"Because there are so many technological world-firsts in the demo, and because we’re bending the hardware in ways that people have never thought to do so, it’s only fair that we try to explain exactly how this was achieved."
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Apr 10, 2015
Amazing demo gets 1000 colors out of 4-color CGA PC card from 1981
Fantastic Commodore 64 glitch-music-art demo in just 256 bytes
Lunus Sakesson’s 256 byte Commodore 64 demo “A Mind Is Born” took first place at the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at the Revision 2017 digital art festival. From his program notes: The demo is driven by its soundtrack, so in order to understand what the program needs to do, it helps to have a schematic […]
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Final Stage: incredible graphical demo shows what you can do with 4 kilobytes of source code
Graphical demos created with severe code-length limitations sometimes betray the techniques used to fit a world into a few kilobytes: tessellating textures, featureless fractals, repetitive sequences, and so on. Final Stage, by 0x4015, is not one of those demos. [via] Here it is rendered on a XEON x560 with a GTX 1070 video card and […]
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Watch random computer demos
tv.pouet.net plays a random computer demo. Then it plays another, and another, and on until you are bored of demos. [via HN] remember ! you’re watching a cheap copy ! always watch on real hardware if possible ! The picks aren’t limited to the usual Commodore highlights, either. I landed on some wild ZX Spectrum […]
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Pick from over 1,000 new skills with this eLearning pass
Everybody could use a little improvement, especially those of us on the hunt for new careers. Each job requires a different set of skills, and that list can change from year to year or even month to month as new technologies emerge. When you’re in that race and need to learn fast, the old model […]
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Save over 20% on the world's longest-lasting translator device
In recent years, natural language processing technology and language translation technology have advanced greatly. The trouble is, language translation software typically comes in the form of apps. And while your mileage may vary on their usefulness, they share one thing in common: a serious drain on the battery for your smartphone, the very thing you’ll […]
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Get big savings on Noise-Cancelling Headphones, Levitating Speakers, & more
Treat yourself, internet: We’ve rounded up some deals from the past week that were too good not to bring back for an encore. Take your pick from home goods, massagers and other tech, all at serious discounts. TREBLAB Z2 Bluetooth 5.0 Noise-Cancelling Headphones Get in the groove and stay that way with these headphones and […]
