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The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes itself on producing demos, non-interactive audio-visual presentations, which are run real-time on a computer. The main aim of a demo is to show off better programming, artistic and musical skills over other demogroups.

The demoscene first appeared during the 8-bit era on computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, and came to prominence during the rise of the 16/32-bit micros (the Atari ST and the Amiga). In the early years, demos had a strong connection with software cracking. When a cracked program was started, the cracker or his team would take credit via an increasingly impressive-looking graphical introduction called a "crack intro". Later, the making of intros and standalone demos evolved into a new subculture independent of the software piracy scene. Quite a few of the young talents that spent their time "coding" demos and thus gaining in-depth experience programming computer graphics later ended up working in the games industry, whose products they had initially cracked.

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Prior to the expandability of the IBM PC, every home computer of a given line had identical capabilities. Therefore, the variations among demos created for one computer line were attributed to programming alone. This created a competitive environment in which demoscene groups would try to outperform each other in creating amazing effects.

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@havchr Did you spot this game? It is under half megabytes, quite demoscene-ish size. http://bit.ly/2afi54
pohar (Pohar) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:59:41 -0000
@havchr Did you spot this game? It is under half megabytes, quite demoscene-ish size. http://bit.ly/2afi54
Grâce à @jedisct1, flood de vidéos de la demoscene Atari sur l'IRC interne, et on envisage de créer des démos en JS. #nostalgie
xibe (Xavier B.) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:56:29 -0000
Grâce à @jedisct1, flood de vidéos de la demoscene Atari sur l'IRC interne, et on envisage de créer des démos en JS. #nostalgie
@jedisct1 désolé, les places sont prises. Cela dit, on se tape un méchant coup de blues revival demoscene atari chez Netvibes grace a toi ;)
STuFFk (nicolas challeil) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:48:03 -0000
@jedisct1 désolé, les places sont prises. Cela dit, on se tape un méchant coup de blues revival demoscene atari chez Netvibes grace a toi ;)
Driscoll http://bit.ly/2ZqE8E chiptunes history demoscene atari c64 amiga mods academic research
delicious50 (Delicious Over 50) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:44:19 -0000
Driscoll http://bit.ly/2ZqE8E chiptunes history demoscene atari c64 amiga mods academic research
@poisonfruitloop Just listening to the 80s channel on Freezone. Although http://bit.ly/4ztUVE is great for demoscene music :D
spyn (Mattie) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:25:43 -0000
@poisonfruitloop Just listening to the 80s channel on Freezone. Although http://bit.ly/4ztUVE is great for demoscene music :D
Speaking of Google Wave - still trying to figure out exactly the best use for it. Think that demoscene will benefit.
dtnorth (D. Travis North) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:32:32 -0000
Speaking of Google Wave - still trying to figure out exactly the best use for it. Think that demoscene will benefit.

 
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