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[Intros that defined the 64k genre..........................] Choose zero demotools and shaders There was an era when demotools were not needed to create a mindblowing intro, an era when 2D effects outnumbered 3D effects, sounds were not realtime generated but sampled, scene poetry was scene poetry and progress bars were made of ASCII characters. In that era the PC scene broke its Amiga roots and

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[Handcrafted demos...............................] A challenge to the last clock cycle of the Z80 An oscilloscope, a nerdy calculator or a digital camera could have uses different from the original intention. Wormholes and "Silent"-bars on a 6Mhz Z80Let's take the TI-83. TI-83 is a programmable calculator made by Texas Instruments in 1993, with a 6Mhz clocked Z80 inside, a bunch of kilobytes of

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[datunnel site redesign..............................] All of this felt so 2007... Oh well, Spring brings a nice redesign to datunnel. Yeah, the old site was too goofy for "modern" standards. But who cares, anyway. Yesterday, the morning words of Okkie at the end of BP2010 brought tears to my old scener's eyes: this year's Breakpoint will be the last one, and that's not a joke. A generation has

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[History of realtime raytracing (part #3)................] We need raytrace, anyway. "balls are the new bobs" - Insectecutor "When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." - Pablo Picasso Did you think we were dead? Yes, we were, indeed. And then your scientists invented electricity.

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[Ladies and gentlemen, the interval................] Yeah, who needs raytrace... Guys, life took over as always, and part III of the raytracing series is gonna take a bit longer than expected (quite a bit longer...). So, in the mean time, you can probably check out some links. For example, take a look at this great article. It's one of the best making-of I've ever seen, for Applied Mediocrity,

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[History of realtime raytracing (part #2)..............] Who needs raytrace, anyway? (let me be proud of being Italian, just for one second, please) The "optimizing" phase (mid 1997 - mid 2001) is the second era of demoscenic raytracing. Up to here, we've seen blocky slow spheres, really more similar to blurry squares, going nowhere on infinite parallel planes. Casting shadows. And all of this

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[History of realtime raytracing (part #1)..............] How realtime raytracing has changed the demoscene and viceversa "As we all know, the audience voted for best productions at Juhla Pi. And, as always - audience was stupid." -- Jmagic, on why the world's first realtime raytracing demo didn't win 1st place at Juhla Pi (from: "(Illogical) PC Demoscene Quotes List" or "how the 'first' realtime

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[interview #3: Iñigo Quilez aka iq.........................] According to this interview, it seems anyone can do a 4k after all...              And this *simple* math equation generates... Hello folks. DaTunnel returns after the break with a long long long long interview to our beloved coder Iñigo Quilez (mind the "ñ"), which is the man who brought us (along with Rgba, his group) unforgettable

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[review #8: every solid has six faces..................] History of cubes into the demoscene Who wouldn't like a cube like this shattering in his backyard?"In the beginning, there was The Cube". No, it's not another Transformers' incipit. History of 3d in demoscene probably begins with just one, lo-res, jagged rotating cube at the exact center of the screen, for minutes, hours. Its movement is

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[interview #2: Kurli of SQNY..............................] The coder of the unpronounceably named group interviewed by our agent The origin of the SQNY logo, finally revealed Woops. It's been a long time since the last update, uh? Many things in real life kept us away from our beloved Tunnel. But you know, real life (like nature) still sucks. So The Tunnel has returned with an outstanding scoop

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[demoreview #7: pressing 'esc'..........................] The other side of demoscene: art that doesn't look like art Where did I see that painting before?Art is usually about beauty, and the demos pretend to be art. But this time we'll talk about those demos that, for a reason or another, can't manage to surpass the thin line that divides "nice looking" from ugly. We can generally subdivide

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[demoreview #6: zooooooming in.......................] Or: 'the subtle art of going deep into infinite worlds' zoom { 'züm } 1: Movies, Television: to bring a subject, scene, etc., into closeup or cause it to recede into a long shot using a zoom lens and while maintaining focus 2: Graphics: to show a smaller area of an image at a higher magnification ("zoom in") or a larger area at a lower

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[interview #1: Navis of ASD speaks..................] The main coder of ASD talks about the background of his productions The classic Greek profile of Navis/ASDNavis, Andromeda Software Development's coder, can be defined as the real traction force of the ASD collective. It's probably due to his constance that, indeed, ASD are now where they are: at the top of the demoscene's mountain. If you

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[demoreview #5: pushing the limits....................] Hacking: making with hardware "impossible" things possible (warning: this post is [not-so] oldskool) Kukoo2: an orgy of raster effectsThe other constant push of demoscene, besides the possibility to fit as much as possible into executables of ridicolous dimensions (see the 4ks) is going beyond hardware limits, push known also as "hacking".

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[demoreview #4: by popular demand................] author(s): aardbei party: many! year: 2000 duration: 2'03'' ranked: 9th (As promised. Guys, this is going to be a tough one...) "Rob is jarig" falls into the tradition of joke-demos, tradition present in the scene from ancient times, and saying this I'll probabily get eaten from the ones who consider "Rob is jarig" everything but a joke prod.

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[demopoll #0: what next.......................................] When sceners enter the poll: which demoreview will be the next one? Which demo would you like to be reviewed next? We have prepared some options for you in the poll below. If you have other (better) ideas, write them in the comments. Free ringtones and wallpapers for every answer... (err... you're too late, poll was closed about 3

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[demoreview #3: fr-038 "Theta"..........................] author(s): farbrausch party: tum2004 year: 2004 duration: 4.24 ranked: 2nd "Ladies and gentlemen, after the loading bar has finished, we'll land onto the geometrized world of 'Theta', the trance-based demo. Please, fasten your seatbelts. We hope you had a nice flight." (whoa, that was a heck of a loading bar) "Theta" starting outThe

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[demoreview #2: ships in a bottle........................] author(s): various party: various year: 1997-2007 duration: various ranked: various 4 kilobyte intros are like bonsai "This post is bigger than 4Kbyte". 4k, in the qabbalah of demoscene, means a program with size smaller or equal to 4096 bytes. Classic figures you get to explain how tight 4k is are, for example, comparisons with other

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[demoreview #1: the "clone" trilogy.....................] author(s): fudge, acme party: various year: 1998 duration: 3.35-2.27-4.17ranked: 1st The "clone meets clone" tunnelClone, clone, clone. The concept of clonation and computers couple perfectly. Among computers, the concept of perfect clonation exists. It's more or less just like copying a bunch of bytes from one sector of the hard drive to

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[demoreview #0: "1995" by kewlers+mfx............] author(s): kewlers, mfx party: Assembly 2oo6 year: 2006 duration: 5'21'' ranked: 3rd 1. Intro "1995"'s intro screen, with "exploding" letters "1995" was one of the most groundbreaking demos of 2006 (despite the title). The keyword of the demo seems to be just one: "reference". Everything is a reference to some "period", style or stereotype of

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