Demoscene, the Glossary
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations.[1]
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196 relations: Aalto University, Aars, Adam Fielding, Adelaide, Ajka, Akella, Algorithmic composition, Alternative Party (demoparty), Amiga, Amiga demos, Angry Birds, Antony Crowther, Apple II, Argentina, Ascaron, Ashkelon, Assembly (demoparty), Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, Atari, Inc., Audiovisual, Australia, Bad Fallingbostel, Barcelona, Basque Country (greater region), Bejeweled (video game), Berlin, Bingen am Rhein, Blitter object, Bratislava, Brazil, Breakpoint (demoparty), Bremen, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Bugbear Entertainment, Byte, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carnegie Mellon University, Chaos Constructions, Chaos Theory (demo), Charles Deenen, Cleveland, Cologne, COM file, Commodore 64, Commodore 64 demos, Compunet, Computer art, ... Expand index (146 more) »
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Aalto University
Aalto University (Aalto-yliopisto; Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland.
See Demoscene and Aalto University
Aars
Aars or Års, is a Danish town with a population of 8,671 (1 January 2024) The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark in Himmerland, Denmark.
Adam Fielding
Adam Fielding is a UK-based electronic music producer and composer.
See Demoscene and Adam Fielding
Adelaide
Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.
Ajka
Ajka is a city in Hungary with about 35,000 inhabitants.
Akella
Akella (Акелла) was a Russian software company specialising in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products.
Algorithmic composition
Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.
See Demoscene and Algorithmic composition
Alternative Party (demoparty)
Alternative Party is a demoscene and art event in Finland. Demoscene and Alternative Party (demoparty) are demo parties.
See Demoscene and Alternative Party (demoparty)
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
Amiga demos
Amiga demos are demos created for the Amiga home computer.
Angry Birds
Angry Birds is a Finnish action, puzzle, and strategy based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment, and owned by Sega.
Antony Crowther
Antony Crowther (born 10 May 1965) is a former designer, programmer, and musician of Commodore 64 games.
See Demoscene and Antony Crowther
Apple II
The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Ascaron
Ascaron Entertainment was a video game developer based in Germany.
Ashkelon
Ashkelon or Ashqelon (ʾAšqəlōn,; ʿAsqalān) is a coastal city in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip.
Assembly (demoparty)
The Assembly demoparty is an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland. Demoscene and Assembly (demoparty) are demo parties.
See Demoscene and Assembly (demoparty)
Atari 8-bit computers
The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.
See Demoscene and Atari 8-bit computers
Atari ST
Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers.
Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
Audiovisual
Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Bad Fallingbostel
Bad Fallingbostel (Northern Low Saxon: Bad Fambossel) is the district town (Kreisstadt) of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony.
See Demoscene and Bad Fallingbostel
Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.
Basque Country (greater region)
The Basque Country (Euskal Herria; País Vasco; Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people.
See Demoscene and Basque Country (greater region)
Bejeweled (video game)
Bejeweled (also referred as Bejeweled Deluxe in some releases) is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, developed initially for browsers in 2001.
See Demoscene and Bejeweled (video game)
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Bingen am Rhein
Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
See Demoscene and Bingen am Rhein
Blitter object
A Bob (contraction of Blitter object) is a graphical element (GEL) used by the Amiga computer.
See Demoscene and Blitter object
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: Pressburg or Preßburg,; Hungarian: Pozsony; Slovak: Prešporok), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on Danube river.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Breakpoint (demoparty)
Breakpoint was an annual demoscene party held in Bingen, Germany during Easter from 2003 to 2010. Demoscene and Breakpoint (demoparty) are demo parties.
See Demoscene and Breakpoint (demoparty)
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
See Demoscene and Buenos Aires
Bugbear Entertainment
Bugbear Entertainment Oy is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki, founded by Janne Alanenpää in 2000.
See Demoscene and Bugbear Entertainment
Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
See Demoscene and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
See Demoscene and Carnegie Mellon University
Chaos Constructions
Chaos Constructions is the oldest demoparty in Russia, previously known as ENLiGHT. Demoscene and Chaos Constructions are demo parties.
