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-->-- '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root Fast inverse square root]]''', ''Quake III Arena'' Source Code
The opposite of DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming. Your disk space, processor speed, and RAM are scarcely limiting factors to somebody who knows what they're doing. You'll find smart developers can take your hardware way UpToEleven to give it capabilities not seen in typical software on more powerful machines for 5 or 10 years.
The Demoscene is Genius Programming pretty much by definition, as it was born in an age where computers were dramatically limited in their capabilities, and its entire goal was to exploit available hardware to the highest degree possible - often way beyond what the original designers had envisaged. Modern hardware obviously doesn't have these limitations, but the Demoscene crowd decided it wasn't fun to do what game developers were already doing (that is, 3D eye candy using gigs and gigs of textures and 3D models), so they enacted self-imposed limits - often harsher than those they originally had to deal with. Hence a division in categories, one of the most famous and prestigious being "64k" - that is, demos whose entire code and resources fit in ''sixty-four kilobytes''. For reference, that's 3.5 ''seconds'' of mp3 music, and you you could fit it ''twenty-two times'' in a floppy disk and more than ''10900'' in a CD-ROM.
* Farbrausch is a widely known crew that attained massive fame for ''[[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221 fr-08: .the .product]]'', the first 64k demo with really impressive graphics (for the time).
** Not content with having redefined the standards for demos, later on they developed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kkrieger .kkrieger]], an interactive shooter game with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3''-tier graphics - which ''fits in the same 64 kilobytes''. These guys have a lot more stuff, available [[http://www.farb-rausch.de/ here]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9lxBGQav40 State Of The Art]] by Spaceballs. The Website/YouTube video really doesn't do justice to how impressive it is to watch this thing running on a 16 bit machine with 1 megabyte of RAM, a 7 [=MHz=] processor and an 880K floppy drive for storage. The fluidity is all the more impressive when you remember that the demo is constantly loading new data in from the floppy drive while displaying all that animation.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ywbtsUoU3c Tint]] (possibly NSFW due to a second or two of boobies) by [[http://www.tbl.org/ The Black Lotus]]. Needs rather meatier hardware to run than the aforementioned State Of The Art, but the real-time lensing and fluid effects near the end will blow your mind. Also, the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic helps a lot.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p1im_2uf4 The 8088 Corruption]], a demo that runs "video" at 60 frames per second and impressive digital audio, on an old IBM PC, using the Intel 8088 flavor of processor. For those that don't know their computer history, the 8088 is a 16-bit processor, but it's crippled to an 8-bit data bus.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAnhcUNHRW0 Chaos Theory]], by Conspiracy, which took the 64k approach but with graphics about on par with modern games.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAIaclLrKE The remake of Chaos Theory]] by KK / DMA. While some cutbacks to the graphics and music quality were made, the demo was squished into ''four kilobytes'' - that's 16x less than the original.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM 8088 MPH]] is a demo that does '''1024''' colors, polygon rendering, and other things that the [[IBMPersonalComputer original IBM PC]] with a CGA card (on a composite monitor) should not be doing.
** Also, 4 channel music with a ''one channel beeper''.
* Due to their experience with procedural generation, many demoscene programmers were hired to work on ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}''.
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''{{Recca}}'' is a fast-paced BulletHell shooter with awesome graphics, creative bosses, homing weapons and techno music. Even with more than 20+ enemies and bullets on the screen, there is usually little to no slowdown. One must wonder how [=KiD=] managed to code something like this '''for the {{NES}}'''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' may not be ridiculously small in size, but this game pushed the capability of the UsefulNotes/{{SNES}} [[UpToEleven to its limit]]. For example,the game's copious amounts of SceneryPorn, in quantities which were deemed almost impossible for a cartridge (at the time). Then the programming and sound team one-upped all this by... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3SA9LuqQgA inserting a whole theme song with voice into the opening]]! This was completely insane and was thought to be absolutely impossible for a cartridge title, especially one sporting as much visual flash as Phantasia.[[note]]It's also insane from a technical perspective, too: the song itself is ''dozens'' of tiny voice clips, since that's all that will fit into the available sound memory, swapped out and loaded in sequence from the ROM cart as the song plays. Getting it to emulate cleanly was an infamous bugbear of the emu scene in the late 90s and early noughts (as the code makes a number of odd calls to the SPU to make the constant file-swapping work), and it uses more than a little compression on top of this, and "can cleanly emulate Phantasia" was a major feather in the caps of ZSNES and [=SNES9x=].[[/note]] Every Tales game since has a theme song, but it's all less impressive when more memory, both in RAM and storage, is involved. Almost every technical concept from [=ToP=] was then imported into ''VideoGame/{{Star Ocean|1}}'' (which featured many of the same staff, who had left Wolf Team/Namco in the interim) which was even ''more'' technically bonkers.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'' has a world the size of 62,394 square miles which takes ''two weeks'' in ''[[RealLife real time]]'' to walk across, over 500,000 {{NPC}}s in 15,000 locations. It's about 148 MB and made in 1996.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' uses a complex algorithm to [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels generate a realistic world]] every time (complete with a detailed history of every person and place that ever existed there), keeps track of injuries to specific body parts down to individual fingers and toes and ''even further'' down to tissue layers, provides an extremely detailed fortress simulator, and even has a script which simulates hydrostatic water pressure Yet the whole thing is about five megabytes. On top of that, all the programming is done by one guy. Who describes himself as "not very good with computers". Holy crap.
* The original ''VideoGame/{{Elite}}'':
** The game features a WideOpenSandbox of eight galaxies of 256 stars each, each one with its own unique description and characteristics as well as numerous ship designs. It's the game which launched the entire genre of Space Trading Sims. It was quite literally years ahead of its time. And the whole thing fits on ''~20 kilobytes'' of disk space.
** That's because all content (planet names, their coordinates, commodity prices, etc) in the game was procedurally generated and, basically, boils down to the single 8-bit seed number and a couple of rules checking that you won't get planets named "Fuck" or "Arse."
** The game's NES port is no less impressive. It features ''3D vector graphics'' on an 8-bit system, long before the Super FX and other console 3D accelerators. The unreleased GameBoy version is just as impressive.
** The sequel, ''Frontier'', isn't too shabby either. The PC version has over 20 textured 3D models and enough star systems to fill the entire Milky Way, yet fits on a single 1.44MB floppy.
** Bonus points for being one of the first commercially released truly 3D games.
** ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' continues the tradition, using cloud computing to create a full-scale replica of the Milky Way.
* ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon'' kept stats on every visitor, in addition to controlling all their [=AIs=] simultaneously, all while animating all of it and allowing the user to interact with it. And all this could run on a PC made in the early '90s, without lag. The secret is that the system was ''programmed in raw Assembler'', only relying on more high level code for graphical stuff.
** The same secret allowed ZSNES to run games at full speed well before its competition, but it's showing its age now as one of the few actively maintained programs that can't be compiled as 64-bit, due to the incompatibility of 32-bit and 64-bit assembler and the changed calling conventions for C code (64-bit mode added extra registers, which made it possible to use some to pass arguments), nor can it be ported to any other platform besides x86. The devs currently have no plans to address this.
