100:0000.
1 masked title-page screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the intro evidence is a static text page.
Spy Hunter Cracktro
Mr. Fixit's 1984 256-byte MS-DOS cracktro/loader: CGA mode-4 three-line splash, segment normalization, stack relocation, scratch clear, two DOS image reads, floppy motor-control write, and far jump into the loaded Spy Hunter image.
1 public screenshot and 1 generated loader map in the article; no GIF because the 256-byte loader splash is static.
Spam4kb
Tobo Assembly 1994 PC 4K runner-up: PKLITE MZ wrapper, fast timer IRQ, tweaked VGA/DAC setup, scripted object/depth-list lattice, DAC fade glue, noisy midpoint subdivision, skewed resample, self-patched span kernels, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 2 runtime frames in the article.
Spring!
Logic Design X 1995 PC intro winner: WWPACK/EXELOADER layout, appended child EXE table, byte-transform loader loop, GUS base probe, voice init, and IRQ/PIT sound hooks.
Squash-a-delic
Mental Design The Party 1993 PC 80K intro tail entry: EXOS/INT FF shell, concatenated MZ children, two RNC-packed payloads, GUS-only S3M path, embedded aivopesu module, palette DAC helpers, and retrace-paced VGA code.
Star Glider 2 Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 11 October 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: RUNME.BAT wrapper, reusable 4176-byte TheDraw COM display stub, decoded B800h text page, mode 2/3/7 guard, optional CGA snow-safe 03DAh path, REP MOVSW row copy, batch-file key wait, and missing sg2 payload boundary.
1 decoded text page and 1 generated loader/handoff map in the article.
StarPort BBS
Future Crew 13 September 1992 BBStro: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the cropped 640x350 DOSBox-X frames/GIF, starfield, station sprite, giant STARPORT sweep, WHQ badge, scroller text/data boundary, 6,400-byte STARPRT2.EXE, and packed MZ paragraph-copy wrapper.
6 cropped runtime frames, 1 cropped contact sheet, 1 short GIF, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
StarPort BBS Intro II
Future Crew 21 November 1993 VGA/AdLib BBStro: source-backed 1993-byte COM, Psi code, Skaven AdLib tune, runtime-to-code concordance for the DOSBox-X frames/GIF, planar mode 0Dh private buffer, palette and plane cycling, 70 Hz timer hook, BIOS-font 3D dot-letter geometry, and integrated AdLib row player.
6 DOSBox-X runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, 1 short GIF, and source-backed runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
Star Trek
Authentic Audio 1991 MS-DOS VGA demo: complete direct silent runtime, corrected encrypted GRASP directory, exact read-time substitution, decoded GIF87a assets and ASCII controller, 50-pair center-out title reveal, five exact 15-bit-LFSR 16,000-pixel dissolves, 20-write fixed-point palette spreads, BIOS key gate, and normal unwind.
1 untiled direct runtime card still; the article adds 1 six-state direct runtime sheet and retains 1 older setup-only contact sheet.
Stars: Wonders of the World
NoooN Assembly 1995 PC demo winner: PKLITE/DPMI runtime, EOF resource table, DLZ depacker, music-position script, DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime capture, runtime-to-code concordance for title sweep, palette/photo chain, vector ribbon, flesh-warp, dog collage, and span/remap inner loops.
5 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 5 short GIFs in the article.
Stardream
Surprise! Productions Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: DOSBox-X/Xvfb runtime capture, MyLZ/UNP expansion, Mode 0Dh page flips, palette morphs, planar emitter concordance, twelve DOS text buffers, sine-dot plot/erase overlay, and warped-column multi-scroller loops.
7 runtime stills, 1 contact sheet, and 4 short GIFs in the article.
Stateline
Complex's Finnish 1992 Amiga demo: complete silent direct A500 route, Open Eyes' modernist editorial design, restrained wireframe structures, fully designed greetings and contacts, six raw disk payloads, original hardware assumptions, and a continuously animated mouse-gated ending.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
State of the Art
Spaceballs' Norwegian The Party 1992 Amiga demo winner: complete direct silent A500 run, honest 1 MB chip-memory patch boundary, custom boot/trackloader, two exact ProTracker modules, CIA-timed four-channel replay, repeated exclusive-fill blitter kernels, scale/address tables, and eight continuous runtime GIFs.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no public audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
Stoned
Dust Assembly 1994 PC 4K winner: COM depacker, long startup calculation, unreal-mode GS window, extended-memory fractal maps, generated samplers and dword renderer, phase-table distortion, DAC palette paths, BIOS-font source-buffer greeting, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 sparse runtime GIF and 2 runtime frames in the article.
Stickman's World
COMA Assembly 1995 64K runner-up: complete DOSBox-X/X11 runtime, PKLITE/UNP layout, manual sound setup, embedded S3M, 694-record stick stream, integer morph phases, clipped line DDA, sparse background scheduler, three interstitial gates, and clean exit concordance.
1 setup still, 1 timeline, and 2 short GIFs in the article.
