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good evening everybody um I'm boo PK I
have the well honor uh to tell you that
the actual speaker is not here today um
and we are missing him and I do not feel
that um able to represent the demo scene
in itself I can tell you a little bit
about the uh demo scene um because uh
like I don't know three or four months
ago I became part of itself and uh can
tell you how to make this EXP experience
um and also I'm playing with game boys
and doing chip tune on game boys for 5
years now hello I know you you do that
too sorry sorry we have a little problem
since we wanted to stream now and the
streaming was not ready yet we should uh
maybe uh make a little restart yeah well
okay once again I I come to you
and sure uh then I can tell the bad news
and stuff oh okay yeah well so you can
blame me instead of the speaker
yeah Buble
picker welcome to the evening program of
the n x
stage um for all of you who are
expecting now a story of the demo scene
I have bad
news our speaker is
missing unfortunate uh luckily we have
spontaneously convinced our following
speaker to extend his program and also
tell a little bit what he knows about
demos
scene so
um please welcome Miss me uh him on
stage
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and and enjoy a little story and a lot
of Game Boy music thank
you um okay here we go again um so uh my
name is uh Bo PK I am part of the n x
clust and Stage uh I've been part of the
chaos family I think now for or
something about 12 or 13 years um I
recently became uh a member um of the
demo scene um when I met people at the
gulash program the
gpn um and I've been tinkering around
and looking for demos I don't know for
maybe 10 to 15 years now um because uh
like every young person uh I didn't have
that much money but uh I like the intros
of the correct uh copies of computer
games and I especially love the music
and the chip tune uh that you got on key
generators or editors um so um yeah well
uh I can now tell you a little bit of
what I know about the demo scene but I'm
not prepared at all um so don't uh
please don't don't kill me if I got any
dates or that wrong I I I won't name any
dates um but I'll tell you as much about
the demo scene as I know um I think uh
it started um I might be already wrong
there um
when um yeah when when people uh started
trading software offline like on the
schoolyard um there there were computer
programs that had um like basic copy
protection and um yeah people uh try to
circumvent them and uh get software for
free um or a little bit cheaper um as
they were and um yeah there was already
a lot of skill involved uh to circumvent
those um and those people then started
to make a little bit of adver
advertisement for their bbs's um like
their trading platforms that they had um
but a lot of sharing was also uh done
offline and there were copying parties
uh where you could meet and then trade
your discs and um yeah uh exchange
software uh like The Pirate Bay but
offline and um because uh cracking is
not enough uh you had to somehow
advertise that you were part of a group
and that you were somehow specially
skilled and um you try to squeeze in a
little program um in front of the of the
main program to advertise uh your group
uh either with a nice picture or graphic
or even a small video and um that's what
we now know basically as a demo uh so
demo for demonstration but uh
demonstrating skills with
computers and um this became um well
even more advanced over the years and
then uh groups started to to invent new
tech techniques and uh showing off
skills on limited Hardware because
probably a few of you know like the
Amiga and the
c64 um they have very little Ram
compared to everything we hold today in
our hands and uh very little graphic
comp uh capabilities but people managed
to to render 3D effects on those
machines and they were never intended uh
to do that and they abused the sound
chips and tried multiplexing and
everything on those old machines and um
when I see demos for me um I I recently
started learning how to program but when
when you see or look at that code it's
still magic um it's it's really like
squeezing together super small code or
nowadays there are competitions um I'm
sorry I'm I'm jumping around in the
topic but I hope you can follow um there
are competitions where you just try to
get the maximum out of your newest
graphic card and if you have a graphic
card that's one generation before the
demo will stutter because it's so
demanding on the hardware um that's why
H I don't have the stickers with with me
um but we will have a demo party here
today so um this talk was meant to make
a little bit of advertising or
advertisement uh for this and um you
will experience and see yourself or you
might uh see yourself what what is meant
uh with that um so I'm just jumping back
um so there there were demos and demo
parties where where hackers or or
crackers met from different groups and
um just came together like 100 or 50
people or maybe even 20 and uh started
to to share their skills and um project
uh on big screens uh old computers and
have super gigantic sound setups and
speakers and enjoy the base uh that sit