** The performance of ''[=RCT=] 1'' & ''2'' is even more impressive compared to the third iteration, which had widespread graphics card compatibility problems and brought many contemporaneous systems to their knees. Hell, many 2009 [=PCs=] struggle when everything is maxed.
* ''Exile'' (no relation to [[VideoGame/{{Exile}} the Mac RPG series]]) was a {{Metroidvania}}-ish title that managed to feature [[WreakingHavok surprisingly realistic 2D physics]] for objects and even windy areas, as well as a living ecosystem for what was originally a UsefulNotes/BBCMicro title released in 1988. With a RAM expansion, the game could even play voice samples on that same hardware!
** You think that's impressive? How about Box 2D-like physics... on the NES? ''VideoGame/MrGimmick'' is that game that managed to pull it off, and that was made for a system that's nearly a decade old by the time it was released!
* ''VideoGame/IrisuSyndrome'' has a creepy yet really neat example of this in one of [[MultipleEndings endings]]. [[spoiler: Despite the fact that the game runs in a window, Irisu comes in from the side of the screen itself, then into the game window to murder one of the other characters.]] It's nothing miraculous, but it's a pretty cool InterfaceScrew by PC game standards, especially for a freeware indie game. The game also puts text files into the game folder and changes the picture file as you go along. Now that there's a FanTranslation available, you get to read them for important [[AllThereInTheManual backstory.]]
* ''VideoGame/BelowTheRoot'' for the Commodore 64 was one of the earliest games where you could pick the gender, race, and age of your avatar - with stats altered accordingly, and with ''hidden'' stats that fit the race in question. Erdlings got knocked for a loop by Wissenberries, wheras Kindar had a tolerance, Kindar took a hit to their spirit stats by eating meat. It also had NPC characters respond differently based on which avatar you chose. It was also, very possibly, the first game to be considered an [[{{Canon}} authorized, canonical sequel]] to material written for another medium. Yes, the distant ancestor of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' is a 1984 side-scroller where killing anyone makes the game {{Unwinnable}}.
* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' managed to squeeze a ''lot'' of stuff onto a tiny GBC cartridge. It's very difficult to emulate at full speed, although it can be done.
* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' is not merely an RTS, it is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hny-oS-mo_Q General]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dMVFuIb8zk Purpose]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB12Gy9zuFs Game]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah3XmjlhgJw Engine]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKedeLKK8h4 Blizzard]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bn7hxX9fwc approves]]
* The programming team behind ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' had a unique insight into preventing piracy: [[RulesOfTheInternet You can't.]] However, it doesn't matter, because 30-50% of the sales of a game are made in the first two months. So, with the goal of slowing down pirates as much as possible, the developers started by designing "crack protection," distinct from the normal copy protection (which detects whether the game is run on a CD-R). The crack protection they came up with relies on a checksumming system that's ingenious and more than slightly twisted; by interleaving, overlapping, and combining multiple checksums over a block of data, it's virtually impossible to make them all add up if even one bit is changed, but because not every checksum goes over all of the data (and because CRC has a few exploitable weaknesses), the checksums being compared to ''can be a part of the data being checksummed''. This, combined with tons of other traps designed to make life hell for pirates, meant that it took over ''two months'' for a working crack to finally be released (at a time when "Wow, that hasn't been cracked yet?" meant something like four days), and only ''then'' because the developers held back to avoid LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading. [[note]]More specifically: The copy protection takes 10 seconds of uninterrupted access to the disc drive, so it's only done on startup (the wait time is disguised by the studio logos being shown). The final crack worked by hacking the game's boot executable to bypass the copy protection, then reloading the correct binary file, which makes the crack protection happy. If the copy protection had been run during every load time, this method wouldn't have worked, as the copy protection would have been triggered at that point. However, the developers wisely decided that adding 10 seconds to every load time would have made the game unplayable regardless of whether it was a crack or a legal copy.[[/note]]
** Also by Insomniac, ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}} 2'' allowed 60 people online in one game with no frame rate issues. '''60!'''
** Also by the same company- the whole renderer in the Spyro games. It managed to do things on the [=PlayStation=] that should have been literally impossible, including implementing an entire LOD system on the CPU and having it run in real time.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root Fast inverse square root]], also known as [=InvSqrt=](), 0x5f3759df, and "What the fuck?" after its implementation in the ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' source code (and infamous comment). The algorithm, which uses a novel first approximation of Newton's Method to get an almost perfect second approximation, runs roughly ''four times'' faster than traditional implementations, and still faster than other "optimized" algorithms of the time.
* You would be surprised to realize that ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' is actually 32 MB and uses MIDI sound files. It's also one of the first few Zelda games to include voice. The only game that could top this is ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', which does everything ''and analyzes the locations of every character at every point in the game''. On that note about size, Super Mario 64 is only 8MB. Yes, all those worlds and things to do fit on a size smaller than two average [[MP3 MP3s]].
* Take a look at [[https://taakvq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pLD5e5Clizv5PyVvUs6a8aKI3k0W5MHPxIUptgM01UvPVzhN8hIjLyT0_x6CqHDw8vl8CvxhvE8ihmBtMsxvIrRb_uKnUg_tg/zelda-ww-15.jpg this]] image. It is a still frame from a cutscene in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', gloriously rendered in HD with the Dolphin Emulator. What's special about this image is that ''The Wind Waker'' is predominantly cel-shaded. However, the tower in the image is ''realistically'' shaded. See the red dot near the bottom of the image? That's a cel-shaded object. The game is ''running two lighting systems at the same time''. And this is in a [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube system]] which does not have programmable shaders! This even occurs in regular gameplay; large landforms like the tower are realistically shaded to simulate the highly-detailed backgrounds of top-notch animated films.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' also runs cel-shading and realistic shading at the same time. All the trophies related to ''The Wind Waker'', with the exception of the Toon Link trophy (which is technically part of ''Brawl'', not ''The Wind Waker'', Toon Link himself is also not cel-shaded), are cel-shaded in the same style as in ''The Wind Waker''. However, the trophy bases are realistically shaded. Like the [=GameCube=], the Wii does not have programmable shaders (because it is based on the [=GameCube=] hardware).
* Before ''VideoGame/StarControl'' there was ''VideoGame/{{Starflight}}'' and its sequel, ''Starflight II''. Hundreds of planets, all unique, dozens of alien races, an epic backstory, and a quest to Save The Galaxy. And it all fit on a ''single'' 720K floppy disk, or two 360K floppies.
* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim 2'' manages to pull off voices in the theme song and rock music that's not midi, ''even in the {{SNES}} and UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis versions.''
* The UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''VideoGame/ToyStory'' ([[NoProblemWithLicensedGames in itself a pretty good game]]) manages to do a lot of impressive things for the system's standards.
** The title and ending tracks were made of MOD format music. To clarify, the Yamaha [=YM2612=] can only play two sound samples at a time, but the MOD format consists ''entirely of sound samples!''
** The graphics are incredibly well made, featuring lots of animation frames and even a 3D floor effect without slowdown or sprite flicker. This also goes for the Super Nintendo version.
