Nothing pointless about it :-) We used to have demo parties in Israel for a
few years ('95-'98), I've been to all but one. Some of the best hours of my
life were at these parties.
Regardless the phenomenon was indeed not widespread in the US; the major
demo groups were Hornet (Jim Leonard a.k.a Trixter of Hornet later went on
to form www.oldskool.org, www.mobygames.com and www.mindcandydvd.com) and
Reinnaisance (sp? some members went on to program or do music for games).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Sierra Adventure Games
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote:
>
> > I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung together a bunch
> > of stills of a woman performing felatio, which I found more humorous
> > than erotic. Also some 8- bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even
> > bigger German demo programmer whose name escapes me . Some of their
> > sound-light programs are even now astounding. This was on-the-edge shit
> > and for the most part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding
> > boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of state
> > propaganda shit based on GI-Joe.
>
> They still have a lot of "Demo Parties" in Europe where folks get together
> and program pointless "demo" programs to show off their skills and what
> they can do with old machines.
>
> This is a phenomenon that unfortunately did not make its way over to the
> US :(
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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