effect

en-noun

effect (countable and uncountable, plural effects)

Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.

der

The effect of flying was most convincing.

The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.

2018, Jimmy Maher, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga, page 186:

(cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")


plasma

en-noun

plasma (countable and uncountable, plural plasmas or plasmata)

From Late Latin plasma (“mold”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”).

der

human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity

Has anyone here written a plasma demo in C/C++ who would be willing to explain to me exactly how it works?

1999, Rage Matrix, “Coding plasma demos....HELP!”, in comp.programming (Usenet):

However, it displayed some unique copper magic routines and plasma effects.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 126:

This creates the classic 'plasma' effect seen in many demoscene videos.

Jonathan Weinel, Explosions in the Mind (page 139)

(computer graphics, demoscene) A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.


demo

→ Portuguese: demo

Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!

1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you.

1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

Though the idea of procedural textures has been around for years, they have primarily been exploited by the demo scene, made famous by impressive demos like kkrieger, and haven't hit it big in the game industry yet[…]

A very successful PC demo from 1993, Second Reality from Future Crew[…]

2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

(computing, demoscene, informal) A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.


intro

Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro.

1999, brainpower / digital artists, “Win32 demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

Games, demos, intros. They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

(demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.


bob

The bob list determines the drawing priority […]

1986, Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2:

IMHO, youd ^([sic]) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.

1995, John Girvin, “Blitting bobs”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):

Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code

2002, demoeffects, “Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.”, in fm.announce (Usenet):

(computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.


prod

en-noun

prod (countable and uncountable, plural prods)

Check our BBS for the latest prods.

(demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.


lamer

Phil and his counterparts in Asia and the US are deployed to infiltrate pirate groups; to study IRC; to get under the skin of the lamers, the dabblers, and the professionals; to chat, seduce, charm, and interact with the denizens of this bizarre over-underworld.

1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Other accounts mention that the lamers are constantly asking for advice on coding routines.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, editors, History of Nordic Computing 2 […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 298:

(slang, derogatory, demoscene, gaming, warez, dated) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence.

