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Requires pixel shaders 2.0.
May work on nvidia cards too (or not).

The mythos built behind the pixel shaders being a "precious" gift is rather interesting, i see it easily impresses the simple minds.

For your information and if you understand what it implies, everything it processed through a pixel shader which creates the chessboard & the scrolltext (and the rest), so it's not just one of these blur / glow / post process shaders you rip from web tutorials to create your lame 3ds replayers you present as "demos".

Considering the size, this couldn't be done without shaders, which are encoded in a form that is easier to compress than x86 code and permit graphical operations that would simply be too big to fit in 1k if done with the cpu. It's unconventional use of them and that was the goal.
2.0 because earlier shaders implementations don't have the required instructions giving the ability to create real small programs.

This is a glimpse of 4k & 64k intros' future you're seeing there.

Instead of "opinion", i hesitate between "ignorance" & "insincerity"
but i guess that's more about something nauseous that have been floating between us two for some times now,
if you want to clear this...

As a (rather friendly) side note, try to do a good looking 1k effect sometimes, even just for yourself,
you'll see that it's everything but easy, you'll see how you have to juggle with every opcodes and craft the effect
so that eg. the colors variables are the same as the ones used for the movements, the code instructions must be ordered
to maximize the compression ratio and all that sort of amusing little things...
More generally you'll fight bytes for bytes...



Good but i suspected that already.



I think chessboards (shaded or not) are cool, the shader does the scrolltext aswell.

I'm talking about shaders as a way to produce alien datas not just as support for (post) processing gfx stuff solely.
Actually i also did some shaders to work on sound but the whole couldn't fit with the rest in 1k, of course.



Let's make it clear & short: i wasn't even thinking about you.

Don't think about shaders just being a gpu unit able to make shades or blur or whatever post processing fxs are. Here, everything is done with the shader, the sine, the scroll, the chessboard & the shade, the framework is only opening directx, creating the shader's context & sending the values to move the board & the scroll to the shader which does all the rest.



Not as a 1k windows executable, i assure you.



Perhaps you downloaded the first version because i've updated it afterwards to fix that issue (i hope).

because there is only 2 bytes left.

it shouldn't be.

Well, if i was seeking fame & glory that's what i'll do:

- Find a recipe to be able to reach highest ranks in parties competitions and stick to it forever.
- Only release productions at parties because it's more fame & glory++.
- Spend more than 3 weeks on a production.

And that's what i actually do:

- Experiment in many directions & try to do stuff i haven't done before.
- Never release anything at parties (as a matter of fact don't give a flying shit about these events).
- NEver spend more than 3 weeks on a production.

Regarding all this sad thread i'd like to add that, to scornful attitudes i answer with the same bad manners.

Now if you like me it's nice and if you don't like me it's nice.