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by effekt 15d ago
so, claude?
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by effekt 9mo ago
As for cracktros, probably not. I should spelunk through backups. However, the most technical and competitive people generally transitioned to the demoscene in the early 2000s and that scene is far more open. You can find a lot of groups&#x
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by effekt 9mo ago
He's still alive and well! While he's not super active and let his website(s) die, you can follow him on Facebook where he generally seems the most active these days: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000638
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by effekt 2y ago
I'm so happy every time I see the demoscene on HN's front page. Hi pandur!
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by effekt 3y ago
Same here. I came in on the back end of having to write your own engine from scratch (not just 3D, but general graphics.) MOV AX, 13h; INT 10h will forever be burned into my memory. The transition was definitely odd. What brought it around
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by effekt 3y ago
Huge shoutout to Digitale Kultur e.V. for that -- that club was founded by the folks that organize the Evoke demoparty!
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by effekt 3y ago
If you'd like to know where the demoscene came from, look no further than The BBS Documentary[1] The whole thing started w/ cracktros in the 80s and through the artscene it eventually evolved into its own scene that was entirely d
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by effekt 3y ago
Steal everyone's samples! I recall my brother thinking they'd hate him for doing it, or he'd be a lamer.. it didn't matter, and eventually others used his samples and his techniques. The scene these days is much more wel
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by effekt 3y ago
Gave my baby brother FastTracker when he was 13 I believe, not only did he become one of the best chip musicians ever, it effectively shaped his entire life toward pursuing music in some form or another. After this unexpected HN post today,
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by effekt 3y ago
I remember trying to replicate a sine scroller at age 9, not having the slightest clue what a sine wave is, I just let sprites go up and down linearly on a C64 and couldn't for the life of me figure out a way to make that a smooth wave
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by effekt 3y ago
Which is, in fact, a demotool made by sceners and released at a party (check their about!) Just like Shadertoy and others :)
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by effekt 3y ago
Vive la france, shoutout to TiTAN :) And yes. Demoscene specifically only has tiny pockets in the US.
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by effekt 3y ago
Check out ryg's blog about it[1]. To nobody's surprise, other than tweeting things my puny brain can't decypher, I believe he works on Unreal Engine these days. 1. https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04&#x
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by effekt 3y ago
Not just crytek! Yager also had founding demosceners I believe? There's more in Germany for sure. 3DMark the benchmark by Futuremark is as the name suggests, made by ex Future Crew. The list goes on. If you go around looking at where m
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by effekt 3y ago
I suspect you're aware, but leaving this for the hackernews crowd that might not be: Shadertoy was in fact made by sceners for sceners. Inigo Quilez is iq/Rgba[1] who released it as a tool for the scene to use[2] back in 2009 1.
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by effekt 3y ago
The only reason I'm a software engineer today, is the scene. And I'm sure that's not just the both of us :)
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by effekt 3y ago
I saw the headline and was hoping it'd mention psenough who has been my only lifeline in the last decade to keep up with what's going on in the scene, and I'm sure I have that in common with a lot of old sceners. Highly recom
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by effekt 3y ago
> the demoscene devolved into a "L'art pour l'art" It didn't, though. It just took the scene a while to adapt to the reality that you can't learn how to push a GPU over the edge in a weekend any longer. As a
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by effekt 5y ago
Fifth Sun | Senior Software Engineers | Remote (US) or Chico, CA | https://www.5sun.com/ We're a market leader in Direct-To-Garment printing (and have a wholesale division, too) looking to build out our software engine
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by effekt 12y ago
D'oh!
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by effekt 12y ago
No.
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by effekt 12y ago
It's not about the teams - it's about the people that handle the teams.
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by effekt 12y ago
I'm sorry.
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by effekt 13y ago
I'm also interested in this, but I'd be more interested in how you can live at a tropical beach on $10k/y.