Demo Party
The LayerOne Demo Party is back again for another year of awesome demos! Demos are a combination of programming challenge, artwork, and music. You’re given specific hardware with any number of restrictions – code size, available memory, processor speed. Your goal is to output audio and video that pushes the limits of what is considered possible with such limited hardware. You can purchase a kit to solder your own Demo Board from Tindie while supplies last!
Categories for this year’s Demo Party:
- LayerOne Demo Board: Create a fantastic audio/video experience using a LayerOne Demo Board!
- ANSI: Create an awesome 80×23 ANSI art image using the standard 16 colors!
- Wildcard: Anything goes! Props given for creative use of hardware or software!
Enter your Demo or ANSI art now! Submit by emailing datagram@layerone.org with [DEMO 2024] in your email title! Please include your .hex file for Demo Boards and you .ans file for ANSI!
The LayerOne Demo Board is a 16-bit PIC24F chip with 96K RAM, 256K Flash/ROM. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? There’s many nuances to learning about the board and exploring what is possible in such limited hardware. Get inspired by watching a previous year’s demo party! Need some additional inspiration? Check out some award-winning demos on the Commodore 64, Atari XL/XE, and an 8-bit Atmega88 microcontroller. Not enough? What about a full, three and a half minute 1080p HD demo written in just 4kb of code? Check out elevated by Rgba & TBC.
