The Scene Portal - Art
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The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short refers to a community of individuals and groups who are interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork.
The demoscene is a computer sub-culture that came to prominence during the rise of the 16 bit micros (the Atari ST and the Amiga), but demos first appeared during the 8-bit era on computers such as C64 and ZX Spectrum.
Demos began as software cracker's 'signatures'. When a cracked program was started, the cracker or his team would take credit via an increasingly impressive-looking graphical introduction called a "cracktro". The first time this appeared was on the Apple II computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Later, these intros evolved into their own subculture independent of cracking software. These were not initially called demos but rather letter, message, et cetera.
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Amiga
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(Amiga)
AMiGASCNE.ORG provides the world's largest repository of Amiga demo scene related material, from the demo's themselves to the music and art spawned by the demo scene phenomenon.
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(Amiga)
This site is dedicated to all crackgroups founded the sCENE and created later the demoscene lots of people know today. It includes all the information to old cracking groups cracking and spreading games and apps on the Amiga computer since 1987 - after the C64-scene which has been founded somewhen in 1983. You can download all the Cracktros from this website and start them on your Amiga, or using UAE on your ibm compatibles. The Cracktros all are freeware - you won't find any warez here.
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ExoticA is a website that concentrates mostly on the earlier days of Amiga computing. You will find online here a large amount of things for the Amiga including Exotic Amiga Music, demo information, game box scans, utilities, diskmags and other nostalgic and historic Amiga items. The Amiga is the finest computer ever created and its going to be around for a long time.
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Welcome to our little hideout in the Internetz. Founded in 1990, Tristar and Red Sector, Incorporate is one of the last active Groups, that made their way from the legendary Times, when Commodore owned the Households, til today, when Corporations like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are battling for our Minutes of Entertainment. Some people might say, that the Internetz destroyed the scene and indeed, times have changed and communication, friendship and attitude has evolved. The old days were different and we are trying to combine values from before the Internetz with the advantages of today!
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Amstrad CPC
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(Amstrad CPC)
An ftp file server that offers thousands of legal Amstrad related files
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ansi
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A significant collection of large sized ansi artworks, in browser friendly PNG image formats.
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Blocktronics is a international group of talented ansi artists that releases artpacks on a regular basis. The group was found in 2008 and aggregates artists from various countries.
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Online ANSI/ASCII gallery / museum.
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Roy's personal scene site which contains all the SAC packs, all of Roy's work as well as some excellent guides to scene art.
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ascii
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(ascii)
A collection of ascii art online as well as various related tools.
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(ascii)
This interesting web application allows you to convert any online or offline image (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP) into ascii art.
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(ascii)
This is the most complete collection of BBS adverts including PC and Amiga scene boards, legal as well as illegal ones. All the ads were found in release packages and are thereby authentical.
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An ascii group who has been around since 1998 that also accepts requests. Has member information, galleries, downloads and release information
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Atari
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(Atari)
there was a tiny, cute computer called the Atari ST, a powerful machine based on an eight megahertz Motorola MC68000. Back in 1987 when the ST godfathers, the Exceptions (TEX), released their first demo "READ_ME.PRG" and the followups "Little Sound Demo" and "Little Colour Demo", the age of Atari ST demos began. The Exceptions were the inspiration for most if not all demo programmers (including the writer of these lines). Dozens of demos have been released in the following years. This website will just list those that should never be forgotten by the ST community.
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(Atari)
The primary resource for the Atari ST scenes.
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Broadcast
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(Broadcast)
Simply put; BitJam is an internet radio station, hosted as a part of BitFellas, that streams non-commercial, free demoscene music.
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he Hardread podcast was founded by the members Vincenzo and Pohar in the summer of 2006. After making 20 shows, they decided to join the BitFellas community to take a bigger part in the scene. By uniting with BitJam it is hoped more listeners might get to know scenemusic. It will also be a great platform for musicians to show their skills outside of compos held at parties.
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Since the first time that machines could calculate, people have twisted, modified, hacked and played with them to create art. In a fast-paced hour, we're going to do our best to capture 100 years of computer art, the magic of the art scene, the demo scene, and a dozen other "scenes" that have been with us as long as computers have. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of visual and audio history as your two over-the top scene pilots take you on "the story so far" to the artscene.
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C64
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(C64)
The Back to 64k-Site is our way to keep the Commodore 64 alive. In supporting this paging and creating the tools and sounds you find at this pages, we feel part of a big community concerning C64. Greetings are going out to all C64-Fans in the world! Help us to keep this site alive! The more visitors we get, the more fun we've got, the more stuff you'll get.
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Party photos, people, and descriptions of graphic modes
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(C64)
Database of scene related people and groups
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(C64)
This site has a very simple purpose. It should contain news about you - people living in the scene, creating art, spending hours and days on various projects which deserve recognition. Which deserve to be spread in a good old meaning of the word "spread". People visiting, organising or competing on parties. People behind the words "Today's Scene". This site is for those who are interested in new things happening in the C64 area and especially for those who don't feel retro, because they don't need to. People with attitudes, opinions and creative minds. People who instead of collecting spend their valuable time on creating.
