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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.
Concept
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. More on [ Demoscene ]
@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.
The Ruling Company - Hosts of the famous X party series and the Internet BBS Spankerz Heaven.
Antimon - The homepage of Antimon with pictures and downloads.
Meta Description: [ Antimon a c64 demogroup ]
Beyond Force - Creators of the demos Charlatan and Nothing But Code.
C64 Picture Gallery - Gallery of scene art and explanation of the C64 graphics modes and formats.
C64 Revival Page - Archive of scenes for Commodore 64, some famous soundtracks in mp3 format and the early alpha 64'er Commander.
Meta Description: [ C64... ]
C64 Scene Database - Searchable online database of the C64 scene maintained by registered users. The goal is to create the most comprehensive historical database of all Sceners, Releases, Groups and Events. The site also provides scene-related discussion forums.
c64.ch - Site bills itself as the largest C64 demo collection on the planet.
Meta Description: [ C64.CH - Download over 2000 C64-Productions. Emulators, News and much more. ]
c64.org - A gathering place for C64 sceners of past and present.
Meta Description: [ Commodore 64 ]
C64intros - A collection of crack intros saved to preserve C64 history.
Meta Description: [ The biggest C64 intro collection both with screenshots and binaries to run on real C64 or an emulator ]
Cascade C64/Amiga - Cascade group's demos, tools and games for the C64 and Amiga.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of the scenegroup CASCADE. Own productions (demos, tools and games) besides concerning emulator-s/stuff/help are offered for download. Additionally you will find hardwaretools, groupinfos, gamecheat, gamemaps and drivers for C64 hardware. ]
Computerbrains - Cracking group with game disk downloads.
Cosine - 8 Bit Division - Creators of the demos Contraflow and Neoteric. Contains self-written games and tools for downloading.
Meta Description: [ Cosine Systems - Commodore 64 and 8-bit computer demos, games and utilities since 1987 and on the web since 1996 ]
Cosmos / Cosmos Designs - Homepage of the Austrian group Cosmos aka Cosmos Designs
Covert Bitops - A small group making C64 productions (mainly games music) and related free utilities.
Meta Description: [ Commodore 64 ]
Creators of the Script Diskmag. - Official Homepage of Clique. Clique is a c64 demo group based in Turkey.
Meta Description: [ We entertain expensive! ]
Crescent - C64 demogroup, creators of Anarchy Magazine, Sonic Anarchy and Crescendo SID Tune collections.
Meta Description: [ Crescent C64 Demoscene Group Anarchy Magazine SID Tunes Sonic Anarchy Crescendo Musicdisks ]
Demolition - Information and resources for demo programming on the Commodore 64. Includes an index of articles from various Commodore magazines.
Meta Description: [ Information and resources for demo programming on the Commodore 64 ]
Domination MagaZine - Online headquarters of the well-known C64 scene emag.
Meta Description: [ The C64 Scene Magazine ]
Driven Online - Covering the NTSC (North American) demoscene on C64 (and PC) with news, forum, and archive of releases.
Meta Description: [ Covering the NTSC (North American) Demoscene on C64 (and PC). Demos, tools, games, C64, C64DTV, NTSC Scene Archive of releases. Demo scene lives on! ]
Dual Crew Shining - Creators of the just for fun Assembly 97 demo Bailando.
Meta Description: [ Dual Crew Shining Whq on the INT-ER-NET. ]
Friends - Commodore 64 demoscene pixel graphics, galleries, interviews, reviews and articles.
Galleus Commodore 64 Corner - Home of one of the few Solitaire games for the Commmodore 64 and some old school demos and utilities.
Meta Description: [ Solitaire and other games, demos, game cracks on the Commodore 64. ]
Hall of Fame - The online museum of the C64 scene.
Meta Description: [ Hall of Fame is the collection of photos, graphics, stories,
articles of the C64 scene, its groups and famous personalities. It is the
hypertext interface of a CD archive including thousands of demos, diskmags
and other scene related material in a structured hierarchy. ]
Import64 - Collection of US imported Commodore 64 games. Groups such as: FBR, RAD, PE, and many more!
Innovators - Fledgling C64 demo group.
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Little Computer People 1998 - C64 demo party.
Motiv 8 - Motiv 8 group page with downloads.
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Official Science451 website - Website for the old (87-92) c64-group Science451.
Padua - Creators of the Torture demo series.
Powerzone Designs - The Powerzone website: a tribute to the great times we had and shared from about 1988 till today.
Radwar Enterprises - Large gallery and background information about the famous Radwar parties.
Meta Description: [ This is the Homepage of Radwar Enterprises ]
Resource - The homepage of the Hungarian based C64 demogroup Resource.
Retro 64 - Home of Retro 64 demo group.
SCA - C64 division of Swiss Cracking Association.
Singles Collection - Demo project to collect and release so far unreleased demo parts from different groups
The Demo Dungeon - Well designed site with over 300 demos, ratings and screenshots.
Meta Description: [ Commodore 64 demos and SID music ]
The Living Daylights - News, games, demos, the group history and a message board.
Meta Description: [ Lots of c64 related material like games, music, demos, emulators and more ]
Triad - MP3 remix versions of famous C64 music and hosting an (incomplete) archive of the scene mag Illegal.
Meta Description: [ The Official Triad Homepage ]
Wanderer's NTSC c64 demos and intros - Commodore 64 NTSC demos and intros from PE, FBR, Survivors, Rampar.
World of FairLight - Home of the scene group Fairlight. Lists C64 cross development tools and emulators.
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