Xeristian information 1 glöps
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- first name: Xeristian
- last name: Pendergraff
- 64k Windows fr-08: .the .product by Farbrausch [web]
- I wish I could explain what this "demo" has done to me in a mere moment.
I've learned through my whole life that in a 32bit enviroment, nothing can ever be less than 1/32'th it's size without doing some funky trip, like MOD's are midi's with a different instrument definition.
Even if something could be smaller, it would take enormous processing power to do it.
I watched the video, wondering "the trick", waiting for the message that said "ha ha, this was already in 'Windows' or 'Direct3D'" or "we've secretly been downloading this the whole time!"
There was no tort, there was no jest, there was no dastardly trick underlying the whole thing.
I don't think even a quarter of the people who've posted hear understand the significance of this, this 64k file. Calc.exe is bigger. Game developers could use this endlessly. On the fly online gaming would be a painless reality. After the interface, after the 'real' textures, after the scripts and executables and the game manuals... a full fledged 20 hour flight of nirvanic gameplay could be well within a hundred megs.
Maybe it's my fascination with the "whisper text" and mysterious scenery, like some Squaresoft preview, but this tiny file has rocked my forkin socks off.
I still remember myself half an hour ago, saying... "hah! It's probably just some stupid flash animation, or a little cube that spins around on a looped script..."
My brain hurts... And this has been around for over two years?! - rulezadded on the 2003-05-14 11:35:44
account created on the 2003-05-14 11:23:39