Second Reality was one of the programs that made me a computer geek as a kid. I built this as an homage to Future Crew and to make the demo accessible to anyone with a browser.
I also wanted to see whether current AI coding agents could actually reconstruct something this gnarly from the original C, x86 assembly, Pascal, data files, and shipped executables without just approximating the visuals. I kept pushing for source-level fidelity, including the music sync, VGA quirks, hidden part, and deterministic verification.
Second Reality was one of the programs that made me a computer geek as a kid. I built this as an homage to Future Crew and to make the demo accessible to anyone with a browser.
I also wanted to see whether current AI coding agents could actually reconstruct something this gnarly from the original C, x86 assembly, Pascal, data files, and shipped executables without just approximating the visuals. I kept pushing for source-level fidelity, including the music sync, VGA quirks, hidden part, and deterministic verification.
Demo: https://www.secondreality1993.com/ Source: https://github.com/stanchak/secondreality1993
Would love feedback from anyone who knows the original.