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Square by Pulse [web]
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release date : december 1997
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I'd probably kill to get a crew as the one that made this production. One of my all time favourites. The code is good. Spine chilling music. Graphics to kill for. And the end is brilliant, I love this demo.
added on the 2000-08-21 15:32:04 by sin sin
one of the best designed demos on pc ever. pulse rocked (as always).
added on the 2000-09-11 01:35:51 by lau lau
one of my favourite visual trip. boost your sound system!
added on the 2000-09-29 14:55:18 by fred fred
hey! there are no Poser and no mp3 in this demo!it's excellent!
added on the 2000-10-11 11:37:01 by jibe jibe
The design is sloppy, but the chilling atmosphere and the AWESOME music blow me away every time. Must-have-seen!
added on the 2000-12-07 07:43:26 by Shifter Shifter
we are living with some great demos! this is one of this demos. The design, the sinchro, the music, the code... all! is perfect!
added on the 2000-12-25 11:20:37 by mrdoob mrdoob
What an abstract demo?! (But good abstract :)

Very interesting.
I don't watch it often, but still interesting..
added on the 2001-03-08 15:02:57 by Optimus Optimus
the party version fucks up my PC. changes my BIOS settings, -> windows too. i started it under dos6.22 baaah. i hope final works...
added on the 2001-05-28 22:47:36 by d-lee d-lee
really a great demo, my favorite pulse prod.
wach it, great code (statix rulez), weird but tottaly fitting music, and some very nice gfx.
one of my favorite demos ...
rulez added on the 2001-06-01 11:48:53 by Nuclear Nuclear
10 print "statix"
20 goto 10
This demo is f0ckin' good!
rulez added on the 2001-06-02 01:54:22 by oldaccount oldaccount
a great demo, but far from both pulse's and statix' best in my opinion... but killer graphics by haplo and a great track by shad makes this worthy a download indeed..
rulez added on the 2001-06-18 21:07:10 by fractalgp fractalgp
maybe the single best pc demo ever? certainly the final masterpiece of the vga era...

square also represents the height of "classic" demo design in the way it blends very different effects, graphics and music as discrete elements (unlike many new demos which rely on more narrow design principles)
rulez added on the 2001-07-11 00:10:50 by saffron saffron
Shellshock!
rulez added on the 2001-07-22 20:38:23 by fra fra
My alltime favourite!!!
rulez added on the 2001-09-03 12:29:00 by nudge nudge
great in every category, imho a masterpiece and statix best one ever.
rulez added on the 2001-10-05 22:00:12 by heman heman
one of the best production of one of the best demogroup -> pulse rocks
rulez added on the 2001-10-08 20:13:08 by chewbacca chewbacca
Extreme thingie..
rulez added on the 2001-10-24 14:50:24 by Optimus Optimus
A masterpiece, by all the legendary guys :)

All parts of a demo; music, design, effects, graphics...all of it in this production is very good.

A true "must see".
rulez added on the 2001-11-03 20:21:11 by skypher skypher
One of the best prods ever. Watch and learn...
rulez added on the 2001-11-03 20:46:43 by dixan dixan
Just voting! :-)
rulez added on the 2001-11-03 21:32:54 by moT moT
ah! how could i have forgotten this one. it's simply put an amazing demo from beginning till end.
rulez added on the 2001-12-02 20:37:00 by gloom gloom
one of my all time favorites!
rulez added on the 2001-12-02 21:01:17 by jar jar
this rox massive butt
rulez added on the 2001-12-02 21:22:05 by bizken bizken
the best is always the best.
rulez added on the 2002-01-03 05:57:22 by droid droid
one of my favourite demos. maybe the best.
rulezcdc added on the 2002-01-03 06:12:24 by stonda stonda
one of my all time favourite
rulez added on the 2002-01-13 16:29:14 by shash shash
i want a win-version. statix please do it :)
rulez added on the 2002-01-13 16:45:46 by cp_ cp_
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rulez added on the 2002-01-20 05:30:55 by Zafio Zafio
I have only seen this demo on my slow P75.... still a very good demo.
rulez added on the 2002-01-30 07:33:35 by dairos dairos
one of the best demos,
made by some of the most talented people at this time.
also their last one, they stopped doing demos after this.
at the same time a technically conservative demo (using vga) and a great step on the

conceptual side: it had a really cute design ages before that flat+wireframe numedia

trend.

