TMDC5

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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Call me stupid but ...

[YahoKa]

What on earth is a "text mode demo compo" ? Even after clicking the link i have not much more information than that.

Back in the day... (for me 1992)

[httpamphibio.us]

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.

Wow, they get to reinvent the wheel

[Leeji]

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?