Strumpsaft
The Unexpected Assembly 1993 PC demo: six PKLITE-packed parts, UNP-expanded MZ layouts, Pascal/ASM module names, Mode-X plane loops, timer hooks, palette fades, and STMIK paths.
Strike Eagle 2 Cracktro
The Underground Council 15 August 1989 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/stub-to-code concordance, 714-byte Scene.org ZIP, 4176-byte TheDraw COM screen-save wrapper, exact runtime offsets, mode 2/3/7 gate, B800/B000 selection, 23-row REP MOVSW copy, disabled CGA snow-safe 03DAh path, immediate DOS exit, and bottom-prompt residue explanation.
1 public still, 1 decoded text page, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Stunter Cracktro
The Dream Team 3 November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: keyed post-gate VGA runtime excerpt, contact-heavy gate omission boundary, four-MZ Scene.org archive hashes, modified-marker LZEXE-style LOADER.EXE handoff, 1.TDT text gate and appended data, 2.TDT / LOAD.EXE VGA support strings, large TDT logo/starfield, huge colour-phase scroller, and video-only publication path.
1 post-gate silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Stunts Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 3 November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/info screen: Scene.org archive hashes, INCFO release-note context, direct silent runtime smoke, exact CP437/B800h page reconstruction, TheDraw COM metadata, 23-row 80-column cell copy, B800/B000 video-mode gate, CGA snow-safe alternate path, immediate DOS exit, and video-only publication path.
1 decoded text page and 1 short silent runtime smoke MP4 in the article.
Summer Holiday
Sorcerers May 1989 MS-DOS demo: normal MZ executable, embedded CGA BGI driver, text/card loops, PC-speaker bitstream ISR, and CGA-safe text memory helpers.
Super Television
Orange Assembly 1996 MS-DOS demo: public-video GIF timeline, PMODE/W LE executable, `data.dat` RIX/resource carving, S3M sidecar, Mode-X planar compositors, orb/lens image mixing, sine-table remaps, molten feedback, palette multiplication, retrace DAC uploads, GUS/SB/no-sound setup, and runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public-video contact sheet, 4 public-video GIFs, 1 decoded RIX contact sheet, and 5 direct archive stills in the article.
Superunknown
Five, And Then Some TG94 PC demo winner: source-assisted pass through UltraMID/MIDI, Mode-X paging, morph points, fire, fractal zoom, voxel terrain, IFS tendrils, dune relief, and surface flyover loops.
Sword Of The Samurai Cracktro
The FiRM 22 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: flat COM entry, direct INT 13h IVT install, 64K resident block, XOR 66h text screen, SAMMY.Dat EXEC handoff, AX=0201 read hook, child-memory byte-pattern scanner, exact protected-loader patch bytes, and one-shot done flag.
2 public Demozoo screens and 1 generated patch-scanner map in the article.
Thunderblade Cracktro
The FiRM 4 November 1989 MS-DOS unprotect loader: visual/loader-to-code concordance, flat COM entry, direct INT 21h IVT install, DOS INT 69h service install, 64K resident block, XOR 66h redacted text screen, THUNDER.Frm EXEC handoff, AH=1Ch media-descriptor scanner, injected AL=F8h/8000h child patch, saved target, and 22-byte restore-copy service.
1 redacted public intro screen, 1 public exit screen, and 1 generated INT 21h/INT 69h map in the article.
Syllabization
tArzAn tuotanto / tAAt Assembly 1995 MS-DOS demo, 12th in the PC demo competition: party archive plus group mirror check, VGA/GUS/SB/no-sound MIDAS release notes, one-day-production boundary, tiny MZ front with 1.24 MB appended payload, public-video GIFs for tunnel/object/road sections, Demozoo title still, and S3M/MIDAS/ULTRASND tracker-surface evidence.
5 public-video GIFs, 2 public-video stills, and 1 public Demozoo still in the article; no MP4/H.264 media is published.
Symbology
Admire The Party 1993 PC 80K intro runner-up: layered EXE unpacking, Mode X setup, retrace-timed palette fades, column remapper, projective terrain/object kernels, and SB/SB Pro/GUS setup.
Tangle
Epical RNC-packed 100K intro, tweaked VGA setup, Mode-X planar loops, 3D projection, span fillers, and late bitplane paths.
Takeover
Epical December 1992 Finnish PC full demo: complete interactive no-music traversal through six packed executables, GoldPlay/ProTracker assets, direct file-to-visual concordance, loader VGA helpers, common backwards depacker, and distinct LZ-wrapped animated endpoint.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
BBS Hack's
The Brain Slayer 1992 MS-DOS VGA intro: runtime-to-code concordance for timestamped frames, self-opening packed MZ, preserved MAING overlay, rolling XOR script decode, mode-13h 12-pass reveal copier, DAC range rotation, dirty-list particle layer, bottom strip scroller, four-lane text overlay, and omitted contact-tail boundary.
1 runtime contact sheet and 2 selected runtime frames in the article.