it doesn't need a lot of words to describe how nice it is, just enumerate the people who

made it :
code of statix, particles of dune, music of shad, graphics of haplo..
nothing to say more on that point..

but what makes it one of the greatest demos is the way the effects are going, astonishing transitions, marvellous style, and looping video ending effect.

nice style,
for sure underrated at tp.
rulez added on the 2002-02-23 22:37:15 by florent florent
brilliant, just brilliant!
rulez added on the 2002-03-11 21:36:29 by demol demol
i never said this one rules.
well i must stop sucking then and say this one rulez.
there. done.
rulez added on the 2002-03-26 23:02:23 by psenough psenough
again..i just love it, an incredible piece of art

about porting it from dos -> windows. I asked Statix and he lost the sources .. :((((
Same for Blitz with Saint/Halcyon, lost too.
rulez added on the 2002-04-06 00:25:38 by dake^cdx dake^cdx
2 words...Kick ass !
rulez added on the 2002-04-30 09:06:40 by Squaley Squaley
i'm gonna say this only once: this rocks

this rocks
rulez added on the 2002-04-30 09:13:41 by teel teel
need w32 version badly. :))
added on the 2002-05-15 12:47:46 by stonda stonda
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Running under Windows XP (kinda ;D)

Fullsize and other snapshots (i'll be posting them periodically) here
added on the 2002-05-19 21:30:58 by Jcl Jcl
hello it's statix here I'm going to try porting this to win32 tonight, wish me luck :) I'll post on ojuice with the w32 port exe and source code when it's done.
added on the 2002-07-02 15:31:39 by bluespoon bluespoon
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added on the 2002-07-02 16:02:41 by saffron saffron
square win32 version! we love statix indeed.

