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Demoscene

A demo is a program that displays a sound, music, and light show. Demos are very fun to watch, because they seemingly do things that aren't possible on the machine they were programmed on.
Essentially, demos "show off".

Demos are an art form. They blend mathematics, programming skill, and creativity into something incredible to watch and listen to.

Sites in Demoscene

Slengpung
The scene photo gallery.

Defacto 2
Portal for the underground scene, covering all areas from gaming through emulation to arts. Included is an extensive search engine, a scene portal, international news, a translator and hosted pages.

The Story So Far
An introduction to world of computer demos with pictures and links to further information, albeit partly biased towards the Atari ST scene.

Scenet
News and articles, mainly about the non-mainstream scene, from the Amiga to the Amstrad CPC. Also provides a large listing of scener's e-mails and homepages.

Scene.org
A site dedicated to the demoscene. At the moment it's oriented in demoscene productions, but promises to provide news, articles, interviews with demoscene people and up-to-date information about upcoming demoparties.

Pouet
Multi-platform database of news, groups and productions. Register here and get your own avatar and the chance to appear in a chart table which rewards uploading and commenting others' work. Nice, cute design.

SDSS
The slovene scene site. News, releases and polls.

Naid.net
Demoscene information source for North America.

Orange Juice
The demoscene information center, featuring news, information on people and parties, and a search engine.

Defence-Force: Demos page
Description of what demos are, some common effects, who makes demos. Available in English and French.

Introduction to Demos & The Demo Scene
Demos are cool. They exist to move you, just as any other art form moves you. But demos are built by programmers, artists, and composers who live and breathe technology. [Gamasutra]

dEUS Demogroup
Official site of dEUS, the Greek demogroup, includes a member list, history, and productions.

Demoscene Outreach Group
Builds awareness by presenting at the SIGGRAPH and Game Developers Conferences, as well as other events.

256b.com
An archive of demos of 256 bytes or less.

Scenery
A guide to groups, parties and releases on the C64/Amiga demoscene.

Demo Hidden Parts
A list of demo hidden parts, keys, and tricks.

The Hacker Demo Scene and its Cultural Artifacts
A paper that reports on a study undertaken into vernacular forms of multimedia production referred to as "demos" or "intros" and variants of these terms among adherents of a computer oriented subculture identifying itself as "the scene".

Underground Mine
A knowledge center for demo sceners and game programmers.

Demoo
Various demos for download.