Television
Orange's Assembly 1995 MS-DOS/GUS demo: complete direct silent original runtime through its authored return, eight distinct direct animations, 8-channel ALTERRAI.MOD/Dune evidence, packed MZ loader and relocation stub at 0xeb2c, GUS/SB/nosound strings, embedded tnldata/piccy.raw resource names, and a strict runtime-to-code boundary.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Tempesta
Soft One Productions' 12th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: exact archive and complete silent run, nine restored PKLITE MZ programs, thirteen-record XOR resource directory, five tracker modules, exact eight-child timeline, tall TIFF underwater artwork, point morphs, reflection and composed credits.
8 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
Xmas by The Code Blasters
The Code Blasters 1991 MS-DOS Christmas megademo: visual/archive-to-code concordance for decoded packed-resource stills, setup loader, DOS child EXEC path, TCB wrapper/depacker, RIX screens, planar logo, VGA plane loops, raster/text stage, 80-pixel-font scroller, ending tile script, and music IRQ path.
1 decoded contact sheet, 4 decoded RIX pages, 1 decoded planar logo, and visual/archive-to-code concordance in the article; no GIF because these are static resource pages.
Test Drive 2 Speed Shop Trainer
The Stealth Pirate Network 17 July 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro/trainer: public title/key-gate and missing-file screens, blocked Defacto2 binary, speed.dat/cars.dat dependency model, probable post-key file-open path, and explicit no-binary/no-patch-loop boundary.
3 public Demozoo stills and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Textmode Unlimited
HiTech The Party 1995 fast intro: complete DOSBox-X run, normal MZ segment map, BIOS 80x50 setup, live character-FFh font-plane rewrites, B800 word-band copies, two random unique clears, 40x78 eight-neighbour text-fire diffusion, exact retrace-counter arithmetic, final 4,000-cell table reveals, and embedded HSC/AdLib dispatcher.
1 runtime GIF, 2 selected runtime frames, 1 runtime contact sheet, 1 decoded B800 table sheet, and 1 code map in the article.
Their Finest Hour Graffiti
Byte Bandits Productions + The Underground Council 20 October 1989 source-limited MS-DOS cracktro/advert: contact-row-redacted public 640x400 still, blocked Defacto2 binary, 16-scanline text-row cadence, plausible direct text, BIOS, screen-copy, and graphics-font renderer loops, and explicit no-binary/no-handoff-loop boundary.
1 redacted public still and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
The Third Courier Text Loader
$print 15 October 1989 source-limited MS-DOS text loader: two public 640x400 text screens, blocked Defacto2 binary, release/info page, framed title/load prompt page, support/install-note boundary, likely 80x25 text layout class, and explicit no-binary/no-handoff-loop boundary.
2 public stills and 1 generated source-boundary map in the article.
Xmas '91 by The Skyhawks
The Skyhawks 1991 multi-part MS-DOS Christmas demo: complete direct silent selector run and normal return, UNP-expanded child chain, mode-0Dh planar RLE pages, six exact 20x16 mode-13h objects, tweaked four-plane strip publication with synchronized CRTC scrolling and DAC bands, 199-row ending copy plus 20-stream rising text, RASP timer setup, and child-by-child Esc cleanup.
1 direct six-state sequence, 3 direct runtime stills, 1 full-frame runtime GIF, and 1 decoded planar source sheet in the article.
The Easy Way Out
KIP Brigade SIH95 PC demo third place: PKLITE/UNP expansion, embedded TEWO package, GUS-only music path, planar/RLE picture loaders, palette blends, fixed-point 3D, depth sort, and self-patched textured column filler.
The Party 91 Intro
TRSI and Surprise! Productions 1991 MS-DOS party intro: independently restored MZ depacker output, exact P91 packet traffic, sixty-record raster bank, 200-step CRTC consumer, 186-scanline DAC schedule, opaque glyph writer, five-page reveal cadence, palette fades, memory ownership, and closing lifecycle.
The Porno One Invitation Intro
Orange June 1996 MS-DOS invitation: Scene.org/Hornet archive hashes, direct Pouet 320x200 still, screenshot/script-to-code concordance, PKLITE MZ carrier, recovered phrase-script table, internal Hoplite/Der Piipo/Lemming credits, external hirmubiitles MOD, Phantom/Sonic GUS replay banner, and DOSBox-X runtime failure boundary.
1 direct public still in the article; no GIF because local DOSBox-X never reached the visible sequence.
The Real Thing
Capacala's 6th-place Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo: complete official fixed-package run from configuration to THE END, eight safe direct GIFs, original/fixed/patch archive relationship, PKLITE multipart parts, and shared REALTHNG.000 data body.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264, audio, contact sheet, video embed, or NSFW media.
The Royal Family
Orange The Party 1995 PC 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, MZ/RNC1 carrier, 158 KB expanded protected-mode runtime, 50 Hz custom-VGA warning, direct public-video full-frame GIF/still evidence, runtime-to-code concordance for the moving aperture/window, low-detail face/king fragments, mosaic noise, 17-entry DAC ramp, reduced work buffer, 3DAh retrace pacing, paired A0000h scanline expansion, and cyan-ramp compression strategy.
