Forum: The Classroom
Topic: 65,024 bytes
started by: Vigilante
Posted by Vigilante on Feb. 01 2001,06:21
Unbelievable.
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Posted by Blain on Feb. 01 2001,19:26
Holy shit! That is absolutely incredible.
Very, very, cool.
Posted by PersonGuy on Feb. 02 2001,00:32
Mine no work... (YES, I installed DX8)------------------
<P:\>erson\Guy.exe -PersonGuy *pERSONgUY.cfg
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Posted by Blain on Feb. 02 2001,01:39
Did you see the list of vid-cards that there are no problems with? It is kind of short if you don’t have a GeForce. Keep trying, it is well worth seeing.
Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 02 2001,01:57
holy shit! how is that whole thing only 65k???
Posted by askheaves on Feb. 02 2001,02:01
It's funny how bloated Windows apps are. Why, that thing would be less than 32K if it were compiled for Lunix!
Posted by Puppet Master on Feb. 02 2001,13:16
damn...------------------
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Posted by hal0 on Feb. 02 2001,15:02
that thing is really cool and all, but wtf is it?------------------
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Posted by Observer on Feb. 02 2001,16:03
/me is unimpressed. BTW, that program unpacks itself in memory to occupy 3,321,856 bytes of memory. I've seen cool demos like that run with only 4k. Commodore 64 users have had stuff like that for years, with good music and cool graphic effects. And since storage space was usually at a premium, they used various compression schemes to make the file smaller. When you run them, they would expand into memory, much like this one did with the progress bar.For a long time, the demo scene was always trying to come up with a new effect or way to pull more power out of the system. I suggest you find a Commodore 64/128 and grab some demos to watch. (An emulator just won't cut it.) I suggest the Driven homepage as a good place to start. -edit: I also wanted to add that using D3D calls would keep the code down. There are all the DLL's being used that aren't part of the '64k' exe. ------------------
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Posted by Happyfish on Feb. 07 2001,01:11
Pretty cool, but it freezes my puter part way through. 
Posted by kuru on Feb. 07 2001,09:36
assembly. now that's where it's at.oh fuck, i need to sleep. ------------------
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Posted by aventari on Feb. 08 2001,01:45
hey I enjoyed that demo, it was well written even if it did use a shitload of local dll's.The best demo for a PC i've ever seen has got to be 'Unreal' by Future Crew. Those guys were the bomb back in the day. I always wanted to go to one of those killer demo parties in europe-- to bad i was like 14 years old ;] ------------------
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