Demoscene Poll

[robotriot]

I've been watching demos since 1994, and I'm active in the scene since 1999, went to my first demoparty in 2000. Not that active anymore recently though, I just don't have the time for all the things I'd like to do.

[ptoing]

Following the scene a bit since around 1998-1999, and became active in the c64 scene 2005

[Rox]

Eh, I know what it is, and I've seen some of it around. It'd be nice to try the style, but I couldn't pull it off as good as I'd like, and... I'd rather do sprites!

[Blick]

Demoscene stuff always feels too distant to me. I know what it is, and I can appreciate the work that goes into it, but it's not something I'd like to try.

[Ryona]

I feel like a total ditz asking this...

Um, what is demoscene?

Is it basicly doing artistic graphic designs with pixels? Like, just designs, not people and landscapes and stuff?

[Ryumaru]

way back when, there was this piece of hardware called the amiga. people would do " demos" on it, using code and images to make interesting little things that basically tried to go beyond the limitations of the machine( am i correct) demoscene artwork is the images used in these demos.

[Ryona]

Okay, I kinda understand. I'm like, half way there now. lol

[Cow]

http://freax.hu/sample.html
Mildly entertaining (at least for me) read.

[baccaman21]

way back when, there was this piece of hardware called the amiga. people would do " demos" on it, using code and images to make interesting little things that basically tried to go beyond the limitations of the machine( am i correct) demoscene artwork is the images used in these demos.

Way back when there was this piece of hardware called the C-64. people would dp "demos" on it, using code and images to make interesting little things that basically tried to go beyond the limitations of the machine (am I correct) demoscene artwork is the images used in these demos.

(is there an echo around here?) :S

Yes... and Yes.

Hey - Ryumaru - don't take this the wrong way dude - but It makes me laff the way you describe the demoscene with the word 'basically' in that it wasn't that in the slightest - in fact - it was a great deal of hard work... but I know what you mean - you're absolutely correct though... and yes it does go beyond the amiga... the c-64 was a big demoscener machine... it may go back beyond that too - but that's out of the limits of my knowledge...

[ptoing]

Well nowadays there is a bigger or smaller scene for pretty much everything you can code for

The biggest being the PC scene atm, but the C64, Amiga, Atari ST/Falcon, Spectrum ZX scene is still alive as well. There even is a tiny Oric scene and people do stuff on consoles as well. There are demos for Ipod, Cellphones and some Calculators even. If it's a challenge to get something out of a machine some demoscener will code for it