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Demoscene (2004)
- smokel 3y agoThis topic is discussed here every now and then (because it is awesome). Most recently at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344
- thibaut_barrere 3y agoYes :-) Some commonly cited sites: - https://www.pouet.net/ https://www.pouet.net/ - https://scene.org https://scene.org (under "changes" but files available) - https://hornet.org https://hornet.org
- nvy 3y agoCan't forget nectarine! https://scenestream.net/demovibes/ https://scenestream.net/demovibes/ Soundtrack of my youth
- thibaut_barrere 3y agoDefinitely!
- unixhero 3y agohttps://demozoo.org/ https://demozoo.org/
- Fischgericht 3y agohttps://scenecity.tv/ https://scenecity.tv/ Is live-streaming many demoparties, and outside of those, is streaming demos.
- sedatk 3y agoThe page is outdated.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 3y agoOne 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 3y agoWhat year should we put on the title above? archive.org has it back to 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20041206000418/https://www.demoscene.info/ https://web.archive.org/web/20041206000418/https://www.demos...
- Fischgericht 3y ago2004 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 3y ago2004 it is until proven otherwise. Thanks!
- datameta 3y agohttps://www.dwitter.net/ 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 3y agoAny HN ppl wanna meet up at Revision 2024? :)
- unixhero 3y agoYeah that would be cool. I think we may be going
- pixelpoet 3y agoFeel free to email me thomas.ludwig@gmail.com, I'd like to make a first demo entry and have some other fractal art friends with ideally :) In general we could org a little HN mini submeet.
- jbverschoor 3y agodef!
- tetrisgm 3y agoASM!
- aetherson 3y agoLiterally (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 3y agoHappens to me too sometimes, and I was even involved in the scene back in the 90s.
- vikingerik 3y agoHow 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 3y agoMaybe because demo ends with a vowel and it would be hard to come up with a smooth transition to a second word?
- thibaut_barrere 3y agoI 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 3y agoMight 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 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hackerszene%22 [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 but https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gaming-szene%22 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 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic-szene%22
- anjel 3y agoI dream of a 21st century AI demo scene that competes to get the most AI out of the least hardware just for the glory.
- Fischgericht 3y agoI 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 3y agoNo idea, but I'm a simple man. I see "demoscene," I upvote.
- tetrisgm 3y agoHonestly 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 3y agoSecond Reality for Apple II!!!! http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/ http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/
- tetrisgm 3y agoThis is more impressive than Chaos Theory 64k demake. They didn't have to go that hard!
- Fischgericht 3y agoAnd 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 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 3y agoAh, 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 3y agoThere'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 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1978214964?t=01h31m12s "Who cares about features if it runs like ass" made my day.