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1.6 Megahertz per Pixel: TMDC6
TMDC Organizing writes "The sixth pseudoannual text mode demo competition is on. The goal is to make cool audiovisual demos that run in an NT console. Deadline for submissions is 12.12.2003 (Slashdot has covered TMDC before). An invitation demo and all the entries from two last contests are available."
The FAQ has some static screenshots.
I ROXXOR!!
Till this runs on Linux?
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Ick! At the very least, 4NT is the way to go.
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They live in egloos and don't even use computers. Why would anyone care about Finland?
eep
I wonder what it would be like to have two opposable thumbs.
Aahhh, I still remember running the SecondReality demo from FutureCrew on my old 80486 SX computer... it was running pretty well!
This is quite possibly the only site that could be completely mirrored in text mode... and here I am posting a link... Anyway.. here is a mirror of the invitation:
http://slashdot.isthatdamngood.com/tmdc6inv.zip
Be nice. Its dsl.
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>> 1.6 Megahertz per Pixel: TMDC6
Lets see, my laptop has a resolution of 1600x1200 that gives me 1920000 pixels.
1920000 pixels X 1.6 MHz = 3072000 MHz
I think I can beat that G5 cluster with my laptop now. This is sweet.
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Players:
Cybil: Female Biped Dragonair morph
DrGamez: Male Charmeleon morph
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* DrGamez is sitting on the bed smiling as she walks in, "Heya there..."
* Cybil walks over to the bed, returning his smile. "Why hello...."
* DrGamez pats a part on the bed next to him, "Come on up here, its more comfortable."
* Cybil nods softly, moving onto the bed next to him. "Yes... very comfortable... and warm."
* DrGamez scoots next to her and wraps his tail around, not worring about the tailflame, he looks at her and nuzzles, "Hope you don't mind the 'out of the blueness' of all this attention."
* Cybil smiles softly, nuzzling back and wrapping her own tail around him. "Of course not.... it's very nice to be with you, whenever, and wherever."
* DrGamez keeps nuzzling before lowering down, and kissing her neck, giving it a slight nibble. He moves his head back up to her ear and whispers, "Then you won't mind if we have a bit more fun than cuddling will you?"
* Cybil shivers slightly at the nibble and kiss on her neck, and smiles, whispering back, "Not at all... not at all."
* DrGamez smiles and reaches a claw over, gently rubbing her side as he moves his mouth back down to kiss and suck at her neck again, moving only slightly between each kiss.
* Cybil mrrshivers happily at the attention her neck is recieving, putting her head back a little with half-lidded eyes. She moves a hand up to stroke the side of his head gently, that being one of the few things she can think of at the moment.
* DrGamez moves his rubbing claw up to her chest and pushes her back a bit, guiding her to lay down.
* Cybil lays down, her tailtip twiching slightly out of anticipation. She continues to shiver and mrrr happily.
* DrGamez smiles and keeps his kissing along her neck before slowly moving them down the center of her body, letting his hot tongue leave a small trail of wetness.
* Cybil moanshivers as a hot tongue moves down the center of her body, leaving a wonderful sensation behind. She merely lies there, mrrring and the like, as if she was in a trance of sorts.
* DrGamez keeps moving down until he gets to her tummy. Slowing his kissing and licking down he reaches his claw between her legs and slowly pushes outwards, wanting her to spead them just a small bit.
* Cybil complies, opening her legs almost immediately. The light kisses and licks are the culprit of her mrrring and shivering state, and she loves it.
* DrGamez smiles and moves even lower, nearing her crotch. He climbs over one of her legs and adjusts himself, taking a whiff of her heavy scent. With an instinctual mrr he breath a short blast of hot air over the slit, "Someone seems a little needy..."
* Cybil groans softly as the hot air touches against her damp opening, tailtip tapping lightly against the bed in approval. She places a hand on her chest, rubbing lightly there, eyes now completely closed.
* DrGamez chuckles, "I'll take that as a yes." Quickly he extnded his tongue and gave the opening a long lick along the entire length of it, his claws resting on the inside of her thighs, lightly spreading them out farther.
* Cybil arcs her back a little, pushing upwards into the lick, moaning softly. Her legs spread out slowly in accordance with the light push of the claws, while the rubbing on her chest gets a little faster.
* DrGamez slides his arms underneath, wrapping them around Cybil's legs and pulls his face closer, giving more long hard licks, still not penetrating as he tries to drive her lust upwards even higher.
* Cybil begins to moan a little more audibly now, arcing her back every now and again from sudden surges of pleasure. Her lust bubbles up like a pressure cooker, slowly reaching that point of no return...
