Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1987

Demoscene Splinters into PC and Home Computer

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Black EGA title screen with Space Pigs in white script and MEGA DEMO in red and yellow lettering.
The Space Pigs’ Megademo for MS-DOS and EGA, December 1989: an early example of the PC demoscene that followed the late-1980s platform split. The Space Pigs; screenshot preserved by pouët.net, added by phoenix in 2001. Image source.

This year represents the beginning of the split in the demoscene community that would coalesce over the next several years, as some practitioners moved to the PC while others stayed on home computers such as the Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari ST. Those who chose the PC mostly used the operating system MS-DOS. According to Dreher [Dreher 162], by 1992, the PC demoscene had become independent from the Amiga demoscene.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

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community, Demoscene, scenes
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Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, IBM PC, MS-DOS
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