Second Reality (1993) in your browser
Future Crew's 1993 demo, ported from source. No emulator.
Details
- External ID
- 1260250
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Second Reality (1993) in your browser
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9434199273038273
- Tags
- Open Source, Retro Games, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Future Crew's Second Reality, the Assembly '93 demo, ported from the original C, x86 assembly and Pascal to JavaScript. No DOS, no emulator: the original software rasterisers, VGA palette tricks and copy-protected S3M music, live in a browser. Public domain.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser port of the 1993 second reality demo
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Porting a legendary 1993 demoscene production with custom 16-bit x86 assembly, software VGA rasterizers, and custom S3M tracker player to JavaScript requires deep reverse engineering and low-level retrocomputing expertise.
What it would actually take: The project requires disassembling or converting legacy Watcom C/Pascal and raw 16-bit x86 assembly into clean modern WebAssembly or JavaScript. The hard parts include reimplementing cycle-accurate VGA register tricks, custom rasterizers (texture mappers, plasma, 3D polygons), and building an audio synthesis pipeline to play copy-protected Scream Tracker 3 (S3M) music directly in the Web Audio API. This demands expert-level demoscene knowledge, retro graphics programming, and assembly-level systems comprehension.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 46 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 47 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
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