I'm involved in one of those challenges where you try to produce the smallest possible binary, so I'm building my program without the C or C++ run-time libraries (RTL). I don't link to the DLL vers...

When I watch demoscene videos on youtube the author's often boast of how their filesizes are 64kb or less, some as few as just 4kb. When I compile even a very basic program in C++ the executable is...

OVERVIEW I'm trying to figure out how to traverse directed cyclic graphs using some sort of DFS iterative algorithm. Here's a little mcve version of what I currently got implemented (it doesn't de...

I've seen some programs showing amazing highly detailed 3d scenes with soundtracks, but what shocked me is that they are all smaller than 64kB! How do these programs work?

I have heard that old arcade side scrolling games used a specific programming hack to enable performant side scrolling. I understand that years ago the machines weren't powerful enough to repaint ...

How is it possible that in a 64kb compiled exe, these programs can generate such crazy visuals, complete with matching music? An example: Ars Nova By Phantom Lord (YouTube video of the demo runnin...

Context: Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWcbj7ksqwE I'm familiar with OpenGL / GLSL / C++ / C I've done some audio programming. Never mind trying to compress it down to 64k or 4k fo...

I love the demoscene a lot, especially those small 4K exefiles. They don't have any dependencies except for the files already found in windows and they exhibit the awesome power of programmin...

I'm looking for a few good tutorials to get me started in demo coding. I have some background in CG but it's all rather theoretical. There are many regular 3D programming tutorials, but I'm especia...