** But the crowning technical achievement has to be the Genesis version of the level ''Really Inside the Claw Machine''. One thing the Genesis lacks is the ability to scale or rotate sprites. So what does Traveler's Tales do? ''Create an entire level in first person view akin to Wolfenstein3D!'' With texture mapped walls and a solid framerate (for its time), it's astounding what Traveler's Tales was able to accomplish with such hardware limitations.
* [[GameMod ROM Hacks]] in general, especially when they go beyond what you'd think the game engine or even the ''system'' was capable of, for example:
** ''BrutalMario/Super Kitiku World'' and its massive use of custom assembly to do things ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' wouldn't do otherwise.
** ''VideoGame/Rockman4MinusInfinity'' has done some rather crazy things, which includes not only a lot of weapon changes, but a few on screen effects that are on par, if not better than the effects in ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.
** Give or take, any of the really well done ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' hacks.
** ''Rockman 5 Air Sliding'' featured its unique [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titular gameplay mechanic]], alongside some interesting level and weapon changes (including an improved Gravity Hold and making Stone Man's level [[AscendedGlitch orient itself to the left]]).
** ''Super Mario Oddysey'' and other ''Super Mario World'' hacks using the MSU-1 patch. Why is this? Because with a custom patch, they've managed to get MP3 quality music working on the SNES, as heard/seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROgMDo9xk9w here]]
** Two Wii-based mods: ''VideoGame/NewerSuperMarioBrosWii'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectM''. The former is a highly extensive mod of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' that even manages to surpass the [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU official sequel]] in some ways. The latter is a highly extensive mod of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'', intended to both replicate and surpass ''Melee'', and the kicker: it adds 2 additional slots to the character select screen. Most modders only managed to overlay one character over another up until that point.
* From the dawn of computing, the legendary [[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Mel Kaye's]] Blackjack program for Royal [=McBee=] LGP-30 and RPC-4000 machines. Not only was he able to squeeze the whole program into just the 8.2 kilobytes of drum memory, but he was one of the first [[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/Real-Programmer.html Real Programmers]] who basically pioneered most of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_magic_(programming) Heavy Wizardry]][[note]]The programmers' jargon for a trick so deeply tied to a fine side of the machine's function that it's totally non-intuitive and seems just like magic for the non-knowledgeable[[/note]] techniques discussed above, including using code as constants, optimizing the code by hand to eliminate even smallest wait states and delay loops, and using self-modifying code to do so. Ed Nather, the author of the story above, when asked to rewrite it spent a whole month just trying to understand Mel's code, and upon finding an endless cycle without a check, which just happened to use an overflow error to modify the last command of it into a different jump and exit the loop, he gave up out of respect.
* When AlLowe made ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals'', he found a way to eliminate the loading time between room changes (which must have been pretty long on machines of the time) in the bamboo maze. He did this by using the same background for every room of the maze. The background had exits in every possible direction. The exits that werent supposed to be open in a particular room were covered up with overlays. To hide the fact that it was always the same background, he mirrored it, along with the overlays, every time you left the room. This also saved a lot of memory and disk space.
* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'': game that boasts a dictionary of few dozens of thousands words, with each word having its own graphical representation, animations and interaction patterns (like elephants being afraid of mice and so on) was crammed into a ''32 megabyte'' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS cartridge. Even more impressive in ''VideoGame/SuperScribblenauts'' with added adjectives (everything ''still fits'' into a 32 MB ROM chip).
* Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce you to the late, great Creator/SatoruIwata, once Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s global president and the acting president of HAL Labs earlier still. When he was younger, he [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/creators/4/0 disassembled the programs for his home computer by writing down the memory dumps by hand.]] Mind you, this was before printers. Among his achievements as a game programmer, he...
** ... ported the battle code of ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' to the {{Nintendo 64}} [[http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/iwata/iwata_asks_-_pokmon_heartgold_version__soulsilver_version_16288_16289.html despite not having any access to crucial documents. And he did it all in a week.]]
** ... programmed ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' in its entirety, also with remarkable speed. At the time, the project was very close to being jettisoned due to the unmanageability of the original coding. The coding he used is a huge scripting language, so complex that, theoretically, [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/ the text system alone could be used to write an emulator, if altered somewhat.]]
** ... personally compressed ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', which filled the cartridge despite still being half-finished. That's the reason the setting for ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' was included (with only two locations removed) in the games--there was that much space left after he was done.
** ... debugged Super Smash Bros. Melee all by his lonesome. It only took him two weeks--which was all the time he had to get it out.
** And last but not least, as revealed after his unfortunate passing, [[http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/30/how-satoru-iwatas-zealous-work-helped-in-the-unlikely-localization-of-pokmon/ Iwata was basically responsible for Pokemon being localized.]] Game Freak wanted to move over to the next generation in the series, but Iwata insisted on doing the development work for the localization with just Teruki Murukawa assisting him. And Iwata was ''the company president of HAL Laboratory at the time''. Without Iwata, Pokemon would not be a global phenomenon. Rest in peace, you wonderful man.
* Naughty Dog loves to show off their technical prowess. The [=PlayStation=] 3 is almost infamous for requiring data installs, as searching for and loading information off a high-capacity Blu-Ray disc would result in extremely long load times... or so people thought. ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' required absolutely no installation, and the only loading time you would see is when the game starts up (about 10 seconds), and when you start or continue a game (again, about 10 seconds). The rest of the game loads seamlessly, not stopping for ''anything'', including area transitions, from start to finish.\\
The iconic scene in the same game, the train sequence, is also a marvel of technical engineering. In addition to adjusting the physics to account for the fact that [[IncrediblyLamePun Drake's on a train]], the entire sequence, from the start in the jungles to the end in the snowy mountains, has no repeated environments. Every single view and vista is unique, and waiting long enough for, say, the point where it's curving around a lake or mountain, will eventually give you alternate views of the location as your position shifts. And to top it all off, you can see the train curving ahead of you in the distance: you ''can'' reach all of those cars, and eventually will.
** Naughty Dog cut their teeth on the first ''CrashBandicoot''. They developed it as a Playstation 1 exclusive, and when it came out it was so much better than anyone had ever managed to accomplish on the console that other developers cried foul, insisting that Naughty Dog had used some secret libraries provided by Sony to them and them alone. The reverse was true: they used as little as possible of Sony's stuff, and essentially hacked as much of the game as possible to run as close to the hardware as they could make it, effectively developing their own development as they went. The result was ''way'' ahead of what anyone had managed on the meagre (even for the times) power of the Playstation 1. You can read about many of the tricks they used in [[http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/ Andy Gavin's post mortem]] for the game.
* ''VideoGame/MickeyMania'' pulled off some impressive perspective tricks in a number of its levels, with stages such as a ''Nebulus''-style rotating tower and a head-on moose chase. Not so much of a big deal on the {{SNES}}, with its GPU support for background perspective in Mode 7. It ''is'', however, a big deal on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, where all of these effects had to be emulated '''in software'''...
* ''VideoGame/JettRocket'' set the standard for what could be done with the WiiWare's 44 megabyte limit. To most developers, this is a cripplingly small amount, and they deem it unreasonable and unworkable. Shin'en Multimedia created a full-length 3-D platformer on it that looks and plays like a retail game.