ship can probably do um yeah so um from
from there uh from the cracking um it it
started that uh there were people that
were only interested in doing the demos
and not the cracking itself so um the
scene separated a little bit and there
were before it was totally illegal and
being part of a group meant hey you wear
cracker and you could U maybe fear um
yeah punishment from from law
enforcement um so the the Arty people
that like to do art um well changed or
became uh I don't know the English word
but um a separate part of the group that
was just uh meant to to be um yeah there
for the art and and demo making um so
there was a legal and an illegal part of
of the scene groups nowadays uh there
are groups that are totally just there
to to write demos and not to crack
computer software um so you you have the
legal and the illegal and yeah
underground and like yeah uh you know
what I mean um
so um these groups uh try to compete on
these de demo parties um there are two
major systems on demo parties um and the
demo part is organized so um it's the
first time that I I'm part of the
organization of that so I I will tell
you how it ran um there were like three
or four people who said hey we want a
demo party uh on Camp um do you want to
be part of it and I was like I'm sorry
I'm not qualified to do that uh yeah but
you write music and you can do the
revion for the music and the pre-entries
and I said yeah well if that's my only
job fine I will do it um it was my only
job um but U the the organization takes
part on the internet because we were
separated uh around the globe and um
then someone writes an um introduction
or um a demo like an invitation uh
invitation demos are meant uh for
parties um and on those parties they get
released by by some group and they do an
invite and invite other hackers and
coders uh to to their party um the
biggest party that takes place uh that I
know of here in uh Europe is the
revision party which is always uh at
Eastern when the Easter hack is
happening uh so some of us have to
decide either Easter hack or revision um
or you drive and take both but um there
are a thousand people um meeting in one
big Hall and it's a lot of tables a lot
of computers um it's like every little
hex Center you see here but a thousand
times bigger um and they have one huge
screen uh with one 4K projector in super
amazing sound system and uh they meet
there and write uh demos or finish their
the demos because writing a demo takes
time and most of them keep writing uh
and exploring uh what can be done like a
year before or maybe even two years um
they are in production but as always
it's a little bit like chaos everything
gets finished just in time
um just like this talk uh which is
happening right now um so yes um there
are strict rules um and those R rules
get published on the competition's
homepage and then you have to register
Nick and then you need a a vote key um
in times of woohoo there's a voting
system called woohoo um that I've heard
of first time like 3 days ago um and you
you get your voting key and can register
and then upload your demo um and you
have to stay in very strict uh limits um
like for for music it's hey it has to be
in at least 192 kilobits uh it has to be
no longer than 5 minutes and you need uh
a name that's pretty easy and
straightforward
uh but then there are computer demos
like for 4K um it has to be executable
uh run on the latest um Nvidia driver
and um it yeah it's not allowed to be
more than
4,096 KOB uh bytes so 4
kilobytes um and I think there's also a
size um like a length limit uh because
you can write code that loops and you
don't want to troll people and like like
show them a 10 minute or 20 hour loop
and say Hey That's My Demo it's still
running please don't
interrupt um that happens uh there are
should post entries every time and uh
there's one famous group for it called
Pooh brain and they do funny if anyone
from po brain is here I want to meet you
you're funny as hell um I like your
demos um yeah and then you have to entry
then um there's a a really strict
deadline um I Tred to submit two entries
to revision two times after the deadline
was done and they have no no hard for
people who cannot hit deadlines um
unfortunately but um you yeah you entry
uh you submit your demo um the the
deadline is set and after that the whole
crew of the demo party comes together
and they review all the entries there
are because um sometimes you you have to
like yeah do a pre preview of of of
everything because there's so much stuff
that gets sent in and um has to be
decided uh on on what to show um yeah
and then uh the on on the Saturday and
fr well on the Saturday mostly it starts
it goes for three days um and the the
deadline is on Friday and on Saturday uh
there's uh the showing and reviewing
process on revision it's also on Friday
evening already so the deadlines are a
few days early um and then you sit
together uh grab a beer take whatever
you want and uh then have fun watching
visuals and enjoying the sound and
having a big party uh all together um
one funny competition that I really love
is uh the wild competition uh wild means
everything goes like you you can I don't
know heck your uh coffee machine that
