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Creen N. [Atari ST Demoscene] One Demoeffect Or One Screenful Of Them.
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screen n.
[Atari ST demoscene] One demoeffect
or one screenful of them. Probably comes from old Sierra-style
adventures or shoot-em-ups where one travels from one place to
another one screenful at a time.
Related:
demoscene /dem'oh-seen/ [also `demo scene'] A culture of multimedia hackers located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe.
Demoscene folklore recounts that when old-time warez d00dz cracked some piece of advertisement of in the beginning, usually containing colorful display hacks with greetings to other cracking groups....
From one feeler to anothe
Infinity is where you transfer from one parallel line to another.
Last one out turn on the UPS.
Microsoft Zen - Become one with the blue screen. -- From a Slashdot.org po
Life is a series of movements from one chair to another.
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.
-- Jerome S. Brune...
1TBS // n. The "One True Brace Style"; see indent style.
Yellow-legged frogs were once common in high-altitude lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but they have become increasingly rare.
Trout feed on tadpoles and young frogs. Few lakes in the Sierra Nevada had any trout in them until a hundred years ago....