I expect someone will then say "though in practice today it's 256 bytes of binary plus a whopping 64kB of BIOS ROM and 16kB of video RAM" ;-)
I am with u on the excessive ram of browsers. It is insane. Still, it is one of the most portal and easy ways to share something. Heck, u can run a dos emulator in your browser.
It’s just a different thing. I see no “hate”, only an expression of preference for “bare-metal” demos.
[1] https://tromp.github.io/blog/2026/01/28/largest-number-revis...
For all lovers of 256Bb intros (and 128,64 and so on) there is a curated "best of" selection maintained by Demosceners : https://nanogems.demozoo.org/#256_byte_intros "A mind is born" is of course included there =)
https://parkertomatoes.github.io/v86/?type=com&content=aACgB...
It also works on real old DOS PCs (or Windows XP/98 "DOS") but it would require changing a few bytes, mainly to setup UART MIDI mode
i'm thinking of making that interactive, remove (a bit of) sound and plot timing (which takes surprisingly many bytes!)
but i won't spoil anything until it's ready ;)
dang/HN: this domain should probably be added to the list where the subdomain is shown next to the title, since subdomains are users' webspaces. (Might be a good candidate for the public suffix list: "[DNS labels] under which Internet users can (or historically could) directly register names".)
I think about that every time I send a screenshot. The depth, complexity, and audiovisual beauty of that game stuffed into a space roughly a few times larger than a capture of my 1440p monitor in 2026.
The "silent" version is only 219 bytes
A new version that adds new features into
the remaining bytes is in the works
