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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!"
What on earth is a "text mode demo compo" ? Even after clicking the link i have not much more information than that.
While AAlib is a very nice and cool thing, i'm not quite fond of it being used .. it kinda destroys the point of coding in text-mode (at least thats the way i feel) .. and it makes it (of course) feel aalibbish :) .. theres a whole bunch of neat tricks one can do in standard textmode (i remember someone changing the font to something self-defined (which then were modified like regular graphics) .. kinda took away the charm, however)
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
I remember seeing my first "loader" back in 1992, I had just started drawing ANSI for a local 206 art group called RaT. I remember it quite clearly, it had an ANSI logo that faded in and out and text that scrolled from right to left that faded from dark grey (or more accurately, bright black) to dark white to bright white then back again with really horrible fire effects at the bottom.
I've always loved textmode demos, they bring me back to a world before the internet was the gargantuan beast it is now, when I called 64 BBS's a day (and would have called more except my modem program only supported 64 entries).
It's great to see people still doing this.
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Additionally the demo authors will not have any hardware-assisted rendering, forcing them to do their own rasterization methods
Well, I can certainly imagine the thrill (not) of implementing all the fundamentals from scratch.
There's certainly the point that this will make people write smart algorithms, but there are certain things that everybody will do anyways. Bresenham line drawing. Cohen-Sutherland Line-Clipping algorithm. Crack open your CG textbook and find many more.
Doesn't the ascii demo scene have any libraries to put the emphasis on smart implementation of ART, rather than the art coming second to a smart implementation of pixel pushing?
It all goes downhill from first post
Sorcerers was the first PC demo group and the first group to create text mode demos ever. Those guys were from my hometown Turku, Finland. They (BCG, Ranger, Luke) formed their group in spring, 1989. BCG and Luke were 16 years old, Ranger had just turned 15.
Someone probably says that Atom was their first text-mode demo. That wasn't. They had released at least 2 text mode demos before Atom. First one was released on March, 1989.
BCG - one of the members who formed Sorcerers can be reached through his BBS. You can also find the old Sorcerers demos there on the download section. BCG's box can be reached HERE!
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