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Show HN: 2,629 Tiny Demos from Pouet, Running in the Browser

by parkertomatoes on 5/2/24, 8:57 PM with 5 comments

• by oniony on 5/3/24, 11:52 AM

  If anyone else, like me, had no idea what this is even about then I found https://www.pouet.net/faq.php.

  So it seems it's a bunch of demos from the 90s (or written for 90s hardware) running on emulators in the browser.

  I used to have an Amiga back then, and I remember the demo scene. They basically wrote programs that would push the limits of the hardware to demonstrate what is possible. Some of them were quite mind-blowing as they would seemingly do stuff that you would know, from playing games, was not possible.

• by pimlottc on 5/2/24, 9:29 PM

  I thought this was going to be 2000+ demos running /at the same time/, it's actually a collection of browser-runnable demos.

• by 112233 on 5/3/24, 9:08 AM

  real nice! As expected, puls by rrrola barely crawls on the dos emulator (raymarching parametric surfaces in 256b, what do i expext)

  What about those demos that play MIDI?