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demo: /de´moh/ [short for ‘demonstration’] 1. v. To demonstrate a product
or prototype. A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than
any number of test runs, especially when important
people are watching. 2. n. The act of demoing.
“I've gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface; how does it
work again?” 3. n. Esp. as demo version, can refer either to an early,
barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration
purposes as long as the operator uses exactly the
right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and
unimplemented portions, or to a special version of a program (frequently
with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to
the user for enticement purposes. 4. [demoscene] A sequence of
demoeffects (usually) combined with self-composed
music and hand-drawn (“pixelated”) graphics. These days (1997)
usually built to attend a compo. Often called
eurodemos outside Europe, as most of
the demoscene activity seems to have gathered in
northern Europe and especially Scandinavia. See also
intro, dentro.
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