A demo is a program that displays a sound, music, and light show. Demos are very fun to watch, because they seemingly do things that aren't possible on the machine they were programmed on.
Essentially, demos "show off".
Demos are an art form. They blend mathematics, programming skill, and creativity into something incredible to watch and listen to.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. www.pouet.net
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] www.gamasutra.com/features/20010216/scheib_01.htm
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". www.scheib.net/play/demos/what/borzyskowski
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