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The largest demo collection online with over 4150 downloadable
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Computerbrains are probably most remembered for the large amount of quality game cracks that we released, but do remember that we also have released quite a lot of selfmade useful stuff. The active member combination has varied along the years, we are all born in the sixties so we are not so young anymore, but we are still young in mind :)
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In the years 1987-1989 there was just one big cracker zine in Europe. (With the term 'cracker' we hereby mean a person who removes protection from software.) Alongside the dutch magazine Hacktic this was probably the crown media of the European computer underground, comparable to TAP and 2600 in the United States. Word has it that Illegal was the main inspiration source for all underground diskzines later produced on C= 64, Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC. Illegal was not the first cracker fanzine, and certainly not the last, but beyond reasonable doubt it was the biggest and most influential "Warez"-producer magazine in the world history of cracking.
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1016
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(C64)
This is a website dedicated to the Commodore 64 and especially the demos that were made for it. Presently you can find 307 demos here
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(C64)
Commodore 64 cracktros redone in flash
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(C64)
C64 demo online directory We hope this collection
of information will be of use to you, and provide an interesting read as
well as serve as reference material for those of you who collect and love
everything about the c64 demoscene. We still make no claims (far from it)
of being neither perfect nor 'definite', but we try as hard as we can, and
hopefully at least some of you will be pleased with the results :] As you
can see for yourself, the list of major new additions/changes since the
last release is pretty big, but still doesn't even come close to suggesting
the amount of fixes and additions since our last release.
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(C64)
Demos, philes, sids, words, illegals magazines, java address, etc
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Collections
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(Collections)
This collection was made for all the people out there that can't forget about their BBS times.
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(Collections)
Highlights the best of the demo scene including music, art, demos, etc.
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ANSI/ASCII artscene, pixel art, demoscene, BBS (Bulletin Board System) stuff and other related oldskool subjects.
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Pixel Art Logos for the most part from the Commodore Amiga and PC scene, but some Commodore 64 logos and a handful ANSI and ASCII logo also got mixed in. :)
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(Collections)
A site dedicated to intros and cracktros. Includes screenshots, user reviews, comments and other tibits.
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Monostep.org is a site for pc demo lovers run by me, diver^Salva Mea. Basically it was a private collection of all my favourite stuff made public in 2000. My goal is to create a site with 3 screenshots and enough links to download productions
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Hornet mirror, Acid Artpack mirror, Padua mirror
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851
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(Collections)
You can find a huge collection of Win32 (Windows) flawless remakes of old-school Amiga cracktros and intros.
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Commercial
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(Commercial)
The purpose of these pages are to inform you about the latest developments regarding demo and music scene CD-ROMs and Audio CDs. I try to keep the database up to date and list some older, perhaps out of print CDs, so you know what is out there.
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Demo
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(Demo)
The purpose of this site is to be a Demo Scene Hub, in which you can ask any question you want (via the forum), or participate in the Scene Wiki Guide - In which the idea is to build up a vast knowledge of what the scene is all about. Basically anyone can update this wiki. You can report about anything - from your group/productions, or wax lyrically about the definition of "Dutch Coder Colours". Pretty Much anything. There is also the witty and informative blogs, which are made by the guys from Affinity. You can share out pain as well. The is also the one-liner, which you can enter any text you feel like, and it will be shown to the next visitors. Plus, as a super-dooper bonus, you can find out all about the Affinity Members, and you can even download some of our productions as well.
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(Demo)
ASD (Andromeda Software Development) is a group that produces Demos. A demo is a non-interactive multimedia presentation made within the computer subculture known as the demoscene.
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An award winning, multi-retro platform demo group.
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Petri Kuittinen's essay on all things underground demo. Computer demos should not be confused with the demo versions of commercial programs. They are "demos" too, but the word "demo" in this text means a program whose purpose is to present the technical and artistic skills of its makers and produce audiovisual pleasure to the viewer. A computer demo usually includes various kind of real-time produced computer graphics effects which have little relation to each other accompanied by music. In a way a demo could be described as a sort of music video or a short computer animation film without a plot or message other than just "hey, I can do this" and "greetings to my friends". Of course there is exception to every rule and some demos have a plot and message.
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(Demo)
Conspiracy is a small Hungarian group of multimedia artists, aimed to create realtime visuals on computers; formed in the November of 2002 and currently consisting of seven people, we had a streak of nice results at various international demoparties since.
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(Demo)
A place for both experienced and novice programmers alike to learn and share the skills of demo programming and share their knowledge in an amiable environment. Many programming styles and languages are catered for. Or maybe if a more succinct description is better, "Demo programming community".
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(Demo)
What are demos? Demo, is a short name for "demonstration". I suppose it is to computing, what video clips are compared to the news at the television. It's absolutely useless, but some people are very interested by
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(Demo)
Welcome to demoscene.info, a webportal providing information on the demoscene.