* DrGamez gets extremley aroused hearing Cybil moan from the pleasure. He wraps his lips around her slit and gives it a warm kiss, teasing her even more. Feeling enough wa
Is that geek-speak for "whenever the organizers decided to drop the bong and get things started again"?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
"Slashdot has covered TMDC before"...
And nobody cared then....nobody cares now.
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that's right. this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions.
pateNTdead eyecon0meter: torvalds safe from harm? (Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14, @12:00PM (#7474735)
the planet is a little short of genuine heros nowadaze, so by the creators' mandate, the light bringers will protect the core developers of the gnu millennium, naturally.
we don't need any more fauxking billyonerrors & torvalds doesn't need any corepirate nazi 'protection'. actually, it's quite the opposite, as they need his cooperation to survive their previous/ongoing greed/fear/ego based poor judgemeNT calls/bets.
& you won't need any phonIE payper liesense gadgets, not even a model rocket cam/high powdered vdo, to be able to sense which way the winds of change are bullowing at gale force/farce.
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down like with fuddles' corepirate nazi bouNTy hunters ?pr? scams. If you think this is unfair, we don't care.
I don't get it.
What extreme opinions do these ladies have to cause such a debacle of democracy?
Accent on static.
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gnaa, penis bird and ascii-goatse trolls to prove their worth! go guys, make /. proud of you.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I don't mind gays and I can tolerate almost any sexual fetish and orientation but furries? No sir. Ship'em over already. Child molesters are the absolute worst but at least they don't cram their fucking sickness down our throats.
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Cygwin is just bash in the "console", right?
Is cygin legal ?
I am EJACULATING on your face, bitch.
And this is an FP!
FECES POST!
I demo this to my coworkers about 10 times a day. It always makes them laugh. I guess that means I have a chance of winning?
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Quick! Someone raise OTM from the dead!
:D
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside
"Slashdot has covered TMDC before"... And they still are not able to handle the slashdot-effect...
I have never seen a blue screen that didn't have that on there. Is that the "standard" message, or is it like the bad old days of MacOS when "BUS ERROR" or something came up for lots of variable error conditions.
What does IRQL... mean, anyway?
This is a good article.
Although it is a different camera, I also reccomend this camera from Ricoh
C'mon, that was funny as hell! Any post that disses the goatse-trolls is +5 in my book.
What can we do about slashdotting ?
,lets cache the front page of the website atleast .
Come on Commander Taco...in case of slashdotting
Does anyone else agree ? Enough emails to Taco and maybe he will do it.
don't worry about dave, he's already garned a significant amouNT of the felons' ill gotten 'gains', with more on the weigh, win or lose.
It appears that they're running their webserver on NT.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
distributed folding is, granted not as appealing to the eyes, but makes up for that with productive results. also makes a decent benchmarking util. win32 screenshot. i like using it with multi-gnome-terminal w/ transparency turned on ontop of a snazzy desktop background image.
it doesn't seem that way. it l00ks like the only stuff that matters is monIE. maybe that's just the way it is for sum greed/fear/ego based LIEforms?
can't say we're surprised buy that.
http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/crashnt.html
You must be new here..
Suggest that the site is better off NOT caching those poor sites and he's do it right off, taking credit in his journal and everything.
He hates the readers and is nothing more than another disinterested clock-puncher squatting on a domain with tons of potential. Let go, Rob. Walk away, and let someone with passion make this baby sing again!!
this is an artistic competition, not a number-crunching competition.
On weed?
Looks like the lumeta system is toast.
They started a project to map the Internet and probably didn't expect the entire Internet to come to them.
Any code running in kernel mode (x86 ring 0) on NT (drivers or the kernel) can change the IRQL by making a call. Code typically raises the IRQL when it needs to do something critical and cannot afford to be preempted. The IRQL has to be at a certain level to acquire certain system locks, etc. So with all this raising of the IRQL people have to remember to put it back before they return.
Invariably what happens is that someone forgets to lower the IRQL after they have raised it... maybe on an error path or something. They leave it raised, returned to whoever called them etc... and eventually you get to code that requires that the IRQL be below some level. For example, you try to acquire a spinlock, take a page fault, try to allocate memory (pool), try to schedule the next user mode job etc... All of these actions have code that basically asserts that the IRQL is where it should be. When it's not, the machine is bugchecked and you get the bluescreen.
This kind of bugcheck is not ususally caused by hardware, it's almost always software related. Someone raised the IRQL and forgot to lower it. There are ways to find out who, basically by logging all calls to KeRaiseIrql, KeLowerIrql and some other routines that change the IRQL as a side effect.
