Todays lesson in Scene Demos - exercise your gfx cards

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Anyone interested in some visual stimulation as a break from the gaming?

Don't worry, your graphics card will still get a work out and you'll still get square eyes but you might actually see something you've not seen before...

Here's the bank holiday treats: http://awards.scene.org/awards.php

If you like what's on that page I'd recommend grabbing everything from

Breakpoint 07
Assembly 07
Blockparty 07
The Gathering 07
Evoke 07
+ the same from 2008. For starters. If you're new to this, be prepared for a lot of crap amoungst the gems. And that there may be graphical issues :)

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Anyone else remember Jesus on Es ?
 
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Hi,

Nice post. I found scene.org a few years ago and pop on every now and again to check out the latest masterpieces and check out the assembly winners every year. I must admit i havent been as impressed with the full on scene demos lately as a couple of years back but what has been impressing me more and more is the 64k Demos some of them are totally unbeliveable with what can be achieved in a 64k download :eek:

Check out fr-041: debris and be prepare to be amazed! 64K People!!!

Cheers,
Hugest
 
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I know, some of the small file stuff is ridiculous. And oh my goodness, didn't actually notice Debris was a small one. Unbelievable.
 
Visually impressive stuff. But IMHO its not the same as it was when the Amiga/ST/A1200/Falcon030 scene was in its prime.

There's just something about squeezing the last ounce of performance from constantly ageing hardware that impresses me :)
 
Oh nice! Always thought about going to one of those, didn't have any friends that were into it enough to go too though.

Had a good time?
 
Doesn't appeal to me since the advent of 3D accelerators - it's more an art competition than a coding one now. Give me the early nineties and the heady days of Future Crew any day.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Doesn't appeal to me since the advent of 3D accelerators - it's more an art competition than a coding one now. Give me the early nineties and the heady days of Future Crew any day.
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I'll second that. To me thats what made the demo scene.

Getting hardware to do things it wasn't designed to do :D
 
Vertigo1 said:
Doesn't appeal to me since the advent of 3D accelerators
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Really? Maybe I'm the type of person to be into the art more than you, but surely there's enough coding prowess by the top groups to be interested by?

Sure if we were still constrained by 880k floppys and no 3D cards then perhaps the scene would be different, but I don't personally think the hardware defines it that much.

@Mint_Sauce : remember Nexus7 on the Amiga? Same Andromeda group in the first site link :)
 
just watched the asenses_and-angelic_forum from the breakpoint one, and I don;t get whats impressive, looks about the same as oblivion at best :confused:
 
Tefal said:
just watched the asenses_and-angelic_forum from the breakpoint one, and I don;t get whats impressive, looks about the same as oblivion at best :confused:
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Not keen on that kind either. Pretty lifeless, the lighting on the face at the end is nice though.

'Jesus on Cheese' I'd like to see that censored version ;) what was the sample? 'Gimme a white wine!' :D
 
Some of them demos even bring my Quad 3GHz and 8800GT to below 40fps! (1920x1200 FSAA enabled) impressive stuff for such small file sizes especially with full length stereo high quality audio tracks!

I used FRAPS on many of them and made screenshots to use as wallpaper too
 
Damn the Amiga demos bring back some memories, Spaceballs, Scoopex, etc...

I'll try out these new ones, do they still have a 64k category?
 
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