See Demoscene and Chaos Constructions
Chaos Theory (demo)
Chaos Theory is a computer demo by Conspiracy released in August 2006 at Assembly.
See Demoscene and Chaos Theory (demo)
Charles Deenen
Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees), is a Dutch video game audio director, composer, sound designer, and mixer.
See Demoscene and Charles Deenen
Cleveland
Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
COM file
A COM file is a type of simple executable file.
Commodore 64
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).
See Demoscene and Commodore 64
Commodore 64 demos
The Commodore 64 (C64) demos are demonstrations of what can be done to push the limits of the Commodore 64 computer, made by programmers, musicians and artists.
See Demoscene and Commodore 64 demos
Compunet
Compunet was a United Kingdom-based interactive service provider, catering primarily for the Commodore 64 but later for the Amiga and Atari ST.
Computer art
Computer art is art in which computers play a role in the production or display of the artwork.
See Demoscene and Computer art
Computer art scene
The computer art scene, or simply artscene, is the community interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. Demoscene and computer art scene are computer art.
See Demoscene and Computer art scene
Computer programming
Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks.
See Demoscene and Computer programming
Consumer Electronics Show
CES (formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
See Demoscene and Consumer Electronics Show
Copy protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any measure to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media.
See Demoscene and Copy protection
Crack intro
A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software.
Creative coding
Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional.
See Demoscene and Creative coding
Crusader: No Remorse
Crusader: No Remorse is an action game developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts.
See Demoscene and Crusader: No Remorse
Curtin University
Curtin University (previously as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology) is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia.
See Demoscene and Curtin University
Demo effect
The demo effect is a name for computer-based real-time visual effects found in demos created by the demoscene.
Demoscene
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. Demoscene and demoscene are computer art, demo parties and subcultures.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Deus Ex (video game)
Deus Ex is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive.
See Demoscene and Deus Ex (video game)
DICE (company)
EA Digital Illusions CE AB (trade name: DICE) is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.
See Demoscene and DICE (company)
Digital Reality
Digital Reality Software Kft. (formerly Amnesty Design) was a Hungarian video game developer based in Budapest, Hungary.
See Demoscene and Digital Reality
Disk magazine
A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag or diskzine, is a magazine that is distributed in electronic form to be read using computers.
See Demoscene and Disk magazine
DreamHack
DreamHack is an ESL Gaming brand specializing in esports tournaments and other gaming conventions.
Early history of video games
The history of video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering many inventions and developments.
See Demoscene and Early history of video games
Eindhoven
Eindhoven is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine.
Electronic art
Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media. Demoscene and electronic art are computer art.
See Demoscene and Electronic art
Etten-Leur
Etten-Leur is a municipality in the Dutch province North Brabant.
Executable compression
Executable compression is any means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with decompression code into a single executable.
See Demoscene and Executable compression
Exeter
Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.
Farbrausch
Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers who became well known in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64k intro called "fr-08:.the.product".
FastTracker 2
FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker created by Fredrik "Mr.
See Demoscene and FastTracker 2
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Future Crew
Future Crew was a Finnish demogroup that created PC demos and software, active mostly between 1987 and 1994.
GameSpy
GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gliwice
Gliwice (Gleiwitz,; Gliwicy) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland.
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.
GrafX2
GrafX2 is a bitmap graphics editor inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Demoscene and GrafX2 are computer art.
Griesheim, Hesse
Griesheim is the largest town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in Hesse, Germany, with just over 28,000 inhabitants as of December 2023.
See Demoscene and Griesheim, Hesse
Guerrilla Games
Guerrilla B.V. (trade name: Guerrilla Games) is a Dutch first-party video game developer based in Amsterdam and part of PlayStation Studios.
See Demoscene and Guerrilla Games
Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), to achieve novel and clever outcomes. Demoscene and hacker culture are subcultures.
See Demoscene and Hacker culture
Haga, Nes
Haga is a village in the municipality of Nes, Akershus, Norway.
Hamar
Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway.
Handheld game console
A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers.
See Demoscene and Handheld game console
Hasselt
Hasselt is a Belgian city and municipality.
