Playstation 3 vs. Atari VCS Mar 28, 2008

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Tags: Atari, Demoscene, Playstation 3, PS3, Video

More demoscene stuff: a very recent PS3 demo (a real-time animation for you not in the know) and a very recent Atari VCS demo. The Atari VCS (redubbed Atari 2600) was pretty much the first game console for the masses and it was released in 1977. The Playstation 3 was released in 2006.

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Some Cool Demoscene Stuff Mar 25, 2008

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Tags: Amiga, Demoscene, DOS, Procedural generation, Video

Here are some of my favorite demoscene products with a short review of each.

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Amazing 4KB Ray Tracer Mar 22, 2008

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Tags: 4K, Demoscene, Procedural generation, Raytracing

2008-07-27T12:24:18+00:00: Updated with an even more impressive 4 KB raytracer from RGBA1
Slisesix
The above is the output of a 4KB intro by Rgba that uses purely generated data to render a nice creepy landscape scene. To give some perspective: the same image compressed into a JPEG of similar size would look crap. And it still needs [...]

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There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom Oct 22, 2007

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Tags: 256B, Assembly, Demoscene, Geeks, Source code

This is the first part of the epic (two-part) series of articles about tiny intros, the next one will be about an actual intro.
I love tiny graphical presentations called “intros” in the demoscene and by tiny I mean 256 bytes tiny. Usually, at this point people mention a paragraph of text is well over 256 [...]

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