tre_qu: DosBox, Compatibility: Second Reality – Future Crew (1993). dosbox.com, 28. März 2007, abgerufen am 2. Januar 2011: „Runs perfectly, on my setup. Demo crashing halfway (during the "particle spring" part) is a bug in the demo, which relates to the path being to long (also happens to real DOS machines). Run it from C: or a 1 level deep subdirectory to fix.“
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Fabien Sanglard: Second Reality Code Review: Part 1 (Introduction). fabiensanglard.net, 16. August 2013, abgerufen am 23. August 2013 (englisch): „The code is something like I had never seen before that perfectly represents two essential aspects of demomaking : Team work. Obfuscation.“
Fabien Sanglard: Second Reality Code Review: Part 5 (Parts). 16. August 2013, abgerufen am 31. August 2013 (englisch): „Each Second Reality visual effects is a full DOS executable. They are called PART and there are 23 of them in total. This design decision allowed fast prototyping, simultaneous development (since FC probably did not have source control tools) and free languages choice (ASM, C and even Pascal can be found in the source).“
Fabien Sanglard: Second Reality Code Review: Part 2 (Engine). 16. August 2013, abgerufen am 31. August 2013 (englisch): „There were many legends about Second Reality using an elaborated memory manager via the MMU but there is no trace of this in the engine. Memory management is actually delegated to DOS : The engine starts by deallocating all the RAM and then distribute it on demand. The only fancy trick is the ability to allocated RAM from the end of the heap: This is done using the return value of DOS malloc when too much RAM is requested.“
Fabien Sanglard: SHMUP. 19. Oktober 2010, abgerufen am 13. März 2011 (englisch): „It [the Music] comes from one of the greatest hack of all time: "Second Reality" by Future Crew. Yes a deal was signed so I could use the music.“
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Mika Tuomi: SecondReality. 26. Januar 2023, abgerufen am 30. Januar 2023.
Maemo5. (video) In: Dashboard, 0:19, links oben Second Reality. Nokia, 2009, archiviert vom Original am 12. Juli 2010; abgerufen am 13. März 2011.
slashdot.org
Slashdot's "Top 10 Hacks of All Time".slashdot.org, 13. Dezember 1999, abgerufen am 25. Dezember 2010 (englisch): „Second Reality by Future Crew – Awesome, Mindblowing, Unbelievable, Impossible. Some of the words used to describe what this piece of code from demoscene gods Future Crew did on 1993-era PC hardware. Even by today's standards, what this program can do without relying on any kind of 3D graphics acceleration is impressive. As if the graphics weren't impressive enough, it can even playback in Dolby Surround Sound.“