* [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] created the side-scrolling action/stealth platform games ''1213'' and ''VideoGame/TheArtOfTheft'' using Adventure Game Studio, a game engine designed for point-and-click adventure games and nothing else.
* ''VideoGame/CannonFodder'' on the GameBoyColor seems like just another GBC title, until the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFwbfN18x0I intro sequence]] explodes into a ''full-color pre-rendered FMV''. Adding to that, all music, voice clips, and sound effects are fully recorded, with not a single 8-bit bleep in the game. The method used to display full-color video on the Game Boy Color is quite ingenious. Because it can only display a few colors at a time, each frame of video alternates between different color palettes. The frames alternate faster than the human eye can pick up, creating the illusion of a much larger set of colors.
* The unusual arcade game ''VideoGame/PuLiRuLa'' is very colorful and packs in a lot of detail in both sprites and backgrounds. Animations are very fluid, and the game even includes some voice clips. And it runs on hardware weaker than that of the SNES! The level of animation and detail is more akin to a ''modern Flash game'' than an arcade game from 1990.
* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' had the Creature AI that could make your "pet" learn new skills and develop its own preferences. Famously, Creator/PeterMolyneux was demonstrating the game to potential buyers when the Creature did something like throwing a rock over its shoulder. Molyneux was surprised - he never programmed ''that'' subroutine in the game.
* A (sadly discontinued) NPC mod for ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' included a character called Nessa who could manage her own equipment, actively avoid hitting or being hit by the player during combat (a [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper common complaint]] among other NPC companions), and had a complex AI script that determined whether or not she would comply with the player's orders (the highlight of the mod was that she wouldn't always do so for various non-random reasons). You could, for instance, tell her to "rest" outside an Oblivion gate, only for her to get worried about you and follow you inside. Who would have thought that an NPC could actually ''worry'' about the player and then act on that impulse?
* One of ''[[VideoGame/RogueSquadron Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II]]'''s claims to fame is its use of the [=GameCube=]'s TEV (Texture [=EnVironment=]) pipeline to create the shader used for spacecraft targeting computers. The only catch (as mentioned with Wind Waker above) is that the [=GameCube=] does not ''have'' programmable shaders! Programming a shader in hardware that does not support programmable shaders is quite impressive. The game was also developed in little over a year in order to be released as a [=GameCube=] launch title. Despite the lack of development time, the quality of the finished game was still incredible, and to this day it is widely considered the best of the series.
* Most of the side-scroller ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games could qualify for this. Not only did the Genesis/Mega Drive not support transparent textures (It was given the illusion of transparent textures by rapidly alternating between one frame of one sprite and another frame of another sprite), it also didn't support sprite rotations. It also didn't have any Mode7-esque effects to speak of. In order to create panning backgrounds that moved at different speeds to give the illusion of depth, the devs layered textures on top of each other and had then move at different speeds and directions. This is to be expected from the [[CreatorWorship expert programmer]] Yuji Naka. [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Yuji_Naka This is the man who created a NES emulator for the Genesis]]... [[CrazyAwesome in his spare time, for fun.]]
* ''Videogame/RescueOnFractalus'': So, you want to make a 3D space sim-style game, with mountainous terrain... ''in 1984''. On Apple II-s and other computers of that era. And yes, it works, and at a reasonable frame-rate.
* Meet ''{{VideoGame/Nano Assault}} Neo''. It's a Wii U eShop launch title, has graphics and sound that rivals a lot of big budget games, runs at 60FPS, and is only 60 MB!! As it was developed by Shin'en, the same developer as ''VideoGame/JettRocket'', it's to be expected.
* [[http://www.twitch.tv/eightysixed/b/463593588?&t=3h4m20s According to the developer]], Mike Z, ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' managing to have six characters in a match on seventh gen consoles is absolutely insane. As [=.PNG's=], the animation frames for six different characters adds up to around 10.5 GB. With the compression tech made by Mike ([[http://www.twitch.tv/eightysixed/b/463593588?&t=3h8m25s based on a paper made by Farbrausch]]), the characters only take up around ''900 MB'', with 491 MB of that being used in any given match, which then has to fit into the 130 MB of RAM left over for the characters on the [=PS3=]. In spite of all this, the game is still able to not only have more frames of animation than any game before it[[note]]Between 1200-1500 per character, with the runner up being ''Blazblue'' with ~1000 per character[[/note]], but also real time lighting and shading effects on the characters, a first for the genre. The only problem is when the art doesn't load fast enough after switching characters, resulting in them being pixellated.
* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' is a game lauded for its [[AwesomeArt absolutely gorgeous 2D graphics]] (to give you an idea, [[http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/5469/1100244-943228_20090806_790screen007.jpg this is a screenshot of actual gameplay footage]]). The entire game also takes up less than a gigabyte (0.62 GB, to be exact, about twice the size of ''WiiSports''), and 0.49 GB of that is just the soundtrack.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashFlash 2'', a completely fan-made project, has somehow managed to rebuild and port the engine of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''[[note]]Remember that ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' was one of the most memory-intensive games on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, even being the first to require a dual-layered disk.[[/note]] into UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, and ''accurately''. The game was intended in the first place to push the limits of the program, and that it does -- it's progressed so much that it's essentially a console-quality game. Unfortunately, it's still a victim of the program that it runs in, as Flash itself falls [[IdiotProgramming on the other end of the spectrum]]... That said, though, ''[=SSF2=]'''s remarkably efficient for what it does, and slowdown on lower-end computers is fairly minor.
* ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'', a FanRemake of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', constantly pushes the Source Engine to the limit, doing many things that even Creator/ValveSoftware, the engine's creators, didn't or couldn't do with it. Unfortunately, due to the sheer taxing of the system, it's not uncommon for the game to slow down even in the most high-end computers, or crash altogether. Fortunately, a few of its developers [[PromotedFanboy were hired by Valve]].
* ''Death Race'' for the NES is a good contender for being the best unlicensed and one of the best NES games ever made. First of all, the game has a costumizeable vehicle option menu with guns, engines, cars, wheels, missiles, the gun speed..., RPG elements and the sprites are multicoloured. For an unlicensed developer to do this is a hell of an accomplishment.
* The port of ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Street Fighter Alpha 2]]'' to the '''UsefulNotes/{{SNES}}'''. How did it do it? It used the [=S-DD1=] chip that the aforementioned ''VideoGame/{{Star Ocean|1}}'' used. While the port only had the normally accessible cast and two other secret characters (and one of them was DummiedOut) and characters and backgrounds had less animation (and obviously no CD quality music), either way it was still impressive that a game that was ported to [[UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames 32-bit consoles]] could run on a 16-bit console.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom'' is a ''Doom II'' mod that manages to achieve some truly impressive tricks that would be incredibly difficult to pull off. These tricks includes a moving train, the Killer Croc's ability to pick up and throw rocks, flying helicopters, bigger explosions and much more. All of this was done by ACE Team, a small team of three brothers who went on to make ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' and ''VideoGame/RockOfAges'' years later, with [=DeHackEd=] and the Doom Engine alone, which was notable for being inflexible for modders at the time.
