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Not MS-DOS, but my favourite 256 byte demo is for the C64: "A Mind Is Born", check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8 that music is astonishing.
When trying to make my significant other to understand what was happening I wanted to run it myself. I was amazed how simple that was!
- Install the assembler[2]
- Install dosbox[3]
- Get the source[4] and put it into c:\temp\demo\memories.asm
- Start nasm and enter:
cd c:\temp\demo
nasm.exe memories.asm -fbin -o memories.com
mount d c:\temp\demo
d:
dir
memories
The dosbox config is not optimized but it runs with sound with the default settings!
For me this is somehow much more impressive than simply watching the video.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4
[2] https://nasm.us/
[4] http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories#Original_release_cod...
Řrřola's trick. A bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
The source code really looks like black magic. It's incredible they were able to cram the tunnel effect into 64 bytes [1]. The entire video is here [2], if you just want to watch the final product. EDIT: link fixed. [1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4
There's something beautiful about the fact that the video is FAR larger in size than the program that initially generated the output. Almost worth watching for that fact alone.
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There's something beautiful about the fact that the video is FAR larger in size than the program that initially generated the output. Almost worth watching for that fact alone.
Your comment's html source code (the entire ) is also larger with its 380 bytes.
I am always very impressed when I see these demos and how much can be done with so little. If you are like me you just jumped to Youtube[1] to see it in action. When trying to make my significant other to understand what was happening I wanted to run it myself. I was amazed how simple that was! - Install the assembler[2] - Install dosbox[3] - Get the source[4] and put it into c:\temp\demo\memories.asm - Start nasm an…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's something beautiful about the fact that the video is FAR larger in size than the program that initially generated the output. Almost worth watching for that fact alone.
Your comment's html source code (the entire ) is also larger with its 380 bytes.
I've always thought the demo scene looked cool. Problem is, I don't really care about graphics and sound and am not an especially creative person. Are there are competitions that are purely objective? As in, the objective criteria is quantitative?
codegolf
But, what I did last year was visualize one of the assignments; the assignment was something about overlapping areas on a field, the naive solution (for me) was to create an x by y bitmap and just add the overlaps, which could then easily be converted into a visible image, which helped me with visualizing the problem and my solution.
There is a breakdown of this demo on youtube, it's roughly ~2 hours. They explained how they made this demo. Really interesting to watch.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqT0DhV9yE
Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFIyj5Yv440