peelo

a person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence


skene

skene (nominative singular)
skenet (nominative plural)
skene (accusative nominative singular)
skenet (accusative nominative plural)
skenen (accusative genitive singular)
skenet (accusative genitive plural)
skenen (genitive singular)
skenejen (genitive plural)
skenein (genitive plural rare)
skeneä (partitive singular)
skenejä (partitive plural)
skenessä (inessive singular)
skeneissä (inessive plural)
skenestä (elative singular)
skeneistä (elative plural)
skeneen (illative singular)
skeneihin (illative plural)
skenellä (adessive singular)
skeneillä (adessive plural)
skeneltä (ablative singular)
skeneiltä (ablative plural)
skenelle (allative singular)
skeneille (allative plural)
skenenä (essive singular)
skeneinä (essive plural)
skeneksi (singular translative)
skeneiksi (plural translative)
skenettä (abessive singular)
skeneittä (abessive plural)
skenein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
skeneni (nominative singular)
skeneni (nominative plural)
skeneni (accusative nominative singular)
skeneni (accusative nominative plural)
skeneni (accusative genitive singular)
skeneni (accusative genitive plural)
skeneni (genitive singular)
skenejeni (genitive plural)
skeneini (genitive plural rare)
skeneäni (partitive singular)
skenejäni (partitive plural)
skenessäni (inessive singular)
skeneissäni (inessive plural)
skenestäni (elative singular)
skeneistäni (elative plural)
skeneeni (illative singular)
skeneihini (illative plural)
skenelläni (adessive singular)
skeneilläni (adessive plural)
skeneltäni (ablative singular)
skeneiltäni (ablative plural)
skenelleni (allative singular)
skeneilleni (allative plural)
skenenäni (essive singular)
skeneinäni (essive plural)
skenekseni (singular translative)
skeneikseni (plural translative)
skenettäni (abessive singular)
skeneittäni (abessive plural)
skeneineni (comitative plural)
skenesi (nominative singular)
skenesi (nominative plural)
skenesi (accusative nominative singular)
skenesi (accusative nominative plural)
skenesi (accusative genitive singular)
skenesi (accusative genitive plural)
skenesi (genitive singular)
skenejesi (genitive plural)
skeneisi (genitive plural rare)
skeneäsi (partitive singular)
skenejäsi (partitive plural)
skenessäsi (inessive singular)
skeneissäsi (inessive plural)
skenestäsi (elative singular)
skeneistäsi (elative plural)
skeneesi (illative singular)
skeneihisi (illative plural)
skenelläsi (adessive singular)
skeneilläsi (adessive plural)
skeneltäsi (ablative singular)
skeneiltäsi (ablative plural)
skenellesi (allative singular)
skeneillesi (allative plural)
skenenäsi (essive singular)
skeneinäsi (essive plural)
skeneksesi (singular translative)
skeneiksesi (plural translative)
skenettäsi (abessive singular)
skeneittäsi (abessive plural)
skeneinesi (comitative plural)
skenemme (nominative singular)
skenemme (nominative plural)
skenemme (accusative nominative singular)
skenemme (accusative nominative plural)
skenemme (accusative genitive singular)
skenemme (accusative genitive plural)
skenemme (genitive singular)
skenejemme (genitive plural)
skeneimme (genitive plural rare)
skeneämme (partitive singular)
skenejämme (partitive plural)
skenessämme (inessive singular)
skeneissämme (inessive plural)
skenestämme (elative singular)
skeneistämme (elative plural)
skeneemme (illative singular)
skeneihimme (illative plural)
skenellämme (adessive singular)
skeneillämme (adessive plural)
skeneltämme (ablative singular)
skeneiltämme (ablative plural)
skenellemme (allative singular)
skeneillemme (allative plural)
skenenämme (essive singular)
skeneinämme (essive plural)
skeneksemme (singular translative)
skeneiksemme (plural translative)
skenettämme (abessive singular)
skeneittämme (abessive plural)
skeneinemme (comitative plural)
skenenne (nominative singular)
skenenne (nominative plural)
skenenne (accusative nominative singular)
skenenne (accusative nominative plural)
skenenne (accusative genitive singular)
skenenne (accusative genitive plural)
skenenne (genitive singular)
skenejenne (genitive plural)
skeneinne (genitive plural rare)
skeneänne (partitive singular)
skenejänne (partitive plural)
skenessänne (inessive singular)
skeneissänne (inessive plural)
skenestänne (elative singular)
skeneistänne (elative plural)
skeneenne (illative singular)
skeneihinne (illative plural)
skenellänne (adessive singular)
skeneillänne (adessive plural)
skeneltänne (ablative singular)
skeneiltänne (ablative plural)
skenellenne (allative singular)
skeneillenne (allative plural)
skenenänne (essive singular)
skeneinänne (essive plural)
skeneksenne (singular translative)
skeneiksenne (plural translative)
skenettänne (abessive singular)
skeneittänne (abessive plural)
skeneinenne (comitative plural)
skenensä (nominative singular)
skenensä (nominative plural)
skenensä (accusative nominative singular)
skenensä (accusative nominative plural)
skenensä (accusative genitive singular)
skenensä (accusative genitive plural)
skenensä (genitive singular)
skenejensä (genitive plural)
skeneinsä (genitive plural rare)
skeneään (partitive singular)
skeneänsä (partitive singular)
skenejään (partitive plural)
skenejänsä (partitive plural)
skenessään (inessive singular)
skenessänsä (inessive singular)
skeneissään (inessive plural)
skeneissänsä (inessive plural)
skenestään (elative singular)
skenestänsä (elative singular)
skeneistään (elative plural)
skeneistänsä (elative plural)
skeneensä (illative singular)
skeneihinsä (illative plural)
skenellään (adessive singular)
skenellänsä (adessive singular)
skeneillään (adessive plural)
skeneillänsä (adessive plural)
skeneltään (ablative singular)
skeneltänsä (ablative singular)
skeneiltään (ablative plural)
skeneiltänsä (ablative plural)
skenelleen (allative singular)
skenellensä (allative singular)
skeneilleen (allative plural)
skeneillensä (allative plural)
skenenään (essive singular)
skenenänsä (essive singular)
skeneinään (essive plural)
skeneinänsä (essive plural)
skenekseen (singular translative)
skeneksensä (singular translative)
skeneikseen (plural translative)
skeneiksensä (plural translative)
skenettään (abessive singular)
skenettänsä (abessive singular)
skeneittään (abessive plural)
skeneittänsä (abessive plural)
skeneineen (comitative plural)
skeneinensä (comitative plural)

Semi-adapted borrowing from English scene. Ultimately from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).


dentro

Vote for any demo released during the last six months before the release of the next issue of Yahoo (7.6.1994 - 7.1.1995). All non-party dentros and dentros competed ^([sic]) in a demo competition at a party belong to this category.