** ''Requiem'', a 1997 map pack, manages to use some clever programming to pull off some unusual architectural tricks in ''Doom'''s 2.5D engine that should be impossible given the vanilla engine's limitations - actual bridges that are not connected to the ground, ''bridges over bridges'' that can both be walked on, and simulated sliding and swinging doors.
** ''[[http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/av Alien Vendetta]]'' is another well-known level pack in the Doom community. The project was designed to be fully compatible with Doom 2 Version 1.9 (no source ports are needed to play), which is not a simple feat, considering the limitations on the original engine such as the infamous "VISPLANE OVERFLOW" that crashes the game when there are 128 unique floors and ceilings on the screen at once. However, Alien Vendetta combines well-detailed levels with challenging gameplay, and stretches the original Doom engine to its limits at times.
*** One level that can stress the limits of the engine is [[http://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP20:_Misri_Halek_%28Alien_Vendetta%29 Level 20: Misri Halek]], a colossal Egyptian pyramid complex taking place mostly underground with a breath-taking number of corridors. [[http://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP25:_Demonic_Hordes_%28Alien_Vendetta%29 Level 25: Demonic Hordes]] features an incredible swarm of preplaced monsters combined with large cathedrals in open fields for action on par with VideoGame/SeriousSam. For being limited by the original Doom engine, the whole level pack is a thrill to look at as well as play.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' fits over 700 voice clips into a 12MB cartridge.
* Basically everything that happened on the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, although the legendary strategy-adventure-RPG ''VideoGame/LordsOfMidnight'' surely takes the cake.
* Jez San's ''VideoGame/{{Starglider}}'' on the UsefulNotes/AtariST, particularly its sound. The system had negligible capabilites, but he managed to pull off sampling and proper wave forms (as opposed to square waves) by stripping the machine open and putting a voltmeter across the sound chip.
** If modern players are amazed by the ability in [[VideoGame/NoMansSky No Man's Sky]] to easily lift your ship off from one planet, into space, and to another planet, without any loading or breaks.. then think how amazed they were when ''VideoGame/StarGlider2'' had the same feature in 1988, on the Commodore Amiga 500, a machine with 1mb of RAM.
** Jez San was notorious for using ridiculously low level engineering techniques on home computers to achieve the otherwise impossible. He was infamous for asking representatives of computer manufacturers at trade shows if he could have a version of the computer ''with no Operating System'', because it'd be easier for him to program.
* Most Americans outside of Japan haven't seen ''VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra'', but it is quite brilliant. Leaving aside the fact that there are about three or four overlapping stories, the magical system relies on the ability to write down spells. Not only that, but the English translation is even more so, bordering on incredible. You can type the basic words given, like "Lefna". You can add prefixes and suffixes. You can write English words, like Heal, Healing, Cure, Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Angel, Heaven, Hell, Jade, etc. You can write Japanese versions of these words (sometimes, I think Rakuen for Heaven at least works and also some of the elements). All of this from an English key input translation. Let this sink in...
* It's already impressive enough that ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' manages to cram in the absurd amount of content that it does into a single disc. What's even more impressive is the game's ability to load entire maps seamlessly (already no small feat considering how huge and full of SceneryPorn they are) complete with numerous enemies and collectible objects, to transition in and out of battle without a hitch while maintaining fairly constant framerate, and instantly travel throughout every single map in the entire game with minimal loading times. What's particularly baffling is how ''Xenoblade'' manages to achieve what smaller games on more powerful systems often fail to do while being run on hardware that was already considered dated at the time it was released.
** Its descendant, ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'', does not disappoint, containing a full campaign, full equipment and enemy listings, and a world bigger than ''Skyrim, Wild Hunt and Fallout 4 '''combined''''' on a single Wii U disc's worth of space. While data packs exist for the game, they merely accelerate internal processes; the entire game's essentials are on the one disc, and everything is still as seamless as its predecessor.
* Someone managed to create a game resembling ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. What makes that so special? The game contains fully 3D environments, with ''working physics'', and even renders the view through portals. As if that wasn't enough, this is a homebrew game made without access to Nintendo's official SDK, using information gained from reverse engineering. Despite this, it's more advanced than most official games. You can [[http://smealum.net/ASDS/ download it here]]. [[note]]In order to play this on an actual Nintendo DS, you'll need a flash cartridge, but those have become quite cheap. You also have the option of playing it on a PC or mobile device using an emulator.[[/note]]
* Take a look at [[https://youtu.be/ojatBoMZubk?t=14m17s this]] video. WebVideo/StuartAshen is known for reviewing electronic tat, but Cybiko Xtreme managed to impress him a built-in game called ''[=CyRace 2=]''. Despite the fact Cybiko is a texting device that has a black-and-white LCD screen (which is meant to run 2D images, much like the Game.com), ''[=CyRace 2=]'' is a ''full fledged 3D game''. And this is from a device that was released in the early 2000s, where the specs for the platform are so low it couldn't run something like this without it stuttering.
* The only reason why Yoshi was omitted from almost all NES Mario games was because of technical limitations of the time preventing his use within the game. Not only does ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3Mix'' implement Yoshi within the engine of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' (a NES Mario game), it also implemented features from later games in the series, such as the gravity mechanic from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.
* ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'' runs on the ''VideoGame/MarioParty 6'' engine. Yes, you read that right. Instead of using a dedicated engine, or even using the MAX or Festival engine like the other home versions of DDR at the time, the game uses an engine it wasn't even designed for.
* Many of the games made by Creator/HumongousEntertainment were technical marvels of the time. They pushed the SCUMM[[labelnote:meaning]]Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion[[/labelnote]] engine to its limits with their use of high-resolution fullscreen animated cinematics starting with the first ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'', then upped the ante by making spinoffs of their popular characters in arcade-style games that included decent clones of ''VideoGame/QBert'' and ''VideoGame/BreakOut''. And that's not even getting into the early ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' titles, which not only featured full ArtificialIntelligence for both teams, but kept track of the statistics of every player on every team in every league, whether or not the match was played by you or not. All this on an engine originally designed for scripting [[AdventureGame point and click adventures]] like ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' and ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland''.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' is remarkably well-optimized on all platforms, managing to deliver semi-competent performance on a Pentium system, while easily hitting 60FPS maxed out with frames to spare on a single high-end graphics card, even with upscaled DSR resolutions. The game renders a big, photorealistic open map with dynamic weather in real time - even as the PC executable is being constantly scrambled by the Denuvo DRM. That the game was ported to geriatric seventh-generation consoles with relatively little loss in fidelity, is a testament to meticulous optimization that shouldn't even be possible.
* As ridiculous as it sounds, most games on the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} quality as this. The system specs made it capable for running for simple, symmetrical games like ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Combat}}''. Many developers found ways to bypass the limitations of the 2600 and did ''a lot'' of impressive stuff with it:
** ''VideoGame/EscapeFromTheMindmaster'': FauxFirstPerson3D with smooth movement from square to square.
** The ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' port [[SerialEscalation had it up to 39 player objects and four shots on the screen at once]], with no extra RAM or other special chips on the cartridge. It was doing things that the console literally shouldn't have been able to do.
