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Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!

Farbrausch, one of the PC demoscene's leading groups, have released their tool Werkzeug to the public. Werkzeug is a tool to create stunning graphical demos, by including 3D effects, music, textures, 3D scenes and more.

Old demosceners, like myself, probably remember TRSI's demomaker on the Amiga back in the '80-ies but this is a complete different tool. Seeing is believing. After seeing it in action on Assembly 2001 (can be a year earlier/later), I knew my demosystem DemoGL was a joke compared to that system.

Although the demoscene is not what it used to be, it's great that legends like Chaos / Farbrausch release their tools to the public so people who always wondered how they were able to put minutes of 3D scenes, textures and multi-channel, full stereo music in 64KB can now see how it was done.

If you can't get enough of these great demo shows, you can turn to http://www.scene.org for more downloads, or even internet TV: Yodel broadcasts 24/7 demos from then and now at: http://62.65.8.228:8000/;stream.nsv (winamp)

Published Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:37 PM by FransBouma

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# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:31 AM

Ah, the TRSI (http://www.trsi.org) demomaker. That brings back some fond memories. I never could get enough of that old Amiga, still collecting old cracktro mod's till this very day. It's mandatory music coding music ;-)

P.S. Don't forget the Nectarine streams http://www.scenemusic.net/

-- Marcel

Marcel

# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:45 AM

I had NO IDEA Yodel broadcasted videos! This is cool! I just connected and 303 by Statix was on. Did you know he did Paper for a large part on my machine and totally crashed my pc?! That sucked big time! I wish I could run Paper again, as well as that demo from Logic Design, with the falling kid on the end. And lots and lots of other demos. I've got the Mindcandy DVD right here and it rules! :)

Oh great, Gerbera by Moppi Productions is running right now. I just witnessed a really lame video that was apparently on Discovery about a demo up north.

Anyway, I can't work anymore now, gotta watch those demos!

Dennis v/d Stelt

# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:53 AM

Heh :) Hey Dennis, didn't know you were an old demoscener as well! :) Paper was indeed a very cool demo. Crashing machines on parties were a curse or something. Demoprogramming on parties was always crap: you worked for 24 hours straight on a routine that would take you 10 minutes at home... I once had to do a lot of routines again at an amiga party (Somewhere in holland 1, which I won :D ) because my sourcedisk was corrupt, aaaaarg :)

I wished I could run the old complex stuff on my current box. Dope still is one of the best PC demos ever made: 100% fake routines which trick you into believing what you see is true, like the old 3D demo I & II by Hannibal on the Amiga.

Frans Bouma

# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:57 AM

Hi Frans,

Wow - the TRSI, thats bringing back memories of a misspent youth ;) There some some pretty awesome demo's around at that time! Remember "Jesus on E's"?

Anyways, I wil definately check this out, and its good to know the creator of my favourite O/R mapper is also a fan on the golden amiga era, and the demoscene!

MattWoberts

# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:21 AM

Dope was indeed extremely cool, still one of my favorites. Also the track by Jugi was GREAT! How something so simple can be so great!

My demoscene nick is Compile but we didn't produce much. I was on #nlcoders a LOT but not in the really early days. We were known as Subliminal with Retrox and Exyll.

My first party was X'97. I also went twice to Wired, twice to TakeOver and once to Bizarre. Was a lot of fun. I was the only one with a drivers license so I also was the victim. But I made everyone stay awake on the journey back, because I myself would fall asleep behind the wheel if they stopped talking to me. Three days of no sleeping can't be good for you. I remember the first night always went pretty okay, untill 10am when you got really, really cold! And the smell inside those party-bunkers, when you went outside to get something to eat. A few hunderd sweating demo nerds! GREAT!

Dennis v/d Stelt

# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:32 AM

"There some some pretty awesome demo's around at that time! Remember "Jesus on E's"? "
Only that I didn't like it much, but perhaps I have to see it again ;)

"and its good to know the creator of my favourite O/R mapper is also a fan on the golden amiga era, and the demoscene!"
Not only a fan, but part of it! :) I bought my Amiga 500 back in '89 and started democoding right away (already had a lot of asm experience on msx2) Produced 1 party winner demo, and a lot of mods (http://www.xs4all.nl/~perseus :)). I still have my airbrushed A500 and all the disks (although my wife wants me to throw it away ;)) and all my k1ll3r rout1nes (you know, a lot of those try out thingies that could f.e. rotate 1024 dots in full framerate on an A500, you worked on it for weeks, it was then done and no-one but our own groupmembers (Infocorner/perseus) would see it because we didn't have a graphician.

"My demoscene nick is Compile but we didn't produce much. I was on #nlcoders a LOT but not in the really early days. We were known as Subliminal with Retrox and Exyll. "
I don't recall those names. I was on nlcoders as well (Otis / Infuse Project) a lot. TakeOver were great! We won the java democompo once at takeover with stress (www.infuse.org), but there wasn't a lot of competition so that wasn't a big achievement ;).

Those looooong sleepless days and nights indeed. I did that twice (SIH 1 and 3) and never ever again ;).

Frans Bouma

# Farbrausch release Werkzeug, a demo creation tool@ Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:42 AM

Farbrausch, one of the most influential demo groups around at the moment, have released a demo creation tool for your enjoyment. I used to follow the demo scene quite a bit back in the day (starting from when I...

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# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:47 AM

X'97... hehe I remember it too. Very small rooms and I could not join Compile and Retrox the first day because of something so I joined then them the next day.

I did Bizarre two times and the rest the same as Compile.

Strange that you cannot remember Compile from #nlcoders because the guy was there 24/7 :). When I joined #nlcoders I was idle ;)

Two people that I remember because they were unique personalities are Harlequin (Arjen) and Statix.

Ramon

# re: Farbrausch releases their demo creator tool werkzeug!@ Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:15 AM

I've been using this package for a while and I have to say it's pretty much fully featured but there's a real lack of help files, it's mainly trial and error. I've done some interesting demos but I want to do something big with it (put a few months into it). Does anyone know where I can go to find tutorials for this package (other than the one that came with it).

Cheers,

bAnDiT

P.S. 'State-of-the-Art' by Spaceballs rox!!

bAnDiT