64K ought to be enough for anyone

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Wow...

These are real-time video captures from a 64K executable: All graphics, sound, music are contained in the 64K exe.

These were part of a 64K demo category from a contest from earlier this year (March, 2016.)

I guess this has caught me slightly by surprise: I'm used to "Moore's Law" and the corresponding process shrinks yielding more transistors, more storage, etc.

But it hadn't occurred to me to think about how much more one could now get done in a 64K binary.


The following won 2nd place in the contest:

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_SEGm2lUSY0/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_SEGm2lUSY0"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/_SEGm2lUSY0" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/_SEGm2lUSY0</a>


This was the 1st place entry:

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JZ6ZzJeWgpY/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JZ6ZzJeWgpY"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/JZ6ZzJeWgpY" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/JZ6ZzJeWgpY</a>


Heavy use of procedural pixel shader techniques, etc., etc., but goddamn.

Packing that all into a 64K binary...