[HN Gopher] Demoscene (2004)
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Demoscene (2004)
Author : vvoruganti
Score : 78 points
Date : 2023-11-15 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.demoscene.info)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.demoscene.info)
| smokel wrote:
| This topic is discussed here every now and then (because it is
| awesome).
|
| Most recently at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344
| thibaut_barrere wrote:
| Yes :-)
|
| Some commonly cited sites:
|
| - https://www.pouet.net/
|
| - https://scene.org (under "changes" but files available)
|
| - https://hornet.org
| nvy wrote:
| Can't forget nectarine!
|
| https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
|
| Soundtrack of my youth
| thibaut_barrere wrote:
| Definitely!
| unixhero wrote:
| https://demozoo.org/
| Fischgericht wrote:
| https://scenecity.tv/
|
| Is live-streaming many demoparties, and outside of those, is
| streaming demos.
| sedatk wrote:
| The page is outdated. It shows Breakpoint in the parties section,
| which was shut down more than a decade ago. New popular parties
| like Revision aren't mentioned. Many links are dead. Exercise
| caution :)
| codetrotter wrote:
| One of the upsides of COVID was that a lot of demoscene parties
| which had previously been in-person only started to live stream
| their parties.
|
| The first time I was able to "attend" Revision was by watching
| the live stream in 2020. I had been wanting to go for many
| years.
| dang wrote:
| What year should we put on the title above? archive.org has it
| back to 2004:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20041206000418/https://www.demos...
| Fischgericht wrote:
| 2004 might be correct. It mentions Breakpoint, the demo party
| I had been the main organizer of, which last ran in 2010. So
| any case, this site hasn't been updated since 2010.
| dang wrote:
| 2004 it is until proven otherwise. Thanks!
| datameta wrote:
| https://www.dwitter.net/ is a codegolfing community around a JS-
| based shim with a 140 bytes limit (or 194 with some unicode
| conversion-deconversion trickery).
| pixelpoet wrote:
| Any HN ppl wanna meet up at Revision 2024? :)
| unixhero wrote:
| Yeah that would be cool. I think we may be going
| jbverschoor wrote:
| def!
| leshokunin wrote:
| ASM!
| aetherson wrote:
| Literally (literally literally, not figuratively literally) every
| time I see the word "demoscene" after not seeing it for a few
| days, I think it's the name of a geologic age, like pleistocene.
| joemi wrote:
| Happens to me too sometimes, and I was even involved in the
| scene back in the 90s.
| vikingerik wrote:
| How did those two words get mushed together for this, anyway?
| Nobody talks about the hackingscene, or javascene, or
| gamescene, or magicscene (the trading card game), or
| baseballscene, or anything else like that.
| datameta wrote:
| Maybe because demo ends with a vowel and it would be hard to
| come up with a smooth transition to a second word?
| thibaut_barrere wrote:
| I don't have a definite answer. It might be a mixture of
| analogies to other creative "scenes" (music / cinema), it
| might have been improved by the fact most competitions were
| later projected on large screens etc!
| ben0x539 wrote:
| Might be my bias showing, but I just assumed that demo scene
| stuff mainly developed in Europe, and at least in German,
| referring to a hackingscene[1], or javascene[2], or
| gamescene[3], or magicscene[4] wouldn't feel out of place at
| all either.
|
| [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hackerszene%22 [2]
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 [3]
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 but
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gaming-szene%22 probably
| hits better [4] ok this one is a bit of a miss but still
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic-szene%22
| thibaut_barrere wrote:
| You are so close from the truth :-)
|
| I wrote demos some while back (~ 1990 -> 1998 roughly).
|
| They were running on the hardware of that time (including
| specific soundcards like the Gravis UltraSound), using modified
| DOS modes etc.
|
| As years passed, it became difficult to run them, because the
| hardware was harder to find.
|
| Ultimately I wasn't able to watch my own creations anymore!
|
| At some point though, I discovered DOSBox (the emulator). But
| running it on the available hardware in say 2005 would not give
| anything good!
|
| So I had to wait more years until technology improved (good
| enough to ensure the emulation would run fast & without too
| many glitches, but also fast enough so that video can be
| captured decently), until 2019 roughly, when some friend from
| back then captured my own work on their brand new PC
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwesW3PSwg).
|
| So yes, it feels like archeology to me!
| anjel wrote:
| I dream of a 21st century AI demo scene that competes to get the
| most AI out of the least hardware just for the glory.
| mpalmer wrote:
| That's basically the AI industry already!
| alfrede81 wrote:
| In 2008 there was a Demoparty sponsored by Nvidia
| https://demozoo.org/parties/554/
| Fischgericht wrote:
| I love the demoscene, and am very active in it.
|
| But that specific web site linked here hasn't been updated in 15
| years.
|
| No clue why this got submitted...?
| Rimbo wrote:
| No idea, but I'm a simple man. I see "demoscene," I upvote.
| leshokunin wrote:
| Honestly it's probably just that demoscene minded people see
| the word and click because of nostalgia and belonging. You'd
| rather upvote this than an AI link or something about ventures.
| It's part of our identity :)
|
| PS: Amigaaaaaaaaa
| deater wrote:
| Second Reality for Apple II!!!!
| http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/
| leshokunin wrote:
| This is more impressive than Chaos Theory 64k demake. They
| didn't have to go that hard!
| Fischgericht wrote:
| And in case you ever wish to experience a demo party yourself,
| here is an always up-to-date list of upcoming parties around the
| globe.
|
| (Yes, these days there are a lot of streaming-only parties, and
| that's very nice, but no, this is nowhere comparable of being
| actually part of the fun on-site. So leave your sofa and go to
| the real thing, please.)
|
| https://www.demoparty.net
|
| And yes, the US demoscene sadly is pretty much dead for a couple
| of decades now (with a couple of EU sceners getting exported
| there from time to time).
| rendall wrote:
| Ah, Demoscene, my favorite of the Ancient Greek philosophers, who
| once wrote, 'In the realm of pixels and sound, true wisdom lies,
| not in what is seen, but in what is rendered in the mind's eye.'
| He was quite ahead of his time as you can see.
| Jare wrote:
| There's not much to discuss about this submission, but here's a
| twitch link to the talk from Andreas Fredriksson today at
| Handmade Seattle. It's about some of the approaches they took to
| make their absolutely incredible Eon demo for original Amiga 500
| hardware.
|
| https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1978214964?t=01h31m12s
|
| "Who cares about features if it runs like ass" made my day.
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