1995, Antti Piirainen, “Yah #4 vote sheet”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

And if we leave the conspiracy theory for a moment, it was a long time since I saw a TBL demo/dentro/intro, or have I missed something?

1999, Cruxis, “scary rumour about win2k (billy selling your cpu?)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

I left the amiga group Plague and joined LSD about 1992, i released a dentro under their name (Anyone know how i can find it again, i think it was simply called LSD dentro)...

2001, Matrix, “Looking for certain demo/intro i released under LSD & DCS.”, in alt.emulators.amiga (Usenet):

(demoscene, rare) A production that is classified somewhere between a demo and an intro.


greets

greets to […]

I was just considering the term 'lamer' (because of all these ROM D00DZ who I think of as 'emulamers') and I was wondering: is 'lamer' a term that is unique to the C64 scene? I haven't seen in used it other circles, but it sure used to crop up a hell of a lot in demos, cracktro greets, etc.

1998, andreww, “C64 slang”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet):

At this time, I do not really think it was hypocrisis^([sic]) to write "no greets to", or "fucking greets goes to"... The immediate effect was to release some other demoes^([sic]), proving you're not lame, and that you can beat your "fucker" :)

1999, Mickael Pointier, “Oldskool”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) Greetings sent to other demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo.


chiptune

From chip + tune, referring to a computer's sound chip; see chip (“electronic circuit”). Initially in the meaning of modules, as an antonym to 'real' chip music, then generalized/recontextualized.

(music) A style of music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips, but ignores certain hardware or software limitations inherent to them; especially (demoscene) a tracker module simulating the sound of early 8-bit computers.


swapper

(computing, demoscene, warez) A group member responsible for acquiring and distributing new software releases.


demoscene

Demoscene is an extremely arcane subculture characterized by endlessly clashing perspectives, trends, and technological innovations.

2005, Chris Gehman, Steve Reinke, The sharpest point: animation at the end of cinema:

Casual computer users could not create these texts; in fact, the driving force behind most of the hacker teams in the demoscene was the prospect of creating a demo that exceeded the abilities of all other hackers...

2006, Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays:

The demoscene is chiefly a European community that originates from the mid-1980s and continues to exist even today.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, History of Nordic Computing 2:

(computing) The informal computer art subculture that produces and watches demos (audiovisual computer programs).


demogroup

Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command.

(demoscene) A named group of affiliated people involved in the demoscene.


demoparty

They were the organizers of the first Russian demoparty, Enlight '96 in St. Petersburg, but unfortunately there weren't any quality releases.

Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193:

In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games:

(demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.


demoscener

Although some artists still preferred the low-level composing techniques which offered more flexibility and efficiency, such as the game composer Rob Hubbard and the demoscener Laxity, Soundmonitor proved to be an important step...

2008, Karen Collins, From Pac-Man to pop music: interactive audio in games and new media:

The other 8-bit computers of the era such as MSX and Amstrad CPC sold well in certain countries but did not attract the early demosceners in great numbers, presumably due to their lesser popularity and a weaker pirate scene.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, History of Nordic Computing 2, page 290:


scrolly

In a distant land far far away, in an ancient time when the trees still talked, people were in awe over a sine scrolly that bumped before and after a few pillars.

1999, Ignace Saenen, “Demoscene life/death... [Was: Hi to all demofreaks!]”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) A scrolling message, especially one used in a demo to convey news, commentary, greetings, etc.


scroller

In fact there were already such scrollers before but as the creators told it in the scroller, they wrote this routine two years before releasing the demo […]

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 65:

(demoscene) Synonym of scrolly (“scrolling message”).


fuckings

Sorry, daa, me thinks crackintros, the ones with 7 rows high ascii scrollers (my friend did 60fps scroller with 286/12 for dos screen like that.. ruled amongst pc guys in 91, when we amiga thugs had something fancier already...:)) shouting "we karcked^([sic]) this and that game, fuckings to x11, seppox.."

