The Scene Portal - Art

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.

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.

This is my collection of demoscene productions gathered through my years in the Amiga demoscene. When I retired as a scener the collection strecthed to fill around 2000 floppydisks. The contents of those 2000 disks are presented in the guide offered on this page.

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.

An ftp file server that offers thousands of legal Amstrad related files

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.

The largest collection of art packs, emags, documents, and related files online. Includes the complete 'Acid: The Collection', 'The Ice Collection' as well as collections of packs dating back to 1992.

A collection of ascii art online as well as various related tools.

This interesting web application allows you to convert any online or offline image (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP) into ascii art.

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.

An award winning, multi-retro platform demo group.

The Amiga 500 has gone from us years ago and nobody should forget all the great games and other things, which were made for this excellent computer. For this, BTTR was brought to life and this site is dedicated to the Amiga - the greatest computer ever. Nobody should forget this masterpiece of computer technology, because it has brought us so many years of real fun and we hope, that this site will give you a little bit of this wonderful nostalgic feeling and bring some old memories back. Also new users should notice, that they have missed a powerful machine full of magic.

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.

A significant collection of large sized ansi artworks, in browser friendly PNG image formats.

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.

This collection was made for all the people out there that can't forget about their BBS times.

An archive of the old artscene e-magazine entitled Beam, created by Black Maiden in the late 1990's

The BitFellas are providing the demoscene with a community portal and content database for almost all platforms, combined with a nice steadily moderated forum to exchange the latest gossip and information. We don't intend to compete with other resources. We prefer to provide additional content and information. BF has been developed by a dedicated team of demoscene enthusiasts to provide an outstanding experience. Most of us have been involved in scene related operations and activities for very long time.

Simply put; BitJam is an internet radio station, hosted as a part of BitFellas, that streams non-commercial, free demoscene music.

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.

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.

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.

Over 2,000 C64 intros online, each with their own screenshot and comments page

Party photos, people, and descriptions of graphic modes

Database of scene related people and groups

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.

The largest demo collection online with over 4150 downloadable

Online ANSI/ASCII gallery / museum.

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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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".

The primary resource for the Atari ST scenes.

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

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

The goal of this project is to produce video DVDs of various demos (underground "demoscene" demos, not product or game demos). The first volume of this project, MindCandy Volume 1: PC Demos, has already been produced and is available for ordering.

A selected collection of over 100 of the best demos period, on any format

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.

Highlights the best of the demo scene including music, art, demos, etc.

Demoscene.tv strives to share and broadcast artwork urging from demoscene artists and stakeholders. DTV offers a video stream (via Winamp and browser) and associated services to allow groups belonging to the digital artscene to diffuse their creations.

This is the first book ever published about the demoscene

ZX Spectrum Demoscene news

Discontinued. An demo off-shoot of the cracking group with the same name.

The large collection of computer art on the internet with over 20,000,000 individual pieces.

Commodore 64 cracktros redone in flash

We are a mon profit writers resource community where people can submit poetry, stories, thoughts, stories, fanfic, anything text commented on rated.

An old Atari ST demo crew that have been recently converting their demo's to web friendly Java.

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.

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.

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.

ANSI/ASCII artscene, pixel art, demoscene, BBS (Bulletin Board System) stuff and other related oldskool subjects.

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. :)

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.

The GFXZone was born during late 1996 as a small section of a personal home page. The idea was to create a small demo scene graphics gallery, to show off some of the best scene art on the web. With time, GFXZone grew bigger and expanded from being a small gallery, to be the biggest demo scene graphics site on the net. What once consisted of few hundred kilobytes of pics, is now over 500Mb in size, providing not only galleries, but interviews with famous graphicians, gfx articles, scene related news and gfx archives. Our intentions are to continue on expanding and improving for as long as we enjoy it.

Computers > Multimedia > Demoscene

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.

