Perhaps the demoscene will follow as a spinoff, just like it did before.:)
I'm not sure if all the people currently active or interested in the demoscene even know of its roots that lie in "THAT scene". After all, demos evolved from the crack intros the crackers inserted into their releases in order to bring fame, recognition and street cred - well, geek cred - to their group. After a while someone just thought of making an intro separate from a released game, and the rest is history.
I myself have fond memories of being fascinated by cool cracktros on the C64 in the late 80s. And when a classmate showed me a few megademos on the Amiga, I was totally blown away and became permanently addicted. I still am.
But I digress. It's quite amusing to see many of today's scenes denouncing piracy, as well as others' attempts at reviving the cracktro culture. Like it or not, "warez" are a part of your heritage.
> Also... Gauntlet on XMAME? 4 people crowded around your computer desk... I can imagine the comfort level there. 3 people probably can't see the screen well enough, and even if they can, the crowded space will make this interesting for about 20 minutes of gameplay... a novelty.
What, somewhere in the world there are still groups of geeks of whom nobody has access to a decent video projector? Not much problems seeing the screen when your entire wall is one. Tried it with Gauntlet 2 (sadly with only two players) and it was a great fun. If you didn't mind head-sized pixels, of course.
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Perhaps the demoscene will follow as a spinoff, just like it did before. :)
I'm not sure if all the people currently active or interested in the demoscene even know of its roots that lie in "THAT scene". After all, demos evolved from the crack intros the crackers inserted into their releases in order to bring fame, recognition and street cred - well, geek cred - to their group. After a while someone just thought of making an intro separate from a released game, and the rest is history.
I myself have fond memories of being fascinated by cool cracktros on the C64 in the late 80s. And when a classmate showed me a few megademos on the Amiga, I was totally blown away and became permanently addicted. I still am.
But I digress. It's quite amusing to see many of today's scenes denouncing piracy, as well as others' attempts at reviving the cracktro culture. Like it or not, "warez" are a part of your heritage.
> Also... Gauntlet on XMAME? 4 people crowded around your computer desk... I can imagine the comfort level there. 3 people probably can't see the screen well enough, and even if they can, the crowded space will make this interesting for about 20 minutes of gameplay... a novelty.
What, somewhere in the world there are still groups of geeks of whom nobody has access to a decent video projector? Not much problems seeing the screen when your entire wall is one. Tried it with Gauntlet 2 (sadly with only two players) and it was a great fun. If you didn't mind head-sized pixels, of course.