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Exactly 30 years ago, a huge demoparty took place for the first time in Aars, Denmark:
The Party!

And... it became legendary in the #demoscene history. (thread)

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The Party was organized by local demo groups: Anarchy, Crystal and The Silents. It was a 99% Amiga party and all major Amiga groups turned up.

During 3 days 1200 sceners gathered (1000 were expected). Most came with their computer & CRT screens!

demozoo.org/parties/59/

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As you can guess, there was a lot of demos released, and while there was an incredible amount of release each year back then, 3 demos are landmarks in the whole #demoscene.

If you were an Amiga user, you know at least two of them...

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Hoy he cumplido dos semanas trabajando en mi próximo proyecto: una auditoría independiente de las «apps» que desarrollan los organismos públicos de España.

✅ Ya he catalogado 1.425 «apps»
✅ De 285 organismos públicos
✅ Y descargado 238.359 comentarios de usuarios Mosaico con más de 800 logos de «apps»
Estos días estoy programando el informe para presentar públicamente todos estos datos y mi análisis.

Uno de mis intereses es que el resultado sea totalmente dinámico, de forma que no sea preciso reescribir el informe cuando aparezcan nuevas «apps». Que esté siempre actualizado.
¿Con una API REST y GraphQL? ¿Mediante funciones lambda en algún PaaS? En la profesión tecnológica es habitual encontrarse con una complejidad artificial. Pero una de las ideas esenciales de la ingeniería es justamente la economía de los esfuerzos: hacer más con menos.
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🪦RIP Google (1999—2021)

Comencé a usar Google en 1999. Era un soplo de aire fresco. En abril he abandonado Google y me he pasado a duckduckgo.com. Es un soplo de aire fresco.

Me explico 👇.
Soy de la opinión de que esto de la tecnología ha de maridarse con unos valores humanistas. De que las máquinas lo mismo nos liberan que nos hacen a todos esclavos.

Y mi acervo informático surte de los 8 bit, la #demoscene y el activismo hacker: Ritchie, Stallman, Torvalds…
Una tarde, en un laboratorio de la universidad, un amigo me vio usando no sé si Yahoo! o Altavista u otra cosa. Se acercó y me recomendó probar un buscador nuevo, poco conocido, pero que funcionaba muy bien.

Fue la primera vez que oí eso de «Google».
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Someone just asked me "Why do people participate in the #demoscene? Why should I?"
I don't consider myself particularly qualified to answer (there are demosceners who have written masters' theses on the subject, and even one PhD) but I gave some advice, which I'll summarize here:
Some demo competitions have money prizes, but that's not why people compete. They used to do it for bragging rights, but these days it can be for the thrill of having fun making something creative, and sharing it with the community.
Or, the thrill of discovering new ways to achieve things. For example, the work in the last 15 years regarding procedural generation of textures, models, and especially instruments. Also in the last 15 years, compression (for both oldskool and modern platforms).
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Cet après-midi et pour 4 jours se tient l'édition 2021 de la Revision, une des plus grande demoparty au monde.

Thread pour suivre et profiter de cet événement annuel assez hors du commun. ⤵️
#demoscene
Cette année, comme en 2020, la Revision se tient uniquement en ligne.

Le thème est "Together".

Je vous conseille de commencer par regarder l'invitation, une œuvre collective que j'adore :
Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur les demoparties et la #demoscene en général, vous pouvez regarder le reportage que j'avais fait en 2008 pour Nolife. Il date un peu mais vous y trouverez un bon résumé de ce qu'est la demoscene :)

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Second Reality by Future Crew was released 25 years ago. At Assembly 1993.
Here's probably the best video capture of this seminal PC demo. Capture by Trixter/Hornet (aka @MobyGamer)
Members of the Future Crew demo group ended up working with companies such as Remedy (Max Payne), Futuremark (3DMark), PopCap (Bejeweled), AMD, Unity etc.
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Breaking news !!!
Now custom chipset tested with sample asset & loader...
#fpga #2D #demoscene #oldschool
Still bug decoded in comments... Image
- Image not stable... Was stable before. WTF.
- DDR clock to verify (pixel and not bus ?!)
- Priority of 2D over CPU...
Time to sleep... near 3 AM. Science says that brain will start to eat itself if no sleep...
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