patsie75
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2 years ago From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene):
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual art, and musical skills. Demos and other demoscene productions (graphics, music, videos, games) are shared at festivals known as demoparties, voted on by those who attend and released online.
[...] Demoscene productions can be made with the latest consumer technology or with vintage home computers and consoles. Often terms "newschool" and "oldskool" are vaguely used to describe products for newer and older computers. In the oldskool department techniques of the past like ASCII/ANSI art, pixel graphics, chipmusic are constantly being used.
gtackett
When these were mentioned on comp.lang.awk a few weeks back, several responders didn’t know what you meant by “old skool”. (I don’t know either.)
Can you explain what the characteristic(s) is/ are that distinguish an “old skool” demo from whatever other kind(s) of demo you apparently have in mind? Part of that explanation might be to tell what is the reason for not spelling “school” in the standard way.
It might also be helpful to readers if you state clearly what the thing(s) is (or are) that your demo is intended to demonstrate.
If you can do these two things, perhaps the readers at comp.lang.awk will be more interested, IF what you’re demonstrating is sufficiently interesting to them.