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Assembly (demoparty), the Glossary

The Assembly demoparty is an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland.^[1]

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Demo parties
Festivals in Helsinki
LAN parties

Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Computing platform

A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Demogroup

Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer based audio-visual works of art known as demos.

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Demoscene

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. Assembly (demoparty) and demoscene are demo parties.

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Do It (Nelly Furtado song)

"Do It" is a song by Canadian singer Nelly Furtado from her third studio album, Loose (2006).

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Doom 3

Doom 3 is a 2004 survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Fairlight (group)

FairLight (FLT) is a warez and demo group initially involved in the Commodore demoscene, and in cracking to illegally release games for free, since 1987.

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FedEx

FedEx Corporation, originally Federal Express Corporation, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company focused on transportation, e-commerce and business services based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Future Crew

Future Crew was a Finnish demogroup that created PC demos and software, active mostly between 1987 and 1994.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Helsinki Halli

Helsinki Halli (formerly Hartwall Arena) is a large multi-functional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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Ice rink

An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water and/or an artificial sheet of ice where people can ice skate or play winter sports.

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Interview

An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers.

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Kauniainen

Kauniainen (Grankulla) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country.

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Kebu (musician)

Sebastian "Kebu" Teir (born 1977 in Finland) is a Finnish keyboard player, arranger and composer.

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LAN party

A LAN party is a social gathering of participants with personal computers or compatible game consoles, where a local area network (LAN) connection is established between the devices using a router or switch, primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer video games together. Assembly (demoparty) and LAN party are LAN parties.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Messukeskus Helsinki

Messukeskus Helsinki, Expo and Convention Centre (formerly Helsinki Fair Centre) is the biggest and best-known convention center in Finland.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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Music tracker

A music tracker (sometimes referred to as a tracker for short) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music.

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Nelly Furtado

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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Online and offline

In computer technology and telecommunications, online indicates a state of connectivity, and offline indicates a disconnected state.

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Online magazine

An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks.

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Pixel art

Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block.

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QuakeCon

QuakeCon is a yearly convention held by ZeniMax Media to celebrate and promote the major franchises of id Software and other studios owned by ZeniMax. Assembly (demoparty) and QuakeCon are LAN parties.

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Scene.org

Scene.org (also known as The International Scene Organization) is a non-profit organization, providing the currently largest demoscene file repository.

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Second Reality

Second Reality (originally titled Unreal.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Timbaland

Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972), known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, and singer.

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Timbaland plagiarism controversy

The 2007 dance-pop song "Do It" performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado features elements sampled from "Acidjazzed Evening", a chiptune-style track composed by the Finnish demoscene artist Janne Suni.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.

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8-bit computing

In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_(demoparty)

Also known as Assembly (demo party), Assembly competition, Assembly demo party, Assembly demoparty.

Assembly (demoparty), the Glossary

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See also

Demo parties

Festivals in Helsinki

LAN parties

References