OT: Any members from the demos "scene" here ?

[osborn_fr]

 

 

I was on the Amiga demo scene in the early 90's, doing musics, graphics and coding.

 

Just for the fun, a pic of the silver surfer from 1991, done on my Amiga 500:

 

 

And you, do you have or had interest in the demo scene ?

[Retinal-migration]

Hehe... too lame to have been a part of the real scene, those days.

 

For lots of newer platforms there are small scenes which make some impressive demos. I've coded on a few newer platforms like the gameboy, playstation 2, and gamecube.

 

http://pouet.net/ has archives of tons of great demos from different competitions. For those on non-pc platforms, they often have video/audio movie captures to watch.

[chromium]

 

I was on the Amiga demo scene in the early 90's, doing musics, graphics and coding.

 

Just for the fun, a pic of the silver surfer from 1991, done on my Amiga 500:

 

 

And you, do you have or had interest in the demo scene ?

 

Not Amiga but C64

 

Commando Frontier (CFR)

...#1 group nationally for 5 straight years

Top ten international demo and scene group for 4 years

 

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/group/?id=759

http://www.radwar.com/images/legends/

http://zakalwe.virtuaalipalvelin.net/~shd/texts/imr/c183mada.htm

[osborn_fr]

So we have a true C64 legend on the board

 

 

Ok, here's the memorial web site of my group: PROFECY

(all done by myself )

 

Ah, the good old time ...

[MutantKeys]

So we have a true C64 legend on the board

 

 

Ok, here's the memorial web site of my group: PROFECY

(all done by myself )

 

Ah, the good old time ...

I cant read french

[osborn_fr]

Hehe... too lame to have been a part of the real scene, those days.

 

For lots of newer platforms there are small scenes which make some impressive demos. I've coded on a few newer platforms like the gameboy, playstation 2, and gamecube.

 

http://pouet.net/ has archives of tons of great demos from different competitions. For those on non-pc platforms, they often have video/audio movie captures to watch.

 

I rediscovered the demo scene with the pouet.net web site a few time ago.

Nice to see that the demo world is still alive and active.

I love to watch again and again classics like "the popular demo" from farbrausch or "project genesis" from conspiracy.

Sure that what we were doing in the late 80's was lame, but the "old school" demo style is also great in my opinion...

[osborn_fr]

So we have a true C64 legend on the board

 

 

Ok, here's the memorial web site of my group: PROFECY

(all done by myself )

 

Ah, the good old time ...

I cant read french

 

Yep sorry, the english version site is still not achieved.

[robyx-migration]

If anyone remember the powerfull "IMPULSE" from C64; pop me a P MSG.

 

r

[ShoNuff-migration]

Am I the only one who has no idea what this "demo scene" is your guys are talking about? Anyone care to explain it to those who aren't "hip" to what this was/is?

[deathlok]

Am I the only one who has no idea what this "demo scene" is your guys are talking about? Anyone care to explain it to those who aren't "hip" to what this was/is?

 

[Retinal-migration]

It was a community of individuals who programmed oldschool computers like the C64 and Amiga. As I said, I wasn't involved with it, but I believe communication was mainly over BBS?

 

The demos themselves were productions of a sort. Interesting graphics (for the time, especially) were designed, tunes were made for the music (which are still quite popular. http://www.modarchive.com/ ) and the feature itself was put together by the programmer. The talented ones would always have neat little tricks, low level programming that offered surprisingly complex operations for such simple machines. Software-rendered basic 3d and such.

 

I don't know the scene too well. But I do know that if you talk to anyone who was in a group back then, you'll find they're some of the most nostalgic people on the planet. They give comic collectors a run for their money.

[ShoNuff-migration]

Thanks for the explanation.