Show HN: 2,629 Tiny Demos from Pouet, Running in the Browser

Show HN: 2,629 Tiny Demos from Pouet, Running in the Browser(parkertomatoes.github.io)

15 points by parkertomatoes 2 years ago | 5 comments

oniony 2 years ago |

If anyone else, like me, had no idea what this is even about then I found https://www.pouet.net/faq.php.

So it seems it's a bunch of demos from the 90s (or written for 90s hardware) running on emulators in the browser.

I used to have an Amiga back then, and I remember the demo scene. They basically wrote programs that would push the limits of the hardware to demonstrate what is possible. Some of them were quite mind-blowing as they would seemingly do stuff that you would know, from playing games, was not possible.

112233 2 years ago | |

What do you mean 90s! Here's one this year's winning 32 byte demo from rrrola: https://parkertomatoes.github.io/demo-parade/?which=96021 Here's one this year's winning 256 byte demo being presented: https://youtu.be/2p5HCTUNgfU?t=535

Basically, once it is 256 bytes or less, DOS is one of the few options you have left, everything else would need more than that in headers/symbols.

pimlottc 2 years ago |

I thought this was going to be 2000+ demos running /at the same time/, it's actually a collection of browser-runnable demos.

112233 2 years ago |

real nice! As expected, puls by rrrola barely crawls on the dos emulator (raymarching parametric surfaces in 256b, what do i expext)

What about those demos that play MIDI?

parkertomatoes 2 years ago | |

Thanks! Interestingly, I can hear noise (not music) on localhost, but not on GitHub pages. Maybe Chrome has a remote host restriction?

https://parkertomatoes.github.io/demo-parade/?which=94376