With OpenGL and midisynth techniques, you can do some amazing things with what amounts to a tiny bit of command language that runs the OpenGL and midi engine in any decent PC.. and becuase it uses open source languages, it's pretty platform agnostic. Only problem, at times, is that the demos are encapsulated in WinOS or MacOS only wrapers.
Kinda funny when he says at the beginning that demos are "the latest trend in computer animation". Guess they couldn't have impressed their viewers with footage from old 8-bit/16-bit demos (even though there is a tiny bit present at the beginning of that film).
the demos are usually very very small (64 kilobytes limitation is often used for competitions) and require a lot of processing power. the whole animation with music and everything is squeezed into these 64 kilobytes.
go to the URL, ( w w w . s c e n e . o r g ) and get the file ``fr019_final´´, its my all-time favorite demo, 64 kilobytes. its strange that they put it into a zip-file, because it is not possible to further compress those demos, the exe-files are already at maximum compression.
Cheers for that! I just watched it, mesmerizing. Some parts really remind me of Rez stylewise, which I played on Dreamcast a longer while back. Too bad I found out too late about some demoscene festivals that were held only recently, like that Breakpoint one, which sounds exciting. Interesting field.
Demoscene. Large groups of people making short 30-second demonstrations of their graphics, sound, and coding skills. These are all home-made "demos" that are runnable standalone programs.
kothog: there is no limitation on the runtime, and 64 kilobyte are enough for a few minutes of nice graphics and audio. the typical runtime for a demo is somewhere around 5 minutes ;)
Half of what you wrote is totally incorrect. Only a handful of people work on each of these project 99% of the time, and even 1k/4k demos last longer than 30 seconds. 4k's these days last for upto 3/4 mins and can produce 10's of MBs of data. 64Ks generate upto 170 in one case, normally under 100Mb though.
farbrausch rulez!
ugurozyilmazel 1 year ago
I don't speak german, but this was still informative. thanks!
grinick 2 years ago 3
Fun :)
TheJesperL 2 years ago
"der neueste trend" .. xD neu ist dieser trend aufjedenfall nicht.. aber immernoch aktuell... demoscene 4 ever!
NeoAfghan167 3 years ago 2
With OpenGL and midisynth techniques, you can do some amazing things with what amounts to a tiny bit of command language that runs the OpenGL and midi engine in any decent PC.. and becuase it uses open source languages, it's pretty platform agnostic. Only problem, at times, is that the demos are encapsulated in WinOS or MacOS only wrapers.
RyuDarragh 3 years ago
Wish I could do that. BUt I have no friends :)
DETHKLOKDAMNATION 3 years ago
PS Would be great if someone could subtitle this. I only know a little german.
DETHKLOKDAMNATION 3 years ago
Kinda funny when he says at the beginning that demos are "the latest trend in computer animation". Guess they couldn't have impressed their viewers with footage from old 8-bit/16-bit demos (even though there is a tiny bit present at the beginning of that film).
HansHackfress 4 years ago 4
w w w . scene . org
f t p . ftp . untergrund . net
w w w . still-scene . org
h t t p . intel-demoscene . de
w w w evoke . eu
h t t p breakpoint . untergrund . net
FirstPersonPL 4 years ago 6
normaly i would say: "SPAM", but in this case i will say: "THANX FOR THE LINX!"
MAXimator70 4 years ago
linki will certainly be useful. I wasn't supposed at thoughts to spam. greets mate!
FirstPersonPL 4 years ago 3
yes, i know! no problem dude! :)
MAXimator70 4 years ago
Interesting to see the demo scene being covered on a popular music TV show.
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Rough74 4 years ago
Why did it take until 2003 to make a report on something that has been done for more than 20 years?
The demoscene was terrific. Are there any parties still out there? I've not been to a demoparty since I quit with Bizarre 2001.
leorcc 4 years ago 2
this is weird, whats this about?
TMLaine 4 years ago
you can download all this stuff
w w w . s c e n e . o r g
the demos are usually very very small (64 kilobytes limitation is often used for competitions) and require a lot of processing power. the whole animation with music and everything is squeezed into these 64 kilobytes.
kurtilein3 4 years ago
64kb, that's insane. Pure genius.
chevkoch 3 years ago 3
chevkoch:
go to the URL, ( w w w . s c e n e . o r g ) and get the file ``fr019_final´´, its my all-time favorite demo, 64 kilobytes. its strange that they put it into a zip-file, because it is not possible to further compress those demos, the exe-files are already at maximum compression.
kurtilein3 3 years ago
Cheers for that! I just watched it, mesmerizing. Some parts really remind me of Rez stylewise, which I played on Dreamcast a longer while back. Too bad I found out too late about some demoscene festivals that were held only recently, like that Breakpoint one, which sounds exciting. Interesting field.
chevkoch 3 years ago
wow, demos have changed a lot since the late 80s, early 90s!
frenchband 4 years ago
Yeah to bad that it is just in German (but not for me).
Well as coder is can barely figure out how much work that is. And these guys make great stuff...*interested in that know how*
DrunkencoderPayk 5 years ago
Sanity-Elite Group-Farbrausch
vividesigner 5 years ago
these guys are genius, and kb is a fantastic musican!!!
Ruhiganer 5 years ago 2
whats this about!!??
Geelar 5 years ago
Demoscene. Large groups of people making short 30-second demonstrations of their graphics, sound, and coding skills. These are all home-made "demos" that are runnable standalone programs.
kothog 4 years ago
kothog: there is no limitation on the runtime, and 64 kilobyte are enough for a few minutes of nice graphics and audio. the typical runtime for a demo is somewhere around 5 minutes ;)
download some and try it out for yourself.
kurtilein3 3 years ago
Half of what you wrote is totally incorrect. Only a handful of people work on each of these project 99% of the time, and even 1k/4k demos last longer than 30 seconds. 4k's these days last for upto 3/4 mins and can produce 10's of MBs of data. 64Ks generate upto 170 in one case, normally under 100Mb though.
IntrinsicPalomides 3 years ago
Please, could someone make a subtitled translated version? thank you
antronk 5 years ago
Coool! I saw that on tracks and never found a download :) Thanks for uploading this!
thedope 5 years ago