College dropout here, I don't come here often. So last week I read a blog about people who made Amiga demos in the 90s. The ones that sometimes came with hacked roms, showing fake 3D effects, parallax colored backgrounds, matrices of sprites doing stuff and text flying across the screen in a sine motion blinking in all kinds of psychedelic colors and shit. And how in that text the programmers would go on and on about crunching framerates, screen blits, dma timing, all kinds of shit I don't understand about. Nostalgic shit. So, if you know what I'm talking about, I just want to know the name of a language, IDE, library or whatever, that lets me write programs that do something like that. Preferably a modern language.
Just a name I can google will do.
Maybe learning linear algebra will help me make wavy scrolling text?
Something similar to that is a start. I know C and the basics of OOP, what libraries could I use?
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Anonymous2012-07-02 14:56
And by OOP I mean Java, I have NetBeans and Eclipse installed, I could download a free copy of Visual Studio Express or something and learn C#. I fuqd ur 2hu and madoka a shit.
am i cool yet?
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Anonymous2012-07-02 15:03
btw I'm a girl and I considered myself a feminist.
You can't even program gay blinking floating text because you're privileged white male who's afraid of a powerful woman.
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The thing you're referring to is Demoscene. The entire idea is that its low level so if you're wondering what kind of language to use, that should be anything that has inline assembly options and can link with assembly object files. Furthermore, demoscene projects are usually competitively ranked to particular restrictions, like certain types of machines or memory usage.
Because of the size of the undertaking this is the sort of thing you should join a demoscene group first to know whats going on, unless you're in Europe, mostly in Scandinavian countries this will be a fruitless pursuit.