Comments on: Best. Demo. Ever.

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:47:57 +0000

It would be cool to check them out! Hopefully someone has figured out how to port everything to a current “bloated” video and sound file format. :) This is the first I’ve heard of the demo scene, it looks like I really missed out.

By: Ara Pehlivanian

Ara Pehlivanian — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:24:24 +0000

Tomas: Burned on an old Archives CD. Actually the two demos that I was involved in during my demo scene tenure no longer function on normal machines–unless you have a Gravis Ultrasound installed. It was the sound card of choice back in the day and it was a requirement for the demos. :-/

I did come across all of my old music files too. I might release them, tests, incomplete and all. Y’know, for archival purposes. Thing is though, not many players are available to play those formats anymore. (mainly S3M & IT…)

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:46:10 +0000

Amazing stuff! So Ara, where’s your demo?

By: jon deal

jon deal — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:35:26 +0000

Wow, that’s some *very* impressive stuff. Thanks.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:48:27 +0000

Oh, LOL! I forgot. I actually have that tool. I never really took the time to figure out how to actually make something useful with it. :P

Still, it’s impressive how drastically does it cut the storage size. But I guess you pay for that in load times. When I actually ran the demo, I sat there for like a minute staring at the progress bar and then I killed it and watched the YouTube vid. :)

By: Ara Pehlivanian

Ara Pehlivanian — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:42:42 +0000

Luke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.werkkzeug

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:38:05 +0000

I saw that the other day. I was blown away. I have no clue how they managed to pack it all up in 177kb. I mean I have low resolution JPG files that are bigger than this.