2 direct public-video GIFs, 5 direct public-video stills, 1 contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
The UFO Project
Orange and NoooN December 1995 MS-DOS demo: Hornet/Scene.org archive hashes, DIZ/NFO identity with private contacts omitted, PKLITE MZ carrier, depklite-restored raw 386 protected-mode runtime, GUS/SB/MOD-player evidence, VGA retrace helper at 3DAh, UFO.UFO sidecar boundary, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance for the red classified-dossier sketch sequence, briefing-object/page layer, generated or table-driven red line-field/tunnel, scripted choice-page, and UFO/landscape ending insert.
3 public-video GIFs, 6 public-video stills, and 1 public-video contact sheet in the article.
TimeOut
Epical The Party 1993 PC 80K intro fourth place: single PKLITE MZ, depacker bitstream and back-reference loops, protected-mode setup fragments, A20/DPMI/VCPI clues, GUS base-port selection, PTMIK v0.3, and internal greeting text.
Titano Cracktro
The Dream Team 2 December 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: direct safe opening runtime excerpt, Scene.org archive hashes, text-sidecar contact boundary, MZ/LZEXE v0.91 carrier, packed-entry depacker map, decoded 8-plane IFF/ILBM `DATA.TDT` backdrop, resource-loader string fragments, red scroller overlay, and video-only publication path.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4, 3 direct runtime stills, and 1 decoded ILBM asset in the article.
Titswinkle Lost In Space
Shadow Productions September 1992 MS-DOS 64K intro: public playfield screenshot, local title/story capture, identical executable across mirror ZIPs, PKLITE-family MZ wrapper, XOR 49h story text block, CRTC/attribute panning, PIT/IRQ scheduler, DAC palette streamer, stack-fed strip blitters, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public screenshot, 3 timestamped runtime frames, 1 contact sheet, and 2 generated diagnostic maps in the article.
Toasted
Cubic Team and $eeN Assembly 1996 PC demo runner-up: full direct video-only DOSBox-X route, bugfix EXE plus final PAK/XM setup, archive variant hashes, PACK directory and party/final resource delta, DOS4GW-to-PMODE/W bugfix boundary, Cubic Sound System / Cubic Player / GUS / BLASTER string map, and runtime-to-resource concordance for voxel, distortion, demon, coaster, space-coaster, toast, and end-screen stages.
1 full silent runtime MP4 and 9 selected direct runtime frames in the article.
Too Complex
Shock! Exe'95 winning trackmo: final archive split, DLZ entry unpacker, internal resource directory, VGA palette loops, and effect-chunk map.
Toppler Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 7 November 1990 MS-DOS cracktro: direct 24-second silent runtime excerpt, Scene.org archive hashes, contact-bearing release/batch sidecars omitted, LZEXE v0.91 MZ carrier, packed-entry depacker map, opaque `DATA.INC` picture payload boundary, encoded `TXT.INC` scroller stream analysis, and bounded one-scene picture/logo/scroller runtime evidence.
1 bounded silent runtime excerpt MP4 and 3 direct runtime stills in the article.
Torso
Soc. Brigade and The Cat's July 1991 PC-demo winner: flat-COM controller, exact 60/38/1-frame NIF codec, authored magenta object rather than live 3D, 8,315-iteration callback schedule, fixed RLE objects, palette/audio meters, selective stars, 40x24 sprite, and 15.9 kHz PC-speaker MOD mixer.
3 unmodified public Demozoo screenshots and 2 exact binary-decoded NIF frames; no local runtime capture or audible audio.
Trance
CCS The Party 1993 text-mode demo: Turbo Pascal MZ, B800 page copies, custom VGA font-plane writes, CRTC start-address tricks, fixed support-file seeks, and SB/LPT sample output.
Trekmo
Patrik Aalto's 13th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: exact restored PMODE/main/model/event region map, 1,198- and 2,253-polygon spacecraft banks, triple-buffered 320x240 Gouraud renderer, 153,600-byte software Z-buffer, GUS sample banks and custom event stream, and the original silent -once route.
4 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
Trump Castle 2 Cracktro
The Dream Team and Tristar and Red Sector Inc. 16 August 1991 MS-DOS cracktro: direct muted DOSBox-X route requiring `LOADFIX -64`, safe six-second video-only title excerpt, Pouet/Demozoo/Scene.org source chain, contact-bearing NFO omission boundary, PKLITE MZ carrier and UNP-expanded map, raw 320x200 `OBRAZEK.DJA` picture decode, text DAC palette sidecar, ProTracker module sidecar boundary, and VGA retrace/DAC fade landmarks.
1 safe silent title MP4, 1 direct runtime still, and 1 decoded raw picture asset in the article.
Tsocka Bryan
Fraggabaharje The Party 1993 PC demo twentieth place: packed MZ, UNP-expanded 386 runtime, DPMI/VCPI/A20 setup clues, interactive LPT/SB/PAS16 audio selection, six-channel MOD playback, and a 31-frame VGA palette/screen bank.
