#demos

In this video and accompanying article I reveal how the seemingly impossible effect in Nine was pulled off.

Hey there! Ever watched a demo or Revision and thought, I want to try making one of those? Cool!

Was playing Doom the other day and was reminded of this effect. I wanted to give it a shot using js and canvas of course. The original .c source can be seen here https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1.10/f_wipe.c

Oh, this is pretty.

Old school demos re-built in HTML5

Old school demos re-built in HTML5

Wired called them, digital graffiti and John Carmack spoke of them at QuakeCon 2011 but they remain little known. A recently released full-length documentary (download) gives a portrait of the creative digital subculture from 80s to the present day.

"XAuth is a new open platform to extend authenticated user services across the web. Google can use XAuth to let other services know that a user is signed in to google.com. Those services can then create a user experience customized for Google users."

"The main purpose for this web site is to produce legal future reference for those people who would like to be involved with assembly programming side of the C64 scene."

"Most of the things and tricks I know about programming I've learned between the age of 13-18, when I and my friends were not so much playing with, but trying to tickle as much weird and wonderful things out of our expensive "power without the price" hard

"It’s really hard to do a 10 minute presentation. ... 10 minutes doesn’t give you a lot of time to build rapport with the audience or otherwise “get into your groove”."

JavaScript is the new AmigaOS. "(depacked on the fly... yes, I'm mad enough to implement LZW decompression in JavaScript. Unisys can bite my shiny metal patent violating ass."