A massive PC demo, graphic, magazine and music directory covering 1987 to 1998

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.

iCE is not a pure forum for posting artwork, like other sites. iCE is an art group that has dedicated members (i.e. are not members of any other digital art group) who choose to release their art with us. Every month we gather the art that our members have drawn and package it up and put it on the web site. Making an account on ice.org does not make you an "iCE Member", although it does allow you have to an identity here. To go on to become an iCE Member you need to go through a formal application process and be accepted. It is very hard to get into iCE - we only accept the best out there.

A site dedicated to intros and cracktros. Includes screenshots, user reviews, comments and other tibits.

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.

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.

Sit back and prepare for enlightenment. Free your mind and let us take you on a journey of colorful visual expressions, eclectic music and animated objects from a different world. A world of demos, originating from the European computer underground and created by talented programmers, artists and musicians. The MindCandy DVD contains forty-two (42) of these brief animated music videos, providing a modern day look and historical perspective all created using a PC. This disc is the result of over two years of planning and hard work by Fusecon, Hornet, and many other people.

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

Orb is a non profit art collective gathering passionate people who enjoy making artistic and technical demonstrations on various platforms.

Discontinued - Reviews of PC demos. The site was discontinued in 1999, but the reviews are still valid.

I started writing this FAQ because it appeared to me, that a lot of newbies ask the same questions over and over again and that there is no place on the web one can point them to, in order to get started. All existing scene FAQs were either obsolete or of very little content. So, I thought, it can't be a bad idea to write an all new FAQ, a more comprehensive and current one. A FAQ that is a knowledge base and starting point for newbies and fun to read for veterans.

Plastic is an active demoscene group founded in 1997.

Hornet mirror, Acid Artpack mirror, Padua mirror

If it is coded and scene related, then chances are it will be here. It covers all types of demo art on any PC or console format, and has a large active user base.

Alot of people ask us what exactly is Raster? Since its inception back in 2001, Raster has continued to grow and evolve far beyond anything we could have ever hoped for. Raster is an art group, deep rooted in the digital art revolution opened up to a large extent by the internet and computers. Raster embraces all forms and mediums of art. Bringing together members from all over the world for one goal. To make good art.

ZX Spectrum Demoscene news

Razor 1911, the legendary group that has been around since 1985.

You can find a huge collection of Win32 (Windows) flawless remakes of old-school Amiga cracktros and intros.

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.

Scene.org is a non-profit organization aimed at providing the 'electronic art scene' with a forum for communication and for sharing their work. We provide ftp and web space for groups and individuals who apply for them and whose applications are accepted. If the application is not approved on the first try, we encourage people to try applying again in the future. Meet other sceners on our IRC network (irc.scene.org) or on the news server. The site is maintained by a voluntary team of around 15 members contributing from around the world.

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.

Scenery is a guide to the C64 and Amiga demoscene. It has information on releases, parties and groups, and is extremely comprehensive. It's an attempt to cover an important part of digital history, to accurately document things and events that otherwise might be forgotten. Scenery was originally made by Glenn (now known as Menace/Spaceballs), and was a one man production but since going public and online at ExoticA in 200, a large number of people have helped out with everything from small snippets of information to entire sections of party results etc.

Contains a massive collection of ascii and ansi packs from 1990 onwards. All the content of the packs can be viewed online after free registration.

Slengpung is a demoscene related photogallery and its main task is to gather photos of sceners all around the world from differend scene parties and meetings.

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.

The artscene radio talkshow

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.

A multi-platform demo scene group.

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.

An ascii group who has been around since 1998 that also accepts requests. Has member information, galleries, downloads and release information

Our projects with thuglife.org is to build it up as the only good ascii archive around, with news, files and more. We have programmed it in Perl/Cgi/Html to make it more usefull and the pages will update themselfs.

The Titan Demo group is a respected art group who dabbles in all areas of the scene.

Demos, philes, sids, words, illegals magazines, java address, etc

The Tristar group page, though don't expect to see much content in English.

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!

Over 2,400 Commodore 64 intros from nearly 800 different groups

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.

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.