Härnösand
Härnösand is a locality and the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 25,012 inhabitants in 2023.
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.
See Demoscene and Home computer
Horná Súča
Horná Súča (Felsőszúcs) is a village and municipality in Trenčín District in the Trenčín Region of north-western Slovakia.
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Intangible cultural heritage
An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.
See Demoscene and Intangible cultural heritage
Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Jazz Jackrabbit
Jazz Jackrabbit is a series of platform games featuring the eponymous character, Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare who fights with his nemesis, Devan Shell, in a science fiction parody of the fable The Tortoise and the Hare.
See Demoscene and Jazz Jackrabbit
Jönköping
Jönköping is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022).
Jerry Holkins
Jerry Holkins (born Parkinson"Holkins is a combination of Holcomb (hers) and Parkinson (mine)." https://twitter.com/TychoBrahe/status/12073336701; February 6, 1976) is an American writer.
See Demoscene and Jerry Holkins
Jesper Kyd
Jesper Kyd Jakobson (Jesper Kyd Jakobson.; born 3 February 1972) is a Danish composer and sound designer who has worked on various video game, television, and film projects.
Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.
See Demoscene and Johannesburg
John Carmack
John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer.
See Demoscene and John Carmack
Katowice
Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of around 5 million people, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union.
Kazan
Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.
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.
Lemming
A lemming is a small rodent, usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes.
Licentiate (degree)
A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels.
See Demoscene and Licentiate (degree)
Licheń Stary
Licheń Stary is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ślesin, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland.
See Demoscene and Licheń Stary
Lionhead Studios
Lionhead Studios Limited was a British video game developer founded in July 1997 by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance, and Steve Jackson.
See Demoscene and Lionhead Studios
Local area network
A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.
See Demoscene and Local area network
Longueuil
Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
Lund
Lund ((US) and) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.
Maaseik
Maaseik (Mezeik) is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg.
MacHack
MacHack was Macintosh software developers conference first held in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan in partnership with the University of Michigan.
Max Payne
Max Payne is a neo-noir third-person shooter video game series developed by Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne and Max Payne 2) and Rockstar Studios (Max Payne 3).
Maxis
Maxis is an American video game developer and a division of Electronic Arts (EA).
Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Mesh generation
Mesh generation is the practice of creating a mesh, a subdivision of a continuous geometric space into discrete geometric and topological cells.
See Demoscene and Mesh generation
Minimalism (computing)
In computing, minimalism refers to the application of minimalist philosophies and principles in the design and use of hardware and software.
See Demoscene and Minimalism (computing)
Mod Archive
The Mod Archive is a website dedicated to the indexing and archival of playable music module files.
Mons, Belgium
Mons (German and Bergen,; Walloon and Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
See Demoscene and Mons, Belgium
Music tracker
A music tracker (sometimes referred to as a tracker for short) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music.
See Demoscene and Music tracker
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Netlabel
A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet.
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. Demoscene and New media art are computer art.
See Demoscene and New media art
Nijmegen
Nijmegen (Nijmeegs: italics) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole.
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.
See Demoscene and Nizhny Novgorod
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Notacon
Notacon (pronounced "not-a-con") was an art and technology conference which took place annually in Cleveland, Ohio from 2003 to 2014.
Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
Nvision
Nvision, stylized as NVISION, was a stand-alone event in 2008 organized by Nvidia to promote visual computing among enthusiasts and journalists. Demoscene and Nvision are demo parties.
Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
One Must Fall: 2097
One Must Fall: 2097 is a fighting video game for all IBM-compatible computers on DOS, programmed by Diversions Entertainment, published by Epic MegaGames and released in October 1994.
See Demoscene and One Must Fall: 2097
Opalenica
Opalenica is a town in Nowy Tomyśl County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 9,861 inhabitants (as of 2007).
OpenMPT
OpenMPT is an open-source audio module tracker for Windows (with an intended Wine-functionality for UNIX and Linux x86-systems).
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
See Demoscene and Pasadena, California
Patras
Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
See Demoscene and Pennsylvania
Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.