I want voxel-based displays! Let's make "32-bit deep" mean something a whole lot more!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Matrix clip in ASCII.
This is teh 1337 h4x0r stuff 1ve dr34m3d 0f d01ng
The last time this competition came up, I got to wondering what's to stop you from doing "bitmapped" text mode? Standard 80x25 text mode is 30 KHz ie. 30,000 lines per second, each 640 pixels wide. That's about 24 million pixels per second. These day we have multi giga-op processors, and interrupt hardware can't be far behind (?).
Simply set the screen to 80x25 space characters then trigger interrupts a bit before each pixel and change the background color. Hey presto, 16 color bitmapped mode. Then use temporal anti-aliasing to yield even more colors. Kudos to the first person who makes a X driver for this mode.
Sure, this will eat a lot of CPU time, but that's what this sort of competition is all about.
I choose to remain celibate, like my father and his father before him.
That was a great post. Highly technically informative, but not obfuscationist.
I added you to my friends list.
The music for the invitation demo is in Ogg Vorbis format.
I for one welcome the repeal of our old MP3 overlords!
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This contest brings back fond memories of creating line printer art on a CDC6600. Better than ASCII art, it relied on the ability to to use carriage returns (without line feeds) to create especially dark overprinted characters for a much wider pallette of gray values ("8" "X" ":" was pretty dark if the ribbon was fresh). You could make some pretty cool pictures (within the restrictions of 80 cols of overprinted chars). The biggest problem was that it tended to irritate the computer center gnomes when you sent your job to the printer.
Ahhh....nostalgia.....
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
One thing that has always bothered me about the demo scene, is their lack of openness. It's very hard to come across the source code of a demo, or even just a description of how it was done.
It's frustrating for multiple reasons. First, because it's harder for newbies to learn the art, and second because after some time, demos that were real pieces of art, Second Reality for instance, are pretty much unrunnable on a modern computer. And this is truly sad.
This is possibly the single most pointless task in existance. Masturbation is more productive.
'Yet Another Stupid human Trick'
I *really* like the shell on a framebuffer console.
Then perhaps it's time for somebody to write "dxvt", or "DirectX Video Terminal", a terminal emulator that runs in a fullscreen DirectDraw session.
Will I retire or break 10K?
At $0.05 a call
This may be true outside North America, but in the United States, both local calls and local minutes are unmetered. Some U.S. phone companies even provide unmetered domestic local, regional, and long distance calls and minutes for a flat fee.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Well this contest is silly in it's basic concept. This all have reduced to about doing good decimate+dither+map&fit routine, which converts graphics to ascii. Moreover why the hell Windows (especially lame 2000!) are so much of a defacto? Very lame, veeery lame. And asking Windows Default Palette is even more lame. I, myself, have dome pretty lot of ascii mode arts and demos back then, when i had a lovely Tandy CGA. It was about art. And tweaking. About Weaking ART. And Art of Tweaking. I think, in some soon times i am gona try to organize, for first, extremely small contest, BUT using REAL CGA (With 8x8 letters REAL ascii font, and not "stripeful" 9x14/9x16) and RGBI REAL colors, and of course REAL blurry screen. And for DOS/LINUX - a pleace where REAL ascii-art lives! Maybe some size limitation might take place, like, for example 512kbytes. However i am most likely to do some site on this topic and see what people will ask. The most problems might arrise with plugging CGA into pentiums-class stuff. I think i might do some budgetary small chipset CGA+ cards with PCI connectors, or something. Second point is in using some pretty CGA HW emulation introducing all the image qualities to 19" FD Trinitrons and 19" LCD we use nowdays. Additional words: I love ascii gfx I love tweaking fonts (why i made a reprogrammable-font card back then) I love tweaking collors (why i made reprogrammable rgbi palette no cga gfx modes - few $ addon between monitor and card and connected to centronix port) :)
Don't follow that link in the parent, people. It might as well be goatse.
I know I'm being offtopic, but to hell with karma, I want to spare the rest of you from what my poor eyes have just witnessed.
Poor, poor old Njord
Having looked at some of the demos they remind me of lots of entries of the Assembly competitions
from the early 90s before they descended into 3D hell.
In their FAQ:
"Since we're doing the jurying on several sites, and most of these do not have the possibility of using linux,"
Jesus , I mean come on , how hard would it be for these guys to have a couple of linux judges who
have linux installed on their PCs?? Its not like people are asking them to judge AS/400 console demos! Or they could even get some
old cast off 486s or something and use those since you'd only need a bare minimal linux setup.
...this comment looks strangely familiar. And the story wasn't even a dupe...