demoparty

plural demoparties

1. computingA party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.

   Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

   2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193

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   They were the organizers of the first Russian demoparty, Enlight '96 in St. Petersburg, but unfortunately there weren't any quality releases.

   2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

   In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

   2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games