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It's also worth noting that the expectations around 64k got higher. We can do so much more in 64k than it was possible in the past. Compression tools have improved. If you take the famous fr-08 intro from Farbrausch and recompress it with modern packers, you would get back many kilobytes. So I think the time investment needed to make a top 64k has increased. The source code of all my 64k intros has been shared (the last one was added two weeks ago): https://github.com/ctrl-alt-test/demo-archive/ and my plan is to share more code to help people get started. Creating demos using procedural generation is incredibly fun.

The intro was released in 2017. We published the first part of the making-of in 2018 (it was discussed on HackerNews here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842576). A few days ago, I remembered I had an unpublished draft for meshes and decided to finalize it. We use OpenGL for rendering and the code is written in C++. We published the source code of other intros of GitHub. For example, this one should give you a good idea of how we do it (although we modernized our engine since that): https://github.com/laurentlb/Ctrl-Alt-Test/tree/master/F For the audio, we used the synth 64klang - https://github.com/hzdgopher/64klang

I found a github repository but it only goes A to F whereas in the demo in the article is a H. https://github.com/laurentlb/Ctrl-Alt-Test Looking at F it appears to use OpenGL

Thanks for sharing! Your F – Felix’s Workshop[1] is pretty impressive, and specially for the 64KB category. Thanks for publishing the source code[2] as well. [1] http://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/productions/f-felixs-workshop/ [2] https://github.com/laurentlb/Ctrl-Alt-Test/tree/master/F

Demo source code is not often released, but there are many exceptions. For example, if you're interested in 4kB intros, look at this: https://github.com/in4k Since 4kB intros are typically done in a shader, you can also look at https://www.shadertoy.com For Ctrl-Alt-Test specifically, we put our source code on GitHub (but not the most recent productions)[1]. The tool to minify shaders is also on GitHub[2]. So I think you can get a pretty good idea of how we did it. If you have any question, feel free to ask. I can give more details here, or it can be part of a future blog post. [1] https://github.com/laurentlb/Ctrl-Alt-Test [2] https://github.com/laurentlb/Shader_Minifier