Title: Text Mode Demos: Amazing
Slug: text-mode-demos-amazing
Date: 2008-01-07 06:22:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Development, Demoscene
Description: A collection of amazing text mode demos showcasing impressive 3D effects and visuals.

 <p>Some fo you may know what the demoscene is (if not, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene">learn about it</a> ;) If you do, you've probably seen lots of amazing demos and cool 3D stuff (maybe even you've seen <a href="http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036">.kkrieger</a>, a 96KB shoter with Doom 3-like quality ;)</p> <p>But one thing I had read about but never actually watched until recently  has been <a href="http://www.taat.fi/tmdc/">text mode demos</a>. yup, MS-DOS (in "hi-res" ASCII mode) demos, hacking the color palette and doing every 3D effect you can imagine of, with ASCII characters. </p> <p>Simply amazing. Fire, plasma, rotozoomer, spirals, donuts, tunnels, vectorial and 3D elements, multi-scrolls, scrolling texts, particles, "images"... Definetly worth looking at, you won't believe how they do it.</p> <p>Here are some screenshots of 4 demos. In movement they look much more impressive:</p> <p><img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/screenshots/text_mode_demos.png"> </p> <p> </p>