Step34: Vocabulary – Part 2

28 Sep, 1989 | Demo

So more vocabulary …

Compos: Creations presented at à demoparty.

Copyparty / Demoparty : Gathering of people for sharing moments around demo scene. (Copy party were the same, but for copying game). Demo parties have usually contest with lot of differents categories (best demo, best graphic, best music, …)

Warez / Stuff : New creation (or new game). « Hot stuff ».

Trackmo : Demo that directly use the track of the floppy.

Dentro : Creation between « Intro » and « Demo ». Bigger than an intro, smaller than a demo.

Unpack, uncrunch, decrunch : Uncompress data.

VBL : Vertical Blank Line. Time where the electron beam hit the bottom of the screen and is going up.

FPS : « Frame Per Second ». Demo on amiga usually run at full speed 50 FPS (PAL) and 60 FPS (NTSC).

Demoscene : The informal international community that produces and watches demos (audiovisual computer programs).

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About me

Hello. My name is Christophe KOHLER. Norn in 1973, I'm 50 year old (in 2024) and working as video game creator till 2000. When I was young, I've been involved in the Amiga demo scene during 9 years (from 1989 to 1998). I was 16 years old at the time and had really lot of fun using Amiga computers.
I took much pleasure writing these pages. First because it reminded some good memories. And secondly because I wanted to explain how the amiga computer worked and what have been our work on them.