See Demoscene and Penny Arcade
Perth
Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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. Demoscene and pixel art are computer art.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Procedural animation
A procedural animation is a type of computer animation used to automatically generate animation in real-time to allow for a more diverse series of actions than would otherwise be tedious using predefined animations.
See Demoscene and Procedural animation
Procedural generation
In computing, procedural generation (sometimes shortened as proc-gen) is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually, typically through a combination of human-generated content and algorithms coupled with computer-generated randomness and processing power.
See Demoscene and Procedural generation
Procedural texture
In computer graphics, a procedural texture is a texture created using a mathematical description (i.e. an algorithm) rather than directly stored data.
See Demoscene and Procedural texture
Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming.
Protracker
Protracker is a music tracker for the Amiga platform.
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.
Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Remedy Entertainment
Remedy Entertainment Oyj, trading internationally as Remedy Entertainment Plc, is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo.
See Demoscene and Remedy Entertainment
Revision (demoparty)
Revision is a demoparty which takes place on Easter in Saarbrücken, Germany. Demoscene and Revision (demoparty) are demo parties.
See Demoscene and Revision (demoparty)
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (Saar Bridges; Rhenish Franconian: Sabrigge; Sarrebruck; Saarbrécken; Saravipons) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
See Demoscene and Saint Petersburg
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.
See Demoscene and Salt Lake City
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
See Demoscene and San Jose, California
São Paulo
São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.
Sülysáp
Sülysáp is a town in Pest County, Hungary about east of Budapest.
Scene.org
Scene.org (also known as The International Scene Organization) is a non-profit organization, providing the currently largest demoscene file repository.
Screensaver
A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time.
Shadertoy
Shadertoy is an online community and tool for creating and sharing shaders through WebGL, used for both learning and teaching 3D computer graphics in a web browser.
Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Software cracking
Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software.
See Demoscene and Software cracking
Someren
Someren is a municipality and town in the province of North Brabant in the Southern Netherlands.
Spore (2008 video game)
Spore is a 2008 life simulation real-time strategy god game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Designed by Will Wright, it covers many genres including action, real-time strategy, and role-playing games.
See Demoscene and Spore (2008 video game)
Starbreeze Studios
Starbreeze AB is a Swedish video game developer and publisher based in Stockholm.
See Demoscene and Starbreeze Studios
Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Demoscene and subculture are subcultures.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
Techland
Techland S.A. is a Polish video game developer and publisher founded in 1991 by Paweł Marchewka.
The Gathering (LAN party)
The Gathering (abbreviated as "TG" for short) is a computer party which is held annually in Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, and lasts for five consecutive days (starting on the Wednesday in Easter each year). Demoscene and the Gathering (LAN party) are demo parties.
See Demoscene and The Gathering (LAN party)
The Judges (demogroup)
The Judges was a Dutch Commodore 64 group from Roosendaal known for being one of the earliest dedicated demogroups.
See Demoscene and The Judges (demogroup)
Three.js
Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface (API) used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Udine
Udine (Udin; Utinum; Videm) is a city and comune (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Unity Technologies
Unity Software Inc. (doing business as Unity Technologies) is an American video game software development company based in San Francisco.
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Unreal (video game series)
Unreal is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Epic Games.
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Uplink (video game)
Uplink (also known in North America as Uplink: Hacker Elite) is a simulation video game released in 2001 by the British company Introversion Software.
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Uppsala
Uppsala (archaically spelled Upsala) is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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.
Video projector
A video projector is an image projector that receives a video signal and projects the corresponding image onto a projection screen using a lens system.
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Warez scene
The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media for free before their official sale date. Demoscene and Warez scene are subcultures.
Will Wright (game designer)
William Ralph Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts.
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Youth center
A youth center or youth centre, often called youth club, is a place where young people can meet and participate in a variety of activities, for example table football, association football (US soccer, UK football), basketball, table tennis, video games, occupational therapy and religious activities.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
ZX Spectrum software
The ZX Spectrum's software library was very diverse.
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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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See also
Demo parties
- Alternative Party (demoparty)
- Assembly (demoparty)
- Breakpoint (demoparty)
- Chaos Constructions
- Demoscene
- Nvision
- Revision (demoparty)
- The Gathering (LAN party)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
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