Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty

An anonymous reader writes "Last week-end at Revision demoparty, demosceners have pushed further the limits of what can be done in a single 64kb executable file. Using extensive procedural techniques and compression, Gaia Machina (video capture) and F — Felix's Workshop (video capture) are realtime animations, featuring high quality rendering, sound, 3D models, and textures."

Re:Am I supposed to have heard about this before??

[Anonymous Coward]

Get off my lawn!

If you have to ask why this is cool...

[Dr. Manhattan]

...you're not part of the intended audience. Admittedly, there's a lot of necessary hardware support to get these kinds of results, but still... full A/V in a space less than the banner image of most websites. Makes you wonder what could be done with similar techniques and, say, a megabyte of space.

Re:Word Salad

[Nyder]

I can't seem to make heads or tails of this post. It's techno-babble and word salad. I guess I should remember this feeling when I talk about programming with my non-programming friends.

Sort of sad as a programmer you have no knowledge of some of programming history.

Re:Word Salad

[Tukz]

Makes me wonder if he really IS a "programmer" and not just a "HTML/CSS" scripter.
You would be surprised at how many HTML/CSS monkeys, calls themselves "programmers" these days.

Re:The reason you haven't heard about it

[tepples]

If a program doesn't need a hardware upgrade to run it then it can't possibly be any good.

Then explain the DS outselling a PSP with a CPU clocked over three times faster.

Yeah yeah old man

[SmallFurryCreature]

But in your days it was easy, you could count the clock cycles on the fingers of one hand and if you wanted a bit flipped you just climbed inside the computer with a hammer!

Anyway, you weren't all that impressive, you relied on a blacksmith for a hammer and a miner for the coal to fire your machine. You were just the slave master benefiting from the slave labor of others.