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TMDC5

Posted by michael on from the say-it-five-times-fast dept.

TMDC Organizing writes "There's less than two weeks left to the fifth pseudoannual text mode demo compo submission deadline. The web-submission system is finally online, and you can also chat about TMDC5 on ircnet #tmdc5. Even if you haven't started on an entry yet, there's still time!"

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  1. Examples of text-mode demos by snillfisk · · Score: 5, Informative

    A few references for everyone wishing to see something created earlier or just for inspiration:

    (mostly win32, sorry)
    on pouet.net

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    kvasigen.demoscene.no (80x25, Hangover in Halden, Textmode 3)
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  2. Re:Call me stupid but ... by snillfisk · · Score: 5, Informative

    A text mode demo compo is a competition where people submit oldskool "demos" (ever heard of a thing called the 'demoscene'?) .. These are usually 3d rendered in software, raytracers, plasmas, cool 2d-effects .. simply doing something that looks good and make you think "how did they do that?" (like the first time someone draw something on the borders on the c64)..

    http://www.pouet.net/ and http://www.ojuice.net/ for further reference.

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  3. AAlib :) by CoolVibe · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's the library you'd want to use. Also, check out "bb", which is a very cool OPEN SOURCE text mode demo, with good music, and playable on any terminal out there.

  4. Re:Efficiency. by bob_dinosaur · · Score: 3, Informative

    The reason your processor is pegged at 100% is that there's all sorts of fancy software raytracing and algorithmic generation going on in the background - the fact that no hardware acceleration can be used means more CPU cycles are consumed.

  5. Re:Where did it go? by Sesse · · Score: 3, Informative

    The demoscene is very much alive -- it has changed, yes (some would say to the worse, some claim it has changed so much it's dead), but it's alive.

    Try the viewing tips on scene.org for a taste of what it has to offer nowadays. If you're more interested in Amiga stuff, there are DivX captures of a lot of new and old Amiga stuff on Amidemos (most of it probably won't run on your A600 :-) ). There's a Unix-specific demoscene archive out there, for those who want native Linux/*nix demos -- in any case, pouet has a wide range of demos for almost every platform you can think of. :-) (The "top10" list is slightly debatable, though ;-) )

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  6. Source code to invite here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Check out the invitation text-mode 3d demo here; it comes with complete source code too.

    Squint a bit and it looks awesome!

  7. TMDC4 "Super Killer" is a super annoying XP killer by ortholattice · · Score: 3, Informative

    I tried the TMDC4 "Super Killer" on a Windows XP (Pro) machine. I pressed alt+enter as instructed, and the thing took over in full-screen mode. Well, not exactly my taste. Fine. So, I assumed the following rule (according to the contest site) was implemented: "User must be able to quit the demo at any moment by pressing ESC". I pressed ESC. Nothing, it just kept running. I pressed ALT+F4. Nothing, it just keep running. I pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL and nothing! It just keep running, taking over the entire computer. Finally I just got p.o.'ed and killed it with the power switch. After rebooting, thankfully, it was no longer running. (BTW the CTRL+ALT+DEL problem seems to be common on this XP with other runaway apps too. It seems if an app uses 100% CPU time, the lame multitasking model never lets the Task Manager start, or maybe it will if you wait an hour.)

  8. One-banana problem by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a good explanation why the banana could be used as a pejorative when it comes to programming.

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  9. Re:Very intriguing material by jjl · · Score: 2, Informative
    For a lot more demos with pretty weird ideas, check out the demos available in the tAAt home page.

    Check out e.g. these: .. not forgetting other funny productions, like Porrasturvat - Stair Dismount which was featured recently here in Slashdot also.
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  10. You can find the demo archive for TMDA here... by p_trinli · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...can be found here:

    http://tmda.planet-d.net/list.html

    (Note: these are nearly 100% DOS/Windows files.)

  11. The demoscene by kliment · · Score: 2, Informative

    The demoscene is actually a pretty fascinating thing, and this is not really the way to present it to the slashdot crowd. I'd suggest you people go over to Scene.org and see for yourself what real demos are like. I go to Assembly every year and I have to say some of the stuff is quite impressive. See for yourselves. Text-mode demos are really a small part of the scene.

  12. Re:Wow, they get to reinvent the wheel by jjl · · Score: 2, Informative

    The compo organization gives you the invitation source code to have something to look into and use as a reference. The invitation source uses/includes also the TextFX4 library which is a simple image interpolation and text output library.

    PS. Port of the TextFX4 library for Linux would be nice.. any volunteers?

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