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Ante Dominum is a good example of this type of work in the modern day on Windows done by a programmer going by the handle "Traction". It's a very simple graphic display, black on white, with midi trance music backing it. Considering it only takes a moment to download and run a 64kb executable, you can spend far longer just watching the visualizations go by. OS X and Linux ports exist too.
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Subscribe to commentsnicletAug 1st 2007 10:27AM
Sorry for my ignorance but how do you run this thing on a OS X? Do I have to compile it?
larsAug 1st 2007 10:47AM
It's filed under windows, so run it on that ;P
Or use parallels or vmware.
SchmappelAug 1st 2007 11:12AM
Wow, well done. Would be nice to convert this into a screensaver...
MikaelAug 1st 2007 1:09PM
No offence, but that's nothing (alright, it is pretty damn slick but still..) compared to theprodukkt. Check out this for example: http://www.theprodukkt.com/debris/
A full 3D World, sound + music and dynamically generated textures making a grand total of 7 mins of animation in a 180 kb package. _That_ is coming a long way from the old DOS scene-demos.
ScrutinizerAug 1st 2007 1:10PM
@ #2:
It' also filed under Linux and OS X.
Take a look and enjoy!
nicletAug 1st 2007 1:22PM
Well, I tried with Terminal but Ante Dominum crashed ->
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: libfmodex.dylib
Referenced from: ~/Desktop/ante_dominum_by_traction_os_x/ante_dominum
Reason: image not found
Any ideas?
geoffAug 23rd 2007 2:28AM
Ran slow in windowed mode on my geforce 6800GS and AMD +3200.
RPAug 30th 2007 1:38PM
Ran great on WinXP on my P4-2GHz + NVidia 6200. Ran even faster with right-arrow key pressed, and ctrl-shift-rightarrow.
But it stops suddenly at about 3-5 minutes in -- is that the end? I didn't see any official-looking ending... strange.
How long is the full demo?
RowanSep 9th 2007 5:13AM
niclet, did you really try with Terminal on OSX? If you double click the executable, from within Finder, it won't work. Fire up Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) and type the cd command, followed by a space, then drag the folder containing the demo onto the termial window. It will auto type the whole path to that folder. Hit return. You'll then be in that folder. If you type ante_dominum it won't find it, and unix type OSes don't know to search the current folder for executables unlike DOS that does this by default, it's actually a security thing. Anyway, just type ./ante_dominum to run it, should work fine.
:)