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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demoscene</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demoparty.html" title="demoparty"/><link rel="next" href="dentro.html" title="dentro"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demoscene</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demoparty.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dentro.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demoscene"/><dt xmlns="" id="demoscene"><b>demoscene</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dem´oh·seen/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [also ‘demo scene’] A culture of multimedia hackers
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located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Demoscene folklore
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recounts that when old-time <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a> cracked some
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piece of software they often added an advertisement in the beginning,
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usually containing colorful <a href="display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display hack</i></a>s with
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greetings to other cracking groups. The demoscene was born among people
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who decided building these display hacks is more interesting than hacking
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— or anyway safer. Around 1990 there began to be very serious police
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pressure on cracking groups, including raids with SWAT teams crashing into
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bedrooms to confiscate computers. Whether in response to this or for
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esthetic reasons, crackers of that period began to build self-contained
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display hacks of considerable elaboration and beauty (within the culture
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such a hack is called a <a href="demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>). As more of these
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<a href="demogroup.html"><i class="glossterm">demogroup</i></a>s emerged, they started to have
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<a href="../C/compo.html"><i class="glossterm">compo</i></a>s at copying parties (see
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<a href="../C/copyparty.html"><i class="glossterm">copyparty</i></a>), which later evolved to standalone events
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(see <a href="demoparty.html"><i class="glossterm">demoparty</i></a>). The demoscene has retained some
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traits from the <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, including their style
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of handles and group names and some of their jargon.</p><p>Traditionally demos were written in assembly language, with lots of
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smart tricks, self-modifying code, undocumented op-codes and the like.
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Some time around 1995, people started coding demos in C, and a couple of
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years after that, they also started using Java.</p><p>Ten years on (in 1998-1999), the demoscene is changing as its
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original platforms (C64, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari ST, IBM PC under DOS) die
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out and activity shifts towards Windows, Linux, and the Internet. While
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deeply underground in the past, demoscene is trying to get into the
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mainstream as accepted art form, and one symptom of this is the
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commercialization of bigger demoparties. Older demosceners frown at this,
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but the majority think it's a good direction. Many demosceners end up
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working in the computer game industry. Demoscene resource pages are
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available at <a href="http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/" target="_top">http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/</a>
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and <a href="http://www.scene.org/" target="_top">http://www.scene.org/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demoparty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dentro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demoparty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dentro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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