"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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This money management app does more than just crunch numbers
Paying for things is all too easy online these days, and that’s why managing your money has gotten so hard. We’ve all done it: You sign up for a streaming subscription or gym membership, blow past the free trial date, and it becomes a part of your monthly expenses. Some of us juggle so many […]
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Teach STEM through space combat with these DIY drones
We all know those gifts we get “for the kids,” the ones that parents are secretly more excited to open. Drones are a perfect example, but there’s a model out there that really doubles down on that appeal. Introducing the Space Fighter Building Block Drones, a series of space fighter drones that are a blast […]
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Get over a million royalty-free vector images for less than $40
The hardest part of web design can be nailing down the look. These days, even non-designers can easily spot a stale stock photo or lazily-made icon. What’s the solution? No matter what kind of artist you are, it’s always a good idea to widen your palette. And with more than a million vector images to […]
