The Lost Art of Tech Demos
1,837Strap in and take a ride with me to the past, exploring the history and nostalgia of graphics card tech demos made by many of the most famous vendors in the industry!
A total of 58 demos from NVIDIA, ATI, 3dfx, Matrox, and more were recorded for this video using my own hardware. In many cases, substitutions were made in place of the intended hardware where it made sense to, for the sake of efficiency and time management. These were the graphics cards used:
-3Dfx Voodoo 4MB
-3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB
-3Dfx Voodoo5 5500
-Rendition V1000L-P 4MB
-Matrox G400 MAX
-NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX
-NVIDIA GTX 285
-ATI Rage Pro 4MB
-ATI Rage 128 Pro
-ATI Radeon 7500 64MB
-ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
-ATI Radeon X1950XTX
-AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
0:00 Intro
2:28 A little history
4:15 3Dfx Valley of Ra
5:10 3Dfx Race
5:27 3Dfx Wizard's Tower
5:56 Rendition Cartoon
6:52 ATI Knight
7:37 ATI Rage Dawning
12:56 3Dfx Voodoo2 demos
13:09 Matrox G400 EMBM demo
15:44 NVIDIA Smaller GF256 demos
16:02 NVIDIA Crystal
16:32 NVIDIA Smaller GF2 demos
16:56 NVIDIA Creature
17:21 3Dfx Rocketburger
18:06 ATI Radeon's Ark
22:24 NVIDIA Zoltar
23:11 NVIDIA Chameleon
23:47 ATI Nature
24:19 ATI Rachel
24:50 ATI Island demos
27:17 NVIDIA Werewolf
28:06 NVIDIA Squid
28:42 Matrox Parhelia Reef
29:24 ATI Smaller 9700 demos
30:06 ATI Pipe Dream
34:37 NVIDIA Dawn
36:07 NVIDIA Dusk
37:03 NVIDIA Ogre
37:44 NVIDIA Toys
39:02 NVIDIA Last Chance Gas
39:47 NVIDIA Vulcan
41:02 ATI Chimp
42:18 NVIDIA Nalu
43:17 NVIDIA Timbury
44:20 ATI Smaller X800 demos
44:33 ATI Double Cross
46:49 ATI Dangerous Curves
47:06 NVIDIA Luna
49:49 NVIDIA MadMod Mike
51:50 ATI The Assassin
53:51 ATI Toy Shop
54:33 ATI Whiteout
57:54 Epilogue on ATI demos
58:23 NVIDIA 8800 demos
59:16 NVIDIA Medusa
1:02:25 NVIDIA Supersonic Sled
1:02:58 Epilogue on NVIDIA demos
1:03:34 Conclusion
Intro Animation By Ken Gruca Jr — Inquire at kjgruca@gmail.com
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