1999, Jarno Kilpia, “"Demo"”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Greetz to Dixan (my elite friend), fuckings to the others

1999, Simone Ghiaroni, “boserve, megasys, macno?, not, sunny girl, ez, surfing e flames vari”, in it.comp.demos (Usenet):

...fuckings to Lord Helmet of Spaceballs...

2008, Ara, “[OT] LOL groupwarz”, in it-alt.arti.demoscene (Usenet):

(demoscene) Public abuse directed at rival demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo; the negative equivalent of greets.


rotozoomer

I thought about writing a 4ktro for the TI-83 once, but really the only effects you could do would be rotozoomers, wire vectors, and scrollers.

1997, h75h70, “ZShell anyone?”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet):

Hi all: I have written a rotozoomer that has an average frame rate of about 200fps on a Pentium 90 when writing directly to vram.

1997, Adam Levar, “RotoZoomer frame rates”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene, computer graphics) An animated visual effect in which a bitmap is scaled and rotated.


graphician

From graphic + -ian, probably by analogy with musician.

I have a demogroup called Kontio and we need a graphician, who can make 2D and 3D. Our website is not yet online, but it will be someday. Contact me, if you are interested!!

2000, Teemu Lahti, “We need a graphician”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Darkage is desperatly ^([sic]) searching for a graphician!

1998, Lars Sobiraj, “graphician wanted!”, in alt.amiga.demos (Usenet):

(computing, nonstandard, chiefly demoscene) A designer of graphics for computer software.


preselection

en-noun

preselection (countable and uncountable, plural preselections)

preselections (plural)
pre-selection (alternative)

In compos which are potentially crammed like the music compos, preselection is a necessary evil. [...] 15-16 songs [...] are thus chosen to be played to the audience.

Every entry will be released [...], unless it was preselected/disqualified, or the competition was canceled.

2012, Demodays demoparty, General Rules (All Compos):

(demoscene) The process of a jury selecting entries to be shown in a competition when there are too many entries for the audience or schedule. The term preselection is often used with the opposite meaning in demoscene context, i.e. selecting entries not to be shown.


cracktro

When browsing the HVSC, I often encounter some songs which I never heard the name of, but which I know from those famous cracktros from Ikari, Hotline etc.

2002, Blackspawn, “Favourite cracktro tunes”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

(demoscene) An intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.


invitro

This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you. […] And keep an eye out for the DA official party invitro, to be released in a month or two's time.

1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

since when should all invitations be executables? :P
anyway, the sf2k invitro should be looked at as a demo, just like the VIP2 invitro, for instance

2001, Egbert Teeselink, “Ready to use Demosystem libraries (was: Re: DemoGL v1.3 Final released)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) An intro that provides details of a forthcoming demoparty to which viewers are invited.


votesheet

If you have already voted in other diskmags (like Parrot or Imphobia), we will ofcourse^([sic]) accept those votesheets.

1995, root, “VOTE for DASKMIG”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Now, when I check my votesheet, I can see that all the votes have been saved, so I don't find this system stupid at all...

2003, Euphoric, “Minigame voting deadline is today !!!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet):

(chiefly demoscene) A form to be filled in by voters to indicate their preference among various choices in various categories.


megademo

I asked him to look at an Amiga "megademo" I was working on at the time. When he later saw the demo, he was so impressed he hired me on the spot […]

2003, Ernest Adams, Break into the game industry: how to get a job making video games:

Twenty years after the release of the Atari ST, the atari^([sic]) demoscene proudly announces the release of the '20 years' megademo.

2005, Kevin Savetz, “ST>Atari ST 20 years megademo released”, in comp.sys.atari.announce (Usenet):

(demoscene) A large, long-running demo (audiovisual presentation), sometimes one that multiloads.


demomaker

There are not so much programmers as demomakers now.

1998, Vit Hotarek, “Is anyone actually programming?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

The second problem is how to make an own^([sic]) font-set and make it work on the demomaker.

