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The demoscene is rich with creativity, talent and tales of the people who contribute to it. Veteren “scener” h0ffman tells us his story today from the origins of the scene to modern day demo parties and all that’s involved in being a part of it.
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00:00 Intro
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09:34 Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
10:23 h0ffman on Discovering the demoscene
11:33 Where did the demoscene come from?
14:47 Our first productions
21:27 Unethical methods of sharing data!
28:14 Further releases
36:40 What is a demoparty & returning to demos?
53:49 First album release
1:00:55 Making my own demos
1:11:11 Anything can be a demo platform
1:19:00 Game development
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Cheers for the namecheck Ian! Not especially deserved on my part I feel, you achieved mad stuff 🙂
He mentions he has a Twitch channel so it would be nice to include it in the show notes section.
Fantastic presentation by h0ffman! Hope to see him back at the Cave for another one in the near future.
Guinness Record for most “Uh” & “Ums” spoken. Otherwise brilliant
Great Stuff ;))))))
Extremely enjoyable! thanks for posting this up. Brings back a lot of memories from the 90s, I remember watching a lot of demos and playing a lot of mod files. Lot of messing around in Turbo Pascal to try and replicate some of the effects, and remember swapping a lot of code on fidonet and BBSes.
I had the same curiosity if I could make a demo, being a musician aswell, so I made a Javascript demo (using p5.js). But since I'm an Amigascener by heart I now found it very intriguing to make something with the Rose Engine 😀
.. got to finish my album first though. (for real xD)
Fantastic, very nostalgic, similar experience zx81->16k speccy->amiga tinkled with a sampler on the amiga in my bedroom loved it and all the demos from the scene
12:50 Do you feel it angles 😀
Utterly fascinating chat from the hoff
Great talk, like a lot of us of a certain age, we really liked the demo scene. I ran along similar lines for the first part of the talk, ZX81, Spectrum 48K, Spectrum 128K but then went Atari ST but I also bought an Amiga. Moving house in 1993 killed things for me and I didn't really carry on.
Could not find a video of the cruisin' 2 ps2 demo
You can feel the passion and it makes a ton of difference
That was a great video! How not to remember all the demos on Amiga back in the 90's! We loved them!
18:45 That's a TUNE. The Prodigy Intro. Maximum Respect.
Splendid auto-bio presentation, Ian. And a teary eye view back over a decade now (ooold) when we first crossed paths at said Revision, competed against each other in the Amiga 64k compo, had lots of cheers together and even spun the good old "Ardcore on one of those late nights, even though I couldn't manage the half-a-second delay of the PA and basically (almost literally) threw records at you to make 'em sweat. Since Revision WILL be a real thing this year again, I hope to finally crack a beer again with you!
Cheers mate
p.s. they changed the rules for the Tracked Music compo because of you hooligans. No more "demo fx on patterns" ;D
I listen to "Ghost in the Cli" at least once a wxeek
Magnificent, bravo! I love the history of our industry, and he IS living history incarnated.
This is wondeful talk, thank you.
What a top lad H0ffman is.
wicked tunes man!
I had a swapper tell me to send back their stamp because it had a clear film over it that meant you could wipe off the postage stamp and reuse it!
Even now, the early Amiga days were my favourite time in computing.
I have a similar story to the “do not use VHS as a backup” one, but minus the VHS part!
My Amiga 1200 was in storage for years along with the disks. One day I became all nostalgic and set it up. I had a small internal hard drive at this point so had some stuff, but the majority of my coding, mod music and graphics were all on disks.
I tried loading some stuff from one disk, didn’t read properly.
Tried another, same issue. And another and another and another …
Eventually I decided all the disks must be so old that they’d demagnetized or were just damaged.
So I took every disk and threw them away, heart-breaking.
It was only about a year later I discovered it was probably only the disk drive that was faulty.
I was gutted.
38:03 – See that turquoise disk box bottom centre, I had many of that exact same one!
This was so excellent, more of this type of content would be most welcome!
That PC demo was awesome. One of the things that I’ve always loved about the demo scene was the artistry of the code in tune with the music.
This is probably stated all the time, but I do not understand why this channel does not have wayyyyy more subscribers.