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  1. What is a demo.... by kEnder242 · · Score: 1 · on Pilgrimage 2004 American Demoparty Announced

    What is a demo....

    this is

  2. Some good demo links... by antdude · · Score: 4, Informative · on The Assembly In Review

    Lnxscene for Linux demos. I am not sure if any of these demos are from Assembly.

    Calodox Demology Exchange for user reviews. You can submit your own reviews. This is for PC demos (Windows and DOS).

    Amidemos for Amiga Demos in AVI video format since most of don't have the classic Amiga computers and emulators don'twork well. Check out 05.08.2001: Assembly 2001 winner demo Lapsuus now online ...

    scene.org -- I believe these are for all systems beside PC and Amiga.

  3. Re:Komplex, Demoscene by Mr.+Khan · · Score: 1 · on Searching for Exceptional Multimedia Productions?
    If you want current demos, just check out demoo!, pouet.net, ojuice.net or even my site, naid.net. And as far as having a central repository, I think scene.org fits the bill quite nicely!

    And go take a look at vip2 invtro. Trust me, you'll stop using past tense to talk about the demoscene.

    Cheers!

  4. Demosceners: The original multimedia artists! by Mr.+Khan · · Score: 1 · on Searching for Exceptional Multimedia Productions?

    Recent productions in the demoscene european demoscene should definitively be an interesting multimedia movement to cover. Demos and the demoscene have been around since the early eighties, and the repertoire of quality productions for every platform you can dream of out there should make for interesting viewing.

    For people who've never heard of the demoscene before, it's a movement dedicated to building real-time multimedia production, usually with small memory footprints, with the aim to astound and show off a demo groups coding, graphic and music composition skills. Demos and intros (the main type of production of the movement) vary in size between 6-7 Megs (for recent productions) and 64k, (sometimes even being as small as 4 kilobytes !!) and can be described as the computerized equivalent of a "live performance". The scene has it's roots in the old Commodore 64 game cracking groups. Those groups usually attempted to show off their coding skills by adding small animated musical clips to cracked videogames, often accompanied by colorfull self-complimenting scrolling text.

    It has since evolved into a huge European movement. Over 20 huge gatherings called demoparties now take place in different countries troughout europe, where demo groups compete with each others for prizes and recognition. Those parties are often lavish affairs, and are similar to raves with a bit of psychedelic computer trade show thrown in. The bigger parties 24 hours a day for 5 to 6 days non-stop, and are attented by thousands of computer programmers, graphic artists and musicians.

    Demos have, over the course of the last few years, seen tremendous improvements, and can usually be described as "mindblowing". (For a good example of this, go download the VIP2 "invtro", it will *redefine* the way you look at realtime 3d rendering.) You can learn more about this whole movement by visiting the following sites: You will find the cream of the crop in demoscene productions at demoo!, where reviews for the most influential demos and intros can be found. For those wishing to learn how to create demos, cfxweb.net is a great place to start, you will find there tons of source code examples for 3d and openGL realtime 3d rendering. error-404.com is the definitive source for music creation using trackers, the scene's favored format (remember .mod and .s3m files?) For scene news and group lists, chat, etc, see pouet.net and ojuice.net. And as a last reference, my site, naid.net, also concerns itself with the demoscene but also covers anything related to the use of new technologies in the arts.

  5. Machinima == american reinvention of demoscene? by Knos · · Score: 1 · on Machinima On The Horizon

    Quite frankly, this is the way I feel about it.

    If you're interested in something more abstract and experimental, you may check the productions released this year at Assembly'2k, Spot by Exceed, the winner is for example a software rendered movie sharing some imagery with pixar movies, Art by haujobb is a 3d show in a dreamy museum, featuring unreal objects, (Lapsus/Maturefurk is sharing the same design) ...

    Basically all the productions kicked ass. And this weekend just finished the LTP4 party, where we had a great fun seeing stuff like Antimoney/3state (a 1bpp, nicely designed windows 64k intro which works under Wine), Just a touch of funk/digital murder, a wonderfully keyframed music video, and lots of other lush stuff... (like Downtown / retro ac. and Purple / Orion)

    for links... follow your instinct and:
  6. Machinima == american reinvention of demoscene? by Knos · · Score: 1 · on Machinima On The Horizon

    Quite frankly, this is the way I feel about it.

    If you're interested in something more abstract and experimental, you may check the productions released this year at Assembly'2k, Spot by Exceed, the winner is for example a software rendered movie sharing some imagery with pixar movies, Art by haujobb is a 3d show in a dreamy museum, featuring unreal objects, (Lapsus/Maturefurk is sharing the same design) ...

    Basically all the productions kicked ass. And this weekend just finished the LTP4 party, where we had a great fun seeing stuff like Antimoney/3state (a 1bpp, nicely designed windows 64k intro which works under Wine), Just a touch of funk/digital murder, a wonderfully keyframed music video, and lots of other lush stuff... (like Downtown / retro ac. and Purple / Orion)

    for links... follow your instinct and: