Digital Graffiti - Programming 1990s PC Demoscene Effects
Step back into the golden age of the demoscene as I dive into some of the most iconic visual effects from 1990s PC demos, all recreated under MS-DOS using Borland C++.
Source code - https://github.com/ncot-tech/vga-demo
In this video, I break down several classic demo effects - not as a tutorial, but as a journey through how they work and how I recreated them from scratch. For each one, I show an example from a real DOS demo, explain the technique behind it, and then reveal the code I used to get it working myself.
To wrap things up, I present a mini demo built from all the effects covered — a nostalgic homage to the style and flair of ’90s PC demo coding.