Demo Night 2006

We held a demo night on 9/21/2006 in the Scaife Hall potato chip (Wean 7500 was in use). It actually turned out to be a reasonably decent place to hold the event, albeit a little out of the way for most people.

We showed a bunch of popular x86 demos on a weasel machine. A few, I think, had to be run in an emulator due to weird (sound?) problems on the actual hardware.

We showed several Apple IIgs demos. The composite output wouldn't cooperate with the projector (neither through a composite to s-video adapter, nor through a composite to VGA converter), so the colors were pretty bad (some mumble about old TVs or something), and most were shown in an emulator. The monitor output is considered hopeless, since it's uses some ancient interface.

We showed the following text (console-based) windows demos:

• Bolognese

  • File, Source (TMDC6 - 2003)

• Innerflux

  • File, Source (TMDC8 - 2005)

We showed the following windows demos:

• Heaven Seven (64k, software-rendered, raytraced)

  • File, Source

• The Product (64k, 16 minutes, 1.3gb generated data)

  • File, Source

• The Popular Demo (8mb, very shiny)

  • File, Source

• Kkrieger (96k fps game)

  • File, Source

We of course showed BB, the AAlib demo. It doesn't compile well with recent versions of gcc and so has to be hacked a little or played on a debian system with the debian-patched package installed.

We might have shown a few demos from the Mindcandy DVD, for ones that just wouldn't run.

We showed a few amiga demos from the Mindcandy II preview DVD.

Useful Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_%28computer_programming%29

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

• http://www.demodvd.org

• http://www.scene.org

• http://www.pouet.net