Astonishing 8-bit demo
This was not done on a PC or a Mac, but on an off-the-shelf Commodore 64. Beautifully texture-mapped 3D graphics and effects.
Makes you wonder why the CBM version of Elite was quite so gash.
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Bad Horsey Bring back Dr. Ubes Rub!, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 15:47,
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You should look into the demo scene
www.scene.org/
Part of the reason the games were so gash were simply down to time/money spent, as well as the developers being shit.
The top developers of these kinds of demos are awesome and can make old technology look way beyond its years, but then they are prepared to spend many hours with their heads burried in relatively small amounts of code.
I love these things *clicks*
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 15:59,
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I always found tech demos pretty dull
For me, what makes good programming is interactivity, not 'look how fast I can render this animation'. Sure, it's impressive to squeeze a few microseconds out of a low-end machine, but getting it to work interactively is a very different business, I think.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 16:01,
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Tech demos are full of that kind of stuff as it happens
that's why they are "tech demos", developers show off their skills not only with animations. There's quite a few cool games come from the scene, one I remember playing was a tech demo of a rag doll effect, you had to see how injured you could get this guy by pushing him down some stairs.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 16:09,
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Stair Dismount???
www.pcgaming.ws/viewgame.php?game=stair_dismount
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 17:23,
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