Exceed - Heaven Seven

[waggabiggadoo]

the sweet rosey fragrance of the hot pink nipponrose is breathed in by me in the night

[gm77777]

epic work

[initvesa]

What sound card does the DOS version use? It didn't seem to work with my Sound Blaster.

[CosteTR]

this was the one of first videos i've ever seen. and was magical to me.

[GIORGOS7411]

i remember this one years ago!cgi poetry!!!

[ghaelis]

Damn, this is old. Still great though! 11 years passed so quickly!

[asstrida]

blaaah this brings me back 11 years ago..i always used to watch this as a kid, just staring at the pc..still love it..

[TADsince1995]

Reading a lot of comments I realized that some people doesn't consider that this demo features a software renderer, it don't use any kind of 3D acceleration! And it's completely written in pure assembly, in only 64 kb. This is the meaning of demoscene competitions. You cannot make a comparison with Crysis or other 3D applications, it's a nonsense. These things makes this production one of the most impressive demoscene achievement of all times!

[AMYuntold]

How the hell do a couple of guys code a 64K program having its very own ahead of its time 3D renderer, during a couple days compo?!

I don't get it, they memorise the stuff during the year and they type it in in a big rush without the need of debugging, how is that possible?..

Or they don't have to start from totally scratch?

[alleey7]

@AMYuntold It wasnt 64K as such. They used UPX to compress exe, the real length was like 128K something (dont remember). I know it because I hacked and changed the text in it. Most of it is geometrical primitives and text (is bitmapped). Sound is midi (highly compressed). But anyway, brilliant stuff !

[andersdenkend]

One of the Demoscene's true classics.

[seriouslyWeird]

this is my favorite demo

[shairaptor]

I have 16GB or RAM. So roll on the demos that take 16GB of RAM ;)

[cyborgtroy]

@Tuatara8081 - I don't think the artists for Crysis would be happy to be restricted to box modelling and procedural textures. And animations... the list goes on.

[waggabiggadoo]

i ment like a weblanguage so you can still view it on youtube but it is rendered live!

[cyborgtroy]

@waggabiggadoo - Maybe with WebGL, but YouTube is for videos, they would not implement that in the foreseeable future.

[waggabiggadoo]

comon some1 make a universal crossplatform language so that we can render this live on any platform 64k and nice quality instead of like now its like 3000k and shitty quality, wtf? evolution please

[cyborgtroy]

@waggabiggadoo - also, it requires a pretty decent computer to do these effects. The low memory footprint is offset by CPU usage.

A really old shitty computer can play any low-quality video, but it would struggle with this demo.

[waggabiggadoo]

@cyborgtroy well....whatever you say...is your reality :D

[cyborgtroy]

@waggabiggadoo - Okay let me know how that works out for you.

[Moksha786]

how can i download this music???anyone help

[waggabiggadoo]

watching this on youtube is a fucking abomination

[apurvamisaki]

its just fantastic!!!

i love it!!!

[plazafob]

omg i still love it!

[scarfortyfive]

We used to dream used to exist asking about places... places like heaven being born growing living rising shouting collapsing without any meaning the newborn died right after he was born never had the chance to make a choice of his belief the elderly going through irreversible changes losing his memories losing himself... will he ever regain his lost abilities? what about people who never had those abilities? just questions... ...dreams about a place far away

[lieing619]

@Jumpseri Even though i agree with Outlander11 with our memory space and even if this is really old it takes me back to where it all began...

[Jumpseri]

notice the release date, 10 years ago!

[ghost500e]

@Jumpseri And i also noticed that terminator 2 was released in 1991 if i recall correctly and that movie had some extreme cgi for the time so the pc power was released 1991 allready, hehehehe....

[lekorque]

Chills down my spine... I have played this one back and forth for ages!

[Healton]

I like that music, it's so tuneful and uplifting! Dont want to comment the video, u can see it =)

[karlexceed]

oh yeah!!! still to this day, my hands down favorite of all time. i remember when this came out, the gaming industry was juuuuust starting to talk about reflections and raytracing. this demo has it all...

[ertyqwer]

the gaming industry needs algorithms that can work with more than spheres in space

great demo though

[johnykgr]

Can be games made using this techniques?

[NoqturnePL]

@johnykgr - of course. a perfect example would be a game called .kkrieger (yes, with the dot - google it). A game by theprodukkt/farbrausch. It's about 90kB (or 64 - i don't remember) and it features a lot of procedural graphic goodness.

[johnykgr]

Whoa! thanks a lot! it was astonishing!!!! im waiting for the new versions :D

Just perfect!

[wearebinary]

games are made using demo techniques ;) or vice versa. depends how you see it.

[baze128]

Games are made with even more sophisticated techniques (actually, they are often made by former demoscene people). The thing is though that in games it's not possible to pre-arrange things to such extent and there are tons of other things to process (physics, etc). Also, demos focus on design - they tend to look great even if they are not technically ground breaking. This demo though is one of the all-time masterpieces.

[falconfira]

Farbrausch made an fps

[sasvari]

I don't know much about computing, but I remember I received this vid from the demoscene in full resolution, great quality, and it was like 250 Kbytes!! I was amazed.

If this was the intro of some PC game, it would have taken half a CD those days, too...

[plisk]

Thank you :)

[avynian]

"One of the best 64k demo ever made"

Absolutely! Even today it still flashes me.

