"minidemo" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: minidemos [plural]
Etymology: From mini- + demo. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mini|demo}} mini- + demo Head templates: {{en-noun}} minidemo (plural minidemos)
  1. (demoscene) A short and simple demo. Categories (topical): Demoscene

Inflected forms

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