Future Crew

Future Crew was a group of the demoscene.

The Finnish demo group Future Crew was long considered one of the best demo groups at all and was especially one of the first groups to (later) worked exclusively on the IBM PC, although in the late 1980s, the PC with its capabilities still far behind the then dominant Amiga lagged. They were thus one of the pioneers of multimedia using the PC platform, visible through the support they got from sound and graphics hardware vendors (including Gravis with the then very advanced Ultrasound sound card).

History

The group was originally Sami Tammilehto (PSI), founded in 1986 as a Commodore 64 group in 1988 but rose all the way around to the PC.

Published in 1990 the famous Future Crew Tracker Scream Tracker 2.0, with which comfortable music in the form of MOD files (. STM) could be composes the first time on the PC.

For larger caused a stir Future Crew (often abbreviated as FC ) with their demo of Unreal. The breakthrough came on the Assembly in 1993 with the highly acclaimed Demo Unreal ] [- The 2nd Reality ( later simply referred to simply as Second Reality ). This demo then put everything on the PC before seen in the shadows and was particularly impressed by varied music and their precise synchronization to the effects. Until the mid- 1990s Second Reality was one of the best PC demos ever, even if it was technically long out of date again.

In 1994, version 3 of the Scream Tracker, which is now used the S3M format. This was the most recent major release of Future Crew. They then put their activities a large extent. However, and tracker formats in the following years of the 1990s Screamtracker influenced the design and user navigation following tracker ( Impulse Tracker, Fast Tracker, etc.) with decisive.

In 1998, the group planned actually making a comeback. Your former doctoral saying to admire on T -Shirts, After 4 years of silence the original gang is back to unleash the beast but they are no longer made ​​true. With smaller contributions and as co-organizers of the assembly FC members were still up in the 2000s active in the demoscene.

The online magazine Slashdot chose Second Reality end of 1999 retrospectively to one of the "Top 10 Hacks of All Time".

Later importance

Some members continued their activities in the demo scene by organizing the world's largest Demo Party, the assembly. Every now and then also take part in some of the members of Future Crew at individual competitions at the assembly. Since 1995, Jussi Laakkonen ( Abyss ) the main organizer of this event. Abyss was sysop of the Starport, the WHQ ( World Headquarters ) by Future Crew. Although he has never really made demos, he is now the best-known member of the group.

As before, is still active musicians Purple Motion, Jonne Valtonen. In 2004 he published his first professional debut CD " Music Disk ". Today he is the musical brains of Merregnon Studios and responsible for the implementation of orchestral game music concerts worldwide.

From Future Crew different projects and companies have emerged that have been initiated by former members - known representative are about the company Futuremark (formerly MadOnion ) - known for its benchmark 3DMark, the game developer Remedy Entertainment - creators of Max Payne, as well as the graphics hardware company Bitboys.

Nectarine Records, a small indie studio, published in 2011 an album with the most popular songs of the Future Crew in 24-bit remastered as a tribute to this. The album called "Metropolis" is available as a free download on the Internet.

Surprisingly, the release of the demo Second Reality was released as Public domain whose source code on github from the Future Crew on August 1, 2013 on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary.

Members

Members of the group at the time of publication of Second Reality:

  • Gore ( Samuli Syvähuoko ): Organizer
  • Psi ( Sami Tammilehto ): programmer
  • Mirage (Mika Tuomi ): programmer
  • Wildfire ( Arto Vuori ): programmer
  • Purple Motion ( Jonne Valtonen ): Composer / Musician
  • Skaven (Peter Hajba ): Composer / Musician & Graphic
  • Marvel ( Aki Raula, formerly Aki Määttä ): Graphic
  • Pixels ( Misko Iho ): Graphic
  • Abyss ( Jussi Laakkonen ): BBS Coordinator / Public Relations
  • Henchman ( Markus Mäki ): BBS operator
  • Jake ( Jarkko Heinonen ): Internet Public Relations
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