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Assembly '03

Posted by michael on from the crazy-finns dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The world's biggest festival for computer enthusiasts, Assembly '03 starts off today. Four days of coding, compos, music, games and other geeky stuff. See press release (rtf) for more..."

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  1. here in partyplace by latroM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am currently ircing on grand stand with WLAN equipment. The view is awesome, thousands of computers filling the partyplace. Assembly is awesome party and I recommend it to everyone.

  2. Re:Oooh the memories... by Firehawke · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ten years since Second Reality, and it still sets the benchmark for what could be accomplished on a 486. Ironically, the Future Crew members pretty much got what they wanted, a shot at games programming. I seem to recall Epic Pinball being one of their works, and Max Payne sports a number of ex-FC members in the credits list.

  3. First C64 LAN party by GridPoint · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bah, Assembly'03 is nothing compared to what the real old-school people are up to: The world's first C64 LAN party! At the LCP2003 party arranged in Sweden this summer, Adam Dunkels showcased his Commodore 64 Contiki OS on a bunch of C64s connected in a LAN using specially built Ethernet cards. The three C64:s connected to a LAN made this event the world's first C64-only LAN party!

  4. One thing by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having recently visited Skaven of FutureCrew's site, which linked to assembly.org - Is there a place to find the results of previous years' compos? assembly.org seems to have nothing but info on this years' event. :(

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    retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
  5. the far-reaching culture of demos by rexguo · · Score: 5, Interesting
    For those of you who thought that the demo scene is only in the EU and US, this is to let you know that it spread as far as to Singapore (far-eastern island) way back in 1995, where we held our own demo parties in 1995 and 1996. My group, WaterLogic, has the winning entry for 1996 online at www.waterlogic.com.sg/demoscene/.

    Getting into the demo scene has had profound effects on my online life and it is always a fond memory thinking back how I discovered the demo scene through a Waite Group Press's book+CD where they had Future Crew's Unreal and 2nd Reality in it back in 1994. I simply fell off my chair after the unreal experience.

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    www.rexguo.com - Technologist + Designer
  6. Re:Oooh the memories... by eddy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's odd how back then the demos on the C64 and Amiga pushed the hardware and often had very interesting designs (personally I was very sorry to see the scroll text all but disappear), and today when they have such incredible raw hardware that they don't need to push it (yes, I understand that that's some of the point, but go with me here), they seem to spend much less time on design! Really, newer demos should be more interesting than older, but that's not how I find it. At least not in the full demo, the 64KB'ers are more interesting.

    Disclaimer: I haven't really been following the PC scene or any scene since I gave up on the amiga in the mid 90s. I downloaded demos, pictures and mods from TG03 a couple of days ago and while one of the demos was kind of okay (mostly funny because of the music and the fat "diss"), the pictures really was a letdown. No Arancia or Peachy (check those out if you're reading this and you've never seen a "pixeled" pic) there...

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    Belief is the currency of delusion.
  7. Future Crew members by genner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone know what happend to the future crew team? I've seen Skavens work sitting on mp3.com but I haven't heard from Purple Motion since I quit voyagernet (where we both worked tech support)

    1. Re:Future Crew members by jth1234567 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      During early 90's Purple Motion played keyboards in a band called 'Decoryah', who managed to release two full length albums. Some information can be found here : Unofficial Decoryah page. There seems to be his more recent work at mp3.com too : Jonne Valtonen

      Some other FC members are/were working at Remedy Entertainment, creating Max Payne among other things. Some others were involved with Bitboys, a small company designing 3d-hardware, and topic of a couple of articles here in Slashdot too over the past few years :)

      Google also helpfully provided a semi-outdated History of Future Crew page.

  8. Still using assembly? by bismarck2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember doing 100% assembly like 10-15 years ago. Since then I've faced reality and admitted it's simply inefficient. Now I feel rapidly becoming obsolete sticking to C++ and STL or sticking to career programming as a whole.

    I'm amazed that people still try to write real software apps using assembly.

    I just ran across someone who sent me a networking app written in x86. It was actually very will organized and commented. But why?!??!