{"id":178,"date":"2007-10-31T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2007\/10\/vaginal-massacre-and-dream-design\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T03:14:00","slug":"vaginal-massacre-and-dream-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/vaginal-massacre-and-dream-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaginal Massacre and Dream Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, the title is stupid<\/b>, but the first part is the name of a dentro<\/b> and the second part is the name of a guy<\/b> who called himself that. I am sure that the name for the dentro was chosen to get the attention of people. I guess it worked, because this Amiga Dentro won the demo competition at Scoopex’s CeBit’1993 demoparty held in Hannover\/Germany in… right, 1993. <\/p>\n

I am sure that many of you also just checked this post only out because of the title of it. The funny thing is that it does not use any offending slang words<\/b> at all. Did you notice that? “Vaginal” is a perfectly fine term used in human biology and “Massacre” is also not slang. It’s not a nice word, but so is “murder” or “war”.<\/p>\n

Just FYI for the non-geeks who are not familar with the demoscene. A dentro is the short version for “disk intro” and is basically something in between a full “demo” and a basic “intro” in computer scene terms. A dentro is more than just an intro, but less than a full blown demo. What a “demo” and “intro” is, you have to find out for yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here is the video of the dentro “Vaginal Massacre”.

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Alternatives: Link to the video at YouTube.com<\/a> and Link to the video at Facebook.com<\/a> this one has a better quality and higher resolution, but requires a Facebook account to view it. You don’t have to be a friend of mine via FB to see it.<\/p>\n

Now that wasn’t too bad, right?<\/p>\n

Okay, here are some backgrounds to this dentro.<\/p>\n

The prize for the winner of the demo competition was a brand new Commodore Amiga 600 that just came out that year. The winning of the dentro was a surprise, considering the fact that the “Elite” boys from Masque\/TRSi showed up and presented their “Misery Dentro Part II<\/a>” (links to the video at YouTube), which boasted a lot more effects than this dentro. I guess the marketing plot worked for this dentro, because it beat the technically superior dentro to the punch.<\/p>\n

U.D.O. is an abbreviation for “Unsere Doofen Ossis<\/b>” (roughly translated “Our Stupid East Germans”). It’s a fake group that did not exist. The people who did this were actually the members of the East German Amiga group called Remedy. How do I know this? I happen to know the guys personally :).<\/p>\n

This was actually the place and time when and where I met one of the (then) future SAC (Superior Art Creations<\/a>) founding members, the pixel graphics artist Dream Design. He did most of the graphics for the dentro, specifically the most memorable splash page, which is shown below.<\/p>\n

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He also pixeled this picture<\/a> using less than 32 colors. Its around 16 colors only. Amazing, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I did not know him, but saw him having this image loaded, staring at it and checking stuff with the lens feature of Deluxe Paint.<\/p>\n

I said to him: “nice photograph<\/i>“. He turned around with a red face, looked at me and yelled: “I was drawing this and I worked over 3 full days on it!!!<\/i>“. <\/p>\n

Ooops..<\/b> Well, somebody else might have taken my comment as a compliment hehe. The picture uses only 32 colors, remarkable.<\/p>\n

I was looking for a video version of this dentro for a while and could not find it anywhere, maybe because of its name, who knows.<\/p>\n

I have to thank “pgtyunbderf<\/a>“, a user at YouTube.com, for capturing the dentro for me. I only had to edit it and also replaced the sound with the original MOD music for better quality.<\/p>\n

I thought that this is an interesting story and an interesting video (and picture) as well. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

Carsten aka Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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