Introduction to Demoscene

[Magus]

Demoscene.

What is Demoscene?

Demoscene is a type of cultural and habital way for crackers to introduce themselves when having a Crack, they are usually associated with a crack/seriel and kegyen and an .nfo file, which is actually a .txt file.

How did you get to know demoscene?

I have to say, I had many cracks for many diffrent program. Yes, it is illegal, I know that.

But when I saw this .exe file, I checked it and simply got amazed it was my first ever demoscened music.

To what extend 'demoscene' varies?

Demoscene varies in many ways.

Cracktros: The one I told you is a cracktro, usually they are 3D visual motion models, music and an actual program file.

They are made into a program file for the feasibility to download and to save a lot of space. As actual music are much larger in size. An 8-Bit 60 second music becomes 2 MB if they are saved as MP3 files.

Rather than that, they are saved into a different type of files in which only programs can interpret and opens them as a music.

Many crack group usually have them, I will name few.

CORE, Razor1911, Backlash.

They are not limited to only program crackers, but PC video games crackers such as DEViANCE and TECHNiC.

In Console Video Games: These are always shown at the start of the video games, usually they are made so that the game can be played in both PAL and NTSC version, so they are mostly for PSX games. They are also called WAREZ group. WAREZ title also goes to all other cracking groups too.

A great example of them are: Paradox, CrunchyRoll, TRSI

Here is an example of a great demoscene I enjoyed long before I knew Multiplication at third year of elementary. I used to have it in my cousin's old Win98 IBM computer.

http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx144/deadlydreamerx/89gt0qt8.gif (http://www.chemical-reaction.org/download/neo-core10k.cracktro.zip)

DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK. I am not responsible for any damage +There is no crack, so enjoy the cracktro.


Other Demoscene:

Some demoscene can be widely differentiated in the type of music they make.

Chiptune music, usually they are 8Bit music which was common trends of old crackers and other electronic music fanatics, they used to get music from PCs like Amiga, Apple, Commodore 64, NES and old Atari.

Other wise, they are just like Trance, Rave, Underground and Techno. Part of the electronic music-type family.

So to see an example of an 8Bit music, you can enjoy for now.

CLICK ME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YCybnABiCo&feature=related)

Comments? Chat? Stuff? More Questions? Criticize? Like this info? Rep me man!!! :P

[Centrist]

Uh huh. So in a nutshell, you use programming to make music?

Dumb it down a bit, plox.

[Magus]

Uh huh. So in a nutshell, you use programming to make music?

Dumb it down a bit, plox.

Not neccessarily. You use certain file format to make it very small to fit, and only programs can read those small sized file.

A 2Mb 128 KB can be 10 KB without too much loss of quality.

I love this form of music, and the one you are making is not too far from this genera.

I listen to Metal, yes. But I listen to Techno and its sub-genres as well.

[Centrist]

I would imagine that viruses and the like would be much easier to hide aswell. O-o

[Magus]

I would imagine that viruses and the like would be much easier to hide aswell. O-o

Viruses is a rare case. I am sure what ever they got is clean in it.

As they don't want to damage the computer, they want other to appreciate the art.

Keyword here is "Art" and not "Virus"

It can be, but a slight chance if you trust the team.

Roy/Sac is one of the most trusted demoscener.

I love Chemical Reation's Team, one the coolest demosceners I have seen. Though, they are new, but they span beyond 10 years and more back.

Also, Viruses are nothing but set of codes that perform specific task to harm you computer by removing, editing important libraries and exectives and other files.

If a scene if visual is always an exe. If a virus, it can be easily recognized.

Can you believe it? If you search "Demoscene and Viruses" you will see something nice on google.

Why? Because Virus is not a major thing in demoscening.

[Centrist]

But still. I'd rather keep to my own type of music, and let them do theirs. :p

Though I am glad you like it, there will be plenty more to come.

[Hatsune Miku]

I don't understand. So what it does is just make the file smaller? So like if I had a 1GB movie file I could make it smaller?

[Magus]

I don't understand. So what it does is just make the file smaller? So like if I had a 1GB movie file I could make it smaller?

No, only music of small levels. There many file format for music as you know, for instance ACC have almost the same quility as mp3 yet it quite smaller.

As these type of music isn't recorded in a studio, they are not wind nor string instruments. They are digital music made by synthesizer and what not.

This can be small as you want, but they are not as you see in the Rave clubs, no. Their quality nears of that Old NES, GB and etc.

See the second link. You will understand. And so, they are already small, just to make it small, nothing else.