** The home brew scene took note of this with [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1G_si-9fgE "The Byte Before Christmas"]], which pushes the systems aesthetics to their limits; in a true rarity, the characters not mainly feature fluent animation principles like overlapping animation, but the game "Bell Hopper" features fluid parallax scrolling--on a system that didn't support scrolling, and should have been impossible to perform it on!
** Even ''VideoGame/PacMan'' of all games achieved it on the same system with so many objects from pellets, ghost and the titular character himself running at the same time, and this was done in exercise in [[SelfImposedChallenge constrained programming]]. This is only talking about the game on a technical aspect, because as a video game, it's [[PortingDisaster nothing worth bragging about]].
*** The 2600 ports of ''Ms. Pac-Man'' and ''Jr. Pac-Man'' are huge improvements from the ''Pac-Man'' port, and somebody made a homebrew version of ''Pac-Man'' on the 2600 called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYuBcuvIww Pac-Man 4K]]'', which is a much better port that uses the same 4-kilobyte size limit as the official one.
* The Nintendo 64 version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' is/was noteworthy for squeezing a two-disc [=PlayStation=] game (1.2 GB), filled with voiced dialogue and full-motion video cutscenes, on a 64 MB cartridge, fully intact. Only the cutscenes took a slight hit, but besides that, it's still considered the one of the best versions of the game.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' on the GBA had full FMV opening and closing scenes that MATCHED the quality of the PS2 Opening and Closing for KH1. On a GBA cart. They managed to do the impossible by essentially turning the FMV into one incredibly long GIF sequence. Oh, and to top it off, they had a secret Riku mode too.
* ''Creator/{{Rare}}'' were continuously pulling this off during the N64 era. Even their first and less technically impressive N64 game, [[KillerInstinct Killer Instinct Gold]], was still noteworthy for running at 60FPS on a console where that almost never happened. Following that was the huge size of both ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' and [[BanjoKazooie Banjo Tooie]], the [[LudicrousGibs impressive splatter effects]] in ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'', and most impressively, ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', which had some of the best graphics, most fluid animations and furthest draw distance of any N64 game, all while still managing to cram in full voice acting, of which there's a ton of. The impressive part? All these games had to be crammed into N64 cartridges, which could hold 64MB at the most, and yet some of these games, especially Conker, still look better than some early PS2 or Dreamcast releases.
[[folder:Other Software]]
* [[http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/ SHRDLU]] is an AI/text parser written by Terry Winograd (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) from 1960-1971 that can manipulate blocks and pyramids according to commands entered by the user, and also answer questions about them. ''In plain English''. [[note]]If you're a computer science student, [[http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7095 Winograd's paper on the topic]] is a fascinating read.[[/note]] This is an excerpt from the demo:
-->'''Person:''' FIND A BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE YOU ARE HOLDING AND PUT IT INTO THE BOX.\\
'''Computer:''' BY "IT", I ASSUME YOU MEAN THE BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE I AM HOLDING.\\
'''Computer:''' OK. (does it)\\
'''Person:''' WHAT DOES THE BOX CONTAIN?\\
'''Computer:''' THE BLUE PYRAMID AND THE BLUE BLOCK.\\
'''Person:''' WHAT IS THE PYRAMID SUPPORTED BY?\\
'''Computer:''' THE BOX.\\
'''Person:''' HOW MANY BLOCKS ARE NOT IN THE BOX?\\
'''Computer:''' FOUR OF THEM.\\
'''Person:''' IS AT LEAST ONE OF THEM NARROWER THAN THE ONE WHICH I TOLD YOU TO PICK UP?\\
'''Computer:''' YES, THE RED CUBE.\\
'''Person:''' IS IT SUPPORTED?\\
'''Computer:''' YES, BY THE TABLE.
** Interestingly, the simple question "What?" acts as a LogicBomb, sending the program into an infinite loop where it will not respond to anything.
* There exists a BASIC code one only one line long that is capable of generating mazes.[[http://10print.org/]]
* [[http://www.reactos.org/ [=ReactOS=]]]: the project aims to create an open-source Windows-compatible operating system from scratch. After 12 years of development, it has some basic compatibility with Windows. You may not be able to run the latest games on it, but you can check your email and browse Wiki/TVTropes.
** On that note, ''Wine''. It's a project that attempts to ''recreate'' the full Windows [=API=] on Unix-based systems. It's not an emulator, either (it's actually part of the recursive acronym, ''Wine Is Not an Emulator''), but is actually a piecemeal reverse-engineering of Windows one library at a time, which makes Windows-only applications run just fine on Unix and other [=OSes=]. This includes very modern games like ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', which are fully playable this way.
** Wine and [=ReactOS=] are a sister projects and have a shared codebase. Or, more correctly, Wine is a Windows-compatible userland to run application software atop compatible kernels, while [=ReactOS=] developers concentrate on a Windows-compatible backend side, that is, kernel and driver support.
** Printing, NTVDM (the layer allowing 16-bit applications to run on 32-bit Windows) and virtualization software (e.g. [=VirtualBox=], Virtual PC) support have finally been implemented in the latest versions of [=ReactOS=], along with NTFS read support.
* Pretty-much any [[UsefulNotes/{{Emulation}} Emulator]] qualifies. Especially ones which emulate hardware for which there is little or no official information available, requiring the use of reverse engineering.
** SNES Advance and Snezziboy are particularly impressive -- fully playable UsefulNotes/{{SNES}} emulators squeezed into a GameBoyAdvance.
** Similarly, the various [console] Sound Formats, such as the [=PlayStation=] Sound Format. They emulate the original sound hardware/software, [[NostalgiaFilter so you can listen to how the track originally sounded]]. As an added bonus, these files are often a fraction of the size of a normal line-out rip without any significant loss of quality.
** Higan may be relatively slow, but its SNES core (originally its own emulator, called BSNES) is notable for being ''100%'' accurate to the original machine, with no game-specific hacks.
* A lot of programs in an [[http://esolangs.org/wiki/ esoteric language]] count, just because of how weird the languages are. Take, for example, [[http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html?PHPSESSID=2985a88f7e629576ba1e73e3c874e2ee this]].
* [[DescriptionPorn High Efficiency Advanced Audio coding w/ Parametric Stereo]]. A pretty general rule of thumb is that it gives the same as MP3 quality at one-fourth of the size (24kbit [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Efficiency_Advanced_Audio_Coding HE-AAC]] sounds as good as 96kbit MP3). Discovering it has been known to lead to at least one joygasm. Preceded by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3pro mp3PRO]], which uses the same [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_band_replication Spectral Bandwidth Replication]] algorithm to shrink the file size to half.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format) Opus]], an audio codec that has superior quality to HE-AAC at the same low bitrates and can also match the quality of MP3, AAC, and Vorbis at higher bitrates. What makes it shine, however, is the low algorithmic delay it provides, making it highly suitable for real time applications like Skype.
