15 Aug
2001
15 Aug
'01
4:54 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Sharp
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 21:49
To: Douglas Quebbeman
Subject: RE: SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing
On 14 Aug 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
My understanding is that, at one point at least, it was indeed about
optimizing assembly loops, especially on Commodores and machines of that
era... I've even read about people using disk controllers as coprocessors
and disabling video interrupts and all kinds of crazy things. I think the
"scene" has pretty much died down in the US, and most of the current stuff
comes out of (Eastern?) Europe. There are some interesting websites out
there (which I can't remember at the moment) with downloads of stuff that
claims to make full use of Pentium IIIs, even, but most of it seems to use
junk like DirectX.
-Rob
A demo is a demonstration, showing off your programming/gfx/music
talent. The demo crews arrange demo parties where they display their
demos and win prices. It's all about pushing the limits of what's
possible on a computer.
Somehow I doubt that part of making one of these demos is seeing how many
bytes you can optimize out of an assembly language loop, or seeing how
quick you can make that shiny new script parser parse. No, I think I
would get laughed at... --
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com