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see also
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What is the Demoscene? An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form
- demoparty.net - List of past and future events on a map
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The Demo Scene is Dying, But That's Alright
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And if a significant number of kids do, in fact, eventually pick up the scene torch? Well, I just hope they'll have fun, too.
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Creativity Visulisation
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- Documentary on the 80s and 90s Demoscene: The Art Of The Algorithms [FULL] 1h20
- cultural heritage
- Art-of-Coding initiative
Art-of-Coding, an initiative to enlist the demoscene as first digital culture on the list of UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
- Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity
- Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
- The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
- Art-of-Coding initiative
- Two women that changed the Amiga Demo scene YouTube TheGebs24 12min
- Amiga Demo: 'State of the Art' by SpaceBalls
- Demo Reel & Tiny JavaScript – Mathieu Henri / Front-Trends 2016 30min video
- Love code a demo effect + audio in js
- Demo or Die! You're a teen hacker, you want to impress, you demo code - description of the demoscene
- Animations from first principles
- Pyhton Pygame - morph of circle
- Examples
- flashtro
- elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro - rgba_tbc_elevated_source.zip
- Escalated 1024byte shader similar to Elavated - browser demo
- Perlin noise
- Sheep and The Flower How we made an animated movie in 8kB Razor April 2023
- Storytelling with cazy limitations
- Explains raycasting, 4ksynth
- Countdown to extinction by MX / ADDiCT
- 1k windows (like onicopter video in DuneCD game)
- The vanishing of Ashlar by NuSan (PC 4k intro)
- "Memories" - 256 byte MSDOS intro #dos
- Smaller then a single tweet (each character/letter is a byte)
- code + explanation
- BitwiseLiminal 256byte javascript - raytracer with VHS distortion effects
- Javascript Magic Tunnel
- Nightdrive - Night time driving simulation
- Not really a demo - but a really chill cool concept
- TiTAN - Overdrive 2 (RGB 50fps) - SEGA Mega Drive - Revision 2017 (1st Place)
- 8088MPH DOS CGA
- BACK TO THE PET 2022 Commodore PET
- Demoscene & Video Game Music Streaming Radio Links
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4K' here refers to the filesize, not the resolution
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Atari Video Music (Model C240)
- the earliest commercial electronic music visualizer released. released in 1977
- The system creates an animated visual display that responds to musical input from a Hi-Fi stereo system
https://www.flipcode.com/archives/articles.shtml
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- demoscene came from cracking and cracktros, but then is it free? what about copying the routines and art from demoscene? Great article that describes the duality.
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project committed to preserving historical record of the GDI effects used in keygens and patchs released by the PC cracking scene.
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History (pre internet)
- SCiZE's CLASSIC WAREZ COLLECTION
- BBS archive of SCENE and WAREZ
- ANSI art and webcomic (pre internet) https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and-inspector-dangerfuck/
- SCiZE's CLASSIC WAREZ COLLECTION
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KilledByAPixel
- Tiny JS - few characters/tweet
- fluid?
- parallax terrain?
<canvas style="width:99%" id="c" onclick="setInterval('for(c.width=w=99,++t,i=6e3;i--;c.getContext`2d`.fillRect(i%w,i/w|0,1-d*Z/w+s,1))for(a=i%w/50-1,s=b=1-i/4e3,X=t,Y=Z=d=1;++Z<w&(Y<6-(32<Z&27<X%w&&X/9^Z/8)*8%46||d|(s=(X&Y&Z)%3/Z,a=b=1,d=Z/w));Y-=b)X+=a',t=9)" width="99">-
- a challenge to see what awesomeness you can create when limited to only 140 characters of javascript and a canvas. Give it a go!
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- A 2D sand simulator in 425 bytes.
- https://www.dwitter.net/h/sand/top
- Music Trackers: A Brief History YouTube 6min
- openmpt
- WaveTracker 2024
- milkytracker - cross platform 64bit - evolution of ProTracker/FastTracker
- ModPlug
- renoise - a modern DAW tracker
- Schism Tracker - a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker which is turn is an extension of screamtracker (FutureCrew)
- FT2 clone - The 90s are alive, with a free, modern clone of FastTracker II
- Bintracker A Chiptune Audio Workstation for the 21st Century
- furnace - a multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules
- WebXmp - Experimental JavaScript/HTML5 version of xmp. (Xmp is a module player that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files.)
- scriptracker
- Dittytoy: dance_to_the_rhythm.mod
- minimal javascript mod track in 250 lines of code
- Ditty is a javascript code sound generator online framework thing - here is Simple FM Synth with two oscillators in JS
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- YouTube Impulse Tracker Captain / Image - Space debris
- HN: Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991 (markuskaarlonen.com)
- modarchive.org
- space debris cpc cover - My Amstrad CPC rendition of the legendary Amiga module "Space Debris" by legendary Captain
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lightofday (intr.mod) Intro to Pinball Dreams on Amiga 500
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Hyperbased musiklinjen (musiklinjen.mod) Firefox and Trip
- Amiga 500 Demo: Enigma (50fps) YouTube 10min
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elysium (ELYSIUM.MOD) Sanity - Elysium - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
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Desert-Dream-2 (desert2.mod) Kefrens - Desert Dream - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
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Megasong Project is a demoscene music project co-op long
keygenmusic.tk
- See [typography]
- (in progress: masking example snippets for democoding in TeachProgramming)
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Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s - Creativity
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Chrome Revenge raytracing in pure DOS