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i was lurking through prods and what is a dentro?

multipart intro. it's a stupid name.

I don't think there is a strict definition for it. It's something between a demo and an intro. Something bigger than 40 or 64K.

Maybe someone was working on an intro, but they just had to add in a cool logo or sample that pushed it over the intro threshold so they released it as a dentro instead.

even this definition of intro is "wrong" by c64 standards, on c64 intro means crack intro. and not size limited one file demo.

I once had it explained to me as “an intro that got too big”, indeed. :-)

"an intro that got too big" makes it look like it's the intro's fault for eating too many bytes as it was sitting on the hard drive, not the coder's :)

funnily enough, "dentro" means "inside" in spanish.

<homer-simpson>Stupid dentro, be less dentrish</homer-simpson>

It's a teeth cleaning device, used after having hit the cracktro.

Originally it referred to something along the lines of a preview for a bigger demo. They called it "Dentro" to set it apart from BBS-Intros, which were typically much simpler and only one "screen" indeed.

Hahaha <3 or it could just be a Dentifrice intro...

For some reason I always thought that "dentro" is an intro minus the actual function. An intro which was made not to be linked in front of a game, but as a standalone prod. So if it's a one screener with logo and a scrolltext, you don't want to call it a "demo", yet it's techically not an "intro", so you call it a "dentro".

Whatever it is, I don't think it's a "multipart intro".
"Multipart intro" has to be the dumbest explanation for a "dentro" I ever heard. Way dumber than the "dentro" category itself. Yet, expressed with such confidence...

It's like a compofiller that looks better than a compofiller

iirc it is an intro that has to do with brushing, flossing and general hygiene

as iq already sort of hinted, it's short for 'el frio dentro'

You are thinking way too much in C64 terms. By the time "dentro" was invented, "intro" already was a standalone thing.

@groepaz:
You're right. For C64 prods, One-filer would be a nice category to have, but it wouldn't make much sense for anything outside C64. But it would hurt nobody to have it as an option. I think I checkmarked some silly little one-filers as "dentro" because I was embarassed to call them a proper demo (in C64 terms meaning multipart with irqloader and everything). Ofc we can call unrestricted C64 One-Filers "64k", but idk it feels kinda weird.
But yeah, "dentro" is a weird category.

Also in C64 Terms "Demo" was mostly onefilers for many years. Even a simple picture was "Demo" for that matter. Demos using multiple files (or even an entire disk) were "Megademo" (iirc Amiga ppl used similar terms in the early days).

Not intro, not demo :)

As far as I understood it, a term that emerged on the Amiga scene in the early 90's which meant a one-file demo with multiple parts. Probably because the norm for a demo had become trackmos that took at least one full floppy disk, so if you only had a few small parts that could be packed into a single file, it didn't feel like a full demo.

Does anyone have any idea why were standalone demoscene artifacts on the PC called "intros" in the first place? Is it because many of them mimicked the look of crackintros from historic 8/16 bit platforms, or?

It comes from "BBS Intros", Introductions to BBSs.

PC was rather late to the scene, so all kinds of established vocabulary was carried over.