https://www.assembly.org/summer18/demoscene Watch the demo competition live on Finnish national TV! The legendary Assembly demo competition will be shown live on national (Finnish) YLE TV2 channel on Saturday August 4 starting around midnight after the ROG Tournament CS:GO Finnish Championship 2018 Finals. You can view event also on-line: AssemblyTV hosts interviews, chats and of course the →
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJO4AtxKJiFMa-xhNLNpp-URxQH-7Ka6Q This YouTube playlist shows videos of interesting hardware plus software hacks. They can play computer demo multimedia with old game consoles, Arduino+LED sign, LEGOs and audio mixer… Many cool hacks I would say! Assembly Summer 2017 event is still going on, more videos at AssemblyTV at YouTube and Assembly Summer 2017 pages. →
https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/why-webassembly-is-a-game-changer-for-the-web-and-a-source-of-pride-for-mozilla-and-firefox-dda80e4c43cb With today’s release of Firefox, we are the first browser to support WebAssembly. If you haven’t yet heard of WebAssembly, it’s an emerging standard inspired by our research to enable near-native performance for web applications. This new standard will enable amazing video games and high-performance web apps for things like computer-aided design, video and image →
Assembly Summer 2016 computer festival was held last weekend. It was about computer gaming and Demoscene. The demoscene is an international computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos: small, self-contained computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. I was not at the place this year, but I looked at some of the computer demo productions →
http://archive.assembly.org/2016/real-wild-demo/teletext-40-years-by-paraguay Cool demonstration what can be done with (now pretty much obsolete) teletext system when you push it to maximum.. →
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I was again amazed on what I saw in Assembly Summer 2014 1k intro competition. In this competition the programmers make a program what has maximum size of 1 kilobyte. And they do amazing thing with those tiny programs: 3D graphics and audio are included. It is really hard, because typically a simple “hello world” →
Assembly Summer 2014 computer festival starts tomorrow in Helsinki Finland. Finnish national TV broadcaster YLE broadcasts computer game competitions on-line (and Finals on national TV) at http://yle.fi/aihe/assembly-2014 Posted from WordPress for Android →
Assembly Summer 2013 computer festival was held last weekend. Many earlier years I have been actively participating in it (even been on organizers team), but for last few years I have skipped that event (I am getting too old for this?). In assembly Assembly event there has been interesting computer demos on the competitions. Something →
The stand for Ubuntu Linux also had some Meego people showing that Meego is still going wrong. I got my hands on the Nokia N9 prototype version (I did not get permission to take picture of it). There was also Intel Meego tablet reference platform shown on the stand. The MeeGo people from Nokia were →