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Demoscene: The best and most impressive amateur demos
- Thread starter Ninjadom
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You want mind bending?
Full remake (music included) of Andromeda's Nexus 7 as an 8k PC intro
What the fuck.
These will always be the most impressive to me. Not the ones that can squeeze the most out of small space on a modern computer, but go beyond what the hardware was ever designed for. That's why I'm so consistently impressed with TiTAN's output on the MD.
Does anyone remember the first demo they saw? The first one I can vividly recall that really introduced me to the scene was a small demo called Red by Razor 1911:
I know it's not groundbreaking by any stretch, but it was the first .exe that made it's way to the 486 my mum would bring home from work for school holidays. I would watch it endlessly.
PS. I think my favourite thing about certain demos is the choreography in them. When they can get the effects perfectly in time with the music, it's just... *chef's kiss*:
Panic by Future Crew
Most people, you included, saw a cracktro before seeing a demo
You would really be the exception :p
My first « real » demo was Enigma on the Amiga and several The Lost Boys demos on the ST I forgot the name of.
What was interesting in the ST demos is that they were interactive, you flew a ship in a 3D tunnel and dropped on squares to activate the portion in one of them and in an another one you flew a golden griphon from door to door. I haven't really encountered those kind of demos on Amiga
Technological Death by Mad Elks
There are three actually, the hidden part has its own chiptune.
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Red is a cracktro? Is the main difference stuff like greets, number of effects etc? I'd have thought cracktros were more a single effect or two (like a scroller) and a bunch of messages (with Red being a bit more than that). Like this:
Always happy to be learning terminologies etc. though :)
Cracktros can be prety complex long and advanced
I said it because most people played a pirated game before launching their first real demo. It was also their first introduction to the scene and cracktros led to full fledged demos with each cracking group trying to one up one another during the C64 days.
Most cracking groups ended having official demoscene sections and still do to this day (Fairlight, Paradox, Replicants, Razor 1911 and so on)
This guy implemented Pokemon Red (Game Boy) using Minecraft's redstone circuits.
Fairlight definitely, they were probably the first group I ever came across! I kind of wondered how the demoscene people associated with cracking groups felt about being associated with piracy, but I guess it was a way to get their work out to the masses.
Cracking groups recruited programmers, musicians and artists to show off when they were the first to crack, train or fix a game. Ghose same crackers/coders/musicians/graphists ended p making demos and when the first compos started (to vote on who was best outside of the various trashtalk you would find in the various intros) in 1988 it became important for legendary groups to have an active presence there. The Swedish cracking scene was at the forefront of it.
Eventually some groups splintered (Virtual Dreams and Fairlight for instance, Tristar and Red Sector forming the demo group TRSI and so on) and we have today's scene which is honestly not that different from the one in the 90s
Participating in this thread has of course sent me down the rabbit hole of watching my the old 90s/00s favourites. There's one I can't find cos I forget the name. It's effectively a fully synched music video to this song:
Anyone remember the name?
EDIT: Of course I find it right after posting :D
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=284
Anyone remember the name?
EDIT: Of course I find it right after posting :D
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=284
Fuck, that's not good. Any chance it could be done as a remote thing? I don't know how much (other than socialising) is done at the event itself, but obviously the social aspect is a huge part of it.
Thank you. This one is insane. Never saw it.
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Fuck this is an old thread.
Nope it's canceled canceled. Not even postponed
Expect summer parties to carry the numerous amiga productions that were almost done for next month.
I think Assembly is in july or august and used to be, with The Party, the biggest demoscene event of the year
So it happens that Revision 2020 is a remote thing following the cancelation.
Right no the PC 256 bytes intro compo is beeing livestreamed here :
Great thread. The C64 demo scene was a magical time, cyberpunk thoughts and youthful edginess. 😋 I remember watching some of the intros to cracked and pirated games in complete awe. While my adventures in programming stopped at tinkering with the Sid chip (❤️) I've always had an immense interest in the process of programming these demos. Has anyone ever made a good video on the subject?
I think demos are part of why I like consoles so much, the idea of people all smashing away on the same hardware trying to optimise the crap out of it even when it isn't top of the line.
I think demos are part of why I like consoles so much, the idea of people all smashing away on the same hardware trying to optimise the crap out of it even when it isn't top of the line.
The ZX Spectrum can't do that sound btw, it's a special sound card you add to it, the AY sound chip : AY Sound cart for the ZX Spectrum
The BBC Micro demo by Bitshifters remaking Oxygene's 2000 ST demo STnICCC was hella impressive
Especially the rendition of Laxity'sChecknobankh
Took me a while to recognize but man what a beat of a demo. There's no links to individual demos yet bit here's the full Oldschool comp for those who missed it and want to see it
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The AY-3-8912 sound chip was fitted as standard on all Spectrums (Spectra?) from the 128 onwards. It's got three tone channels and one noise channel.
That sound card module just allows 48 and + models to access the same chip, and improves the output quality for the other models.
It's not just about the soundchip, it's also about implementation. Read more here : https://www.bytedelight.com/?produc...eo-audio-interface-for-all-zx-spectrum-models
I realise my edit was poorly worded