Tuesday, April 18. 2006
Breakpoint over
Back from Breakpoint, uploaded rest of images. My submissions this year were quite limited: One Photo that didn't make it through the preselection and one effect for the Never-Demo (which made place 28 out of 29, n0y asked at a very late time »hey, can you code us some effect, the interface is really simple?«, so I did some ascii-art-shading).
I didn't manage to visit all seminars I wanted to see, I hope they'll get the recordings up soon.
One I find worth mentioning:
Peci from Scoopex managed to get a dos-COM-file running windows-code without any win32/PE-headers (smaller, good for 4k intros). What he's doing is basically abusing an api for attaching drivers to the DOS-Emulation (VDD). It is able to call initialization-functions of DLLs from within DOS with invalid Opcodes. Calling it without initializing a library causes to jump to position 0. The memory from the DOS-process is mapped 1:1, so this is a valid adress, where you can put a jmp in the COM-file before calling. Very weird, but seems to work fine.
(I hope they'll put up the seminar-slides on the ftp, I'll link them when they're available)
I didn't manage to visit all seminars I wanted to see, I hope they'll get the recordings up soon.
One I find worth mentioning:
Peci from Scoopex managed to get a dos-COM-file running windows-code without any win32/PE-headers (smaller, good for 4k intros). What he's doing is basically abusing an api for attaching drivers to the DOS-Emulation (VDD). It is able to call initialization-functions of DLLs from within DOS with invalid Opcodes. Calling it without initializing a library causes to jump to position 0. The memory from the DOS-process is mapped 1:1, so this is a valid adress, where you can put a jmp in the COM-file before calling. Very weird, but seems to work fine.
(I hope they'll put up the seminar-slides on the ftp, I'll link them when they're available)
Sunday, April 16. 2006
Breakpoint: Day 1+2, Ultrasound, Welle:Erdball

Yesterday evening was a live-act called Ultrasound, they played guitar-music to demos shown on the screen. The beam-team didn't manage to show second reality (probably they don't have any real DOS any more...). Quite nice.
On Saturday I missed most of the compos because I did something very unscenish and got some fresh air and light (ok, not so much light, it was cloudy), visited Bingen city, took a ship to the other side of the rhine and walked around there a bit. I like this landscape, I did some bicycle-trips here in the past.
Next was the Welle:Erdball concert. They're doing electronic music with old computer sounds like C64-SID with a (imho) great live-show.
First set of pictures are here, more to come.
Friday, April 14. 2006
Breakpoint Trip

This year I'm especially looking forward that there are a couple of interesting seminars, I'll probably write some reports about that. And have a look at their website, I like this years design very much.
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Wednesday, April 12. 2006
Cartoon-like filter with vlc

You'll need latest vlc 0.8.5_beta2 (yes, it's really unstable), gentoo has masked ebuilds for it.
To enable the filter, try out:
vlc --vout-filter distort --distort-mode edge
(Pictures from the Creative Commons by-nc-nd licensed movie Teezeit)
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