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Lots of those oldskool guys still make stuff for Revision and other parties of similar stature. The best compos are when you have some weird old piece of hardware that somehow can replicate either Second Reality or STNICCC 2000 on it.
 
My favorite part is the music, here are some of my favorites which have good music but are also good demos in their own right:
Kefrens - Desert Dream
Scoopex - Mental Hangover
Mad Elks - Technological Death
 
Necro'd thread and all, I agree that music in the demos either makes or kill a demo. Even better is procedual music, which leads me to my segway, for the following demo:

A Mind Is Born (256B Commodore 64 demo) by Linus Åkesson
Not gonna lie, I would love to see an extended version of this, don't care if it's made with modern tools by hand, I love this banger damn it!
 
I've downloaded a few demos onto the flash card for my old game boy - seeing them work in person on the actual hardware is incredible. There's so many effects i wouldn't have dreamed of seeing in a game back in the day. They push the limitations.
Big fan of the ASCII art scene too. Seeing all of these gives me warm nostalgia.

If no one else has mentioned it already...
 
The Grognard dijo:
Any of you gents watching this year's Revision?
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Are you me? Why are you in all the niche threads I'm in?

Whole fuckin' thing. Been some good stuff, and return of Farbrausch in the 8k compo this afternoon. Waiting for the main PC compo.

The politisperging isn't as bad as it could be though I literally remembered this thread with fatass Truck got gigasalty about the AGA chipset being documented by guys from the Combat-18 group 30 years ago. In between reeeing about Ai.
 
Mikoyan dijo:
Truck got gigasalty about the AGA chipset being documented by guys from the Combat-18 group 30 years ago
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Whaaaaat? Well, I suppose you had shit like KZ Manager on various old computers.
Still. That's so bizarre! Have you got any details on it?
Also IIRC C18 were just another O9A arm so it's like if the foodists hosted a modding wiki or something.
 
Coolio55 dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jlL76kbHsuc
Whaaaaat? Well, I suppose you had shit like KZ Manager on various old computers.
Still. That's so bizarre! Have you got any details on it?
Also IIRC C18 were just another O9A arm so it's like if the foodists hosted a modding wiki or something.
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I skipped Amiga and went right to PC from the 64 despite growing up right near Commodore, so I wasn't' super up on it and it's been a while. I remember it happening at the time - mostly because these guys wrote the documentation Commodore never really did for AGA. I'm not sure if they were a part of the real C18 or just likeminded people picking up the name.
 
Mikoyan dijo:
Are you me? Why are you in all the niche threads I'm in?
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Our interests simply alight well.
Mikoyan dijo:
The politisperging isn't as bad as it could be though I literally remembered this thread with fatass Truck got gigasalty about the AGA chipset being documented by guys from the Combat-18 group 30 years ago. In between reeeing about Ai.
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He did complain about it in this year's stream about it as well, but then again, TDS has caused many people to completely forget the idea of Game recognizing Game and treating everything someone on the opposing side has done as a cognitohazard that has to be destroyed.
 
The Grognard dijo:
Our interests simply alight well.

He did complain about it in this year's stream about it as well, but then again, TDS has caused many people to completely forget the idea of Game recognizing Game and treating everything someone on the opposing side has done as a cognitohazard that has to be destroyed.
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I meant 'when' instead of 'with', oops. Yeah, I was talking about this year's rant. Which was crazy because though he said 'you can google it' he essentially dissuaded anyone from learning about the latter day Amigas because 'there's a fascist in the credits'. Okay whatever.

Frankly I'd be fine with that though. The Amiga compos feel the most played out to me. OCS/ECS feels like they haven't had a new trick in years (unlike say Trickster's insane work on the bone stock 5150 some years ago), and with the official hardware for the compo being an 060 1200 the AGA demos tend to slide into 'quake-tier 3D scenes' which is exactly what I'd expect out of that hardware.

Shout out to that one dude in Wild that removed 75% of the chipset and all the RAM from a 500 and still got it to do a Boing variant straight off ROM, though. Truck hated the guy's presentation for being too German wordy but like fuck off man, let the guy show the absolute magic trick he did.
 
Mikoyan dijo:
I meant 'when' instead of 'with', oops. Yeah, I was talking about this year's rant. Which was crazy because though he said 'you can google it' he essentially dissuaded anyone from learning about the latter day Amigas because 'there's a fascist in the credits'. Okay whatever.

Frankly I'd be fine with that though. The Amiga compos feel the most played out to me. OCS/ECS feels like they haven't had a new trick in years (unlike say Trickster's insane work on the bone stock 5150 some years ago), and with the official hardware for the compo being an 060 1200 the AGA demos tend to slide into 'quake-tier 3D scenes' which is exactly what I'd expect out of that hardware.

Shout out to that one dude in Wild that removed 75% of the chipset and all the RAM from a 500 and still got it to do a Boing variant straight off ROM, though. Truck hated the guy's presentation for being too German wordy but like fuck off man, let the guy show the absolute magic trick he did.
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Amigas get the most attention because it's the cult home computer of the 90's and before Doom, it was the premier gaming machine of it's era. Still, I'd like to see more entries done with obscure Japanese computers because PC-98 and FM Towns are relatively unexplored at this front.

And yes, the Wild compo was great. The Nintendo 64 seems like an interesting future platform to do demos on.
 
The demoscene has lost it's charm once people weren't trying to squeeze every last drop of performance from microcomputers of the 80's and 90's with nothing but pure code, but instead made seemingly impressive 4kb demos that in actuality would use tens of megabytes worth of preinstalled Windows binaries to actually run. The art element is still there, but originally it was about pushing the boundaries of the hardware. Now it's all superficial.
 
The Grognard dijo:
Amigas get the most attention because it's the cult home computer of the 90's and before Doom, it was the premier gaming machine of it's era. Still, I'd like to see more entries done with obscure Japanese computers because PC-98 and FM Towns are relatively unexplored at this front.

And yes, the Wild compo was great. The Nintendo 64 seems like an interesting future platform to do demos on.
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I have long wondered what could be done with an X68000, being basically the Animega.
 
I appreciated that, but it still kind of underlines.... how this is a thing of its era, even if great prods still come out on the regular.
 
"fr-019.poemtoahorse" by Farbrausch (2002)
One of my favourite 64k demos - and it is really impressive for its day, featuring beautiful shiny objects that are also surprisingly complex, and some absolutely gorgeous music.

"sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey" by Spacepigs (2017)

Just a plain ol' fun! I quote this one alot - definitely check out some more of their works.

"Edge of Disgrace" by Booze Design (2008)

This demo pulls off some absolutely stunning tricks, and on over 40 years old hardware no less - and it just keeps going, and going.

"Second Reality" by Future Crew (1993)

Probably the most famous demo out there - any list involving demos would be incomplete without Second Reality. This is actually a fairly early example of what is commonly referred to as a "trackmo" with proper music sync, and no loading screens, which before about 1991 or so was the norm. This was cutting edge for its time.

"Eon" by The Black Lotus (2019)

Another stunner. this one is for the Amiga, and it runs on a base 512kb Amiga, with no additional upgrades. Whilst this doesn't have that many "technical" effects, the art and design is absolutely enchanting. This is a masterclass in demo design.
 
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