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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RT @chiptune: A (not so) new little #javascript piece of #code I made: http://www.chiptune.com/plasma.html #dhtml #ajax #demoscene
u2Bleank (U2Bleank) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:18:43 -0000
RT @chiptune: A (not so) new little #javascript piece of #code I made: http://www.chiptune.com/plasma.html #dhtml #ajax #demoscene
chiptune等のネットラジオをまとめようと思ったらdemosceneばかりになってそれもそれで。
mz3364 (さざむし) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:20:32 -0000
chiptune等のネットラジオをまとめようと思ったらdemosceneばかりになってそれもそれで。
@_Goblin demoscene won't load - did you spell it right?
_the_mad_hatter (Wayne Borean) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:34:07 -0000
@_Goblin demoscene won't load - did you spell it right?
Hooray! Demoscene.tv is back up! Great site, check it out! http://www.demoscene.tv/ #demoscene
_Goblin (Goblin of Openbytes) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:45:12 -0000
Hooray! Demoscene.tv is back up! Great site, check it out! http://www.demoscene.tv/ #demoscene
RT @rschu: #Demoscene: "the Ultimate Live-Stream is here: http://bit.ly/7fSJtJ Please stay tuned for further improvements /via @tum_party"
oliver (Oliver Kohl) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:17:11 -0000
RT @rschu: #Demoscene: "the Ultimate Live-Stream is here: http://bit.ly/7fSJtJ Please stay tuned for further improvements /via @tum_party"
Currently at the Ultimate Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany. Going to do some more democoding... http://urlzap.net/ws #demoscene
jgeskens (Jef Geskens) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:10:32 -0000
Currently at the Ultimate Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany. Going to do some more democoding... http://urlzap.net/ws #demoscene

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