The Judges was a Dutch Commodore 64 group from Roosendaal known for being one of the earliest dedicated demogroups.
The Judges released several demos for the Commodore 64 home computer between the years 1986 - 1988.
A technical milestone often attributed to The Judges, particularly the programmer Bart "White" Meeuwissen, is the invention of the FLD (Flexible Line Distance) technique,[3] which was used in the Think Twice series of demos.
As the name implies, FLD made it possible to have a variable distance every eight pixels between the individual text or graphics lines generated by the VIC-II video chip.
The group's musician Jeroen "Red" Kimmel went on to compose and sell video game music commercially for different platforms such as the C64, Amiga and MSX computers.