ants colony

"An ant colony is an underground lair where ants live. Colonies consist of a series of underground chambers, connected to each other and the surface of the earth by a series of pipes.... The colony is built and maintained by legions of worker ants called sysantmins who carry tiny bits of data in their mandibles and deposit them near the exit of the colony, forming a SAN (Storage Ant Network)"

Source: "Everything you wanted to know about ants but where afraid to ask"

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October 13

Australian Scrawl on Obama’s Nobel prize

December 12

goldie making europop (via swampmonsta1)

December 11

Pimp My Spectrum by Ate Bit (via murphyEXD)

From the readme:

_ Most of the code is actually written in Z80 and runs using a stripped down Z80 emulator. All of the esoteric features of the chip have been dropped - including annoying things like clock cycles and anything but the most essential instructions

The GPU (and other utility functions like maths and resource loading) are implemented in C and called through rst instructions. The audio comes courtesy of a version of VTXPlay, hacked to give six channels of sound. The original tune was created in Vortex Tracker. The graphics use a single OpenGL texture and are dumped there from the emulator cores memory every frame. The screen in memory uses a similar layout to that of a real Spectrum but without that bloody annoying interleaving of pixel rows

So this demo is a little bit unusual - it is essentially a tricked out emulator with a demo, all in 64k. But where’s the fun in doing things the normal way? _

December 10