and my god how beautifully it works on modern computers (not that it would've been too slow in the past either). brings back a lot of good memories.
rulez added on the 2002-07-03 22:38:08 by melw melw
rulez
rulez added on the 2002-07-03 22:41:27 by diver diver
yes, cool. i saw it on the bigscreen back in the early days. apart from few bugs this demo still rocks :-D
rulez added on the 2002-07-03 22:52:44 by rasmus/loonies rasmus/loonies
yes!YES!YEEEESS!
thank you!
rulez added on the 2002-07-03 23:02:30 by fred fred
Manages very well to change between different styles and looks -- it changes quite a lot, too. The music isn't the best I've heard, but heck, it's a real good demo. :-)
rulez added on the 2002-07-03 23:02:30 by Sesse Sesse
actually cooler than i remembered
rulez added on the 2002-07-04 15:09:49 by _-_-__ _-_-__
Not perfect and not the best ever but still damn good shit.
rulez added on the 2002-07-08 13:56:26 by uncle-x uncle-x
A legendary masterpiece.
rulez added on the 2002-07-08 14:20:17 by gaia gaia
yeah yeah!! this one is one of my all time favourites!! Just great art and great sound..
rulez added on the 2002-08-12 21:39:40 by phred phred
Maybe it's one of those demos that looked good at the time of its release, but it doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.
sucks added on the 2002-08-12 22:00:03 by Wade Wade
Quite good considering the limitations of the standard PC VGA card...
Amazing! Just seeing the screenshot makes me want to watch it right now!
rulez added on the 2002-11-06 12:14:56 by sprocket sprocket
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rulez added on the 2002-12-14 07:17:03 by danb danb
yes! the distorted part in the music owns me.
rulez added on the 2003-01-14 18:17:40 by Gargaj Gargaj
<3 <3 @ statix
rulez added on the 2003-07-01 23:16:06 by termos termos
rulez added on the 2003-08-15 17:53:36 by Dubmood Dubmood
Looked brilliant in the 90s and does the same several years later :)
added on the 2003-08-16 05:40:29 by Crest Crest
One of the best pc demos ever (at least it's in my personal top5). Like crest said, it still looks good today -which is not easy-
rulezcdc added on the 2003-11-06 15:15:24 by ithaqua ithaqua
brilliant.
rulez added on the 2003-11-08 15:38:31 by kimi kardashian kimi kardashian
this demo rocks like hell
rulez added on the 2004-01-25 19:11:51 by asphyx asphyx
there is a strange darkness to this demo that gives it an obvious UK branding. Cool. Love the retro distorted bits.
rulez added on the 2004-04-01 02:24:17 by Claw Claw
great transitions for a great demo
rulez added on the 2004-06-06 19:01:09 by p01 p01
shocked
rulez added on the 2004-09-05 06:01:40 by cykocator cykocator
Cool aphex twin sample!
rulez added on the 2004-09-05 07:12:08 by zeebr zeebr
Rools
rulez added on the 2004-09-15 12:01:37 by Mike 3D Mike 3D
On top.
rulez added on the 2004-09-16 01:24:41 by Nezbie Nezbie
How it's supposed to be done.
rulez added on the 2004-11-01 20:52:06 by Mr Twist Laser Mr Twist Laser
statix <3
rulez added on the 2004-11-01 21:10:59 by post malone post malone
With a minor resolution upgrade or even just some nice interpolated upsampling this demo would win compos even now. Beyond awesome
rulez added on the 2004-11-05 17:36:55 by witeshade witeshade
statix
rulez added on the 2005-01-16 22:21:57 by parcelshit parcelshit
rulez added on the 2005-04-11 00:07:33 by chavez chavez
One of my fave PC demos ever. Masterpiece!
rulez added on the 2005-04-29 14:40:43 by valsary valsary
one of my all time favourite demos ever on any platform =)
rulezcdc added on the 2005-04-29 16:18:26 by smash smash
For some reason, this never did the trick for me. I don't know why.. there's nothing wrong with. The style is great, I like the music and the effects are good. But somehow they just don't.. connect
added on the 2005-04-29 16:23:16 by Preacher Preacher
no no no no.. sorry. I got it mixed with something else entirely. This one rocks.
rulez added on the 2005-04-29 16:29:14 by Preacher Preacher
Great sync
rulez added on the 2005-05-02 12:27:49 by Manwe Manwe

i swear, been commenting this already! // now, refreshing my memory, this is still well enjoyable! //