Xmas '91
The Space Pigs 1991 MS-DOS Christmas demo: direct normal-exit graphics run, PKLITE/UNP restoration, embedded ILBM/ByteRun decoder, 24-copy eight-page Santa pose compositor, tracker-bit CRTC selection, pre-shifted Swedish text path, cycling saved-address snow repair, and exact timer/device teardown.
1 direct full-frame GIF, 1 runtime still, 1 four-frame sequence, and 2 decoded ILBM source sheets in the article.
Final Demo
Swedish The Yellow Ones' March 1993 goodbye demo: complete 278.68-second original silent route, natural DOS return, exact five-child visual map, ProTracker sidecar, shared unchained VGA, CRTC panning, palette animation, script text engine, and planar strip blitters.
6 direct continuous runtime GIFs plus archival public stills; no audio or H.264/MP4.
Xmas '92 (X-Mas Timer)
The Yellow Ones December 1992 MS-DOS Christmas demo: RNC method-1 wrapper, setup menus, two MODs, hidden PCX sidecars, PCX palette/RLE loader, snow/text support loops, unchained VGA helpers, CRTC panning, public runtime screenshot reference, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance.
1 public runtime screenshot and 2 decoded PCX stills in the article; no GIF because local capture did not reach a usable temporal sequence.
Typhoid
Symptom The Party 1993 PC 80K intro: original buggy package plus fixed starter, split launcher and two packed MZ bodies, external Defrost MOD, Pascal/C runtime markers, and DOSBox-X capture-path failure note.
Ufo Cracktro
International Network of Crackers 24 November 1989 MS-DOS text-mode cracktro: single-file TheDraw COM screen-save wrapper, decoded B800h character/attribute page, mode 2/3/7 guard, REP MOVSW row copy, optional CGA snow-safe 03DAh polling path, destructive row counter, and immediate DOS exit with no payload handoff.
1 decoded text page and 1 generated loader map in the article.
Uridium Cracktro
Canadian Pirates Inc. and PTL Club May 1988 MS-DOS cracktro: visual/archive-to-code concordance, README hidden-file protection note, byte comparison against Search & Destroy, decoded raw CGA page, exact CS:0F80h to B800:0000 16 KiB copy loop, MAIN.PTL EXEC boundary, IVT snapshot/restore, selected interrupt wrappers, and keyboard emergency hook.
1 decoded title page, 1 safe text reconstruction, and 1 generated loader map in the article.
U.S.S. Stinger Cracktro
Miami Cracking Machine 19 June 1989 MS-DOS multi-renderer cracktro: bounded visual-to-code concordance, source-limited Demozoo/Defacto2 evidence, text-mode Monochrome/CGA/EGA/Tandy selector, 640x350 EGA mode-10h title scene, planar A000h span/logo/fringe model, slanted presenting text, redacted exit text page, and source-limited boundary.
3 public-safe stills and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Ultima 3 Cracktro
ESP Pirates / Mr. Peace pre-1990 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: 1986/1988 date conflict, raw LOAD.COM page at file+0x0e80, exact B800h copy loop, masked contact block, DOS EXEC handoff, and LOADUP.ESP CGA helpers.
1 masked decoded CGA frame and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the intro screen is static.
Dentro Demo
Ultra Force DAT loader, VGA timing, and final scroller analysis.
Ultrawow
UltraForce August 1990 MS-DOS 16K intro: generated logo/ring compositor, 20 projected shaded vector balls, lifecycle-tight 43-step costs, high-index ownership gate, bootstrap scratch residue, asymmetric overlap repair, and byte-accounted RAM-to-A000h publication.
1 continuous DOSBox-X runtime GIF plus 1 secondary sampled-state contact sheet in the article.
Unleashed Power
Surprise! Productions TCC 1993 PC demo fourth place: loader chain, PKLITE expansion, GoldPlay setup, Mode X page flips, palette fades, polygon span fills, RLE assets, and hardware-scrolled final text.
Uneatable
The CoExistence's 14th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: complete corrected release beyond the party's missing-second-ARJ dungeon failure, exact 129-record appended bank, eight restored visual children, eight tracker regions, custom VAM/TCP/SZN data, and a direct silent run through the prolonged credits.
8 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
Untitled
Dust's The Party 1993 winner: complete direct silent original runtime through the authored credits, eight distinct animations, MZ overlay packer, encrypted archive, resident loader, 3D traversal/projection, face sorting, polyfill edge tables, transparent texture spans, tube, rotozoom, mapped objects, and landscape concordance.
8 direct silent runtime animations in the article.
Unreal
Future Crew's Assembly 1992 winner: complete 14:04 direct silent v1.1 run, eight distinct GIFs, loader/packfile structure, recovered child image, Mode 13h palette fades, and unrolled footprint loops.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no contact sheet, audio, or video embed.
Urgent
Pentagon Assembly 1993 low-table 100K intro: single PKLITE-packed MZ, Borland C++ runtime markers, script/error strings, geometric scene labels, internal speed terms, embedded Joop/Mahlzahn text fragments, HSC Player 1.1 music path, and bounded DOSBox-X probe.
Uitgeroeid
Ground Zero X 1995 PC demo third place: segmented MZ layout, GUS/MOD player, internal LZW-style unpacker, planar VGA setup, palette ramps, CRTC panning, table samplers, fractal loop, and text-plane credits.
