A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)

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Strong rec kwoff · 2018-04 · on “A dive into the making of a 64K Intro”

I still play [this video] over and over, just for the song, not only because it is 256 bytes, but because it is a compelling song too.

Strong rec twic · 2020-03 · on “A Mysterious Song on the Internet (2019)”

There's an amazing demo called 'A Mind Is Born': [this video] Amazing principally because the whole thing is 256 bytes: [LINK] I never meet anyone who has even heard of the demoscene, let alone come seen this particular work. I was at a film festival watching a programme of short films, one of which was the well-made AI-box escape romp 'Watch Room': [LINK] And similarly found my interface with my seat disrupted by the closing credits using the music from 'A Mind Is Born'. This being a festival, the director was there, so i could tell him how much i appreciated the reference!

Strong rec wgx · 2020-04 · on “Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020”

Not MS-DOS, but my favourite 256 byte demo is for the C64: "A Mind Is Born", check it out: [this video] that music is astonishing.

Strong rec TacticalCoder · 2021-05 · on “Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"”

> fwiw, this made me spend a few minutes in youtube looking at old c64 and apple and Atari demos. what people ended up doing with those devices - years after they were mainstream - is still crazy to me. The craziest ever, to me, is the following in 256... bytes. Bytes (including the music ofc, which is the whole point). [this video]

Strong rec TacticalCoder · 2023-06 · on “Platform Hopping”

By now when I see "linusakesson.net" I upvote without reading, then I read TFA and watch the vid (or listen to the music in this case). I'm never disappointed. Speaking of which I plan to do something really cool: I've got a "time capsule" C64 (well C128 but close enough) and it still works. It's never been "polluted" by anything modern: no "gotek" SD reader, no nothing: just a real time capsule from the early to mid eighties. And I plan to encode, manually, the 256 bytes (yes, bytes) of linusakesson's "A mind is born" C64 demo. I'll then run it (with the C128 hooked to an old CRT, of course), thinking that technically I could have encoded and ran that in the eighties. Mind blowing stuff: [V

Recommends bane · 2017-10 · on “Procedurally generated electronic music”

Here's a winning demoscene production, 256 bytes, on a Commodore 64. [this video] Technical discussion here: [LINK]

Recommends anitil · 2022-01 · on “Sonic 3D: Director's Cut (2019)”

I really like 'A Mind is Born' - [this video] The summary of it's development could be summarised with "It's LFSRs all the way down"

Recommends voiceblue · 2024-03 · on “Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable”

You might enjoy watching the emergent behavior in the execution of this 256 byte program - a mind is born [0]. [0] [this video]