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Week of the 05/05/2025 - #19

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tech

  • Demoscene tools and resources
  • AI Tools and links

Demoscene tools and resources

I love watching Psenough’s demoscene weekly report. I often collect interesting tools he mentions and here are a couple of interesting links that he showed this week.

Links 🔗

  • Llama2.c64 - “Inference Llama 2 in several files of pure C but on a C64”. Mostly useless but none the less interesting.
  • RE:FORM - “RE:FORM is a collaboration between me and Superogue (Marquee Design / Trepaan) made for Revision 2025, and it’s a 50 kb MicroW8 production. Since I started playing around with MicroW8, I felt there was huge potential for making some late 90s style demos, with antialiased line effects and great pixel art. You could run them in the browser, and with today’s cpu power, it would also give new fun possibilities…” · “RE:FORM” @Demozoo · microw8-c-example - This can also serve as a starting point for anyone interested in making demos for MicroW8.
  • Writeup: Perspective - This is a writeup about my 8K intro “Perspective”. YT of the demo
  • The Interloper - Full Band Live Cover - A Live band cover of the soundtrack for PC demo The Interloper by MFX, composed by Wayfinder. Here is the original demo: DEMO: MFX - The Interloper
  • Game Boy Competition 2025 - Join us for an epic game development event celebrating the classics! Show off your creativity and skills by crafting original games, demos, homebrew tools or music specifically designed for the legendary Game Boy. Get ready to battle it out for fame, honor, and an incredible array of prizes that await the best entries.
  • Anamie - A very cool ASCII art inspired windows demo. YT video
  • In 4k - The goal of the in4k site is to be the central resource about creation of demoscene 1kb, 4kb and 8kb intros.
  • 64k scene - The digital art creations below are “64k intros”: small computer programs of 65,536 bytes or less, that present a short audio visual experience. They are a showcase of creativity and technical skills, using techniques like procedural generation, sound synthesis, and real-time graphics. Related resources

AI Tools and links

Links 🔗

  • OpenAI Codex CLI - Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal. Video demo
  • Attention Is All You Need - “…is a 2017 landmark research paper in machine learning authored by eight scientists working at Google. The paper introduced a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer, based on the attention mechanism proposed in 2014 by Bahdanau et al. It is considered a foundational paper in modern artificial intelligence, and a main contributor to the AI boom, as the transformer approach has become the main architecture of a wide variety of AI, such as large language models. At the time, the focus of the research was on improving Seq2seq techniques for machine translation, but the authors go further in the paper, foreseeing the technique’s potential for other tasks like question answering and what is now known as multimodal Generative AI.” Wikipedia entry YT video - Attention in transformers, step-by-step | DL6 )