Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb

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The old home-computing art of hacking elaborate graphics and camerawork into tiny amounts of memory has been lost, right? Not so. The demoscene is keeping ingenious coding skills alive, and TechRadar finds out the latest developments. Winner of the 4kb competition at 2009's Breakpoint party was RGBA's demo 'Elevated', a gorgeous scrolling demo featuring photo realistic landscapes and music, which fits into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons. This is really impressive stuff.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1525203/Hacking-Hi-Def-Graphics-and-Camerawork-Into-4Kb