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The scene photo gallery.
http://www.slengpung.com/

Portal for the underground scene, covering all areas from gaming through emulation to arts. Included is an extensive search engine, a scene portal, international news, a translator and hosted pages.
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Defacto2: The Scene News, Archives Portal  If you are into old school then today your prays have been answered. Thanks to some kind people on a classic games IRC channels we have managed to obtain a heap of new pre-1995 cracktros, nfos, text files and installers....
http://www.defacto2.net/

An introduction to world of computer demos with pictures and links to further information, albeit partly biased towards the Atari ST scene.
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Computer Demos The Story So Far  Far introduction demo scene demo parties competitions demo design links glossary Written by Petri Kuittinen Left: Interference pictures from a PC demo, Right: Scroller by TCB in Union megademo (ST) Programming Technique Art Demo Computer demos should not be confused...
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~eye/demos/

News and articles, mainly about the non-mainstream scene, from the Amiga to the Amstrad CPC. Also provides a large listing of scener's e-mails and homepages.
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Scenia your gateway to the demoscene  Quotation of the month by Phenomena (slogan Competition is none hits! thanks!...
http://scenet.de/

A site dedicated to the demoscene. At the moment it's oriented in demoscene productions, but promises to provide news, articles, interviews with demoscene people and up-to-date information about upcoming demoparties.
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scene.org news  More stuff from the future. We're still waiting for Christmas but The Real Scene After Christmas results and releases are already here discuss:0]posted by sparcusKindergarden 2000520 Nov 2005Some future sceners travelled back in time and gave us the Kindergarden 20005...
http://www.scene.org/

Multi-platform database of news, groups and productions. Register here and get your own avatar and the chance to appear in a chart table which rewards uploading and commenting others' work. Nice, cute design.
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pouet.net your online demoscene resource  Submit your account login for 1 year register here coup de coeur s.t.c.s. intro s.t.c.s blade runners more latest added prods shade rotta duck'n'cover piastro paradign kellari warbirds inapt grunge212 kone creations more latest released prods jumalauta nintendo ds chris...
http://www.pouet.net

Demoscene information source for North America.
http://naid.net

The demoscene information center, featuring news, information on people and parties, and a search engine.
http://www.ojuice.net/

Description of what demos are, some common effects, who makes demos. Available in English and French.
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Defence-Force: Demos page  This glossary is an attempt for explaining what a demo is made of. Qui fait les démos. La scène Who makes demos. The Scene Les démos sont faites par les démo-makers. Qui sont-ils, que mangent-ils, sont-ils des gens normaux comme...
http://www.defence-force.org/computing/demo/index.htm

Demos are cool. They exist to move you, just as any other art form moves you. But demos are built by programmers, artists, and composers who live and breathe technology. [Gamasutra]
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Gamasutra Features Introduction to Demos The Demo Scene 02.16.01]  But demos are built by programmers, artists, and composers who live and breathe technology. A screenshot from Lost Vegas by threestate showing a spherical harmonics effect. I’m describing a scene demo, which is not a demo of a game; it...
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010216/scheib_01.htm

Official site of dEUS, the Greek demogroup, includes a member list, history, and productions.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/9242/

Builds awareness by presenting at the SIGGRAPH and Game Developers Conferences, as well as other events.
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Demoscene Outreach Group  Demos of the year remix help needed January 8, 2003 Demos of the year remix help needed July 24, 2002 Siggraph Panel BOF events June 2, 2002 Intel Animation Showcase March 21, 2002 GDC Report January 26 SIGGRAPH 2002 Animation...
http://www.scene.org/dog/

An archive of demos of 256 bytes or less.
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256b.com will be back  256b.com will be back...
http://www.256b.com/

A guide to groups, parties and releases on the C64/Amiga demoscene.
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ExoticA Info: Scenery ExoticA!  If you have come to this section directly, click here to attach the main ExoticA Navigation. Go to Scenery Amiga Go to Scenery 64 the scenery project c) 1996-2004 Glenn Lunder _.________ _ /__.________._________._________.________ ____(\_ \_ _ \_ __/\_ ____/__...
http://exotica.fix.no/info/scenery/

A paper that reports on a study undertaken into vernacular forms of multimedia production referred to as "demos" or "intros" and variants of these terms among adherents of a computer oriented subculture identifying itself as "the scene".
http://www.scheib.net/play/demos/what/borzyskowski/

Various demos for download.
http://www.calodox.scene.org/demoo/index.php3