Vanity & Apathy
Doomsday Assembly 1993 PC 100K intro: PKLITE expansion, STMIK setup, generated plot streams, delay flag, sphere blitters, triple-sine plasma, Julia fixed point, and Venku latch-transfer strips.
Vivid Experiment
Doomsday Assembly 1996 PC demo third place: full direct video-only DOSBox-X route, PMODE/W compressed payload and decompressed image hash, two FastTracker XM modules, embedded position/pattern show scripts, 132 internal resource path tokens, and runtime-to-script concordance for cloud text, bitmap effects, water, bump, terrain, logo, and end-status stages.
1 full silent runtime MP4 and 9 selected non-explicit direct runtime frames in the article.
Vector Balls
Toddl 1991 MCGA/VGA vector-ball demo: bounded Q7 text-object parser, generated Q14 trig, exact X/Y/Z rotation, divide-by-64 perspective, stable painter queue and shade bands, 177-byte span blitter and zero-tile erase, all-angle framebuffer/logo-guard proof, exact object handoff and workload ledgers, plus measured 35 Hz paced versus unsynchronized fast publication.
2 continuous direct no-sound runtime GIFs, 1 five-frame fast-loop erase/redraw sequence, 1 decoded raw logo strip, and 1 decoded ball-tile sheet.
Vectra
The Physical Crew's 1991 MS-DOS demo: authenticated PKLITE restoration, Q11 Euler transforms, four-divide perspective, asymmetric edge DDAs, exact masked-span traffic, displayed/draw six-page cadence, per-page dirty rectangles, timer-scaled rotation, frame-stepped zoom, and a scan-code-swallowing INT 9 handler.
4 continuous uncropped direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or embedded video.
Vega
Ultra Force's 1990 MS-DOS demo: reproducible PKLITE restoration, exact raw picture layout, permissive command parser, CT-VOICE probe and repeating VOC path, shaded 8x8 glyph expansion, hidden-edge insertion, flat 2,624-byte strip shift, retrace-edge VGA publication, and complete loop traffic counts.
1 continuous uncropped direct no-sound runtime GIF and 1 full-frame still in the article.
VectorDemo
Ultra Force's 1991 MS-DOS vector engine: 12 embedded polygon models, 13 procedural point selections, exact Q8 transform and perspective workloads, farthest-vertex painter order, screen-space culling, scanline stencil shading, planar spans, and byte-accounted masked vector-ball atlas stamps.
2 continuous uncropped direct silent GIFs, 1 sparse overview GIF, and 7 timestamped stills in the article.
Verses
Assembly 1994 PC demo winner: complete direct silent Revision II run, exact two-release EMF resource-table and 8CHN music repack comparison, PMODE timer, image warps, IFS/kaleidoscope, twister, and shaded polygon engine.
8 continuous direct-runtime GIFs plus the earlier face-warp reference sequence.
Vertox
Taurus PC Division's 7th-place The Party 1994 demo: complete direct no-Sound-Blaster route, 54 KB resident LDS/TMM386/RasterSys/SBM system, exact 28-record encrypted overlay directory, rolling-XOR recovery, 22 child MZ programs, six high-memory data banks, and seventeen privately restored PKLITE stages.
7 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article.
Vicky
The Space Pigs 1991 MS-DOS demo: two-layer restore, stable silent runtime, four exact solid-object records, quantified fixed-point transform/projection and edge work, integer planar span filling, geometry-to-DAC shading, bounded two-page repair, complete player teardown, and a separate text-colour TSR outro.
1 continuous direct-runtime cube GIF plus decoded VGA prompt and page-stack evidence.
Virtual Vectors
Boris Ottlewski Assembly 1992 MS-DOS VGA demo: bounded runtime-to-code concordance for startup/text screens, vector/texture/flag object GIF phases, packed MZ paragraph-copy wrapper, decoded 320x200+palette assets, 3DG1 object grammar, external MOD path, and vector/polygon renderer evidence limits.
1 runtime GIF, 11 runtime frames, 1 runtime contact sheet, decoded asset sheet, and bounded concordance in the article.
Visions of Light
Valhalla's 15th-place Assembly 1994 PC demo: byte-exact FAT reconstruction of three FFh-padded child names, launcher-generated DemoVT shell script, exact MZ/S3M boundaries, three sixteen-channel timeline regions, restored LZEXE DemoVT 1.51 carrier, and a complete silent 10:56 run.
8 continuous direct silent runtime GIFs in the article; no H.264/MP4 or audible media published.
Warp
Legend Design Assembly 1994 MS-DOS/GUS demo, 4th in the PC demo competition: German PC-group context, original/CD-ROM/Hornet fixed package comparison, 486/GUS/XMS requirement surface, no-sound local DOSBox-X mode-switch boundary, PKLITE fixed loaders, large OVL with WAVE/VOC sample headers, and public-video GIF/PNG visual concordance.
6 public-video GIFs and 6 public Demozoo stills in the article; no MP4/H.264 or audio media is published.
