Why I Am a Programmer(alfie.wtf)
303 points by jruohonen | 94 comments
Personal blog essay recounting how BBS-era cracktros, the demoscene, and Denthor's ASPHYXIA Pascal demo tutorials inspired the author to become a programmer.
#demoscene on Hacker News
21 stories tagged demoscene, newest first.
Sabre Wulf Remastered(gp-64.com)
52 points by adunk | 8 comments
Official page for Sabre Wulf Remastered, a Genesis Project remake of Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze game for the Commodore 64, with downloads, screenshots and guides.
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum(markround.com)
169 points by zdw | 35 comments
Blog post describing the tools, techniques and challenges of writing a retro-style demoscene crack intro for the 128K ZX Spectrum.
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser(treylorswift.github.io)
133 points by adunk | 117 comments
A BBS-styled web page hosting classic 1990s PC demoscene productions like Unreal and Second Reality, recompiled to run natively in the browser.
Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux(againstallodds.games)
59 points by nor-and-or-not | 26 comments
Blog post from indie studio Against All Odds about PasRISCV, the RISC-V emulator running Linux inside their space terraforming game SEEDS.
Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page(3d-retro.com)
59 points by SouthWestAtlas | 10 comments
A collection of CC0-licensed retro 3D graphics demos (plasma, starfield, etc.) implemented in WebGL 1 or 2D canvas for copying into web pages.
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene(datagubbe.se)
408 points by zdw | 70 comments
A blog article from datagubbe.se exploring the peculiar user interfaces of tools built by the demo scene, mostly for the Amiga.
Wake up! 16b(hellmood.111mb.de)
406 points by MaximilianEmel | 31 comments
Writeup of "wake up! 16b", a 16-byte x86 assembly intro producing a Matrix-style digital rain effect, released at Outline Demoparty 2026.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/8/de0af6d5-9748-4c55-b8a6-11c78ac5de02.jpg)
Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video](youtube.com)
347 points by tetrisgm | 120 comments
YouTube video of the Revision 2026 demoparty PC Demo competition, linked at the timestamp of Razor1911's entry.
The curious case of retro demo scene graphics(datagubbe.se)
330 points by zdw | 84 comments
Essay on the demo scene's attitude toward copying in pixel graphics, covering tracing, image conversion, and AI prompting.
JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)
325 points by themanmaran | 59 comments
Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates(a1k0n.net)
402 points by a1k0n | 65 comments
Blog post describing demoscene-style entries for the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition: ~4000-gate ASIC designs outputting VGA video and audio without CPU or memory.
Paged Out(pagedout.institute)
547 points by varjag | 57 comments
Homepage of Paged Out!, a free community-made technical magazine with one-page articles on programming, hacking, security, retro computers, and electronics.
Online Collection of Keygen Music(keygenmusic.tk)
353 points by mifydev | 83 comments
Keygenmusic.tk is a web-based player and searchable library of chiptune music from software keygens, cracks, and trainer intros.
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden(goto80.com)
620 points by robin_reala | 82 comments
Blog post by goto80 announcing that the demoscene has been recognized as national UNESCO intangible heritage in Sweden following an application he co-wrote with Ziphoid.
“Bad Apple” in Minecraft(purplesyringa.moe)
368 points by purplesyringa | 59 comments
Blog post by purplesyringa describing how the authors built a high-quality "Bad Apple!!" animation playback inside Minecraft, with a video link.
Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene(marincomics.com)
460 points by blakespot | 111 comments
An article on Boris Vallejo's influence on demoscene pixel art, covering scene appropriation history and a walkthrough of making a four-color Vallejo-style graphic.
Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code(killedbyapixel.github.io)
405 points by KilledByAPixel | 53 comments
A 256-byte JavaScript demoscene program by KilledByAPixel rendering an animated short film, presented at Lovebyte Party 2024.
We made an animated movie in 8kB(ctrl-alt-test.fr)
498 points by laurentlb | 133 comments
Ctrl-Alt-Test, a French demoscene group, explains how they made the animated short 'The Sheep and the Flower' as an 8kB executable.
What is the Demoscene? An interview(onthearts.com)
513 points by keiferski | 209 comments
An On the Arts newsletter interview with Filipe Cruz explaining the demoscene, the obscure but influential computer art form.
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands(demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net)
791 points by Vinnl | 137 comments
News post from the Art of Coding initiative announcing the demoscene's acceptance into the Netherlands' national UNESCO intangible cultural heritage inventory.