Text mode demo competition (or compo, or contest - same thing, really) was held for the first time in 1996. Back then there were a few demos running in text mode; some were 'pure' textmode demos such as what TMDC was after, and others tweaked the text mode. We wanted more textmode demos, and we saw two ways to go about it - make them ourselves, or hold contests to get many more!Grand total of 90 demos were produced in the 10 contests, including the invitation demos and the couple of disqualified entries. A handy ISO has been produced that includes all of the demos as well as Dosbox 0.72 plus batch files to launch the DOS demos with it.