1992, SHARIF NASAR, “Demomaker - do someone^([sic]) have an info file or something ?”, in alt.sources.amiga (Usenet):

(demoscene) A multimedia authoring program used to create demos.


musicdisk

From music + disk; they were originally distributed on floppy disk.

ok that's it for this week. Next week I'll get more and better designed musicdisks than this week. If you have a remark or suggestion for this list, don't hesitate but mail me directly.

1993, Frans Bouma, “Demolist 3/5 - 7/5”, in bit.listserv.i-amiga (Usenet):

The NoName musicdisk, arranged by five musicians — Oxbow, Vegard, Laxical and Daddy Freddy — was the first chiptune musicdisk ever.

(demoscene) A collection of music tracks composed on a computer and packaged with custom-written player software.


metaball

Metaballs often have properties that define the way two metaballs will interact upon an encounter.

2002, Lynn Pocock, Judson Rosebush, The computer animator's technical handbook, page 24:

(computer graphics, demoscene) An n-dimensional object with an organic appearance, characterised by the ability to meld into others when in close proximity.


namevoting

there is always namevoting at a party. just dont enter a compo if you don't like that.

1999, eggbird, “However..”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

how bad is the rest of the releases from evoke2000 democompo, because the haujobb demo was the overall winner! or is this again a true example of namevoting? How could such a demo win a democompo?

2000, Frans Bouma, “Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) Voting for an entry in a demoscene competition because of its author or demogroup rather than its actual merits.


copyparty

Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193:

DreamHack began in 1994, in the basement of a nearby elementary school, as a small, local subvariant of what was then called a ‘‘copyparty’’ — pre-broadband occasions to share software or demonstrate flashy off-label uses of early home computers.

2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in New York Times:

In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games:

(demoscene) An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty.


trackmo

(demoscene) A demo that is loaded directly from the physical tracks of a floppy disk instead of loading through the file system.

(demoscene) A demo whose visual effects follow a set timeline synchronized with a continuous soundtrack, much like a music video.


scrolltext

scrolltext (countable and uncountable, plural scrolltexts)

His music is as mainstream as it could ever be (listen to Bruno - now that's a musician!) and his poor ego really shone through in the scrolltexts in "crystal sym.".

1992, Mats Anders Knip, “Phenomena egos??”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

For scrolltexts, real classic to start with is "Why didn't you greet us then?", which you can always follow up with "Are you lot too good to be seen greeting us?".

1994, PB_email, “PB Online <106>”, in alt.cyberpunk.movement (Usenet):

There were *many* C=64 demos in which one could control the speed of the scrolltext using the joystick, which I think is a great feature, especially if the author of the scrolltext had nothing to say.

2001, Tijs van Bakel, “Interactivity in demos (Was: Next generation Demosystems)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) Text displayed in an animated scrolling message, common in early demos.


eurodemo

There are THOUSANDS of Eurodemos out there, from various groups, spanning several years.

1993, Clayton Donley, “3DO or Jaguar”, in rec.games.video.misc (Usenet):

i think you noncoders have got the wrong idea about eurodemos. most eurodemos are, i think, coded by coders to impress other coders. that is, while a noncoder just thinks a routine looks like shit a coder will be impressed if he haven't^([sic]) got a clue of how to make one like it himself.

1993, Joakim Grundwall, “A1200 specific demos”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

Maybe someone else can help with this part. Maybe there are some converters on some PC eurodemo sites, since they tend to go into weird low color modes for some demos.

1995, Shadow Weaver, “Newbie Question”, in comp.graphics.raytracing (Usenet):


shadebob

From shade + bob. See bob (“blitter object, type of hardware sprite”).

If I made a shadebob routine, which ran 60Hz on PentiumIII 550Mhz on 320x200x8bit mode, would you be impressed?

1999, JT Liimatta, “The Party compo rules.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Even on older hardware, the dithering is perfect. The effect is convincing. You can press your face up against the screen and see no edges, you can see wonderful curves and strange shapes out of shadebobs that are probably unintentional.

2007, milkfilk@gmail.com, “Why are shadebobs and 2d alpha blends so convincing?”, in comp.graphics.api.opengl (Usenet):

(demoscene, computer graphics) A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed again by decrementing the colour value at each pixel.


