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• first name: Matt
• last name: Westcott
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• cdcs:
• cdc #1: untitled by Inward [web] & CyberPunks Unity [web]
• cdc #2: candy ~TokyoDemoFest 2013 Invitation~ by Nonoil [web] & Gorakubu [web] & 301 [web]
• cdc #3: Stellar by Kpacku
• cdc #4: Everything Is Static Still Changing by United Force [web] & Digital Dynamite [web]

• 16k JavaScript Fake Plastic Cubes by Gasman
• 'fake' being the operative word :-) Any events that fire while code is running are queued up and executed when the processor becomes free again, so the synth would still hold up the main graphics loop even if it was running off its own timer.
• isokadded on the 2010-09-07 15:15:47
• 16k JavaScript Fake Plastic Cubes by Gasman
• Yep, there are no real 'world firsts' in this, although the PNG compression and softsynth are possibly firsts for actual-released-scene-productions (correct me if I'm wrong!)
  
  p01: I haven't done any formal profiling on the softsynth, but guessing from the blips in playback it's probably around 5% CPU on Chrome / MacBook Pro. I suspect the issue is not really CPU load, but coming up with a cleverer way to get around Javascript's inherent single-threadedness. HTML5 web workers are top of my list to investigate... incidentally, the Flash fallback code (borrowed from dynamicaudio.js and hacked around a bit) doesn't specify a sample rate at all, so I'm not 100% certain that it's even possible to use something other than 44.1KHz stereo. It probably is though.
  
  (ooh look, they've just changed the API in the latest FF4 beta. How handy.)
• isokadded on the 2010-09-06 16:22:20
• 16k JavaScript Fake Plastic Cubes by Gasman
• rasmus: Tell me, what other PC demos from 2010 have you run on your locked-down corporate desktop running 10 year old technology lately?
• isokadded on the 2010-09-06 13:01:24
• 16k JavaScript Fake Plastic Cubes by Gasman
• Online version is now fixed for FF3.6, but it's a slideshow from hell.
  
  (It's fine on FF4 beta, if that's any consolation. At least upgrading your browser is easier than upgrading your graphics card...)
• isokadded on the 2010-09-06 11:17:32
• demo Windows Amiga PPC/RTG The GDP of Taiwan by Residue
• This is a work of genius, and anyone who disagrees clearly doesn't spend enough time reading useless pouet threads.
• rulezadded on the 2010-09-05 12:12:54
• 16k JavaScript Fake Plastic Cubes by Gasman
• An experiment with some new Javascript 64K intro techniques (softsynth, PNG compression) that ended up falling a bit short of the whole '64K' thing.
  
  Not sure exactly what hardware spec you need to make this run convincingly without stuttering (slightly more than a MacBook Pro, apparently). Also, if you're running this directly off disk (rather than accessing it through a web server) you'll probably have to arse around with Flash plugin permissions and things... so don't bother, just watch the online version instead.
• isokadded on the 2010-09-05 04:24:35
• 1k ZX Spectrum dough-NUTS by 3SC [web]
• It's just like Into The Pink, but done in 1K, and on the Spectrum, and written three years earlier! :-D
• rulezadded on the 2010-08-17 16:34:45
• demo Windows Happiness is Around the Bend by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• First off: BRILLIANT. Certainly the most anticipated ASD production yet (if not most anticipated demo ever full stop...?) and didn't disappoint.
  
  So. At this point criticising the music is probably just twisting the knife further, but I can see what everyone means. The music should be making me feel the panic of the figures who are having their world churned up by the bulldozer from hell, and the terror of being pursued by the snake tentacle beasts. But instead, I'm thinking 'woah, awesome effect!' while an organ solo pootles along.
  
  After Amusic and Leviathan got the mood so spectacularly right in previous prods (especially Lifeforce... it was the music that made rainbow ribbons feel exciting and a bell tower seem melancholy) it's hard to see how it missed the mark here - perhaps the visuals were so tightly directed that there was no room for interpretation, or maybe they were deliberately avoiding the obvious stylistic choices (like, say, discordant strings for the snakes) for fear of falling into clichés. I hope (and expect) that Navis is right about it being a slow burner, but it feels like a missed opportunity to not have me on the edge of my seat on these initial viewings.
  
  Either way, anyone who doesn't thumb this up has a seriously screwed up value system. So there.
• rulezadded on the 2010-08-12 00:23:10
• wild ZX Enhanced DivIDEo - Spectrum streaming video by HOOY-PROGRAM [web]
• xeron: It's a bit tricky right now - I don't have the hardware to capture from a real Speccy, and the only emulator that runs it correctly (Fuse) doesn't have video export...
• isokadded on the 2010-05-05 17:48:46
• demo Windows fr-074: 02:20 by Farbrausch [web]
• everything is COVERED IN FOG and MOVES VERY SLOWLY, which makes it ATMOSPHERIC and ARTY
• sucksadded on the 2010-05-03 18:49:01