I dabbled in the C64/Amiga demoscene back in the 80s and we released one the first Amiga demo creators back in May 1987:<p><a href="http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=73124" rel="nofollow">http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=73124</a><p>It allowed others to get started creating demos by supplying:<p>* image<p>* sampled sound<p>* scrolling text<p>Not very advanced by todays standards, but unbeknownst to me at the time, turned out to actually be used by some groups to release their first Amiga demos:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/nd74xf/celebrating_34_years_since_the_release_of_the/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/nd74xf/celebrating_3...</a>
Back in 2018 (I guess) I was trying to create a place where programmers could create audio visualizations (like winamp and windows media player) that would react to an audio (radio, mp3 playlist, youtube video...). I end up creating 5 or 6 "demoscenes" so other people would contribute. My original goal was to detach the radio project from me website. Give it it's own domain and hosting and make a platform out of it, maybe an online code editor, so people could create live (while listening to music). Well, the project is not dead yet and I'd like to continue it some day.<p><a href="https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio</a>
Ever since I had discovered shadertoy I've been searching for a consolidated source like this. I have a decent graphics background after taking a handful undergrad courses, but most of the producers on shadertoy just seem like magicians comparatively. Very excited to check this out!
Some previous discussion and notes from a few years ago:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21470398" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21470398</a>
I remember working through the Denthor tuts back in the 90s and how much that helped me get into the demoscene.<p>This modern-day equivalent is awesome (and although I haven't been through it in detail, it looks super thorough!).<p>Thanks for sharing it. It's great to see the demoscene still going strong.
Awesome! I "went" to Revision 2021! <a href="https://2021.revision-party.net/" rel="nofollow">https://2021.revision-party.net/</a><p>Been watching the scene since 1992 this will be an interesting read.
> The demoscene is an underground computer art culture<p>I've seen A LOT of posts of demoscene here on HN through the years so what does "underground" means in this context? Genuinely curious.
Here's a great tool that you can use to create your demoscene:<p><a href="https://github.com/mrdoob/frame.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mrdoob/frame.js</a>