Haha, was just about to ask if this was the end of "fuck da rippaz".

Linde has a point there.
Having the skills to peek into machine code or SID registers is considered a manifest of one's commitment, and is negligible compared to the effort needed to master a platform. Also it's much more fun

Damn you, open source!!! Y U RUIN EVERYTHING?

problem is if we open source everything we can't send "fuckingz to lamers" anymore.  what do we fill the scrolltexts with?

(A JOKE)

In my experience, I agree with Akira that at least C64 people open whatever they want opened . For some purposes (figuring out a specific effect/trick) a disassembly is only slightly less readable than a source file. Reverse engineering is simply assumed more often than not, but (rightfully) proud people will happily explain their tricks to you in forums/diskmags/person.

Yes, but commercially releasing code on Github and stuff is different from just asking on a demoparty.

He's stating that Demoscene was 'open' since it's beginning because tracked songs are open source anyway. It's wrong to state 'Demoscene' was open source because tracked songs are. Music is only a small part of the demoscene.

As said before, if you were IN the demoscene, you COULD get access to loads if not most of the stuff.

no one is deny that software CAN be open, but demos were not generally distributed with source code for a long time, maybe in the Spirit Of Competition. also many demos and even music disks the music was packed inside the demo and it was not trivial to get it out. i can't say the demoscene is a supreme example of open source culture in anyway, but there are enough helpful forum posts and etc - it's not like no one wants you to learn at all

You know, software can be open too
fsf.org
opensource.org

Music is actually only a small part of demoscene, so to say demoscene was open since it's beginning would be a bit exaggerating.

Demoscene was open since it's beginning, because If there was e.g. some track realised, It was realised in Tracker file format (not audio, mp3), so anyone have to open it in tracker to play it, thus anyone have it's source. I think.

to iLKke: I want new gameboy DMG games! is there anyone working on something?

It seems like a relatively new thing, but also a continuation of old attitudes regarding sharing knowledge. Like others have said, the demoscene was always friendly towards knowledge exchange - but it was mostly done via demoparties or private irc /msg chats, etc.. As demoparties have waned in size/frequency, and the IRC community has become less vibrant, it doesn't surprise me to see demogroups open-sourcing their code in the aims of contributing to a healthy community.

I'd love to push some gb pixels, if there's anyone making a demo

anyone here into the GB demoscene? http://gameboy.modermodemet.se/ there's a chunk of demos on that site with source included...

agree. GIT is amazing ;D
i was gonna say pouet has been around for a while.
lots of my friends just give their code away to anyone who wants it after the party.