pouët.net

I lived 89km from there, but was forced to do something else during this weekend... grr.

Jumper '98, Hungary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nps6Lz8Ikis

Summit '96, Israel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSwUuWYmKw

This was a great site, but long gone. Coding related.
IIRC it was nice resource for democoders.

www.programmersheaven.com I didnt bother tyring all the links, but seems most if not all is not recorded.

Sorry I totally missed the point of this being a party thread. Bleh.

Breakpoint 2004 Party Video by Smash Designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiiGj0zl2E

Breakpoint 2005 Party Report by 3SAT TV Station (German with human/scener-done burned-in english subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmwm_0v9R8

By the way: Does anyone have ANY recording from the Breakpoint 2004 helicopter rides? BP.TV didn't record it, and I was too busy inside the hall to see the heli flying outside, let alone catch one of the rides... I organized that helicopter, but wasn't even able to ever see it fly over the location :(

https://1999.tum-party.net/

https://0a000h.de/

Also some kind of party report turned into an invitation

I saw yesterday on YouTube a 30 seconds clip of the Breakpoint 2004 helicopter, it was standing on the ground. But I thought it was not worth to post here. I can not remember the name of the clip.

@scamp watch this link, short after the timestamp comes the helicopter: https://youtu.be/o4W-lGfz3pI?si=mTE_Sl6HCllW7IGe&t=1188

How about old party websites still somehow running? HTTP only, and get a Flash player.

FLaG 2001, the reports page. If anybody still has the video linked here, please let me know!
http://flag2001.demoscene.hu/eng/reports.html

FLaG 2002. This one is full Flash, which is retro in itself. This is the afterparty site. The pre-party site must also be there, but I forgot the URL.
Party site:
http://flag2002.demoscene.hu/oldsite/

Afterparty site:
http://flag2002.demoscene.hu/

It also plays Asteroids:
http://flag2002.demoscene.hu/asteroids/asteroids.html

I have recording - on VHS - from IMF '90 party in Vaala, Finland. It was visited by Dean/Odex and Madmat/Odex, soon to be Society and a bit later Cyberiad.
Too bad its so gringe stuff as we were all like 10 to 15 year olds I will not digitize it :D

Breakpoint 2010 - People partying to the invitation tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYE5hLqVTKA

Zap Intelligence at The Party '98: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itijSARhE4Q

Intel Outside Party I [11-12.08.1994] Warsaw Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH7437e921w&t=0s

Wow, this stuff is really amazing. Parties we heard about back then, but had no idea what was there. All we saw were a few text files, maybe reports in diskmags, and of course the demos. Traveling was a wee more difficult back then. Then suddenly, we are today years old, and bam, now we can see it like in a time machine. Intel Inside? In Hungary, we knew that party existed, we knew it was in Poland, and heard it was cool. But beyond that? Not much! Thanks, Dalthon! And everybody else.

Wow! Might call this a Peak demoparty moment caught on tape! :)


PartyReports:
breakpoint funkpunk 2006
Breakpoint Punkjam 2007

Might call Breakpoint the peak of the entire timeline of the demoscene.

One local peak, certainly, but THE peak... your kilometer-rage may vary.

Things certainly changed once the porn side-screens disappeared and little kids came running about, and that started before Breakpoint. Not that those changes are bad things, mind you, but the general scene experience did transform over time, and more than once.

Personally i don't mind parties these days coming with a lot less stealing, car breaking-in, or the teenage peak testosterone levels and their downsides.

Remedy scenezone 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flAZWFUxZ-8

The Making of Remedy 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2imXAiG2HQ

I would argue that the demoscene has seen a few cultural crises, usually due to outside influence. I remember how disappointing The Party 1997 was, compared even to 1996. Endless rows of outsiders, fixated on their gaming PCs with glazed eyes. No SID chirping, no Amiga modules, no typical demoscene noise, just Duke Nukem and Red Alert noise. Then we saw the same at local parties, and we said enough. For a while, there was a debate whether gamers should be allowed, as they generate income, and that's arguably good for the budget. I was against it, and many were, and we were called "outdated", "unwelcoming" and even outright "hate-spewing". "Aren't you playing games yourselves?!" was the ultimate argument. But then, gamers were banned from this party, then that party, and these turned out to be far better events than much bigger, but gamer-welcoming ones. By 2001, almost no demoscene party allowed gamers, and the few who did, separated them well, like Assembly.

Porn side-screens, and for that matter, games too, have always been present. The difference was priorities. First and foremost, we were there for the demos. The problem was visitors who did not know or care about the demoscene, just wanted porn and games. Nowadays we have a similar cultural challenge, but a much more profound and deep-running one.

As for theft and the like, oh well, who ever needed that.

My point was that bona-fide sceners ran the sidescreens and also cared for games (and generally pirated quite a bit). But yes, those are outliers now.

The wee kids were an entirely new thing, though. =)

X1996 C64 Party video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvIWdOfQTw0

16yo in a white-out in Denmark (The Party 3). And hey (@DF), I still have fond memories of using your tunes in intros ! (Magazine 67 or what was it called)

looking back, my favourites where the smaller Atari meetings (saying this as an Amiga guy!)

and well, there wasn't any 24h video surveillance back then (which does not seem to bother anyone except me)