War Game Construction Set Cracktro
PTL Club 1988 MS-DOS CGA cracktro: 117-byte COM loader, direct 16 KB W.PIC copy into B800h video memory, BIOS mode/key handling, exact archive/file hashes, and explicit contact-detail omission boundary.
1 decoded static CGA page in the article; no GIF because this is a static title screen.
Wasted Time
Paranoids Assembly 1993 PC demo: DLZ-packed MZ, Borland C++ runtime, 8CHN FastTracker data, SB/PAS drivers, chunky-to-planar VGA, retrace waits, and CRTC flips.
Wayfarer
Spaceballs' Norwegian The Gathering 1992 Amiga winner: complete 720-second silent direct run, realtime vector story, F-16 chase, projection-distortion greetings, separate end part, six-batch custom MFM trackloader, expansion-memory branch, and explicit final mouse gate.
7 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 2 direct stills in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or contact sheet.
Weener
Funky Pickles / DarkZone and Gollum The Party 1994 fast intro winner: GUS sync, chunky stills, planar mode 12h image path, font stamping, and unrolled mode 13h span filler.
When God Is Having a Malfunction
Orange November 1994 MS-DOS/GUS under-64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, exact public Pouet still, UNP-restored PEZ.EXE runtime image, IE112694.EXE sidecar boundary, embedded makki.mod name, GUS-port selector, mode-13h setup, VGA DAC/retrace/CRTC evidence, timeline phase variables, table-driven dword renderer, scripted credits/greets, and explicit no-fake-GIF capture boundary.
1 exact public Pouet screenshot in the article; local DOSBox-X captures reached the GUS selector and black crash transition only, so no runtime GIF is published.
Wiered
SpaceStation The Party 1993 PC 80K intro: Borland/BGI MZ shell, MiniMod v0.03, broad sound selector, external PCX logos, one-pattern MOD, missing PLASMA.IMG reference, and vectorball/plasma captions.
White Death Cracktro
The Humble Guys 24 January 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: public Demozoo colour-bar frame, 512-byte MZ header, single relocation into DS setup, pre-code string pool, inline BIOS text renderer, 107 repeated-cell writes, six DOS strings, key gate, RETF-to-PSP exit, and dead Start.exe data boundary.
1 public frame and 1 generated technical map in the article.
Wings Of Fury Cracktro
The Humble Guys 2 March 1990 MS-DOS cracktro/loader: 15-byte XOR 45h COM decoder, generated text-mode colour-bar card, 102 BIOS repeated-cell writes, seven DOS strings, overlong right-edge spans, key gate, dashc.pes EXEC path, and sidecar contact-material boundary.
1 public prompt still, 1 generated reconstruction, and 1 generated technical map in the article.
White Heat
Pure Resistance NAID 1995 100K intro: restored MZ/S3M package, AMP/MCP sound setup, six-scene dispatcher, direct Mode 13h helpers, heat diffusion, 3D point clouds, sprite modes, final palette-shifting text rings, and static code-path concordance.
Who Else Can Upgrade a Robot
Orange Abduction 1995 winning MS-DOS/GUS 64K intro: Scene.org archive hashes, private INFOFILE contacts omitted, PKLITE MZ carrier, 325 KB depklite image, embedded title/credits/greets, GUS ProTracker/ULTRASND parser, Mode 13h/A000h path, RLE image decoder, palette-blend cues, CRTC panning, retrace waits, PIT calibration, and runtime-to-code concordance for the public Pouet GIF.
1 public Pouet GIF, 4 extracted public GIF frames, and 1 frame contact sheet in the article.
Wet Dreams
Witan 30 June 1991 MS-DOS multipart demo: exact Part 2 live-page loop with 28 collision-aware horizontal movers, three cadences, color-owned two-byte trail repair, 8x12 bobbing ornament, hidden 21x21 glyph source, direct 20-row VGA rail shift, timer cleanup defects, and KEYB-to-Part-3 handoff; private text omitted.
1 decoded public-safe asset sheet and 2 direct runtime stills in the article; no synthetic GIF from the sparse safe frames.
Witan 2
Witan February 1991 MS-DOS demo: direct silent runtime, exact opaque-sprite and three-window palette loops, unreachable text-wrap equality and overlapping linear drift, 15.143125-second 8 kHz ADPCM block, CT-VOICE/status/failure boundaries, interactive byte motion, and command-9 cleanup.
1 continuous direct-runtime GIF plus 1 secondary decoded/reconstructed still in the article.
X14
Finnish Orange, Juhla 1995: complete music-timed DOSBox-X route, stable final tableau, PKLITE shell, captured protected-mode image, DATA.DAT assets, custom VGA programming, and a detailed feedback-renderer reconstruction.
6 direct continuous runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4.
Xmas '91 by Xerox
Xerox 1991 MS-DOS Christmas demo: complete direct silent restored-executable run, corrected standard-offset RIX3 atlas, live RIX1-pixels/RIX3-palette composition, 5,756-byte upper-band shift, fixed 2x17 strip insertion, 840-frame sphere path, all-record particle updates, one-byte-early even/odd ending reveal, cumulative in-place DAC fade, and normal DOS return.
