Meanings
plural minidemos
- computingA short and simple demo.
Hi all! You have available another cool minidemo (or intro, as you prefer), with the usual ASM sources.
1993, Javier Arevalo Baeza, “New intro from VangeliSTeam”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)2 more examples
I promise to enter next time, if you keep the compo like it is now ;-) Or... why not alternating between a minigame compo and a minidemo comp ?
2002, Fabrice Frances, “2002 MiniGame Compo - download and vote!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet)Fairlight once made a tiny minidemo where you were able to see a lot of extremely tiny rasterbars. They did it by DMA-ing some REUmemory to always the same address i.e. $d020 (background col register) at a specific rasterline (i.e. in the border).
2000, Alex Schuetz, “REU - what software uses one?”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet)
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