Demoscene

Demos and invitation intros with music by Purple Motion, from Superselection in 2024 back to Unreal in 1992.

2000s

Superselection

3 August 2024 / Assembly Summer 2024 / 2nd, demo

Superselection: glassy towers in an orange haze below a glowing ring and a pink plume of smoke.

By Byterapers, Doomsday and Future Crew. Music by Purple Motion, HooCee and Mysdee.

Renaissance

August 2008 / Assembly 2008 / 1st, oldskool demo

Renaissance: the word Byterapers in huge white letters, cropped by the frame, over a dark cloud of demoscene words such as demos, party and demoscene.

By Byterapers. Music by Purple Motion.

1990s

Assembly ’94 invitation

8 April 1994 / Invitation to Assembly 1994

Assembly 94 invitation: the word Assembly in chrome and violet 3D letters above a large pale blue 94 on a floor of tilted blue tiles.

By Future Crew and Sonic PC. Music by Purple Motion.

Second Reality

31 July 1993 / Assembly 1993 / 1st, PC demo

Second Reality: a moonlit rocky landscape under a starry sky and a chequered ceiling.

Music by Purple Motion and Skaven.

Internal Damage

26 July 1992 / Assembly 1992 / 3rd, PC demo

Internal Damage: the demo title in red outlined letters on black.

By Electromotive Force. Music by Purple Motion.

Diskmags

Diskmags were magazines that came as programs on floppy disk and BBS uploads. Four MS-DOS mags from the nineties with Purple Motion in them run here in js-dos, a DOS emulator that runs in the browser, along with DemoNews 76, a text newsletter, in a viewer written for this page.

Most of the mags are driven by the keyboard: press Run, then use the arrow keys, Enter and Esc. In DemoNews 76, P jumps to the next mention of Purple Motion. Hugi 15 also takes the mouse; click inside the screen to use it. Full screen fills your display with the mag; in Chrome and Edge hold Esc to leave it, in other browsers Esc leaves it at once. Press Ctrl+F10 to give the keyboard back to the page, and Stop to close the mag.

Imphobia 9 starts by showing its sound setup, a Gravis UltraSound, and asks whether it is correct. Press Y and the mag opens with music.

Hoax 3

25 February 1993 / Epical

Hoax 3: a purple scroller crossing a starfield, with the Epical logo in sandstone letters running down the right edge.

By Epical. Music by Groo and Blizzard.

Parrot 2

15 August 1994 / Crypton

Parrot 2: the article menu, listing an interview with Purple Motion / FC among the interviews.

By Crypton. Music by Wode Tc.

DemoNews 76

25 December 1994 / Hornet

DemoNews 76 in a DOS text viewer: an ASCII-art Purple Motion banner above the interview introduction, his name picked out in magenta, between a magenta title bar and a key bar.

By Hornet. The issue with the interview quoted under Interviews, here in full. It opens in TXTVIEW, a text viewer written for this page, from the original files.scene.org file, unchanged.

Imphobia 9

11 February 1995 / Imphobia

Imphobia 9: the main menu below the chrome Imphobia logo, with Edito, Charts, Articles, Interviews and Credits.

By Imphobia. Music by Basehead, Scorpik, Zodiak and NHP. The issue whose charts voted Purple Motion the number one musician.

Hugi 15

11 May 1999 / Hugi

Hugi 15: the start menu below the green Hugi logo, offering an International part and a German part over a misty mountain range.

By Hugi. Music by Nightbeat and Dawnstar. The issue with the tracking tips quoted under Interviews.

Windows mags

7 Zone 2 (Cyclonus, 2001) and Zine 12 (BitFellas + Brainstorm, 2007) are Windows programs, which a DOS emulator cannot run. Their Demozoo pages have the downloads.

Tracks

Playlist

Sundance

31 July 1993 / Assembly 1993

Won the PC Music 4-channel competition at Assembly 1993.

  1. Sundance

Death Rally

6 October 1996 / Remedy

The soundtrack of Remedy’s game as ScreamTracker 3 modules: the main menu, the nine race tracks and Hard Metal. Published courtesy of Remedy Entertainment.

  1. Hispeed mainmenu v2.01
  2. Track one – hispeed
  3. Hispeed – track whatever..
  4. Fast-D
  5. Track (futuristic)
  6. Hispeed – track II
  7. Hispeed hazard
  8. Citylights – Citytrack
  9. Botswana hard – JungleTrack
  10. Paavinkatu blues
  11. Track Hard Metal

Credits

7 August 1999 / Assembly 1999

Won the MP3 music competition at Assembly 1999 with 1799 points. Guitar and mixing: Timo Haanpää.

  1. Credits

The tracker modules play in your browser through libopenmpt 0.8.9 (BSD licence) and chiptune3 (MIT licence). Without JavaScript, the titles download the files.