Doku über die Demoszene
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some of my prefered sites for C=:
http://www.lotek64.com
http://www.go64.de
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some extra info from kurtilein3:
you can download all this stuff at
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.
Channel: Howto & Style Uploaded: August 22, 2006 at 12:27 pm Author:MAXimator70
RyuDarragh(Friday 14th of November 2008 01:29:28 PM)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MAXimator70(Saturday 8th of March 2008 11:37:37 AM)
yes, i know! no problem dude! :)
HansHackfress(Saturday 8th of March 2008 11:16:59 AM)
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).
