Demoscene Poll

[Sdw]

Yeah, the C64 was more or less the start of the demoscene. And as Baccaman says, back then we mostly tried to break the limits of the machine - showing more than the 8 hardware sprites supported, creating graphics modes like FLI that went far beyond the limits of the original C64 modes etc.

Ptoing - funny that you should mention calculators, I've done some demos for the Texas instruments TI-83 calculator actually (see http://sdw.webhop.net/prods.html?prodplatform=6)

I'm working on a new demo for it at the moment, and I'm looking for a graphics artist. Hard to find a good artist who can work with the imits of a 96x64 monochrome system though!

[ptoing]

haha nice, just 2 colour screen i guess, black and white, I would be interested 1bit gfx don't take too long normally

[saimo]

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

Demoscene is hard to explain in few words. It's about art all around: pixelling, coding, music making, etc. I guess that the quickest way to learn about it is looking at a demo... if you want, have a look at the video of the demo called "Arte" (heh), which sports wonderful pixelwork, awesome tunes, great code and lots of stuff in just a double-density floppy disk being chewed by an Amiga 500

Here are some demoscene-related sites: http://www.pouet.net, http://www.scene.org, http://ada.untergrund.net .

saimo

[ptoing]

C64 Scene Database :V

csdb.c64.org

[saimo]

C64 Scene Database :V

csdb.c64.org

Very nice place
Gotta check out some of those demos!

saimo

[Gunne]

I have an old Atari 800XE, so can I do demoscene on this if I want too? And it's all done by code?

[Sdw]

I sent you a PM ptoing!

[saimo]

I have an old Atari 800XE, so can I do demoscene on this if I want too?

You can do demos, slideshows, musicdisks, etc. on whatever hardware you please. The only "problem" is that not necessarily the hardware of your choice has a demoscene movement connected to it.
Anyway, I guess Atari machines do have an active demoscene.

And it's all done by code?

What do you mean? Code is just one of the key elements

saimo

[Gunne]

cool, maybe I give it a try in the future when I understand my Atari  . And ofcourse when I have a better understanding of the demoscene in general!

[saimo]

cool, maybe I give it a try in the future when I understand my Atari  .

So, I take it you are interested in coding as well (besides pixelling, I mean).
If not, you could just join a demogroup...
... or, you could just join *me* in this project

And ofcourse when I have a better understanding of the demoscene in general!

Just watch demos/slideshows/musicdisks/demomags until your head blows

saimo