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"Memories" - 256 byte MSDOS intro

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A mind-blowing 256-byte MS-DOS demo featuring eight visual effects and MIDI soundscapes, which won first place at Revision 2020.

the tiny megademo! 8 FX + MIDI soundscapes Check the final version with extra AmigaBall! youtube.com/watch?v=wlW84fEHngM download&comment: pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227 1st place @ 2020.revision-party.net/ The writeup is now available : sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories

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What people say. Engineers share this as an inspirational masterpiece of extreme size optimization and demoscene artistry.

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On “Ask HN: What does artisanal software look like?”

Check out the demo scene, they are still going strong after 4 decades and producing stuff that is just as mindblowing as it was when it all began. link to this video That's 256 bytes .
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On “Memories – a multipart demoscene demo in only 256 bytes”

The 256 byte category of demos is inspirational. The idea that a relative handful of symbols that you could write on a sheet of notebook paper and view in its entirety could produce minutes of video and sound is hard to wrap my mind around. To save anyone else the clicking here’s the video link to this video
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On “New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities”

I suggest you check out the demoscene if you haven’t. This is “Memories” from the Revision competition: link to this video 256 bytes
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On “The Commodordion”

link to this video I don't think it uses any fancy modern CPU features but this is probably the reigning champion of the 256 byte demo, and its write up0 0 link
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On “Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020”

The source code really looks like black magic. It's incredible they were able to cram the tunnel effect into 64 bytes 1. The entire video is here 2, if you just want to watch the final product. EDIT: link fixed. 1 link 2 link to this video
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clanon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020”

…m - Start nasm and enter: cd c:\temp\demo nasm.exe memories.asm -fbin -o memories.com - Start dosbox and enter: mount d c:\temp\demo d: dir memories - Press ALTENTER for fullscreen The dosbox config is not optimized but it runs with sound with the default settings! For me this is somehow much more impressive than simply watching the video. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link 4 link…
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