2 direct full-frame runtime GIFs, 1 direct six-state sequence, 1 direct runtime card still, 1 corrected RIX3 source sheet, and 1 decoded GIFEXE sidecar still.
Xmas '92
Swedish The Phoney Coders' 1992 multipart demo: complete interactive child coverage, original-loader DOS return, exact Escape-gate boundary, PKLITE/UNP chain, unchained VGA, palette morphs, planar page loaders, masked sprites, CRTC flips, and Zax font/timer stages.
6 direct continuous runtime GIFs plus 4 reconstructed archive stills; no audio or H.264/MP4.
X Mas 93
Dante The Party 1993 PC Christmas 80K intro sixth place: duplicate archive check, UNP-restored real-mode MZ, mode 13h DAC setup, center-out fill, rotating object spans, GUS-only GREAT.MOD loader, and timer ISR.
X'mas 93
Yodel The Party 1993 PC Christmas demo: packed MZ setup and main EXEs, UNP-expanded monolithic payload, runtime-capture boundary concordance, embedded 4-channel MOD, Covox/SB/PULSEFLOW setup, VGA/DAC/CRTC evidence, and custom resource tables.
No screenshots yet: DOSBox-X capture proved startup and 640x400 mode switch, then aborted before decodable effect frames.
Xtal
Finnish Complex Media Labs' 1995 MS-DOS demo: complete original-executable run through MIDAS No Sound, natural return to DOS, reverse-engineered 320x200 50 Hz VGA timing, PMODE/W scheduler, palette ramps, and table-driven face/crystal/tunnel renderers.
6 continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio or H.264/MP4 media is published.
Yardemo
Renaissance May 1992 MS-DOS info/demo: frame-derived runtime sequence, Tran/C.C.Catch metadata, clean-DOS helper, dual XOR MZ loader layers, relocated LZ bitstream unpacker, VGA/386/V86/memory preflight, and bounded logo/text/vertical-bar runtime model.
1 runtime GIF, 13 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, contact sheet, and bounded runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
yo!
Future Crew 1990 32K intro: VGA text-mode font-plane tricks, CRTC-panned B800 scrollers, exact per-cell object repair, 16-star ownership/lifetime loop, 240-write VU bars, PC speaker music, and keyboard LEDs.
1 runtime GIF, 7 timestamped DOSBox-X frames, and runtime-to-code concordance in the article.
You Am I You Am The Robot
Orange The Gathering 1996 PC 64K winner: Scene.org archive hashes, literal parrot sign for the name, RNC1/MZ carrier at 0x20, 451,582-byte expanded-image evidence, depacker staging and Huffman/back-reference loop notes, GUS/SB/no-sound release evidence, and direct public-video analysis of particles, robot text, tunnel feedback, terrain, greetings, float tunnel, credits, and Orange logo wash.
3 public-video GIFs, 6 public-video stills, 1 public-video contact sheet, and 1 Pouet GIF in the article.
Yersinia Pestis
tArzAn tuotanto's Juhla 2½ 1995 MS-DOS demo: two restored MZ layers, decoded XLC filesystem, complete S3M-row controller, Q7 mesh engines, planar checker, temporal blur and palette-bank decay, X-wing particles, generated landscape normals, and an exact four-neighbour antialias loop.
3 continuous direct-runtime GIFs and 4 stills in the article; visuals are secondary to the restored-code analysis.
Zaxxon Graffiti
faked public domain 1984 MS-DOS cracktro/graffiti screen: public Demozoo frame, Defacto2 binary-access boundary, exact 4x-to-320x200 reduction, three-colour RGBI palette measurement, 8x8 grid alignment, and likely CGA BIOS/text/glyph-loop implementation shapes.
1 public screenshot, 1 logical reduction, and 1 generated layout map in the article; no GIF because the evidence is one static public frame.
Zakje Plasmatat
Frituur Kraam X 1995 64K intro: PKLITE Pascal shell, BWSB/GUS setup, ASCII palette and mask assets, 160x100 fire smoothing, Mode-X-style 80x50 logo plasma, and palette fades.
ZIF
Parallax's Finnish Assembly 1995 Amiga winner: authenticated mirrored payloads, complete direct silent A1200 run, fifteen loadable HUNK parts, batched segment lifetime, vertical-blank scheduling, copper/raster ownership, 68020 surface-point rendering, and a P61A replay boundary.
6 distinct continuous direct-runtime GIFs in the article; no audio, H.264/MP4, or diagnostic contact sheet.
Zweilight Zone
Capacala Assembly 1995 PC demo fourth place: public Demozoo vector/object stills, 1 Hz screenshot overview GIF, Scene.org archive hashes, CapaLoad/CEM startup, PKLITE MZ carrier with large appended body, MIDAS/GUS/SB/no-sound selector evidence, S3M module titles, and documented silent DOSBox-X menu-boundary run.
14 public Demozoo PNG stills and 1 slow screenshot-sequence GIF in the article; no published runtime video.