has a display and if it runs uh funny
graphics and maybe even Bruce Coffee uh
with a distinct pattern that makes some
beat um that would be a very wild demo
and you could show it and probably win a
price um but there yeah there there's
basically no limit on on what you can do
and uh what you want to show um one
recent Trend uh that did not get grabbed
by the revision is that they are coming
AI demos uh so there there will be
competitions where we try to I don't
know
um yeah tell CAD GPT to to write a funny
picture or joke or music or whatever um
but those will be marked and uh have to
be like in their own category category
because it's not fair to to just uh
Smash in some some words and that the
that the AI do the rest or work for you
but you can also get very creative and
you can like let AIS talk to each other
and I don't know compose new pictures
out of other AI pictures uh so it can be
fun um I will spoiler um there was only
one AI entry uh so the the winner of the
AI competition will be pretty clear
tomorrow um but yeah that that's
becoming a trend and a thing um in the
other demos um what really is left is uh
old computers uh so um 60 uh 604k
uh never mind sorry commodor 64 and
Amiga are um well known there and are
the the favorite machines um and there
still are people that like to code on
those old machines and generate graphics
and stories and also the storytelling
becomes more important over the years
their cinematic effects and everything
and you get crop pictures in 29 uh to9
like C screen um videos shown and
everything runs on old old hardware and
um they they are basically part of every
bigger uh demo scene competition there
is okay um anything else I can tell you
I don't know uh do you have any
questions uh so far because I think
that's it for for the basic yes uh
sir ah um the demo party will take place
tomorrow evening here at this stage at
9:00 um to it it will probably last for
2 hours if we run uh smoothly there is a
batch competition so if you have a batch
uh just program something funny for it
uh and let it blink and animate stuff um
we we're still looking forward for
entries there um and we have a document
camera so that we can show it on the big
screen um we will probably have H well
that's what I try to talk to the
technicians uh we will have a bigger
screen and uh let down the the wall so
we have a like a much bigger screen
because for demos it's nice to have it
big and huge and um it can be fun on on
this but on the whole truck would be
awesome um and a maybe maybe we we will
try it out um yeah that's uh that's it
so far I'm sorry that I'm short but I
wasn't prepared at all that's everything
I knew from heart yes
thank
you there was one question
left
sorry um well uh right now it's uh
running on real Hardware um what we are
show we asked for for this demo party uh
we have one beefy computer uh that runs
the executable Demos in on real Hardware
because that's the real deal um the old
school stuff had to be recorded because
we couldn't like manage to bring even an
Amiga and a commodor and then the that's
the really hard part make it run on a
big new projector and capture it so that
HDMI just makes it yeah look good um
that's a really tough thing to do um but
I know that even bigger demo parties
also do pre-recording of the old stuff
because yeah the the challeng is there
and you don't get CRTs that big um but
yeah to uh to make selfless selfless
plug um this is a Nintendo DS um that
plays uh a Game Boy advanced cartridge
uh called
nanoloop and it's um normally for a Game
Boy Advance but the NDS light has uh a
small Port uh still left underneath it
where you can play on the top Port DS
game and on the bottom board um you have
GBA um I use this one because it has
much better sound output it has a backl
light and uh a battery that I can
load and they only cost like 20 to 30
bucks on on eBay um which makes them the
I would say cheapest synthesizers that
you can get pretty much I know that the
older ones um there's also a nano Loop
for for the old one um it's a 16 step
Looper it has channels uh and it gives
you a lot of place to uh be creative oh
U my card is glitching that's fun uh
that also happens when you play with
game boys uh but there's also a a second
software which is pretty popular it's
called lsdj and we do have one LS DJ DJ
sitting here in the front row um and
he's also doing workshops which are
great um for me I visited the workshop I
tingled around for 45 minutes and then I
managed to delete everything I wrote in
those 45 minutes it was super
unfortunate but it gave me yeah it made
me more comfortable in using nanoloop
and keep proceeding that route um but uh
still thank you very much for for doing
the workshops um it's it's an honor
having you here okay um that was all the
Talking um I will uh now proceed and um
play a little bit of my set and non Loop
and um if you would like to stay I would
love to uh see and uh hear you um the
thing is it's not a sitting concert so
you can keep sit it but um I I would
love if you would just stand up grab the
chairs move them to the site and um yeah
enjoy the dance okay thank you very much
let's
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go