Comments on: All the German I Know I Learned from the Demoscene I got into programming via the Amiga Demo-scene. Mental Hangover was the demo that made my jaw drop, and make me want to do what those guys did. Such an awesome piece of music. Happy days... Sniff, I'm all nostalgic now... :-) I got into programming via the Amiga Demo-scene. Mental Hangover was the demo that made my jaw drop, and make me want to do what those guys did. Such an awesome piece of music. Happy days… Sniff, I’m all nostalgic now… :-)

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By: moo/2011/04/27/all-the-german-i-know-i-learned-from-the-demoscene/#comment-3399 moo Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:33:26 +0000 Bob: You didn't read all of the small print. :) <blockquote>"This isn't a fucking mega demo. This is a Scoopex demo."</blockquote> The term trackmo only came later as others adopted the style of the demo kicking in right after inserting the disk and the bootblock sectors got loaded. Background loading ftw. :) Damn our arrogance was appropriate back then (well, every routine in that demo was either completely new, several times faster or several times more insane than anyone had ever made before). Oh and it was the first demo to do proper sync between visuals and music. Those were the days. :). I'm kind of happy that 20 years later we managed to ship Alan Wake on the Xbox 360 (especially when playing straight from the DVD without a HD in the console) with the same attitude. No loading screens - well unless you die a lot. ;-) It is kind of cool to see things like the 1k JavaScript demos these days. Not all hope has been lost from the world yet. ;-) SamiV. Bob:
You didn’t read all of the small print. :)

“This isn’t a fucking mega demo. This is a Scoopex demo.”

The term trackmo only came later as others adopted the style of the demo kicking in right after inserting the disk and the bootblock sectors got loaded. Background loading ftw. :)

Damn our arrogance was appropriate back then (well, every routine in that demo was either completely new, several times faster or several times more insane than anyone had ever made before). Oh and it was the first demo to do proper sync between visuals and music. Those were the days. :).

I’m kind of happy that 20 years later we managed to ship Alan Wake on the Xbox 360 (especially when playing straight from the DVD without a HD in the console) with the same attitude. No loading screens – well unless you die a lot. ;-)

It is kind of cool to see things like the 1k JavaScript demos these days. Not all hope has been lost from the world yet. ;-)

SamiV.

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By: Bob Koon/2011/04/27/all-the-german-i-know-i-learned-from-the-demoscene/#comment-3394 Bob Koon Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:49:42 +0000 Bob, it was awesome to notice that a demo I co-authored over 20 years ago was the first one in your "Jolt of Inspiration" list. :-) SamiV. Bob, it was awesome to notice that a demo I co-authored over 20 years ago was the first one in your “Jolt of Inspiration” list.

:-)

SamiV.

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By: njrabit/2011/04/27/all-the-german-i-know-i-learned-from-the-demoscene/#comment-3389 njrabit Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:29:47 +0000 I've volunteered to help out as well - sounds like a nice project. I just hope they stay clear of the all-too-common "Look at the blocky 8-bit pixel effects! THAT'S the demoscene!111oneoneone"-trap that too many fall into. The demoscene is about looking forward as well :) I’ve volunteered to help out as well – sounds like a nice project. I just hope they stay clear of the all-too-common “Look at the blocky 8-bit pixel effects! THAT’S the demoscene!111oneoneone”-trap that too many fall into. The demoscene is about looking forward as well :)

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By: negroponte rabit/2011/04/27/all-the-german-i-know-i-learned-from-the-demoscene/#comment-3325 negroponte rabit Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:52:05 +0000

I’ve volunteered to help them out with whatever they need (right now, it’s compiling a list of demo productions that would be good representatives of the scene for the exhibit – suggestions as replies here are certainly welcome;), but more people who’d like to help out would be way awesome!

This would be quite a cool way to present the demoscene to the mainstream community and serve to inspire kids to get into this kind of programming in the same way that attracted many of us in much simpler, pre-Visual Studio/pre-DirectX days to dive headfirst into programming.

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By: Bernat Muñoz/2011/04/27/all-the-german-i-know-i-learned-from-the-demoscene/#comment-3306 Bernat Muñoz Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:37:47 +0000 Bob, you would have been welcome at Revision or the Gathering or Eastergarden. Consider yourself invited to them for next year - as well as, you know, all the other parties. I'll be the guy with the towel. -Truck Bob, you would have been welcome at Revision or the Gathering or Eastergarden. Consider yourself invited to them for next year – as well as, you know, all the other parties. I’ll be the guy with the towel.
-Truck

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By: AnonymousGerbil/2011/04/27/all-the-german-i-know-i-learned-from-the-demoscene/#comment-3299 AnonymousGerbil Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:21:07 +0000 (June 2011, 17th – 19th) I think.

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