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Martin_Silenus • today at 9:34 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The days I gave up with demoscene. When PC killed Atari ST and Amiga scene (sorry to put you after amiguys, but life was always easier for you ;) ), all the magic of fixed hardware without tons of Mhz and RAM, when we were running after that cathode ray which wouldn't wait, exploiting hardware bugs to break those damn borders above, below and sideways, spending hours turning my head upside-down to read unreadable scrolltexts, looking at psychedelic plasma effects with bazillions colors...

Then I betrayed you all: I bought my first ugly machine because of Doom. I was so ashamed...

Now, only 4KB demos can at least impress me a bit.

Feeling old.


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smokel • today at 10:09 AM

I gave up once full screen video playback was possible from CD-ROM. After that, doing (typically worse) non-interactive animations in real-time, seemed a bit pointless.

But watching Crystal Dreams II on my phone actually made me feel young again :)

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