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Bitboys' strange journey from Nokia to ATI to AMD to Qualcomm, without leaving Finland (xconomy.com)
9 points by waderoush on April 1, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



It's great to see that these guys are still alive and kicking. The founders of Bitboys have come a long way: they got started with graphics programming some 20 years ago, creating demos for MS-DOS and sharing them with other demomakers. (The Internet wasn't generally available in those early years of the European demoscene, so demos were exchanged through BBSs and by swapping floppies through postal mail.)

One of their most famous creations was Second Reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_aUxbbqWU -- it may look plain today, but remember that this was made in 1993 and ran on a 386 with plain VGA...




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