what does dentro mean?
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we need a dentro competition!
Nah, it was a category at some parties in the 90s before proc-gen matured (256kb was the limit on PC/Amiga).
These days you can stuff in so much with 64k's already that it's a full-time job to make a good one and making something larger would only make one go mad (the workload is why 64k's are relatively rare these days compared to 4k/8k that are clearly limited and leaves gives people restraint).
If you don't want to twiddle for size there's honestly nothing stopping from just making a reasonably sized demo imho.
An intro for your teeth. Seriously, it's been used in two ways. One, as an intro or preview to an upcoming demo. Two, as a small demo that's bigger than a regular intro (e.g. 256 kb).
I'm more particular to dentmos myself.
Did you just make a demo that serves a specific purpose, or one that you feel in some particular way about? Just take a word you think somehow describes it and tuck on a -tro or -ntro at the end. Invitro, announcetro, borntro... Your creativity is the limit in coming up with new categories that you subsequently can argue that the various demoscene DBs need to add!
Once I made a jointro!
maali should totally make some pathmos
On Atari ST the term "dentro" was also guarantor that it is not a typical "Atari ST demo" (a so called "megademo", with a menu and separated selectable screens), but a mid-sized "Amiga style multipart" without user interaction.
Dentro is a Tree.
As I remember it, a dentro was a single-part demo that followed the flow of a trackmo. Having individual opening screens for the group and demo name, followed by one or more effect parts that were only visited once. (sometimes just the one, which makes the name feel more appropriate) This is slightly different to previous single-part demos with multiple effect parts, where they'd usually be revisited with different parameters and there wasn't really an ending. (an example that comes to mind is "Mesmerized" by Pure Metal Coders) I'm assuming a few dentros originally started as fullsize productions that ran out of time, or were made from a few leftovers off a bigger production thrown together for a party release.
On PC in the 90s I made one, must have been one of my first hacks, uhm, I think I misinterpreted it back then as just doing a demo in 256KB or something. Would have to check.
