This was how Jim Leonard, a former demoscener who went by the handle "Trixter," first became acquainted with demo culture in 2000.
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"Before scene websites and mailing lists, one got to know of demoparties only through word of mouth," Gleb Albert, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich and former demoscener, told me in an email.
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In January 2007, it was revealed that Timbaland plagiarized the synth line in "Do It" from an earlier track by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni and Glenn Rune Gallefoss.
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He has written numerous articles for the Czech gaming magazine Level and other gaming magazines, and is also a passionate player of paintball. He was also an active demoscener, under the pseudonym Hellboy, as part of the group Broncs.
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In 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau started writing the original Frozen Bubble game in Perl while using the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library. The music was made with FastTracker II by demoscener Matthias Le Bidan.music on frozen-bubble.org Alexis Younes and Amaury Amblard-Ladurantie created the sprites and background graphic artwork with GIMP.
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Video game developer Nicklas Nygren used Fast Tracker 2 in his early works (e.g. Knytt StoriesNifflas on modarchive.org) to compose the video game music. Demoscener and video game soundtrack composer Matthias Le Bidan used FT2 for the music of the free and open source video games Frozen Bubblemusic on frozen-bubble.
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In January 2007, several news sources reported that Timbaland was alleged to have plagiarized several elements (both motifs and samples) in the song "Do It" without giving credit or compensation. The song itself was released as the fifth North American single from Loose on 24 July 2007. The original track, titled "Acidjazzed Evening", is a chiptune-style 4-channel Amiga module composed by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni.
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The original track, titled "Acidjazzed Evening", is a chiptune-style, 4-channel Amiga module composed by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni (a.k.a. Tempest). The song won first place in the Oldskool Music competition at Assembly 2000, a demoparty held in Helsinki, Finland, in 2000. According to Scene.org, the song was uploaded to their servers the same year, long before the release of the song by Furtado.
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Janne "Tempest" Suni is a Finnish demoscener, pixel artist and tracker musician, and a member of the demogroup Fairlight. He is best known outside the demoscene for being the creator of the song "Acidjazzed Evening", the melody of which hip-hop producer Timbaland plagiarized in the 2006 song "Do It" by Nelly Furtado (see Timbaland plagiarism controversy). "Acidjazzed Evening" originally won the oldschool music competition at the 2000 Assembly demoparty.
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Information on how to extract IT files out of UMX containers The video game composer and demoscener Andrew Sega (Necros) used Impulse Tracker extensively in his demoscene days. Trance producer Sean Tyas began his music production career using Impulse Tracker.Sean Tyas interview Electronic rock musician Blue Stahli has revealed to have used Impulse Tracker and other trackers in the past.Blue Stahli twitter profile Deadmau5's career began in the mid 1990s with a chiptune and demoscene movements-influenced sound with Impulse Tracker.
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Over the years, desktop computer hardware capabilities have improved by orders of magnitude, and so for most programmers, tight hardware restrictions are no longer a common issue. Nevertheless, demosceners continue to study and experiment with creating impressive effects on limited hardware. Since handheld consoles and cellular phones have comparable processing power or capabilities to the desktop platforms of old (such as low resolution screens which require pixel-art, or very limited storage and memory for music replay), many demosceners have been able to apply their niche skills to develop games for these platforms, and earn a living doing so. One particular example is Angry Birds, whose lead designer Jaakko Iisalo was an active and well-known demoscener in the 90s.
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