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Put The Demoscene In Your DVD Player
Jason Scott writes "With the recent story on slashdot about a big demo party, it might be good to let everyone know about the absolutely incredible Mind Candy DVD, where a very dedicated group of people from "the scene" have spent two years painstaking recovering demos from obscurity, finding the old 286 and 386 hardware, installing the needed (obsolete) cards, and capturing them perfectly in full digital glory. They also have information on what exactly the "scene" is, in case you've missed this incredibly creative use of computers from the past 20 years. This whole process cost them thousands of dollars and untold hours. Check it out, see what you missed... or never forgot."
I can just see the product seizure warning labels now. ;)
woohoo, we can now enjoy full surround flying donuts on home videos... :-P
:)
are there any future crew demos on this?
What did Searchking do to them?
...and hosting their site on it!
You're using her as bait, Master!
And I suppose you're some type of computer selling expert. Here's one for ya, I need a 286 right now. Wait a minute I can't go to the local computer store and buy one, nor can I order one from any big name computer dealer. That would mean I'm at the mercy of garage sales flea markets and the public school system. I would say that a 286 is worth thousands of dollars just like any piece of crap deamed old at a antique mall is worth thousands of dollars.
Perhaps you should think about starving children in the artic before you just spout out crap like this on a reputable site like slashdot.
You insensitive clod ...
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Hehe, this is kind of funny. Took a little to realize why and is in italics. Stupid AC.
Of course, most people know that the only scene was the Commodore/Atari one.
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Bollocks, how retarded it feels to accidentally click the submit button before you're done writing. Now I'm just not bothered to write the rest of my dumb and irrelevant little piece. I'll just go away and play with WinUAE now. :)
Nah, the real oldschool demoscene was that when you had a row of leds connected to processor bus, and then made those leds to have scrolling patterns (1D, obiviously). Those were the real machines...
One of the mirrored files is coming from cache.cow.net. Made me smile.
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I think I just found my new sig!