* jQuery is a [=JavaScript=] library that is used in a surprisingly high proportion of the most visited web sites. That is because it allows you to do a number of things that are (currently) too high-level for plain old HTML, [=JavaScript=] and CSS to handle out of box, such as AJAX (increased online interaction without refreshing the page you're on), manipulation of HTML elements (that is, inserting or tearing out parts of the web page at will), and basic animations (such as fade-ins and fade-outs). In other words, it provides just about all the functionality that really sets apart modern web pages from the static web pages of yesteryear (where yesteryear is approximately any year prior to 2005). It is also designed to be as unobtrusive to other code as possible, only uses [[EldritchAbomination confusing trick code]] where unavoidable, and still only clocks in at under 100 kilobytes.
** It gets even better. jQuery uses ''[[http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-monad/ monadic]]'' programming structure for most of its functions, which is basically a fancy way of saying you can call functions one after another on the same object on the same line without needing external variables to keep track of it all. The thing is, monads are typically associated with ''Haskell'', not Javascript, and they're one of the hardest parts of the language for most people to wrap their heads around. If you're good with jQuery, then you've also got a conceptual grasp on how monads work, despite working in ''completely different programming languages''!
* Microsoft Excel. While mostly known for being a boring spreadsheet program, it is actually very versatile. If you know what you're doing you can turn it into a rendering program or even a game engine with no real modification of the software.
* Some International Obfuscated C Code Contest contestants managed to produce impressive entries in spite, [[LoopholeAbuse or because]], of the restrictive rules:
** A [[http://www0.us.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html#1998 1998 entry]] was a [[http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1998/banks.hint flight simulator]].
** The [[http://www0.us.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html#2001 2001 edition]] saw a tiny, self-hosting [[http://www0.us.ioccc.org/2001/bellard.hint compiler]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard Fabrice Bellard]] for a strict subset of C for i386 Linux, whose source was under ''3 kB'', winning the "[[LoopholeAbuse Best abuse of the rule]]"; this compiler was then used as basis for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler Tiny C Compiler]], another marvel of tiny compiler.
** The [[http://www0.us.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html#2004 2004 edition]] saw a ''full-fledged operating system'' by [[http://www0.us.ioccc.org/2004/gavin.hint Gavin]] winning the "Best of Show" Award.
* Linux itself was started as a personal side project by Linus Torvalds in 1991. He had grown frustrated by the legalities and restrictions associated with MINIX and decided he could do better. So he started hacking away, and after some time he gave notice to the world of the existence of Linux - mentioning that it would be "Just a hobby" and "not big and professional". Fast forward a few years and Linux basically runs the world; comparatively few people run it on desktops, but it's very often chosen by tech-savvy businesses in place of far less secure systems, it's in a lot of embedded devices, and the infrastructure it all depends on runs on it almost exclusively.
* Creator/MasiOka was apparently in charge of coming up with genius programming for Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic before he started dealing with [[Series/{{Heroes}} bending space-time]]. In his words, he's the guy they called when they wanted something on the screen to blow up ''without'' also blowing up the computer rendering it (and then he had to teach the art team how to use the tools he created). His rendering tools for creating dynamic water in things like ''Film/ThePerfectStorm'' were repurposed to create the fiery explosions in ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.[[note]]Because rapidly-expanding gas behaves remarkably like a fluid - science![[/note]]
* When the Commodore 64 came out it was hopelessly slow at loading programs (which is why it's listed in IdiotProgramming). Fastloader cartridges and chips for floppy drives came out quickly, but though in the US floppy drives were widespread various market/import reasons made them ''hilariously'' expensive in Europe - one could easily spend about as much money on the floppy as they did on the computer itself. As a result most Europeans made do with tapes, which were both inherently slower and much harder to speed up - not only was tape intended for music and therefore not well-optimized for data storage, but the cassette drive lacked the relatively powerful hardware present on the floppy drives (which were effectively secondary computers in and of themselves, with their own CPU and RAM). As a result "turbo tape" loaders were developed, which would be loaded slowly by the original system and would then speed up about fivefold everything loaded after them. Notably, since they couldn't rely on additional hardware to do the job, turbo loaders required some pretty clever programming to intercept the original operating system routines and modify them to accept the new commands and improved functionality - see [[http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/turbotape.html here]] for a detailed analysis.
* The Common Lisp language, although its syntax can be rather daunting, has the unique property that any feature of any programming language can be added to it - yet the compiler/interpreter is tiny and supports only 25 commands. Why? Because one of those commands lets you create a new language construct, and provide a Common Lisp program that expands that construct into a simpler one. This can then be expanded again, and so on until the program contains only those 25 commands. Essentially, it implements the compilation process itself as a language feature, meaning that the compiler is infinitely customizable.
[[folder:Other uses]]
* [[http://twitter.com/winocm winocm]], who's currently into iOS jailbreaking. Not only did she [[https://github.com/darwin-on-arm/xnu make an iOS clone by porting the kernel used by Mac OS X to the ARM architecture mainly by herself]] (others got involved later), but before she got into iOS stuff she made her own NT clone (aiming for binary compatibility with a very early build of NT that is incompatible with all released versions), called [[http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18458&start=0 OpenNT]]. Look at the post dates. She went from something unbootable to a CLI interface that passed 10,000 wine tests in ''3 days''. She never completed the project, but released [[http://goput.it/7qx.zip a build to the public]] that same day, if you want to take a look in a VM yourself.
* The CGI in ''Film/{{Tron}}''. Procedural texturing was ''invented'' for this movie. Even the one-off supercomputer used at the time didn't have enough memory to be able to use raster textures, so the only way to get any detail was by evaluating functions on a per-pixel basis.
* {{Pinball}}:
** Here's an interview with pinball programmer [[http://mypinballblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-begining.html Dwight Sullivan]], in which he describes how small the pinball software was at the time. Notable programmer [[Creator/LarryDeMar Larry DeMar]] (the co-creator of ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Robotron 2084}}'') invented automatic replay adjustment (with Creator/SteveRitchie), which automatically adjusts the [[EveryTenThousandPoints replay score]] based on the players' performances on location) and software compensation for broken playfield switches/features, both of which were introduced in 1986's ''Pinball/HighSpeed''.
** Noteworthy mention goes to 1992's ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'', which had an auto-flipper (called "Thing Flips") that actually did hit the Swamp scoop target, most of the time. When it doesn't hit the Swamp scoop, then the software auto-calibrates the flipper until it hits the Swamp. This also happens if the pinball machine is moved to another location. Not surprisingly, [[Creator/LarryDeMar Larry DeMar]] was the co-programmer for ''The Addams Family''.
** [=DeMar=] also did the programming for 1990's ''Pinball/FunHouse'', which featured "Pin-Mation", in which Rudy's (the talking doll head) eyes and mouth move in real-time, depending on where the ball hits the target.
* [=TicketMaster=] managed to conquer their market by using such tightly written code it could run on 1/10th the space of its original competitors and still process the same amount of requests at the same speed.
