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Well, for starters, now funds can be allocated to preserve software and hardware that are necessary to keep experiencing the demoscene. Demoscene releases will

Well, for starters, now funds can be allocated to preserve software and hardware that are necessary to keep experiencing the demoscene. Demoscene releases will be archived and - likely - added to secure vaults. 50, 100 or 500 years from now, the ones coming after us now have a better chance to experience Equinox, or Fairlight, or Melon Dezin the same way we today experience Brügel, or Dürer, or Cezanne. School classes will analyze the hacks necessary for a parallax scroller, and be eternally bored of it. And some enthusiasts will copy the techniques. It's not a bad thing, especially given the demoscene is bot extremely creative and absolutely nonexistant on today's art market, so will likely have disappeared with the demosceners in 20-50 years.

skrebbel 6y ago
> Funds My understanding is that there's no free money attached to being on a UNESCO list.
- DocTomoe 6y ago
  Not directly - but grants now can be argued with "this is actually UNESCO relevant". For an organization like the ZKM in Karlsruhe (a modern technology/art museum, which I would consider a major interest in this development), secondary, well-argued grants by local authorities and fonds are a major source of income.
lallysingh 6y ago
Also, it pushes for some preservation of the execution environments of these programs. It's now more likely that someone will make sure that there's a runnable version of qemu (or similar) that emulates well enough to run them.
KingOfCoders 6y ago
TRSI!
hutzlibu 6y ago
" School classes will analyze the hacks necessary for a parallax scroller, and be eternally bored of it." I hope not. Forcing anyone into it, kills the spirit of it, they were supposed to find. But that would be nothing new with classical school, so ..
zem 6y ago
I think the analogy an earlier poster made with folk dances was more accurate. school classes might mention it in passing as a subculture, and people who want to know will have resources to explore it further.
ekianjo 6y ago
> School classes will analyze the hacks necessary for a parallax scroller, Highly doubtful claim.

skrebbel 6y ago

> Funds My understanding is that there's no free money attached to being on a UNESCO list.

DocTomoe 6y ago
Not directly - but grants now can be argued with "this is actually UNESCO relevant". For an organization like the ZKM in Karlsruhe (a modern technology/art museum, which I would consider a major interest in this development), secondary, well-argued grants by local authorities and fonds are a major source of income.

lallysingh 6y ago

Also, it pushes for some preservation of the execution environments of these programs. It's now more likely that someone will make sure that there's a runnable version of qemu (or similar) that emulates well enough to run them.

KingOfCoders 6y ago

TRSI!

hutzlibu 6y ago

" School classes will analyze the hacks necessary for a parallax scroller, and be eternally bored of it." I hope not. Forcing anyone into it, kills the spirit of it, they were supposed to find. But that would be nothing new with classical school, so ..

zem 6y ago

I think the analogy an earlier poster made with folk dances was more accurate. school classes might mention it in passing as a subculture, and people who want to know will have resources to explore it further.

ekianjo 6y ago

> School classes will analyze the hacks necessary for a parallax scroller, Highly doubtful claim.