While the Alt Party certainly is not the most popular demo party on the planet I do think it is worth a mention for it's total uniqueness. There is not a single demo party on the planet with as bizarre a range of compos and with so many weird and wonderful machines packed together. We don't even really care if people are gamers or anything else (why pass judgement?). If they feel they're enjoying themselves in the midst of experimental music, cables, Orics, Ataris and god knows what.. fine;-)
The demoscene is really about demos. Think of demos as animations, which are rendered in realtime. Ie. everything you see on screen is calculated as it is being displayed and not a big animation file flicked through on-screen. Naturally this definition is stretched as far as possible!
Basically it started from being showing off their coding talents and has expanded from there.
The Alt Party is rather different from the normal demo affair as we are ever more strongly trying to promote demos as a form of art and for releasing people's creative capabilities. To push the scene forward.
Well last time we tried to post something to slashdot they didn't accept it, for some strange reason. I guess our special guest then (RJ Mical) wasn't good enough..?
Anyway, it's a pity for the short notice.
Meanwhile, take part in the Alt Community: http://www.altparty.org/wiki/;-)
"incompatible with GCC"?? Well, would you like explaining what's so awful about that? If I use a C compiler I do plan to code in the C programming language as defined by ANSI/ISO. Anything beyond that should be ignored unless absolutely necessary (practically never when it comes to language syntax).
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While the Alt Party certainly is not the most popular demo party on the planet I do think it is worth a mention for it's total uniqueness. There is not a single demo party on the planet with as bizarre a range of compos and with so many weird and wonderful machines packed together. We don't even really care if people are gamers or anything else (why pass judgement?). If they feel they're enjoying themselves in the midst of experimental music, cables, Orics, Ataris and god knows what .. fine ;-)
But you are right, Mekka deserves mention too.
The demoscene is really about demos. Think of demos as animations, which are rendered in realtime. Ie. everything you see on screen is calculated as it is being displayed and not a big animation file flicked through on-screen. Naturally this definition is stretched as far as possible!
Basically it started from being showing off their coding talents and has expanded from there.
The Alt Party is rather different from the normal demo affair as we are ever more strongly trying to promote demos as a form of art and for releasing people's creative capabilities. To push the scene forward.
Well last time we tried to post something to slashdot they didn't accept it, for some strange reason. I guess our special guest then (RJ Mical) wasn't good enough..?
;-)
Anyway, it's a pity for the short notice.
Meanwhile, take part in the Alt Community: http://www.altparty.org/wiki/
"incompatible with GCC"?? Well, would you like explaining what's so awful about that? If I use a C compiler I do plan to code in the C programming language as defined by ANSI/ISO. Anything beyond that should be ignored unless absolutely necessary (practically never when it comes to language syntax).