Ethereal demoscene creations, animation from scroll bars, at Revision 2024

Demoscene culture continues to produce more with less, producing elaborate audiovisual worlds from tiny amounts of code. Revision is a hub for these kinds of creations, and in 2024, it delivers as always – including, incredibly, an animation made just from HTML scrollbar code. (Seriously.)

Explore game worlds of paper, 16-bit DOS, and soaring music to match, from SunVox creator

No money for a high-end game console? Make it out of paper, code it in 16-bit DOS, and give it an epic soundtrack on cheap machines, like SunVox creator Alexander Zolotov.

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2021

The 90s are alive, with a free, modern clone of FastTracker II

It ran natively in MS-DOS, then died by the end of the 90s. But now it’s back: one of the greatest chip music trackers of all time has been cloned to run on modern machines.

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2018

Gibson just killed Cakewalk, because Philips?!

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2017

Com Truise, Set to DOS Nostalgia, Turned into Music Video Gold

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2012

There Will Never Be Another Music Production Platform. Ever.

- March 3, 2011

Drag Windows into GNU-Land with MinGW, Let Free Visualist Tools Roam

Peter Kirn - January 22, 2010

Carmack on Wolfenstein 3D, Game Programming, OpenGL, and the iPhone

Peter Kirn - April 6, 2009

ANSI Art, Raised to Gallery Status in SF

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2008

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