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I guess you've never seen State of The Art demo on Amiga? :)

Actually it's all java 1.1, we dont use Java3D so the applets can run almost everywhere with basic 1.1 JVM. Our hardware accelerated work is there Keops / Equinox

one of my personal favs... http://equinox.planet-d.net/java/vectorball/

For those who were part of the Atari ST demo scene, you may find these links quite nostalgic :)

The contest is to come up with a fun idea and implement as much of it as you can in 48 hours - it's about pushing yourself and seeing how much you can achieve.

There have definitely been creative entries - for example, Orbital Sniper was something really new and cool.

If you're not impressed with the games then by all means, please join in and do something better in 48 hours.

...for peoples who enters this compo.

About demos being unrunnable on a modern computer, have to say that it really sucks. However, there's still projects like DemoDVD and Amidemos which try to archive demos as videos.

Also, to my and many others delight, open source project called DOSBox has managed to get its project up to the state being able to run quite a few older demos as well. Even some of the trick effects using VGA hw registers work fine, although there's still some room for improvement with that. :) Note that you'll need more or less top of the line computer to get enough emulating power.

PS. The Second Reality you mentioned still doesn't work...

I am the main programmer of the 3d demo shown on the screenshots. This demo combines a distributed interactive fluid simulation with graphical intensive rendering using pixel shaders. It uses Net Juggler to manage the distribution on the cluster. You canse some picture and a video of the fluid simulation in our gallery . The shader for the rabbit's fur is explained on this page of my website (please be gentle with the server...).

Even better player called TextMedia 2.0 can be found here. It supports colors and couple different ascii modes.

You can go to Ami Demos for DivX versions. Hopefully, Mind Candy DVD will make a DVD version. :)

You can get the DivX version from Ami Demos.

For Windows, try textmedia - nt console AVI player.
For Mac, there's a quicktime player for textmode.. somewhere..

The sourcecode was included in some issue of Hugi (can't remember which), but is also online here.

Please also check out Text from The Gathering 97 by $volkraq/Gollum and me :)

Many people are still writing Demos. Now they write PPC demos. Once was released just recently. Hopfuly with a new platform, an upgraded OS demo making can make a mini compback?

Demo Competition anyone?

<Taken From Amiga.org>
A.D.A. (Amiga Demoscene Archive) is proud to present Kheshkhash, cooperation demo between Encore and Scenic [5th place at Mekka Symposium 2002]. Many thanks to Fusko for contributing 29 (!) pictures from this graphically stunning PPC demo.
</Taken From Amiga.org>

Since this is really not a 'LAN party' but a 'demo party' and this is Slashdot, something about the demo scene and linux is in order....

Check out Lnxscene for some Linux demos. Linux and demoscene haven't really mixed (yet?) so most of the stuff there isn't that good but I recommend checking out at least the linux-only (!) Dose 2 demo by mfx that placed 5th at Assembly, a very respectable achievement. Slashdot had a story about asm, too.

Some others work checking out are Astral Blur by TBL (they have a really cool system called Ixalance which lets them distribute the same files for all platforms it supports - all you need is the Ixalance launcher (only few hundred kilobytes) and you can run any of their .ixa demos), State of Mind by Bomb and Alpha 2 by Astral. Finally, if you've got Java installed , you can enjoy the show right inside your browser window: Cyboman 1999 by the Komplex folks. This one's actually a java remake of an old 64k intro.

Surprisingly many Windows demos even work under WINE.

I greatly respect Sam Lantinga/Loki for giving us SDL, looking at the non-SDL demos/games on the Linux platform I'd say that only SDL has really made Linux a viable alternative for the demoscene to develop on.

Second Reality was the demo that for the first time allowed PC sceners to feel merely inferior to the Amiga sceners, rather than completely pathetic. I mean, if you want to talk about 1993, you should be talking about "Arte" by Sanity. Go on, you can even find a DivX of it at Amidemos. Arte on a 7Mhz Amiga 500 kicked the arse of Second Reality on your 486..

Still, opinions are funny.. some Amiga sceners liked "Jesus on E"..

If you want to see what Chaos/ex-Sanity and others have been impressing with recently, check out The Product, from The Party 2000.. win32 64k intro, the most impressive 64k of demo I've ever seen!

also don't forget hornet.org - still loads of stuff there thats not yet on scene.org

cheers, spiny

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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.

I'm not a big fan of Java, but these applets rocks. Maybe these guys would be able to write a decent Mpeg1 player in Java.

I suggest you check out http://linuxscn.planet-d.net. They've got links to some demos, intros, and "tinys" (short demo parts). Often , the source code is also available!

OpenCP would be very cool, though. MikMod is pretty good I must say, but a player just isn't a player without a few (dozen) FFTs.

have a look at
linuxscn.planet-d.net
you can find there some nice linux demos and other infos about linux demos.