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Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: CaCoDeMoN on April 17, 2004, 12:11:37
Cool! I wonder how it can have only 64kb...
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Kerrblur on April 17, 2004, 12:22:20
that videos ridiculous haha, where did you find that, and how is it such a small file? haha ima watch again a few times.  theres crazy subliminal(SP?) messages in that.  lol
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: beavis on April 17, 2004, 17:18:43
To get a small file size, its probably made with the C programming language. It doesnt put the usual crap into the file. Impressive graphics for that small file, but I'm not impressed with the message. I completely ignore the visuals when thinking about the message because they are not logically related.
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: pyro4571 on April 17, 2004, 18:26:40
hey kerr, u said that it had lots of subliminal messages in it right? well what kind, and how do you know?
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Nagual on April 18, 2004, 07:41:27
First, from the EXE: "This file is packed with the UPX executable packer".  So, once unpacked, it takes a little more than 64k...
You can remove the text by checking the "No text" checkbox.
And a lot of it are maths + "small" textures tiled.
And Windows API helps reduce the size too.

And, for those who likes fractals, this program is nice (because quite fast): http://xaos.theory.org/
Be sure to set the 'iterations' to an higher number to get more "depth"...
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: kiauma on April 18, 2004, 10:12:57
What do you suppose the words mean at the end?
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Arcane on April 20, 2004, 17:50:34
I guess the words at the end are the aliases that the programmers who wrote it use
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: pyro4571 on April 20, 2004, 18:28:42
hey ummmmmmm i checked that file with my norton antivirus, and it came up as a virus. so i deleted it immediatly
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Nagual on April 21, 2004, 09:13:48
Interesting...  Which file (heaven or xaos) and which virus?
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: kakkarot on April 21, 2004, 09:24:56
actually, the file would be able to be only 64kb likely because it calls to some place on the internet to download more information (or play a video). this might also be the reason why it is shown to be a virus, though it's still a good idea to not download it if your antivirus software calls it a virus.

~kakkarot
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: pyro4571 on April 21, 2004, 19:06:13
that could be it kakkarot. and it was heaven that it said was the virus
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Nagual on April 22, 2004, 02:41:08
At least on my computer, none of these programs seem to or can download more information; my firewall would poppup a dialog box asking me if I allow it or not to qccess the internet...
Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Arcane on April 22, 2004, 15:31:03
I am a 3rd Year Computer Science student and i have written a server-client 3D world application for my final year project. My client (which does the 3D graphics) is a very similar size to that program and it does more than just 3D graphics. (That demo is more impressive though).

I tried running the program with my network connection disabled, so it doesnt need to connect to the internet in order to run.

Title: A little windows demo...
Post by: Nagual on April 16, 2004, 06:28:35
Not really astral related, but it's a nice little (64kb) demo for Windows...  For those who don't know what is a demo; it is not a video; it's all created in realtime.

http://www.quantum-source.com/demointro/HEAVEN7W.EXE

Feel free to scan it with your antivirus (mine did not find anything)...