The demoscene is a worldwide non-commercial network of creative minds involved in the making of so called 'demos'. Demos are computer generated music clips that show what kind of graphic and sound effects can really be done by using high-end computer hardware to its full potential.
Demo-making is teamwork. As demos are rather complex any helping hand is welcome. Each scener provides the team with different skills. Graphicians and musicians create suitable pieces of art, the programmers fit all the parts together in an extensive amount of detail work to finally make it an executable program: the demo.
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(Demo)
Discontinued. An demo off-shoot of the cracking group with the same name.
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(Demo)
Here you can find all farbrausch productions and many non-farbrausch productions by farbrausch members, well linked and ready for you to comment on. Virtually everything on this site can be downloaded for free and then run for your entertainment. Many productions feature a video link if you don't like starting programs from the internet on your computer.
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(Demo)
Computers > Multimedia > Demoscene
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(Demo)
½-bit Cheese (HBC in short) is an animation group of 10 people so far. All members are located in Finland. Our productions are pretty much all done for the demoscene, digital art subculture. You can watch our productions in the Video-section at the top.
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(Demo)
Orb is a non profit art collective gathering passionate people who enjoy making artistic and technical demonstrations on various platforms.
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(Demo)
Discontinued - Reviews of PC demos. The site was discontinued in 1999, but the reviews are still valid.
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(Demo)
Plastic is an active demoscene group founded in 1997.
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(Demo)
TBL is an underground computer art collective that works in a non-profit way. Our work is a blend of real time graphics, digital sound and art. This page contains some of our work for different platforms.
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154
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(Demo)
A multi-platform demo scene group.
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(Demo)
elcome to the Youth Uprising [YUP] site. We are a group of demosceners [mostly] under the age of 18 years, dedicated to producing great and memorable graphics demos and intros. Feel free to take a look around and download some of our works, or get in touch with us. Purpose is a demo group created to keep the demo scene alive by attracting young people. We believe the scene should return to its former glory, and we also believe that "kids" like us are its future. The demo scene to come is not grim, and we are the proof.
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Group
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ACiD Productions was originally founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in Demand by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated in ANSI and ASCII art, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as music tracking, demo coding, and multimedia software development (e.g. image viewers).
In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, Remorse is the official ACiD sub-label responsible for ASCII art and other text-based graphics. Similarly, pHluid is responsible for module tracking and music production.
Today, ACiD focuses largely on the preservation of digital art history, talk radio news, and sale of their DVD-based artscene archives.
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(Group)
Superior Art Creations, often referred to as SAC, is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene. During the mid to late nineties most of the notable ANSI artscene groups had distanced themselves from the warez scene, rather creating art for the sake of art, or for bulletin boards that were purely artscene related. Seizing this opportunity, SAC moved into this vacant territory and quickly became recognized as the leading group of warez scene artists. Towards the late 1990s, a good majority of NFO file ASCII art was created by various members of SAC. In 1999, lead ASCII artist Ferrex ascended into the role of senior staff and leader, continuing to control the group to this day.
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(Group)
The Titan Demo group is a respected art group who dabbles in all areas of the scene.
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The Tristar group page, though don't expect to see much content in English.
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Literature
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(Literature)
We are a mon profit writers resource community where people can submit poetry, stories, thoughts, stories, fanfic, anything text commented on rated.
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Mac
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(Mac)
Probably the quint essential resource for the Mac demo scene. Daily updates on not only the latest scene news but also downloads the scene's most recent productions as well as gosip forums.
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Magazines
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An archive of the old artscene e-magazine entitled Beam, created by Black Maiden in the late 1990's
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Hugi is the worlds leading PC scene magazine. Usually released bi-yearly, it has stood the test of time since 1996. While today it is released on an online as well as on an offline medium.
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ZINE is a digital magaZINE about the demoscene and related topics, such as real-time CGI, music, graphics and programming. The mag was originally born in 1989 on the Commodore Amiga. Issues 1 to 11 were released between 1989 and 1991, and ZINE enjoyed unrivalled popularity. After a long break, ZINE resurfaced on the PC in 2007 and has become the most popular mag of the scene ever since.
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News
Party
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Welcome to Breakpoint 2010, world's biggest pure demoscene event. For the 8th time, up to 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are expected to gather one final time in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany, from the 2nd to the 5th of April 2010 (Easter weekend), enjoying 4 days of round-the-clock activities in arts, technology and international socializing.
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We move... and so should you! Your favourite party with the unique atmosphere, the international flavor and the prize galore is taking place at an all-new location. From July 31st to August 2nd there is only one place to be: Abenteuerhallen Kalk, Cologne. Easily reached by any means of transportation. Prepare your entries and party with us.
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An online archive to all things being of 'The Party'. A legacy that involved a popular danish demo party held every year from 1991 until 2002.
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ZX Spectrum
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