the retro categories are because sceners also enjoyed and used to code demos for the C64 and Amiga platforms when they were popular back in the day. While you

the retro categories are because sceners also enjoyed and used to code demos for the C64 and Amiga platforms when they were popular back in the day. While you could do some funky stuff with IE6 JS, you also couldn't really do anything. Don't forget how utterly slow JS was back then, not because the computers were slower, but because it was interpreted and run token-by-token in a very inefficient manner. This, and nobody took it seriously then as a language to write actual applications in. If a scener had to do something splashy in the browser, they'd go for Flash (and still groan about its lack of performance). If you told someone back then about "asm.js", they'd think you were making a joke, and a pretty funny one at that (like if you told them Microsoft would become a platinum member of the Linux Foundation kind of joke back then). > ...but I feel that someone would just find an exploit in JS, break out of the sandbox, and use that to run a native demo instead. Well, there's rules. There always have been rules. You can't read out default icons, themes, desktop background images from the system folder to obtain some nice stock graphics for use in a 4096 byte demo, either. If your entry hacks the compo machine and doesn't do it with an extreme amount of grace and style, expect to be booed off stage. With sufficient style and awesomeness, you might just get disqualified :)