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Put The Demoscene In Your DVD Player

Posted by Hemos on from the lots-and-lots-of-electronica-to-be-heard dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah, well... by Istealmymusic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I put the demoscene in my DVD player .

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  2. How Much? by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How much does one of the frontpage /. ads cost? I would like to purchase one.

    1. Re:How Much? by blixel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      How much does one of the frontpage /. ads cost? I would like to purchase one.

      I guess that explains why /. never offers up locally cached copies of articles. They only get paid for the hits they send to other sites.

  3. Re:An article intneded to MAKE you post as an AC! by mythr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I find your spelling of "intresting" quite interesting, at the very least.

  4. Offtopic by Rayonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's the text. Don't mod me up, I have plenty of karma.

    You've got this whole karma thing backwards. We don't mod you up for your benefit - we mod you up for the benefit of others, so they can sort out your informative/insightful/whatever post from the rest of the cruft.

    The whole "karma" system is secondary, and could be totally done away with if not for its (unmeasurable?) effect on trolls, and it's use in keeping mod points out of completely irresponsible hands.

    I should probably copy/paste this message next time someone else has the same misconception about the moderation system.

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    1. Re:Offtopic by GlassUser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Oh I understand that just fine. I thought I was the only one though. It seems that if I don't add a disclaimer like that though, people think I'm karma whoring and mod me to hell (I'm at cap, so I get no benefit from positive mods, but I believe that post to be useful to others, so I made it).

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  5. Re:"...finding the old 286 and 386 hardware..." by pyrrho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    -1 sig comment

    what is the meaning of your sig?

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  6. Re:yeah right.. by Slamtilt · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dumbass AC. *This* is bold, /this/ is italics. Obviously.