I liked to watch demos in my 8bit youth, I actually am still doing it sometimes when the nostalgia kicks in. The things that people would squeeze in meager kilobytes of memory... But you know what?
Some still do.
Recently I've found a demo made by coding group RGBA for Breakpoint party. It takes 4Kb (four kilobytes) and it is a thing of beauty. Featuring beautiful procedurally generated mountain landscapes and delicate trancey music somewhat reminding me of early Jean Michel Jarre's works, it is a moment of blissful experience. I have watched it a couple of times already and I find it strangely relaxing. Below you can see embedded Youtube video, but you better follow it to see its HD version:
...or better yet, just go to RGBA site, download the original demo and watch it the way it was intended to be distributed. It weights mere 4Kb (dammit, the images on this page take more!), however, it will decompress to hundreds of megabytes of RAM - so be warned if you are reading this post from a netbook, in which case you'd be better off watching the above video.
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Some still do.
Recently I've found a demo made by coding group RGBA for Breakpoint party. It takes 4Kb (four kilobytes) and it is a thing of beauty. Featuring beautiful procedurally generated mountain landscapes and delicate trancey music somewhat reminding me of early Jean Michel Jarre's works, it is a moment of blissful experience. I have watched it a couple of times already and I find it strangely relaxing. Below you can see embedded Youtube video, but you better follow it to see its HD version:
...or better yet, just go to RGBA site, download the original demo and watch it the way it was intended to be distributed. It weights mere 4Kb (dammit, the images on this page take more!), however, it will decompress to hundreds of megabytes of RAM - so be warned if you are reading this post from a netbook, in which case you'd be better off watching the above video.
[via Slashdot]
