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."

Comments

first fist

[jrs 1]

first fist is when you fist someone first in quake 3 arena

fp!

[Anonymous Coward]

fp :x

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[Anonymous Coward]

fp! Niggas suck my cock!!

kehsihba

Yeah, well...

[Istealmymusic]

I put the demoscene in my DVD player .

How Much?

[DAldredge]

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

Re:How Much?

[blixel]

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.

damn

[vincenzo8]

i lost my account password, i was so going to be one of the first poeple to respond. poop.

Re:An article intneded to MAKE you post as an AC!

[mythr]

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

Last Capitalist Post

[Amsterdam Vallon]

I realize that someone who uses their brains to actually make some money is rare around here, but try me.

How does this Demoscene DVD story pertain to the following? ->

- My sexy blonde hair, blue eyed girlfriend
- My BMW 3-series convertible with all-wheel drive and both the Premium and Sport packages (yes, we're talking Xenon headlights, all leather, 6 CD changer, 200+ watt stereo, heated seats, etc.)
- My summer house on Long Island
- My winter house off the cost of Florida

And last, but not least
- My work, where I get paid to use my mind rather than choosing, like many of you, to sit at home, unemployed, and force my family to succumb to poorness and thoughts of when the next welfare check will arrive

Thank you for your advice and support!

But Will they..

[Vampyre_Dark]

How are they going to get being slashdotted on their second cd? :)

Offtopic

[Rayonic]

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.

Re:Offtopic

[GlassUser]

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).

Re:"...finding the old 286 and 386 hardware..."

[pyrrho]

-1 sig comment

what is the meaning of your sig?

Re:yeah right..

[Slamtilt]

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