** PD/Shareware review / 246 words **
Dead Hackers Society Four Kilobyte Intro
88%
Freeware, Falcon with FPU only
Demo

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One of the arts of the demo coder is optimisation. Recently they 
have taken this to extremes and are approaching vanishing point!

The release of the Swedish demo coders best work at the Summer 
Orneta '97 party in Poland showed just how far they could go, with 
a full demo's worth of effects contained within a very stringent 
four kilobyte size limit for the program file.

Instead of the one or two half-hearted and badly designed effects 
you might expect from something so small, you get a series of 
progressively better screens with bump-mapping, zoom and rotated 
patterns, some with motion blur effects, and culminating in a 3-D 
Bump-mapped tunnel, which would be impressive enough even on a 
full-sized demo - because this hasn't been seen on the Falcon yet. 
The standard of presentation is top-notch, certainly up there with 
Sonoluminescenz.

To get something this impressive from something so small, they use 
the 68882 floating point unit (FPU/maths co-processor) which is 
largely ignored by programmers outside the realm of raytracing 
software. This helps keep the code to the minimum, and is even 
better than the DSP for some effects.

The trade off with a such a small intro is the total lack of 
soundtrack, but who's worried. If you have an under-employed FPU 
in your Falcon why not take a look?

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Chris Holland
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