Demoscene: TMDC6 - Armageddon (textdemo)

This is the first time Crimson Shine participates in a demo contest. We've ended on the 5th place out of 9 competators. The team is setup like this: LPChip: Music, LifePower: GFX and code, SoulHab: GFX and code.

If you want to see the real thing in action ( real ASCII rendering, grab the demo here: http://files.lpchip.com/tmdc/armageddon.zip )

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tmdc
• armageddon
• lpchip
• lifepower
• soulhab
• crimson
• shine
• afterwarp
• demo
• text
• competition
• music
• awesome
• demoscene
• textdemo

[PrekiFromPoland]

Now I see that FC's Second Reality was a child's play... compared to this.

[LPChip]

@PrekiFromPoland Oh wow, thats a huge compliment. :) Thanks. I'm not sure if its entirely justified, because pc's are much faster nowadays, which allows for more stuff to do, but I suppose FC would've been able to make something similar as this.

Thanks for the compliment though. :) Means a lot to me. :D

[unnaturaltragedy]

I hope this isn't sacrilege to ask but how do the rules work for something like this. Are you allowed to use external libraries like libcaca or aalib? I am thinking not. Would that be considered cheating?

[LPChip]

@unnaturaltragedy The rules are pretty relax in this manner.

The biggest requirement is that it must be rendered in a real dos window.

You get a filesize restriction, but if you can build a video playback and the video in this, thats perfectly alright. So libcaca and aalib are allowed, as long as you get the output in a real dosbox, not some emulated dosbox.

[litsky]

wow

[nicolunacba]

wow

[LPChip]

No, we've used Delphi for this demo.

[iwsab]

@LPChip it was my dream to be able to do one of these myself. Although these days i doubt i will have time to do it! Only a 15 y.o. - 23 y.o. really has the time+engery i reckon! Just out of curiousity, did you use C++ for the code?

[LPChip]

Thanks. :) Glad you like it.

We started to work on it about 2 months before the deadline. This was more with having idea's and stuff like that. Took me about 4 days to finish the song. Programming and graphics took the entire 2 months, including improvements etc.

[mayhemtv]

VEry nice! Hm... how long does it take to create such a demo like this nice one here? I suggest Months?

[DMCmatthew]

Epic win.

[faeyesh1]

+1 wov.

niceeee.