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we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?

• sp332 15y ago
  Here's a good explanation: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096 http://scene.org/ http://scene.org/ is very active with news. http://pouet.net/ http://pouet.net/ is the canonical site for searching demos, you can find most demos here. (Demos really should be run in real-time, but you can find video links if you don't have the hardware or don't want to download the program.) I'll just highlight one example that shows application to CS research: Numb Res by CNCD and Fairlight, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU and explanation https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/ https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/
• BinaryJesus 15y ago
  /\ That is exactly why some people would rather die than do CS course.
  • sp332 15y ago
    Sorry, were you replying to me or to ra66it? And what do you mean?
• bane 15y ago
  The demoscene is at the intersection of art, music programming, hacking, online groups, tech festivals etc. It has a long history with a tremendous corpora of productions, techniques, culture, publications, etc. It's probably the biggest sub culture that nobody has ever heard of, with thousands of computing enthusiasts getting together in arenas to literally show off their code. In the demoscene, code is art. Its participants will literally consume years of their life on a production for nothing but the pleasure of it. When I saw the title of the course I immediately assumed at least half the semester was going to be on the demoscene since no computing based cultural movement I'm aware of more succinctly speaks to the course title than the demoscene.