[mayhemtv]

So true! :)

[Theo4Trinitas]

This music totally sucks. It can't possibly be 1st. Cite your source.

[SimoneA82]

I love this demo!!!

[qasdwrgbjj]

If you download the original PC-version, you can deactivate the text;)

[Scarface95828]

this is just, for lack of a better word IMPOSSIBLE. I cant even fathom just fitting the music into just 64k, let alone all the other stuff here. Anybody have any ideas or clues about how they did it?

[amatulich]

Procedural textures and MIDI events take up very little space. Your 3D graphics card and MIDI sound synthesizer built into your computer do the rest. It does take a lot of skill to squeeze that much out of 64K though.

[floofypoof]

alright smarty, how'd they put the face in teh background at 1:06

[ClickClackClickClack]

Vectors/bezier splines with a combination of procedurally generated cloud textures. They take up very little space, and are, by their nature, procedurally generated.

There's an SWF file included with the Heaven Seven final off of Pouet that contains the faces.

[7331i]

Actually the soundtrack for this intro was made with fast tracker 2 (or similar tracker software, at least it's in XM format). So no midi/synthesizer there, just tracker note data and small samples :)

[rumschuettel]

@amatulich In fact this demo is software-rendered. No 3D data is processed by your GPU, which makes it even more amazing.

[Outlander11]

:facepalm:

do not forget, 64K is alot of memory. We, today are extremely spoiled. I remember when 512K was alot of memory. And NOTHING is impossible, unlikely, improbable, but never impossible.

The people that put these demos together are gods among men.

[Greathoof]

@Outlander11

Man, you are right, it's tons of memory, BUT

64k = 64kB is the exe, not the memory it uses.

Also, demos can eat tons of memory :D

Btw, 32kB of memory was enough for man to "conquer" Moon :)

[cyborgtroy]

@Outlander11 - Actually, the vast majority of things are impossible. Fitting 1GB of random data into a byte... fitting 1GB and two bits of random data into a byte... etc...

[waggabiggadoo]

@Outlander11 well, whatever you seed, is your reality

[AMYuntold]

@Outlander11 Right, so say they are gods... OR that 64K is lot of memory... both of them at the same time doesn't make any sense. If 64K is so big, then they aren't gods, are they?... Don't misunderstand, i know what you meant about today we are spoiled, and it was totally right, but how you spoken was a little silly.

[jcmegabyte]

Excellent! Is anyone still coding MSDOS demos these days? Been a long time since I've looked. My collection is old and dusty, but I've seen some really great stuff. :D

[Nicrame]

All here say true. Is one of the best demos that were made :) I love it so much. I also remember when my PC was too slow to make it run fast in fullscreen. I remember the changes between demo version & full release :) What time it was :) Ahh. Still same feelings about it. Thx for posting in on youtube.

[jamesv10]

very nice.

[BoHPriest]

love it

[TomCody9000]

Was gonna upload this, nice to see it's already been done. Absolutely amazing demo, my favourite. ^^

[MrStanislav]

I watched this for the firs time when I was 14. That was quite a f***g thing. And still is.

[plazafob]

unbelievable!

and yes, it's only 64KB. i have the original exe.

[tifius]

This cant be 64kb in file size can it? :S

[apo5]

Realy realy awesome demo, i loved it 8 years ago and i love it today. Respect for creators.

[matoro1989]

this seriously needs to be made into a game now.

[waggabiggadoo]

yeah, they could make an interactive online environment of this comp

[mattmatthew]

the real question is...where is D-Lee! i would like to say hi.

[Alonecrow]

Wassn geiles Vid, und alles auf raytracing technologie?! Nicht schlecht.... ma gespannt was die zukunft uns alles grafisch beschären wird.

[proskpnce]

uh, hell yeah, one of the best intros ever! :)

[Optimus6128]

This one has marked my demoscene life. Watched it again and almost forget there have already passed 8 years since the time it was released and still has an impact on me.

[nicolunacba]

nice... really nice!

[blazebalg]

One of the greatest i ever found, thank you for this!

[DiSSNt]

I remember that I couldn't run it in high resolution when they made it. There was also an option to turn off the subtitles.

[wiperush]

best 64k intro demo ever!!!

[Voidward]

A demoscene classic. After over 7 years it's still entertaining to watch and doesn't feel dated.

[colprefect]

An all-time beauty! Realtime raytracing without any 3D subsystem like OpenGL, yet with all the important features. Fullscreen! Just amazing.

And that tune is second to none, totally unique in sound and atmosphere. Art in any way.

[vividesigner]

best 64k demo EVER!

[usmsci]

why did exceed break up?

[frankyfife]

the greatest demo ever made...

[Myven8]

This is beautiful!

[moejoe1337]

graet demo!

[unit256]

this is visual poetry

[warehouse5am]

what does this have to do with haujobb?

[zilouge]

realtime raytracing <3

[uiaiui]

64k but with more style than many 2GB products...

[RABBIDGamfan]

WOAH! What platform is this on?

[zilouge]

pc win32

[vertexar]

@RABBIDGamfan

PC, there are two versions, one for DOS and another for Windows.

[waggabiggadoo]

how do you record a demo to youtube like that?

[flu3ncy]

This is touching.

Beautiful 64kb demo.

[phextin]

An oldy but still one of my favorite 64kb intros.

thnks 4 UPload

[phextin]

An oldy but still on of my favorite 64kb intros.

thnks 4 UPload