The Incredible Demoscene - Making Art with Code

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A look at the incredible demoscene - how coders and musicians turn ones and zeros into art. The demo scene represents artistic creativity and technical ability. Pushing the limits that we were thought were possible. In this episode we look at the Demo Scene, its roots, history, the effects, The Demo Scene on game consoles and even code our own copper bars for fun. Please Enjoy!

Demos Featured In this Episode:

   • Commodore Amiga demo: Lemon - 3D Demo 3: T...  
   • 4 Edges by The Black Lotus [playstation 2]  
   • 8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE  
   • Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo  
   • Antitrax 2010 - Megademo  -= Amiga 50fps =-  
   • Batman Rises / Batman Group (AMIGA OCS/ECS...  
   • Commodore Amiga demo: Angels - Copper Mast...  
   • Kefrens - Desert Dream - Amiga Demo (HD 50...  
   • Edge of Disgrace by Booze Design (C64 demo...  
   • Phenomena - Enigma - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)  
   • The Black Lotus - Eon - Amiga Demo (50 FPS)  
   • Intro by Fairlight  
   • Hardwired by Crionics & The Silents  - Ami...  
   • High Hopes by Aspekt, 2007 | Nintendo NES ...  
   • Is That a Demo in Your Pocket? - GAME BOY ...  
   • LSD - Jesus On E's - Amiga Demo (50 FPS)  
   • Kefrens - Megademo 8 - Amiga Demo  
   • Nexus 7 By Andromeda 1994 Commodore Amiga ...  
   • MegaDrive Megademo: Overdrive 2 by Titan  
   • Future Crew - Panic (1992) [60fps]  
   • moppi productions - psp flower  
   • Lemon - Rink a Dink: REDUX - Amiga Demo (H...  
   • Red Sector Inc - RSI Megademo - Amiga Demo  
   • Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps]  
   • Matt Current by Shitfaced Clowns  
   • Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo...  
   • Suicide Barbie  by The Black Lotus  
   • ZX Spectrum Demo: "Unspoken" by Stardust (...  
   • RAZOR1911 1990 VERTICAL INSANITY (A500)  
   • Sanity - World of Commodore 92 - Amiga Dem...  
   • banana for scale (Revision 2025)  
   • Nexus 8 - Loonies | Revision 2016 | 8k  
   • SNES-NICCC 2000 by Molive (2019) | Nintend...  
   • Scoopex - DERP 2014 Invitation  
   • Andromeda - Nexus 7 - Amiga Demo - AGA (HD...  

Copper Bars Demo Source Code - https://github.com/lantus/Amiga-CopperBars


Other Credits/Links/Sources:

   • Second Reality Protracker conversion by Es...  
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1674131
http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/demo_graphics.html
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-all-your-emulators/
https://github.com/BartmanAbyss/vscode-amiga-debug

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro to the Demo Scene
00:35 - History
02:50 - The Amiga Emerges
04:14 - Demo Scene Effects
06:49 - Coding my own Copperbars in C
12:49 - More Demo Effects
15:36 - Second Reality
17:01 - 8k Intro Demonstration
20:01 - Demos on Consoles
24:42 - Outro

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