* Apollo Guidance Computer software implemented a (cooperative) multitasking operating system plus all the software to run on it in 36,864 16 bit words of ROM and 2048 16 bit words of RAM (or in modern units, 73,728 bytes and 4096 bytes, respectively). And this was software that had to be extremely reliable and fault-tolerant because human lives depended on it. Apollo 11 demonstrated the benefits of the fault tolerant design when the guidance computer was given slightly more work than it was capable of coping with during the landing. Instead of curling up and dying, it issued an alarm, discarded jobs that were considered low priority and continued running the high priority tasks. This bit of design saved the mission. When you consider that a lunar landing abort would have been the most complicated manuver ever attempted by NASA (possibly to current day) this feature likely saved lives.
** Some credit should go to both the programmers (chiefly Margaret Hamilton) and the operators, especially Jack Garman, one of the engineers in mission control during the landing. He diagnosed the problem immediately based on two four-digit error codes, recognized that it was solveable, and guided the crew through an on-the-fly procedural change to reduce the computer's workload.
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* While he was a professor at MIT, Dr. Edward Thorp (better known as the man who invented counting cards at blackjack) once made a tiny wearable computer which he programmed to secretly calculate where the ball would stop on a roulette wheel, allowing a player to bet on that number and win big. And this was in ''1961'' - before there were any laws against it, because evidently nobody else had imagined such a thing would even be possible.
* In the fancy lingo of computer science, a "quine" is a program that, when run, produces itself as output. A "multiquine with a cycle length of two" is a program that, when run, produces a program that, when run, produces the first program as output. Got that? Good. Now, [[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916/p1 contemplate this multiquine with a cycle length of eleven, each stage of which is in a different programming language]] or its [[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20130715/p1 follow-up]] which is written in 50 cycles/languages.
* Steve Wozniak made it so that a 3 1/2" floppy disk that would be 720 kB on other systems to have 800 kB on both UsefulNotes/AppleII's and {{Apple Macintosh}}es. Unfortunately, this ended up causing compatibility issues with most other systems, so Apple went with the 1.44 MB used for the rest of the industry.
* The QP Framework, developed by Miro Samek, is essentially a lightweight event driven framework based on software state machines. While that might not sound like much, consider that the framework includes a real-time OS kernel in the package for embedded processors. Okay, there are other real-time [=OSes=]! But when you consider that QP in its smallest takes up less than 100 bytes of memory and 1KB of ROM and yet still has most of its functions to allow for real-time event driven systems is nothing short of amazing. Even its full featured implementation takes up about 1KB of memory and less than 10K of ROM.
* All of the awesome animation they do in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''? All of it is managed on an older version of UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. Despite this, they manage to do things like MotionParallax and non-CG 3D effects that would make Disney's animated films blush, and they all do this on old software instead of in traditional cels. It is this show that truly shows what animators with Flash could put out if they really put in both the artistic effort and had the programming chops to manage it.
* There is almost enough publicly available information to write a perfectly accurate emulator for the Cray-1 that can run on a modern workstation. The largest stumbling block is the floating point maths used by the Cray-1. The Cray-1 was a single processor supercomputer that was faster than any other computer in the world when it was built. It came with vector floating point functional units (i.e. subprocessors) which could be used in parallel, had exact calculation times, predate modern standards, and are poorly documented compared to the rest of the Cray-1. The Cray-1 used a 64-bit floating point format and algorithms that differ from and are much faster than what even modern computers use. When the Cray-1 hardware manual says that you can do floating point and integer division, multiplication, addition, and subtraction all at the same time, it isn't bragging. The hardware manual actually tells you how to do it.
* In the mid [=90s=] when PCI was being introduced, there was a problem with how to allocate 8 expansion slots between it and the old ISA standard which was still used to a wide degree. The designer's solution? Make the PCI cards install upside down. This allowed an expansion bracket to fit an ISA or PCI card.
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This is just dumb. He fights at 154 and 160. Why does he have to jump up again? He doesn't want to fight at that weight and I don't blame him. A fight with JCCJ makes the most sense as they are in the same weight class. How hard is this to comprehend? At least when he is calling out smaller guys in Mayweather and Pacquiao, he's willing to sacrifice some weight.
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what i find interesting is usually when a guy doesnt have any more challenges left in his division he usually move up and challenge bigger guys not going down to pick on smaller guys..
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The guy is 37. He doesn't have much time left. He paid his dues now all her wants is a big money fight. Pretty smiple to understand. He cant waste his time fighting guys like pirog who isnt tested any way.
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I mean if he were more honest with what he wants, then ok...but he's not
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I'm starting to see that people want Martinez to take an unnecessary risk. Why does Sergio have to move up to 168, when he can simply move down to 154 instead? If anything, you should be saying that Chavez is the one who should be at SMW, since he's the one consistently re-hydrating above the LHW limit. Chavez has the belt that Martinez was stripped of, why wouldn't he want to fight him? He's in his weight class, has a belt, and represents a good pay-day. I'm hoping Murray beats Chavez so much, cuz Murray has already stated that he would plan to fight Sergio after he beats JCC.
Andre Ward already has competition at his weight class, there's no legitimate reason for them to fight imho.
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- Dimensions: 0.4 x 5.9 x 2.9 in, 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
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This item is heat sensitive. It is only available for purchase between October 1st and June 14th. We temporarily discontinue the item during the summer months, from June 15th - September 30th, because it might melt or spoil during transit.
- Love Poem Inside Wrapper
- 55% Cocoa Content
- Belgian Chocolate
- 55% Chilies & Cherries
- Kosher
Ancho and Chipotle chilies supply the heat and dried cherries supply the sweet in this deliciously exciting chocolate. Initial chili flavors transition to deep sweet cherry and finish again on a pleasantly warm chili note. The stimulating effect of chilies and chocolate will warm your heart.
Share it with someone you love.
55% Dark Chili Cherry
Suggested Use
Tastes best at 70° F.
Other Ingredients
Dark chocolate (cocoa liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla), dried cherries, ancho chilies, chipotle chilies.
May contain traces of peanuts or other nuts.
Store at 55°-65° F.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 1/3 bar (30 g)
|Servings: 3
|Fat Cal.
|Total Fat
|10 g
|Sat. Fat
|6 g
|Trans Fat
|0 g
|0 mg
|29 mg
|Total Carb.
|15 g
|3 g
|14 g
|2 g
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
|*Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Enjoyed this chocolate, cherries and chilly are so good together! But don't give it to children :) // Понравилось сочетание вишни и чили. Но не предлагайте такую шоколадку детям :)
Very, very, very tasty! First, feel the taste of dark chocolate, then the tooth comes across sweet-sour cherry pieces, and as the aftertaste is light peppercorn. Unusual. Natural product without unnecessary additives. Cocoa content - 55%. Inside the wrapper is printed poem by Thomas Moore
wonderful combo
Posted by 4752280803825910617 on Aug 28, 2016
This is a great gourmet combo. Please bring back this great product!
Posted by 5605375946165012701 on Jul 11, 2016
Me encanto la conbinacion entere lo dulce y lo picante vale la pena totalmente! :)
Posted by 4983149196640897860 on Jun 04, 2016
If you like dark chocolate and cherries with a little spice thrown in, you should. Like this.
Posted by 5098547019900238881 on May 20, 2016
Nice taste. A little oily.
didn't like the chili combine with the chocolate
Posted by SagitAdin on May 13, 2016
But still finish it