Comment by reconnecting
1 year ago
I remember when I saw MARS.EXE for the first time on my 386. That was something absolutely unimaginable for real-time graphics. Pure magic!
It's fascinating to see that 30 years later someone is still working around its source code.
I remember when the demo came out (I didn't even know it was called a "demo" at the time). We gathered around it running on one of the lab PCs. It was quite unbelievable that something like it could be done in such a tiny executable.
Yeah, I had exact the same fellings.
Have you also tried to reach the end?
Of course, that was the first intention, to get to the end.
I remember as a child, I had spent a lot of time on this, but perhaps the direction was wrong. (-:
It's endless right?
Sure, it was endless.
Here is "making of" from author.
https://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=4662
same feeling