User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

Re:User Interfaces of the Demo Scene by gokohl on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:50AM (#49095728)

Never been into building tracks, always the coder (assembler on 6502 and MC68000). Somebody should do a similar article about all the demo build tools like kkrieger, or modern ones like Tixl. Anyway…good old times :)

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Re:User Interfaces of the Demo Scene by MK2k on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:13AM (#49096446)

.werkkzeug1 was also my first though while scrolling through the article

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Re:User Interfaces of the Demo Scene by b3lvedere on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:24AM (#49096014)

I loved .kkrieger. The best first person shooter 96kb ever produced! :) [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

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Re:User Interfaces of the Demo Scene by nuxi on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:19PM (#49100335)

FR released the source code for their tools in 2012, some of the concepts are described in the repo, e.g.: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/blob/master/werkkzeu...

A couple of additional links from my bookmarks:

- The EXE packer : https://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/

- Some tech details in "The Farbrausch Way to make Demos" slides : https://llg.cubic.org/docs/farbrauschDemos/

- Various related videos (search for ryg/chaos/fiver2): https://files.scene.org/browse/resources/seminars/code/

- Overview of their tools + misc links: https://adrianboeing.blogspot.com/2012/04/farbraush-demo-too...

- Some .kkrieger details: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...

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