VU meter

The ECC Syncro Demo is a demonstration of text scrolling in the GS border area, as well as having VU meters in the border area. Similar to FTA's X-mas demo.

1991, Kenrick J. Mock, “demos on tybalt?”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet):

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any source code that showed how to read the values to construct a VU meter from a tracker replay routine.

1991, Cybernetworx, “VU meters”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):

(computing, chiefly demoscene) Any animated graphical representation of the volume of sound or music (often subdivided across channels).


greetz

From greets + -z.
Phonetic spelling of greets.

OK, greetz to all the real amateur radio ops and enthusiasts out there.

2000, MattD.., “Greetz! And Mark, where are ya?”, in uk.radio.amateur (Usenet):

2003, [sis], “Greetz from Poland ;)”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet):

(often demoscene) Greetings; Alternative form of greets.


Blend of 4k and intro. See k (“kilobyte”).

Win a price^([sic]) in the 4ktro compo! Win a price in the grafix compo! Win a price in the music compo! Join the Autumn Event in South Germany!

1996, Hagen Deike, “InterCon LAST CHANCE”, in fido.ger.ibm (Usenet):

I thought about writing a 4ktro for the TI-83 once, but really the only effects you could do would be rotozoomers, wire vectors, and scrollers.

1997, h75h70, “ZShell anyone?”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet):

(demoscene) An intro that can be stored in four kilobytes of memory (intended to challenge the programmer, who must write compact and efficient code to achieve this).


demomaking

1998, SwooN, “free unlimited webspace for coding/demomaking sites”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):

Demomaking was not only about discovering new tricks and effects any more, but also pushing existing ones to the machines^([sic]) limit.

2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene, volume 1, page 66:


copperbar

From copper + bar, after the "copper" (coprocessor) component of the Commodore Amiga chipset.

There a^([sic]) quite a lot of effects you can get with horz.retraces, eg a textmode copperbar (change color #0 with every scanline)

1996, WolfMan^iNSaNiTY, “Which scanline???”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Although most cards still support screen-tweaking, you can just forget about copperbars (writing within horizontal retrace fuks up the screen BADLY) and other effex. Same goes for changing the font.

1998, Paul-Jan Pauptit, “Raster trix are a problem nowadays.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

There was also the (really pretty famous) RSI Demomaker that let u make up your own intros/demos from a load of stock effects (bobs, starfields, copperbars, scrollers etc).. havent been able to find that tho...

2000, Lando, “looking for software”, in alt.amiga.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) An animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.


democoder

(demoscene) A computer programmer who creates demos for the demoscene.


spacecut

Also, since part of a polygon (facet) of one object might be obscured by that of another intersecting object, I would assume that the standard Z-sort alogrithms^([sic]) would not be enough. Does this mean that I would have to use Z-buffering, or tessellate (sp?) the resultant (possibly nonconvex) polygon into triangles and draw them in Z-order? If not, what is a fast way of doing spacecuts?

1993, Keith Lau, “More help needed! Spacecuts, etc ...”, in comp.graphics (Usenet):

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!

1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

(computer graphics, demoscene) An animated visual effect in which one polyhedron intersects another, forming an empty space where their volumes overlap.


minidemo

Hi all! You have available another cool minidemo (or intro, as you prefer), with the usual ASM sources.

1993, Javier Arevalo Baeza, “New intro from VangeliSTeam”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

I promise to enter next time, if you keep the compo like it is now ;-) Or... why not alternating between a minigame compo and a minidemo comp ?

2002, Fabrice Frances, “2002 MiniGame Compo - download and vote!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet):

Fairlight once made a tiny minidemo where you were able to see a lot of extremely tiny rasterbars. They did it by DMA-ing some REUmemory to always the same address i.e. $d020 (background col register) at a specific rasterline (i.e. in the border).

2000, Alex Schuetz, “REU - what software uses one?”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet):


partyplace

I just wanted to tell everyone of you who's going to ASM'94 by plane, that I *may* be able to take you from the airport to the partyplace.

1994, Torben Thellefsen, “Transport from Helsinki airport to ASM'94 partyplace!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

BUT, we understand it can be hard for you to reach the partyplace, so you can compete also if you send your contributions by email!

