The early 1990’s. During those earlier years, that I spent a lot of my teenage years on the PC trying to follow the European demo scene. A scene which computer coders and electronic music fans would push the limits of older computers but also bring together that passion for electronic music with their creations.
Among the popular groups back then was FUTURE CREW and at the time, I ran a BBS called nt2099 which hosted a lot of the European demo and intros at that time. Could you imagine that these files which would take seconds to download today, it would take almost an hour or so through a 2400 baud modem. It’s hard to imagine now with broadband.
But a lot of these guys went on to work on major video games or work for big companies and for the most part, I’m grateful for entertaining those of us worldwide who thrived on those files on our computers at the time.
But I can remember 1993…Assembly 1993 Party and almost like a sports game, so tied into who would win these early demo competitions and the results would look something like this:
Assembly’93 party results for PC. Votes were calculated by giving five points for the first place, four for the second place and so on. Up to five contributions could be voted for. A total of 105 votes were cast.
PC Demos Top Ten
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Place:Â Â Â Votes:Â Â Â #:Â Group:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Demo:
1.   381   10. Future Crew         Second Reality
2.   334   9. Silents         Optic Nerve
3.   156   3. Xography         Elements
4.   98   2. Dust         Saga
5.   73   6. Extreme         Extermination
6.   36   5. Virtual Visions      Fruits of Indolence
7.   28   7. Paranoids         Wasted time
8.   16   8. Black Rain         Obsession
9.   8   4. Alphaforce         Phenomenon
PC Intros Top Ten
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Place:Â Â Â Votes:Â Â Â #:Â Group:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Intro:
1.   298   8. EMF            Eclipse
2.   147   9. Darkzone         Debut
3.   140   5. Epical         Tangle
4.   134   7. Onyx         Locomotion
5.   108   10. Avalanche         Motion
6.   105   15. Sonic-PC         Plan-B
7.   70   6. Doomsday prod.      Vanity & Apathy
8.   38   3. Surprise! prod.      Stardream
9.   20   4. Jeskola prod.      Dieetti-Intro
10.   11   1. RatCompany         Fraust
11   13. Irresistible Works      Preview
11   14. Pentagon         Urgent
PC Musics Multichannel Top Ten
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Place:Â Â Â Votes:Â Â Â #:Â Composer:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tune:
1.   179   7. Skaven / Future Crew   Ice Frontier
2.   150   4. Marvel / Future Crew   Can’t remember you
3.   131   6. Pentagon          Inferno
4.   123   5. Leinad / Avalanche      Atomic II
5.   122   1. Purple Motion / Future Crew   Starshine
6.   79   2. Tonedeaf / Extreme      Heartbeat
7.   58   10. Prism / Wish      Time running out
8.   52   3. Mikki / Epical      Opossumi
9.   32   9. Funk’t’ion / Paranoids   Deepness
10.   29   8. Bloodsoaker / Wapy      Shout
PC Musics 4-channel Top Ten
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Place:Â Â Â Votes:Â Â Â #:Â Composer:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tune:
1.   106   19. Purple Motion / Future Crew   Sundance
2.   74   6. Cybelius / Sonic-PC      Schwinging the Swing
3.   58   13. Leinad / Avalanche      Teaspoon
4.   54   9. Tonedeaf / Extreme      Sounds of War
5.   51   8. Executioner         Pork Chop
6.   47   21. JayJay / Progress      Phantoms
7.   42   10. Gibson / Extreme      Blackbird
8.   39   17. Blizzard / Epical      Hidden Shadows
9.   35   5. Mellow-D / Sonic-PC      Fast Changer II
10.   30   18. Dune / Humane      Dementic Dream
PC Graphics Top Ten
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Place:Â Â Â Votes:Â Â Â #:Â Artist:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Picture:
1.   150   8. Marvel / Future Crew   Ice Kingdom
2.   125   2. Delsion / Cascada      Eevi
3.   90   9. Zenjuga / Black Mind   A3
4.   73   10. Pixel / Future Crew      Troll
5.   37   14. Ranx / Sonic-PC      Invintro
6.   30   11. Giems / Dark Zone      Escaping from the Raytracer
7.   24   13. PCA / Painkiller      W2
8.   22   7. Kapsu / Epical      Assyroad
9.   22   15. Mahlzahnx / Pentagon   Dungeon
10.   19   12. Leinad / Avalanche      Korvmack
Needless to say, I had this whole collection of Euro Demos and found them all again. I doubt if I can get any of these to work these days (maybe with some messing around with some programs but probably a bit too tedious since I tried to run old school PC games a year ago and spent a day trying) but if there was one thing that I have received request from my old BBS visitors within the last 15 years, I have been asked if I could post them up on J!-ENT.
So, I figured we carried a lot of our old files from the nt2099 years on OSA, so might as well add all those old school Euro Demo files as well. Fans of this genre, who can find a way to use them for today’s modern PC’s (good luck!) or post them on YouTube, feel free to…ENJOY!
P.S.
And for those who need a guide to those files… I kept a text journal back then of what I wrote about these files. I may have been hard back then…I don’t remember really, I was very young when I wrote those entries back then. Anyway, I hope it helps.