Demoscene
- Demos are things that happen when a group of AI geeks sit together and make something spectacular
- originates in 80's (audio loops, C64 cracktro, MS-DOS demos)
- mainly a European phenomenon, part of UNESCO in Finland as of 2020
- Demoparty - an event that gathers demosceners and other enthusiasts
- Competitions: Demo, 64K intro, 4K/8K intro, demos for old HW (Atari, C64, Amiga)
- All past demos are collected on pouet.net and scene.org
Demoscene
Second Reality
1993
FR-08 64K
2000
Timeless 64K
2012
For Your Love
2016
Phobos 8K
2018
New World Awaits
2021
Example: Tube
- 256B MS-DOS binary file
| 1 | PAL2 mov al,0 |
| 2 | out dx,al |
| 3 | jns PAL3 |
| 4 | sub al,cl |
| 5 | shr al,1 |
| 6 | out dx,al |
| 7 | shr al,1 |
| 8 | out dx,al |
| 9 | PAL3 mov bx,cx |
| 10 | mov [fs:bx],bl |
| 11 | loop PAL1 |
| 12 | |
| 13 | TEX mov bx,cx |
| 14 | add ax,cx |
| 15 | rol ax,cl |
| 16 | mov dh,al |
| 17 | sar dh,5 |
| 18 | adc dl,dh |
| 19 | adc dl,[fs:bx+255] |
Example: kkrieger
- fully procedural 3D game from 2004, 96 KB in size LINK
