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What is the
demo scene? A short description of the demo scene subculture.
The demoscene is a computer subculture that came to prominence during the rise of the 16 bit micros (the Atari ST and the Amiga), but demos first appeared during the 8-bit era on computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
Since any given computer platform before the PC age meant every computer of a given line had identical capabilities, a comparison between demos on earlier platforms was directly possible. This created a competitive environment where demoscene groups would try to outperform each other creating amazing effects. Demo writers went to great lengths to get every last ounce of performance out of their target machine. Where games/application writers were concerned with stability/functionality of their software, the demo writer was typically interested in how many CPU cycles a routine would consume and how best to squeeze as much effects and activity onto the screen. This went so far as to exploit known hardware errors to produce effects that the manufacturer of the computer had not intended, giving the demo-groups a feeling of having gone into extremes that nobody else had reached before
The Demo Scene: Glossary
Assembler
symbolic machine language
BBS
Bulletin Board System (a system where several modem users can connect to, exchange information and
software
C
a high-level programming language with features from low level languages, suited especially well for system
level programming
C++
an extended version of C programming language. C++ is an object-oriented programming language
Coder
programmer
Compo
competition
Crack
a program or game whose copyright protection is removed (= "cracked")
Cracker
a person who removes copyright protection or breaks into systems
Demo
a program whose purpose to is to present the technical talents of its makers and provide audiovisual
pleasure to the observer
Demo Group / Demo Team
group of a people who make demos together
Demo Party
an event to where lots of demo scene members gather
Demo Scene
all the people interested in demos
Dentro
An intro whose purpose is to preview a demo
Diskmag
A diskmag is an electronic magazine or newsletter that is distributed on a semi-regular basis. It usually
has demoscene news, reviews, party reports, and general rambling. :-) Diskmags are similar to musicdisks
in that they are executable programs that come with their own reader, which itself usually has a nice
selection of music and interface graphics.
Gfx
graphics
Graphician
Graphics artist
Group
The team that creates a demo. Creating a demo or an intro is a teamwork. You need a musician to do the
music, an artist to draw, make fonts, model 3D objects and of course - you need a coder to pack
everything together and do the actual production - the effects. A DEMO GROUP have at least 1 of each of
those three. However, there are also groups of artists, which release only graphics, 3D models and
animations, as well as groups of musicians (this thing had become popular) that release music together.
GUS
Gravis Ultrasound-sound card
Hacker
a person who really enjoys to create something new with computers, a computer freak. In media hacker is
often mistaken with cracker
Intro
demo whose size is limited to e.g. 64 kilobytes; an introduction to some other program (e.g. crack intro to
cracked game); introduction of some event or person
Lamer
a person, who doesn't have the talent or irritates other - a loser
Megademo
a large demo with many parts
MOD
a computer music format (or actually number of similar music formats), which was originally developed for
Commodore Amiga. Majority of computer demo music is in MOD format.
Musicdisk
A musicdisk is a collection of songs put out by a single music or demo group (or, in rare cases, multiple
groups--see the multi-group musicdisks Chromatiks and Epidemic, for example) or musician whose
distribution medium is a single diskette. A musicdisk has a custom player built just for the
musicdisk--it
plays only the songs on the disk, and usually has a nice graphical interface or specific information from the
composers on their songs. Musicdisks are put out whenever the group feels it has enough music to put in
them, so they're released irregularly and infrequently.
Nicknames
Code names that people of the demo scene use instead of their real names. The reason pof this is historic.
Back in the early days, when the scene was totally underground and cracking games / Trading warez were
part of the daily activity, using handles and gathering in groups was essential.
Rip
to steal from others, e.g. rip music or graphics from other programs
Ripper
program designed for rip ping
Spreader
same as swapper (newer term)
Swap
exchange programs, music or other data
Swapper
a person specialized in swap ping, often involving illegal software piracy
SysOp
System operator of the BBS
Tracker
A program used to make MOD music.
Trackmo
a demo that concurrently loads new code, graphics and/or music from a floppy disk, while showing the
demo
Trade
same as swap
Trader
same as swapper (newer term)
Warez
illegally copied software
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