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Encyclopedia > Renaissance (demoscene)
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Renaissance was an American PC demoscene group started in 1991 by founding members Mosaic, C.C. Catch, and DareDevil. Thomas Pytel, a.k.a. Tran, is also considered to be an original member as he joined within the first month of the groups creation.


The group made several noteworthy contributions throughout its existence, not only to its own subculture, but the entire computing world as well. Most notable was their creation of PMODE by Tran in 1993, one of the first true protected mode kernels for DOS which allowed for flat memory model programming. PMODE brought forth the evolution of DOS extenders, technology which was later incorporated into such legendary games as Doom. Renaissance members also wrote the first IBM PC-based 8-channel multitracker, Composer 669 and the first combined multitrack FM+digital music tracker, CDFM.


Renaissance members

  • C.C. Catch (Kenny Chou) — musician [1] (http://www.mindcandydvd.com/people/kenny.html)
  • DareDevil (Charles Scheffold) — coder/sysop/organizer
  • Mosaic (Ray Lee) — musician
  • Tran (Thomas Pytel) — coder [2] (http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,824/)
  • CyberStrike (Josh Jensen)
  • Dark Avenger (Tony Proios)
  • Digital Sculptor
  • El Diablo
  • Leviathan (Andy Carlson)
  • Nemesis (Andy Wise)
  • Mr. Happy
  • Oman (John Hood)
  • Radioisotope
  • Ryan Cramer (himself)
  • StarScream (Dan Goldstein)
  • Untouchable
  • White Shadow (Dave Cooper)
  • Zeek (Rich Geldreich)

Renaissance releases

  • Zone 66 (ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/epic/%24zone66.zip) a top-down shooter action game by Renaissance, published by Epic MegaGames (1993)
  • Zone 66 Gravis Ultrasound enhancement pack (ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/epic/%24zone66g.zip)

External links

  • pouet.net (http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=544) — A collection of various releases by Renaissance on pouet.net.
  • Demonews Issue 75, December 1994 (http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/DEMONEWS/demonews.075) — Features an article by Ryan Cramer meeting fellow Renaissance members.

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