rulez added on the 2005-05-02 13:37:26 by raver raver
Powerful code & concepts!
My favourite parts are the blue blurred blocks and the cave.
rulez added on the 2005-05-30 19:38:29 by bdk bdk
Pulse rules (or at least ruled) This is just a gorgeous demo that proves that you don't need no stinkin' 3D hadrware for gorgeous demos.
rulez added on the 2005-06-24 16:25:08 by madcrow madcrow
Square,CrystalDreams 2, and Second Reality were my most viewed one's
great engine, superb 2D art, and overall wow factor.
rulez added on the 2005-12-03 21:04:33 by JaK JaK
I remember seeing this at the top of the charts (doose.dk anyone?) and I never really found it as beautiful as that was letting me expect. I do love some of the effects, the music and haplo's great graphics but never really got that... unreal feeling that the best of the best provoke in me. It's still good but for some reason doesn't quite touch me the way some other demos do.
rulez added on the 2006-01-28 23:45:14 by slux slux
RULEZ !
rulez added on the 2006-03-21 22:19:09 by wie8 wie8
classic
rulez added on the 2006-06-30 08:34:31 by blackpawn blackpawn
Amazing graphics from Haplo, very cool muzak and teh sync!
rulez added on the 2006-09-08 10:44:02 by Jailbird Jailbird
cool for its time
rulez added on the 2006-09-25 15:06:09 by Gaia Gaia
RULEZT!
rulez added on the 2006-09-30 12:44:22 by eye eye
Rulez. I think I run it first on a p133 :)
rulez added on the 2007-01-13 23:32:00 by Buckethead Buckethead
lovely
rulez added on the 2007-01-13 23:46:26 by rmeht rmeht
pretty good
rulez added on the 2007-01-13 23:47:48 by pdx pdx
mmmmmmmmmm... luuvely
rulez added on the 2007-04-16 02:05:45 by whizzter whizzter
STYLE!
rulez added on the 2007-06-24 12:57:57 by ltk_tscc ltk_tscc
Yes!
rulez added on the 2007-07-13 16:34:07 by raer raer
one of my alltime favs..
rulez added on the 2007-07-13 16:41:10 by mad mad
excellent design, gfx, direction!
rulez added on the 2007-07-30 14:06:38 by v3nom v3nom
electro/jungle music, lots of graphic effects, 3Ds, photos
rulez added on the 2007-10-02 17:56:43 by BITS BITS
I prefer more orange's demos even if there is some same names behind the scenes. But it's still good.
rulez added on the 2008-01-26 04:00:10 by zefyros zefyros
dope demo
rulez added on the 2008-02-04 19:40:57 by gentleman gentleman
great!!
rulez added on the 2008-03-09 01:42:27 by Gʀɪʍʍy Gʀɪʍʍy
Great transitions!
rulez added on the 2008-04-11 19:29:31 by Cosmocat Cosmocat
I always have been a sucker for stuff by statix, and this one is in a particularly nice wrapper ;-)
rulez added on the 2008-06-30 23:19:07 by d3pth d3pth
well it's square by pulse :-)
rulez added on the 2008-08-06 16:02:14 by thec thec
Rather excellent
rulez added on the 2009-01-19 12:21:23 by sagacity sagacity
A classic.
rulez added on the 2009-01-28 21:56:40 by untel untel
This is how u make a DOS demo. Pay attention, BITS!
rulez added on the 2009-01-28 22:01:39 by flibblesan flibblesan
what a pearl :)
rulez added on the 2009-01-29 11:14:34 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
WTF, where's my thumb? A peral indeed!
rulezcdc added on the 2009-01-29 11:40:41 by kusma kusma
WTF, where's my thumb? A pearll indeed!
added on the 2009-01-29 11:40:53 by kusma kusma
WTF, where's my thumb? A pearl indeed!
added on the 2009-01-29 11:40:57 by kusma kusma
The windows version stole it :)
rulez added on the 2009-01-29 11:42:09 by [self-ban] [self-ban]
INFINITE FUCKING THUMBS UP!
rulez added on the 2009-01-29 12:03:55 by okkie okkie
ok one
added on the 2009-03-14 01:00:03 by T$ T$
kickass
rulez added on the 2009-05-05 13:22:45 by unc unc
Oh god this was so good
rulez added on the 2009-05-30 01:17:49 by noby noby
soiaghin
rulez added on the 2009-05-30 01:49:29 by PENETRATOR PENETRATOR
Kickass soundtrack and gfx makes this a kickass demo!
rulez added on the 2009-06-13 10:17:15 by TomoAlien TomoAlien
Best era for demos.
rulez added on the 2009-08-15 23:34:54 by 4mat 4mat
Just realized, it was Drew Barrymore in the demo :)

