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demoscene: /dem´oh·seen/ [also ‘demo scene’] A culture of multimedia hackers
located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Demoscene folklore
recounts that when old-time warez d00dz cracked some
piece of software they often added an advertisement in the beginning,
usually containing colorful display hacks with
greetings to other cracking groups. The demoscene was born among people
who decided building these display hacks is more interesting than hacking
— or anyway safer. Around 1990 there began to be very serious police
pressure on cracking groups, including raids with SWAT teams crashing into
bedrooms to confiscate computers. Whether in response to this or for
esthetic reasons, crackers of that period began to build self-contained
display hacks of considerable elaboration and beauty (within the culture
such a hack is called a demo). As more of these
demogroups emerged, they started to have
compos at copying parties (see
copyparty), which later evolved to standalone events
(see demoparty). The demoscene has retained some
traits from the warez d00dz, including their style
of handles and group names and some of their jargon.Traditionally demos were written in assembly language, with lots of
smart tricks, self-modifying code, undocumented op-codes and the like.
Some time around 1995, people started coding demos in C, and a couple of
years after that, they also started using Java.Ten years on (in 1998-1999), the demoscene is changing as its
original platforms (C64, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari ST, IBM PC under DOS) die
out and activity shifts towards Windows, Linux, and the Internet. While
deeply underground in the past, demoscene is trying to get into the
mainstream as accepted art form, and one symptom of this is the
commercialization of bigger demoparties. Older demosceners frown at this,
but the majority think it's a good direction. Many demosceners end up
working in the computer game industry. Demoscene resource pages are
available at http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/
and http://www.scene.org/.

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