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Well, it used to be just 4K of executable code. Perhaps the code used to produce the video was still extremely small?

• nostrademons 17y ago
  The article explains. Since computers have gotten so much more powerful, the demoscene has fragmented - 4k/64k demos are now called "intros", and "demos" refers to programs with no limits except that they must render in realtime.
  • thibaut_barrere 17y ago
    From my memory, this split (4k/64k/more) existed long before 1995. More recently, see http://ind.untergrund.net/ http://ind.untergrund.net/ for a list of very small (like 32, 256 bytes - not kb).
    • jcl 17y ago
      Sure. The split has existed since at least the second Assembly in 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_demo_party#Demo_and_intro_competition_winners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_demo_party#Demo_and_in... I haven't been able to find an earlier example of the split; prior to that, it seems demos simply did not compete with size limitations.