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added on the 2009-12-08 04:02:56 by Optimus Optimus
dof in 1997?!
rulez added on the 2010-04-25 07:06:59 by provod provod
3d design is horrible ... otherwise pretty great :)
rulez added on the 2010-08-07 16:25:35 by shock__ shock__
I was here with the boys (Statix, Dune, Haplo, Zeb...) during the end of "creation process" at The Party 7, it was amazing to see so much "1337ness" on a tiny table :)
rulez added on the 2010-08-16 10:16:50 by rez rez
watched it today again with Dosbox, great one, very harmonic to watch, a simply perfect watching experience, always a pleasure to rewatch :)
rulez added on the 2010-09-16 23:16:01 by Sapphire Sapphire
The whole thing looks like a pre-rendered CG video. It is not. Beautiful.
rulez added on the 2010-12-23 06:47:56 by Negostrike Negostrike
ahhh!
rulez added on the 2011-11-20 16:45:08 by Frequent Frequent
What SaphirJD said.
rulez added on the 2012-08-08 08:13:44 by duffman duffman
omg how could i have missed this one? its awesome and the win32 port still runs well on win7x64!
rulez added on the 2013-01-12 21:24:14 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
Technically supah .. not everything agrees with me, but definitely worth a thumb.
rulez added on the 2013-03-19 01:20:43 by ccr ccr
To this date one of the best demos ever made and will forever remain so. The design and visuals are timeless.
added on the 2013-03-28 23:30:03 by noby noby
Ahead of its time
rulez added on the 2013-04-27 21:18:45 by Optima Optima
High quality code and good pace, I'm completely allergic to shaking photos in front of effects, but the music was really good for 1997 and I appreciated the brain model most. Even though it's a simplified model, try modeling one in a modern package. Now go back in time and do it before Maya 1.0 ;)
rulez added on the 2013-04-27 21:42:45 by Photon Photon
One of the best demos on any platform, clearly. Stunning and very influential design, you can see it's echoing in many demos that come later.
rulez added on the 2014-10-11 13:20:33 by introspec introspec
classic
Demos are entertainment, and this demo is excellent :)
rulez added on the 2015-04-10 04:42:02 by m4ntr0n1c m4ntr0n1c
Forever in my mind.
rulez added on the 2015-08-13 14:10:54 by _alt3_ _alt3_
Classic! Gritty glitch, super soundtrack!
rulez added on the 2015-09-15 10:29:41 by hornet hornet
I like how it uses the lack of resolution to its advantage.
rulez added on the 2015-10-25 06:57:18 by Zavie Zavie
Ruled!
rulez added on the 2016-01-08 11:42:44 by prowler prowler
ahhhh how much i loved datmuzak from it! =)
rulez added on the 2016-01-08 13:05:15 by wbcbz7 wbcbz7
I liked this a lot!
rulez added on the 2016-07-24 22:33:28 by Emod Emod
The coolest.
rulez added on the 2017-05-25 00:20:45 by cce cce
cool!
rulez added on the 2017-05-25 00:33:27 by Flashira Flashira
what? i've never upped it? here you go
rulez added on the 2017-06-06 20:19:39 by nagz nagz
Cool demo
rulez added on the 2017-10-14 23:21:57 by bitl bitl
Fancy newschool back in the 90ies !
rulez added on the 2017-10-15 13:54:58 by Asato Asato
My favorite part is when there's arbitrary 3d scene in the background with this asian girl appearing followed by the two side kicks and the music just says "you better get home now before things get ugly!"
rulez added on the 2017-10-15 18:08:38 by rloaderro rloaderro
What can i say about this? Excellent!
rulez added on the 2018-01-21 18:18:01 by Volantis Volantis
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
that purple tree thing in the center clips into the others
i'm never going to unsee this and it's going to kill me
rulez added on the 2018-06-13 02:33:29 by agrecascino agrecascino
This is pretty on point, atmospherically.
rulez added on the 2019-03-12 01:50:54 by lynn lynn
Looked brilliant then and still does. One of best pc demos for me.
rulez added on the 2019-07-11 13:19:54 by vdr vdr
true classic
rulezcdc added on the 2019-07-28 07:49:49 by hollowone hollowone
IMHO the best PC demo of the late DOS era. Too bad it's so short :(
rulez added on the 2020-12-17 13:09:16 by venex venex
Nice relaxing demo
rulez added on the 2021-06-04 20:27:57 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
One of the best demos of the late 90s.
rulez added on the 2022-03-26 04:13:56 by ham ham
outstanding demo ever when i can't stop watching this for years
rulez added on the 2022-06-14 22:20:31 by flair flair
Kick ass demo. Wish there were more demos like this produced today for whatever platform this style is suited for :)
rulez added on the 2023-03-13 19:56:52 by malmix malmix
staticstates!
One of my all-time favs, even better than 303.
rulez added on the 2023-10-31 15:03:59 by hfr hfr
Awesome design!
rulez added on the 2024-03-28 17:41:15 by Olympian Olympian
yes
rulez added on the 2024-05-04 15:32:32 by wrighter wrighter

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