Raster by Icebird [web]
raster.bin a 256 byte (including working header) effect by exoticorn/icebird -- quite some time ago, joat made a 256 byte demo which featured 3 different coloured rasterbars moving linearely up and down. he never released this, but since i have always been a fan of size optimization, i set out to see whether i could top his bars... this is what i have come up with soon, but i also didn't release this... up to now... i'd love it if there were some other people out there, who also like to spend their nights optimizing their effect to use one less instruction. we could have some inofficial, nonorganized competition, just releasing ever better effects and making fun of each other in the readme.txt s... ;) i think, though, that the 256 byte format (at least with a header included) is a bit too limiting for this, so perhaps we should better go for 512 bytes including the header. but since this is completely nonorganized, a new category would be introduced by simply releasing sth that fits it, but i feel, we should at least stick to powers of 2, i don't like the sound of 347 byte intros... ;) this intro runs on the real hardware and most emulators i tested it on (including mappy and boycott advance. when you need to fix the header, make sure that only what really needs to be fixed is affected, since everything else is used for essential code...
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