Demoscene bibliography

Brandt, Felix: Atari ST demo history

The history of Atari ST demos from 1987 to 1999 written by Flix/Delta Force. In addition to short descriptions and screenshots you can actually download all the demos as well. http://www7.in.tum.de/~brandtf/ataridemos.html

The demoskene.katastro.fi exhibition (2003)

The demoskene.katastro.fi exhibition was held in Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki between 28.3-15.6.2003, curated by Lassi Tasajärvi. The demos shown were from Byterapers, Virtual Dreams, CNCD, Parallax, Maturefurk, Komplex, Tpolm, Doomsday, Orange and various permutations of katastro.fi members. See http://demoskene.katastro.fi for more information.

Demoscene entry at Wikipedia

Quite a nice overview that seems to receive updates every now and then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

The Eurochart online

The Eurochart has documented the Amiga scene since 1991. Competition is a fundamental part of the culture and the charts reveal the popularity of groups, individuals and productions through the years. http://www.irishq.dk/ec/ec.shtml

origami digital - Demos without restrictions exhibition (2002-2003)

A demoscene exhibition held in the Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt between 10.12.2002-20.2.2003. At the exhitibions website http://www.digitalcraft.org/index.php?artikel_id=411 you'll find short introductionary texts to demoscene. As for the exhibition's name, the artefact of an origami serves as a comparison for demos: the japanese art of folding papers to complexe figures also underlies various restrictions. Aside from this, Digitalcraft also hosts other interesting exhibitions about the craftmanship culture of computing.

Green, Dave (1995): Demo or Die! Wired, Issue 3.07.

Yet another introduction to demos, written in a slightly cheapening tone -- scene people are referred to as "kids". However, connects demos to other phenomena of the time. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/democoders.html

Gruetzmacher, Thomas (2004): PC Demoscene FAQ

Located here: http://tomaes.32x.de/text/pcdemoscene_faq.txt . Explains many of the fundamental concepts and terms used in the scene.

Järvinen, Aki (2000): Demoscene Sub or Pop?

A lecture held in Tampere University. The slides disappeared for a couple of years but the author kindly provided them for us: digital_subcultures.pdf

Kuittinen, Petri (2001): Computer Demos - The Story So Far

A quite often referenced web page containing yet another introduction to the phenomenon, several links and images plus a glossary. http://mlab.uiah.fi/~eye/demos/

Leonard, Jim (1995?-1998): PC Demos Explained

A classic site by Jim Leonard aka. Trixter of Hornet. Widely known among the sceners and an often referenced source. Nowadays out of date, but still useful if you want to know how things were seen in 1996. This is a new mirror for the page: http://www.scheib.net/play/demos/what/trixter/index.html .

Lunder, Glenn (1996-): ExoticA! Scenery Project

An enormous collection of Amiga and Commodore 64 demo group information. Includes group members, ex-members and productions. http://exotica.fix.no/info/scenery/

Volko, Claus-Dieter (1998-): Demoscene articles

Several writings of Claus-Dieter Volko (Adok/Hugi). Mostly from and about disk magazines -- or diskmags as they are called. http://www.hugi.scene.org/adok/

Vuorinen, Jukka (2004): Cracking parties

At Sociology days 2004 held in Jyväskylä Finland, Jukka Vuorinen coordinated a working group about party cultures introducing cracking parties for his own part. The abstract of his speech is available in Finnish at http://www.cc.jyu.fi/sosiologipaivat/tr_juhla.htm .

Walleij, Linus (1998): Copyright finns inte, V3.0.

An online book in Swedish by Linus Walleij, aka. Kingfisher/Triad. Contains a lot of text on different digital subcultures such as hacking, cracking, demoscene and cyberpunk. In addition to that there is a rather large bibliography on underground topics. The link: http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/book/