Due to one thing and another, I haven't been posting demos since Thursday. So I'll be making up for it today by posting three demos. As soon as I saw YouScope yesterday, I knew I had found pure technological genius and nerdvana. The creators of this demo used an oscilloscope in x-y input mode driven by the output from a sound card to create this ( Read more... )

Today, we take a look at the opposite end of the ZX Spectrum from yesterday's demo. Power Up from 1997 probably represents the farthest extremes of capabilities that the 128k ZX Spectrum had to offer. Part of this demo even does 3-D graphics, albeit in monochrome. This demo has the demo hacker attitude in spades, and the technical chops to back ( Read more... )

Today, we look a the humble, yet melodious first efforts of a demo hacker using assembler on the antiquated Sinclair ZX Spectrum. For those unfamiliar with the ZX Spectrum (obviously, you didn't read William Gibson's Pattern Recognition) it was a British home computer roughly comparable in both time and power to the early Commodore computers like ( Read more... )

Today, we take a look at the winner of Assembly 2007: Lifeforce. Every time I watch this demo, I'm completely blown away by it. It so masterfully embodies the state of the art, while simultaneously telling an open-ended story which keeps the viewer engaged until the very end. The music ranges from pop to rock, to classical and back again: ( Read more... )

Today, we examine Obsoleet by Unreal Voodoo, released at Assembly 2004. I like this demo for everal reasons. First, it has a simple style and plot, which acknowledges the history of the demoscene, particularly the early years of hacking on Commodore 64s and Amigas. Secondly, I like it because our young female hacker is show actually writing her ( Read more... )

Since I didn't post any demos on Saturday, everyone gets to see two of them today. This time, we take a look at what is arguably one of the most famous demos of all time, Future Crew's Second Reality released in 1993 (the year I graduated high school and first discovered Unix and the Internet ( Read more... )

Here's an Amiga demo which was apparently coded late in the Amiga era. It really puts me in the mind of the European techno scene around the time that the KLF were in their "White Room" phase.

Enjoy!

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Taking a page from shanmonster's journal. I've decided to start posting a demo a day until Notacon. Partially, this is my exploration of the field, and partially it's my way of getting people interested in Block Party this year. I was initially excited by the title of this demo. Unfortunately, while it is a spectacular work, I'm not seeing what I had ( Read more... )

I have just been informed that my brother and I will be speaking at Notacon 6. We will be giving an hour-long presentation on the applications of Chaos Theory (non-linear complex dynamical systems theory) to the Demoscene. For those who don't know, a demo is a demonstration of hacking or coding talent, typically in the form of an animated ( Read more... )