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It would be nice if you could create a webpage with a bit of JS with controls for choosing the font parameters, and the right font coming up on the browser window, perhaps with a nice zoom factor.
Cool that people still keep such stuff! I was part of the demoscene way back in the late 80s-early 90s, and I just clicked randomly on some of these fonts and one of them looked familiar. However I couldn’t tell if it was one that my friend (in our demo group that I’ve long since lost touch with) had made or if I saw it in someone else’s demo... this was not a time where we concerned ourselves with archiving our work…
Most demoscene artifacts worth archiving are of course the demos itself, and most of them are published at parties. And pretty much every party of any relevance, including many small ones, pushed their releases on ftp.scene.org.
Furthermore there's the "got papers?" project that archives stuff like flyers around demoscene (and related scenes) events: https://gotpapers.scene.org/
After seeing a few of the sites go down it seemed like a good idea to put it under source control. I don't claim rights to any of these works.
> I don't claim rights to any of these works. That’s not how copyright works.
This is such a cool passion project, thanks for sharing your collection with us. Will bookmark this one for sure. It's great to see remnants of the demoscene pop up like this from time to time. I'm sure there are many of us relative old-timers here that got their first taste of graphics programming thanks to those demoscene BBS tuts from back in the day (Denthor of Asphyxia anyone?). Just the other day I was reminisc…
> remnants It's alive and kicking! ps. did you know that Denthor is also South African? I wonder where the .za scene went after the nineties
My bad! I am ashamedly completely out of touch.
> ps. did you know that Denthor is also South African?
Yeah, his tuts were introduced to me by a friend of a friend of his. Or something like that. Durban lad if I'm not mistaken. Never met him though.
> I wonder where the .za scene went after the nineties
Your guess is most definitely better than mine! ^_^
After seeing a few of the sites go down it seemed like a good idea to put it under source control. I don't claim rights to any of these works.
is there a good online collection of demoscene videos?
I was surprised to see the middle finger gesture a common symbol in the fonts, why is that? I’m assuming it has something to do with demoscene culture?
This is such a cool passion project, thanks for sharing your collection with us. Will bookmark this one for sure. It's great to see remnants of the demoscene pop up like this from time to time. I'm sure there are many of us relative old-timers here that got their first taste of graphics programming thanks to those demoscene BBS tuts from back in the day (Denthor of Asphyxia anyone?). Just the other day I was reminisc…
mov ax, 13h int 10h The two most important lines of asm for any teen trying to emulate their demoscene heroes.
I really want to let my kids (7 / 11) have a simple programming environment where they can get stuff done quickly. They have struggled a little with Python so far (it always comes down to needing complex libraries to do what they want e.g. write simple games.) Anyone have suggestions for an alternative language to let them be fairly self-starting?
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> I don't claim rights to any of these works. That’s not how copyright works.
Some demoscene hacker filing a copyright claim against this would be incredibly lame though.
