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Tuesday, 25 July 2006
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Anything else than demos?

The scene is not only restricted to the production of demos. There are other types of software being produced. Here is a list of the most common categories with explanations:


Diskmagazines: Diskmagazines was originally spread on floppydisks, since few people had harddrives, and therefore they got this name. The diskmag is generally a forum for sceners, where they can discuss various topics through articles. Through the years it has also included trading advertisments, charts over the most popular sceners, non-scene forums, news, and rumours. There are still being diskmagazines being released for the Amiga, but not as much as it used to.

The diskmag is not spread as a textfile, but is a standalone program with graphics and music incorporated. Here is a picture from a diskmag to illustrate this:

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Defy 6 by Cydonia 

Intros: Intros can be looked at as small demos. They come in different sizes, but the most common ones are 4KB, 40KB and 64KB. You can also find 256B intros, but they are not common. During the last decade, coders have worked really hard with intros, and they manage to cram music and stunning effects into only 4KB. If you would like to see examples of such kind of work, productions from groups like Ephidrena, Spaceballs and Push Entertainment is recommended.


Musicdisks: The work of the musician. It is simply a collection of songs made by one or more musicians, glued together with a user interface, made by the coder.


Packs: Packs has disappeared more and more the last decade due to the Internet getting widespread across the world. Packs is simply a collection of stuff, mostly small executable files, that traders (both modem- and mailtraders) have collected. It can also contain articles, charts, advertisments, and other bonus stuff. In most cases they were made for a single floppy disk and consists of a coded general user interface.

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Dreams 26 by Apathy 

Packs contains mostly intros, which can be characterized as small demos, but here are other kinds too. Musicpacks, which is based around songs, and ascii-packs, where textfile logos are provided, can be seen as examples of this.

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Slideshows: This kind of production is the pride of demoscene graphician. The aim of the program is to provide a selection of pictures from one or more artists. An interactive interface is usually provided in newer productions, where the user can browse through the contents. 

These are the most usual kinds of programs that demosceners make. If you decide to go hunting for some demoscene stuff, you may encounted productions labelled dentros, funtros, and lametros. The only thing that needs explanation here is the first one mentioned, which can be described as a hybrid between an intro and a demo.

 



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