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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Alastair
• last name: McBain
• portals:
• slengpung: pictures
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Behind the Curtain by United Force [web] & Digital Dynamite [web]
• cdc #2: muoto by Traction [web] & Brainstorm [web]
• cdc #3: Blitzgewitter by Titan [web]
• cdc #4: Optical Circuit by 0x4015

• 64k Windows delight by Mercury [web]
• Ah, just watched it again. :) Forgot I hadn't thumbed it up the last time I did so. How to make a single room exciting in 64k or less. ;)
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-26 06:28:42
• demo Windows Sosincs Vége by The Adjective
• Very ah... interesting. Fits the trend of the last demos. Not really my cup of tea, and could probably use a bit of polish. Not quite a thumb, though. Is ok.
• isokadded on the 2016-09-15 00:54:11
• demo Windows Mit nekem te zordon Kárpátoknak fenyvesekkel vadregényes tája 2 by Tesco Gazdaságos Demócsapat [web]
• Echoing most else: I don't understand Hungarian either, but the rest of the content is pretty good. :)
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-15 00:48:59
• 256b MS-Dos Neon Station by Digimind
• Oh. Forgotten thumb, of course.
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-14 02:02:55
• 256b MS-Dos Symetrie by Řrřola [web]
• Very pretty
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-14 01:45:11
• 256b MS-Dos Neon Station by Digimind
• Wow!
  
  
  Quote:

  by Digimind:
  Re: sources.
  Even first c++ version is unreadable due to optimization, so short explanation would be better.
  
  Re: rendering.
  There is not much choice for 3D with a free camera in 256b world, so raytracing is used.
  
  Re: camera movement.
  Camera position is a Lissajous 3D curve with 2 sinewaves. Camera direction is calculated as a derivative of position to always look forward.
  
  Re: maze generation.
  There were no bytes left for maze generation so I had to reuse camera movement code. I just initialized 3D array to mark all cubic cells as non-empty. Then during precalculation I send the camera through this array for thousands of iterations and mark each visited cell as empty. Since camera path varies slightly with each iteration, it clears a lot of space. In this way there is also a nice property during rendering that camera never touches the wall - automatically.

  
  Very nice!
• isokadded on the 2016-09-14 01:43:22
• demo Windows Rainbow Clash - Modern Art by United Force [web] & Digital Dynamite [web]
• I think you guys have figured out your demotool pretty well. ;)
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-13 23:19:25
• 64k Windows Universal Sequence by Conspiracy [web]
• Awesome as always. Amazing audio sync.
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-12 06:08:32
• demo Linux Windows Raspberry Pi Raspberry Psy by Desire [web]
• That's really cool, tech and all. :)
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-11 20:37:34
• 256b MS-Dos Contact by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• I'm sure a lot of work went into this, which is why I won't thumb it down, but it just seems a lot like your previous works: a bunch of 3D grayscale stuff and a "flyby" camera path. Even with the addition of sound, it's just not that exciting. The first ones were, because it was novel then. So, pig it is.
• isokadded on the 2016-09-06 04:52:52