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Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Post by e12e »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #84
masternight wrote: post #27

Ah wow. I really enjoyed the demoscene back in the 90s. Was never a part of it but I was always fascinated by the effects and music and ascii art that these guys created. A BBS in my city always had the latest e-zines like Reality Check Network and Affinity, and others I forget. Reading up on the scene and about groups like Razor1911 was something I spent a lot of time on when I was younger. Amazing demo and homage t…

> I really enjoyed the demoscene back in the 90s. Was never a part of it but I was always fascinated by the effects and music and ascii art that these guys created. It was quite something... I take it there are quite a few hotshots on HN who used to be in the top groups. I was in a group and we were writing small intros for BBSes with a couple of friends and then we'd get infinite leech/upload ratio on those BBSes. B…

> It's also insane the lack of version control: version control was copying entire directories.

I can understand that - under dos - but as I recall quite a lot of gnu/nix tooling was workable on the Amiga - RCS harks back to 1984...

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Post by Narishma »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #98
DrJokepu wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are using as a linker? Also, do you use protected mode and if yes, what do you use for that, PMODE or CWSDPMI or something else?

It's an old MS-DOS .EXE. Actually it compiles with the ".286" directive too. So I don't use protected mode. It requires a VGA card and those were more common in 386 IIRC and, anyway, performance-wise to run at 60 Hz it needs a 386. I never tried to run it on a 286 with a VGA card: don't know if that was a thing. It's funny looking at that old assembly code and see ax, bx, cx, dx registers and not the eax, etc. ones.…

VGA was pretty common on 286, I even had an SVGA card on my own back in the day. And it also had protected mode but was still 16-bit.

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Post by Narishma »

amiga386 wrote: post #91
ttoinou wrote: post #63

Anyone understand why multiple demos have voices singing now.. how do they do it ?

It has been a thing for some time. Even back in the 16-bit days: - Movement Mina Omistan (1994): https://youtu.be/Ryq8fz_XAhI - TBL Tint (1996) second part: https://youtu.be/KcSV4qAG-xk?t=459

Even on 8-bit systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Post by z303 »

rustyhancock wrote: post #64
ttoinou wrote: post #63

Anyone understand why multiple demos have voices singing now.. how do they do it ?

I wish there was more info about how they're made but I suppose part of the demo scene has always been secretive and reverse engineer it if you want to know. The first one said made with Godot and blender so is it using premade assets? (Which I thought was not allowed) Edit: #22 Heart of Glass says 144kB of WebGL + audio. I assume this means the audio is separate.

As Jare said. Lots of info around

https://github.com/psenough/teach_yourself_demoscene_in_14_d...

https://gargaj.github.io/demos-for-dummies/#intro/1

https://demobasics.pixienop.net/

https://github.com/psykon/awesome-demoscene

http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://www.lofibucket.com/articles/64k_intro.html

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Post by emchammer »

dark-star wrote: post #45
HellMood wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i second that. "Second Nature" is also my party favorite! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVxntafsXM&t=1764s

How they pulled that off on a stock A500 (okay, a stock A500 with 512kb RAM expansion, but still) is far beyond me. It's pretty awesome and really deserved the 1st place

It's a really uplifting break compared to all the other news coming out now.

Re: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

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Post by Nition »

embedding-shape wrote: post #79
vardump wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MIDI songs? I checked, I couldn't find any from the link you posted. Most were different module formats, like XM, Protracker, S3M, Impulse Tracker. Those have nothing to do with midi other than they also produce music.

At one point in time, (I think maybe in connection with some mobile phone being able to play .midi files?) MIDI songs was (incorrectly) referring to a style/type of music rather than the transport/protocol we use for sending notes between instruments/devices, or the file format. I'm still since then always assuming the above when someone says "MIDI music"; they really mean "really basic/simple music" or just straight…

I'd say 'MIDI music' became a catch-all for music that's represented as data that is in turn triggering samples, rather than being a pure audio file. Might be actual MIDI or might be tracker music etc.
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