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Very Much Useless by Noice [web]

Release info
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Name: Very Much Useless/Noice
Platform: Sega Dreamcast VMU
Release Date: 2008-08-02
Code: Andreas Gustafsson aka. Shadow/Noice
Graphics: Sven Ruthner aka. Ptoing/Prollcoder, Red Brand

Running the demo
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Use Dream Explorer and a Dreamcast to get it onto your VMU.
Note that the existing VMU emulators are rather poor, so if you
haven't got the real hardware, just view the video instead.

History behind this demo
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After Ptoing had done graphics to my TI-83 demo "Two By Two" he said
that he had an interesting platform that I should look into - the VMU.
I started reading up about it, and was intrigued:
48x32 monochrome screen, CPU @ max 600kHz, 1024 bytes memory. 
And from what I gathered there hadn't been any scene releases for the VMU - virgin platform!
So I bought a VMU for 25 SEK (about 3 euro) - cheapest demo platform ever!
Well, at least until I found out that I had to buy a Dreamcast to be able
to transfer anything I wrote the the VMU... 
Later I managed to track down a couple of small one-effect releases
done for the VMU previously, so it turned out I wasn't breaking new ground after all.
But at least I think I can say without bragging too much that this is the best VMU demo yet! 

Additional thanks
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Marcus Comstedt for VMUASM (VMU cross assembler)

Contact info
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http://sdw.webhop.net
andreas.gustafsson@gmail.com