1998, Andrea Bovo, “SPOLETIUM 98 Amiga Party”, in comp.sys.amiga.misc (Usenet):

Incidentally, there's no internet connection at the partyplace, and using dialup through a mobile phone at international rates probably isn't much fun, hence the lack of live updates.

2004, Matthew Westcott, “Forever 5 - are you there? participating?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(demoscene) The venue where a demoparty is held.


namevoter

how bad is the rest of the releases from evoke2000 democompo, because the haujobb demo was the overall winner! or is this again a true example of namevoting? How could such a demo win a democompo?

2000, Frans Bouma, “Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) One who votes for an entry in a demoscene competition on the basis of its author or demogroup, rather than the actual merits of the work.


doskpop

From dosk - onomatopoeic of the punchy sound of drums and bass lines + pop. It was later interpreted as a backronym from Swedish disco och synth-kombinerad pop (disco and synth combined pop). https://web.archive.org/web/20181207142300/http://www.spacesynth.net/Interview/GustafGrefberg

look for the doskpop collection, it's a chiptune doskpop collection with tracks by Lizardking (naturally) and others. Look on aminet, it's there somewhere, probably named "doskpop" something or other.. (try looking in /pub/aminet/mods/INDEX).

1995, Andrew Fort, “Chiptunes...”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

No, I still like doskpop lots, don't get me wrong. :) I'm just saying that I think perhaps there's too many synth-pop wannabees who are getting highly rated.

1996, S M Carless, “DemoNews 124”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

The studio-oriented music would typically sound like jazz funk or techno, a unique style of the demoscene that became known as 'doskpop'. Swedish artist Lizardking was the father of doskpop, which can be described as soft digital disco music, somewhere in between 1980s electronic disco music such as Laserdance and Vangelis.

2013, Karen Collins, From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media:

(demoscene, rare) A style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.


wedtro

There is no point in demos, they are made for fun. They don't show anything which would have a special point... unlike wedtro, xmastro, etc. 99% of demos are whole bunch of routines thrown together... some others don't and have kind of a story line, Angel IMO was one of them.

1995, Houman Ghahremanlou, “Stupid remarks !”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Hi Trixter! Long time no speak! How's life for you these days? If everything goes well, I'll have to make a wedtro too in a few months ;).

2002, JAL / Nostalgia, “Old demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) An intro created to announce and celebrate a wedding.


demostyle

Yea, it's got some good GDM's... The music is basically a cross between House, Demostyle, and Classical (don't ask). It's got some killer music in it, like Click.gdm, and Bounce.gdm (take a guess what that is :) )

1999, Luke Drelick, “ZZT”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):

download modules in the same style as your ideas [if you don't know where to get that particular style, ask in this group :), especially with danceable music like trance, house, drum'n'bass, techno, etc, and with demostyle music, there are lots of tracks with very good samples available, if you know where to find them. And we know that.], and extract the samples. that is by far the best way to get suitable samples. Archives very often contain bad or useless samples except for this very one single particular style/setup/idea/emotion/etc.

2000, eggbird, “Need sound files for tracking”, in alt.music.mods (Usenet):

(demoscene) Of a musical style popular in the demoscene, involving tracker modules usually assembled from samples played at various pitches.


demoskene

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demofreak

(demoscene slang) A demoscene enthusiast.


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BBStro

I haven't seen those BBStros, are they good?

1996 May 11, Tom Kalland, “The Gathering 1996”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

I found that little BBStro last week in cdrom.com and wondered, how it was done.

1996 June 12, Marcus May, “Dune BBS intro: how is it done ?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

does anyone know where there is a large selection of these mods? they will most probably be used in future bbstros but mostly for my own enjoyment...

1996 July 5, scoopx, “OldAmigaGameMusic”, in comp.sys.amiga.games (Usenet):

there was this guy who made this site for cracktros and bbstros, but i don't remember the url, maybe he can post it again?

2000 October 12, ritz[rvl], “Some questions”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(demoscene) An intro created to publicize a bulletin board system.


sizecode

(demoscene) Program code written as a competitive exercise in achieving impressive results in the smallest possible space.