Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1989
GR8: First demo released by Future Crew on a PC
The legendary Finnish Demoscene group released their first PC demo, GR8, an EGA sinus-scrolling demo. Sinus-scrolling is a text effect where text scrolls across a screen in the form of a wave, moving up and down while scrolling. The group, up to this point, had released its demos on the Commodore 64.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
Movements
Demoscene
Filed under
- Ideas
- Demoscene
- Technologies
- Commodore 64, EGA, personal computer, sinus scrolling
- Works
- GR8
- Organisations
- Future Crew
- Places
- Finland
Related moments
Echoes across time
- 1968 · Computer Graphic Exhibition at Brno House of Arts
- 1969 · Computerkunst - On the Eve of Tomorrow Exhibition in Hanover
- 1968 · "On the Path to Computer Art” by the Parallel Group