#demoscene
- The PC tracker scene 1995–98, as it saw itself conceptWhat traxweekly 's writers said about where tracking came from, how music moved around, who judged it and where it was going. This is the scene's own narrative, mostly written by teenagers in an afternoon; for checked …
- Compunet groupThe British C64 online service of the mid-1980s where demos were uploaded and talent was scouted — matt-gray 's route into the games industry: "If it hadn't been for Compunet, I would probably have never left first …
- Ender (Andrew Burke) personSole musician of Foundation, a small demo group in Albany, New York (two coders, one musician), interviewed for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd series in October 1995 after about nine months of composing. The single …
- Future Crew groupThe Finnish demogroup behind scream-tracker-3 and the s3m-format : sami-tammilehto (Psi) wrote the tracker and its format document; the S3M "old stereo control" command was used only by "the soundtrack from Panic by …
- Jan Harries (Rambones) personDanish demo-scener, C64 music ripper and composer (born 1969-01-12 in Nyborg): a founder of the demo group The Supply Team (1985–89), author of the Ripped-Off (C64, 1987–88) and Ripp Off (PlaySID, 1991–95) rip series, …
- Jeroen Kimmel (Red) personDutch scener of The Judges who in 1986 "becomes the first scener to create his own music, in Rob Hubbard's player" — SIDwave's Red Hubbard — before the first scene-written drivers of 1987 (source: …
- Jeroen Tel personDutch composer (born 1972-05-19 in Eindhoven, raised in Helmond — his own account, source: s-imr-jeroen-tel-interview ; alias WAVE), co-founder of maniacs-of-noise with charles-deenen and, after rob-hubbard and …
- Jugi (Jukka Kaartinen) personMusician of the Finnish demogroup Complex (founded 1989; PC division since The Party 1993) and composer of Dope , the winning demo of The Gathering 1995. The single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of …
- Maniacs of Noise groupThe Dutch music group founded by jeroen-tel and charles-deenen , who met "at computer meetings in Venlo"; the name was thought up by the two of them, and their first shared player routine was "our first MoN routine" ( …
- Rage (Harri Blom) personFinnish tracker of Jade and Night55, 2nd in the Assembly '95 multichannel music competition with "Guild of Sounds". The main source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of May 1996 (source: s-tw060-interview-rage ) …
- Renaissance groupAn early PC demo group, reached through The Sound Barrier BBS in New York, whose demos — above all Amnesia (seen by khyron "sometime in 93", before future-crew 's Second Reality ) — and whose tracker, MultiTracker, …
- Scoop Designs groupThe Dutch C64 demo group that maniacs-of-noise grew out of: C=Lehti's 1989 profile calls SCOOP known for demos polished and planned to the last detail, with charles-deenen coding the top ones and jeroen-tel and Marcel …
- Stephan Schmid (Steppe) personGerman C64 scener (Erlangen; 28 in 2003), webmaster of the Demodungeon site and a member of the hvsc crew from October 2002, who rips the tunes of the demos he documents; as a composer he was active for three weeks in …
- Triton (Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl) groupThe Swedish group whose programmers Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl wrote fasttracker-2 : Huss's FastTracker 1.01 (1993-01-23, 8 channels) and the two authors' 2.00 (November 1994) through 2.06 (1996); the 2.08 build of …
- defMON wiki — release history 2008–2020, creations, links summaryThe dated release list of defmon with frantic 's named releases and per-release notes, plus the wiki's list of music and demos made with the program. Version numbers "are essentially just date stamps that reflect the …
- DUET docs: libduet, the engine as a library (summary) summarydocs/dev/libduet.md — everything in duet that makes sound is the Zig module duet , with the C ABI libduet putting a C header over the same engine, "in libopenmpt's shape". Bytes in, samples out: the library opens no …
- Hugi #38 — Up Close & Personal: Jeroen Tel of Maniacs of Noise (2014) summaryMagic of Nah-Kolor's interview with jeroen-tel for the diskmag Hugi, early 2014: biography, what rob-hubbard and martin-galway meant to him, his working methods in 2014, the state of maniacs-of-noise , and his live …
- IMR interview — Jeroen Tel (1996) summaryThe scene-questionnaire Tel: aliases, group chronology and his own theory of why his music mattered. Settles his birthplace : "I was born on the 19th of May 1972 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. I have lived in Helmond …
- My Computer Chronicles — Jens-Christian Huus / JCH (2017) summaryJens-Christian Huus — JCH of Vibrants , today the wiki's chordian — tells his whole computing life from 1983 to 2000: how a Danish postman with no musical education built the C64 music editor "that has since inspired …
- realdmx: two scene players with their own sources — Francois Prijt's Audial Arts 'zong player' v1/v2 (1991) and Adam Bulka's FAME 'Sound Routine f 4.1.0' (1988) summaryThree original Turbo Assembler sources in the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ) from the demoscene rather than the games industry: Francois Prijt's "zong player" for the Dutch group Audial Arts (two versions, …
- SIDin #3 — Stephan Schmid (Steppe) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryThe sidin interview with stephan-schmid — Steppe, webmaster of the Demodungeon and since October 2002 a member of the hvsc crew: three weeks of Soundmonitor in 1991, what an HVSC crew member actually does all day, a …
- SIDin #6 — Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryAn interview with jan-harries — Danish demo-scener (The Supply Team), Soundmonitor composer "Rambones", the ripper behind the Ripped-Off series and a founding member of the hvsc team — made in February 2004 for Stefano …
- TW #10 — Interview with Jugi (White Wizard) summaryWhite Wizard interviews jugi of Complex, the musician of Dope , the winning demo of The Gathering 1995 — "nobody knows anything about him", writes Populus, who edited both participants' English.
- TW #60 — Interview with Rage (Kal Zakath and Kleitus) summaryKal Zakath (jtown) and Kleitus interview rage of Jade and Night55, the Finn who took 2nd place in the Assembly '95 multichannel music competition with "Guild of Sounds" — an IRC capture "with a bit of editing for the …
- TW #64 — Potted Tracking History (Ganja Man) summaryA scener's oral history by ganja-man of lok , written in an afternoon; useful as the scene's own account of where trackers and "chip tunes" came from, not as a checked chronology.
- TW #7 — Interview with Ryan Cramer (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn, now signing "TraxWeekly Co-Editor", interviews ryan-cramer of Iguana and renaissance , "one of my favorite composers", a week later than planned. The extract file inbox/tw-extracts/tw007-5-interviews.txt holds …
- Wikipedia — Goto80 (en) summaryThe English Wikipedia article on goto80 (revision of 2026-02-02), a tertiary/secondary source: every claim below is Wikipedia's, resting on the article's own citations (Discogs, goto80.com, Truechiptilldeath interviews, …