BoyC
@boyc.conspiracy.hu
Main tool and engine coder for the Conspiracy demogroup (@conspiracy.hu), Ventuz engine wizard (http://ventuz.com)
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Probably one of the most ambitious works we've done.
DemoArts 149 - 'When Silence Dims The Stars Above' by Conspiracy
demoarts.media/149/
#DemoArts #Demoscene
demoarts.media/149/
#DemoArts #Demoscene
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Probably one of the most ambitious works we've done.
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In our efforts to restore old classics, we're proud to release the Windows port of a legendary 64k intro:
"hplus" by Halcyon, from 1998
Download at conspiracy.hu/files/hplus_...
"hplus" by Halcyon, from 1998
Download at conspiracy.hu/files/hplus_...
October 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In our efforts to restore old classics, we're proud to release the Windows port of a legendary 64k intro:
"hplus" by Halcyon, from 1998
Download at conspiracy.hu/files/hplus_...
"hplus" by Halcyon, from 1998
Download at conspiracy.hu/files/hplus_...
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Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions.
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions.
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
This intro was an immense source of inspiration to me back then, one of the reasons I'm still making 64k intros to this day.
We have spent a little time helping our friends at Altair out to restore one of our favorite 64k intros from 2001:
"SCREAM" by Altair is now once again fully functional on modern Windows!
files.scene.org/view/parties...
@mlfatr.bsky.social (Sorry it took 10+ years 😅🤫)
"SCREAM" by Altair is now once again fully functional on modern Windows!
files.scene.org/view/parties...
@mlfatr.bsky.social (Sorry it took 10+ years 😅🤫)
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This intro was an immense source of inspiration to me back then, one of the reasons I'm still making 64k intros to this day.
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Kicked off a long overdue #artstation page too. Not much there yet, but it's a start :) Planning a few more @mandragoragame.com BTS stuff in the future so stay tuned! www.artstation.com/zoomvfx #Portfolio #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX #Niagara #GameArt #GameDevCommunity
Zoltán Szabó
Senior VFX Artist at Primal Game Studio
www.artstation.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Kicked off a long overdue #artstation page too. Not much there yet, but it's a start :) Planning a few more @mandragoragame.com BTS stuff in the future so stay tuned! www.artstation.com/zoomvfx #Portfolio #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX #Niagara #GameArt #GameDevCommunity
Dear Apple. I'm glad you finally realized that phones are too large. I've been saying this for years. But damn, NOT ALONG THE Z AXIS!
September 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Dear Apple. I'm glad you finally realized that phones are too large. I've been saying this for years. But damn, NOT ALONG THE Z AXIS!
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Ever found a couple thousand bucks between the sofa cushions? That's how we felt last night when toggling a single compiler flag shrunk our 64k engine code by 20%.
Moral of the story: don't assume anything when moving compilers in a size-coding context.
Moral of the story: don't assume anything when moving compilers in a size-coding context.
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ever found a couple thousand bucks between the sofa cushions? That's how we felt last night when toggling a single compiler flag shrunk our 64k engine code by 20%.
Moral of the story: don't assume anything when moving compilers in a size-coding context.
Moral of the story: don't assume anything when moving compilers in a size-coding context.
Gotta love AI overviews. That's two WD ssd product codes I wanted to compare to figure out the 40 eur price difference at my usual retailer.
August 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Gotta love AI overviews. That's two WD ssd product codes I wanted to compare to figure out the 40 eur price difference at my usual retailer.
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Hello everyone who found us through this starter pack recently 👋 We're a Hungarian demogroup and we've been making 64 kilobyte intros for 20+ years now, using our own procedural tooling that looks/looked like this 👇
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hello everyone who found us through this starter pack recently 👋 We're a Hungarian demogroup and we've been making 64 kilobyte intros for 20+ years now, using our own procedural tooling that looks/looked like this 👇
I managed to buy a laptop with a copilot key not realizing that it can't be set to act as the ctrl key, and all workarounds ignore the fact that the hardware actually sends "win+shift+f23", taking over the shift button and making shift+ctrl+arrow key selection impossible. Well. NO. MORE. COPILOT.
GitHub - BoyC/NoMoreCopilot: A small driver to kill the goddamn copilot button and turn it into a FULLY functional ctrl button
A small driver to kill the goddamn copilot button and turn it into a FULLY functional ctrl button - BoyC/NoMoreCopilot
github.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I managed to buy a laptop with a copilot key not realizing that it can't be set to act as the ctrl key, and all workarounds ignore the fact that the hardware actually sends "win+shift+f23", taking over the shift button and making shift+ctrl+arrow key selection impossible. Well. NO. MORE. COPILOT.
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I spent painstaking months on this, and without a doubt this is one of the proudest I've been of everything I've ever worked on.
SR is a demo without which a lot of us wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so to make it run natively on my machine was very emotional.
(❤️ to @oldskool.org for his help)
SR is a demo without which a lot of us wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so to make it run natively on my machine was very emotional.
(❤️ to @oldskool.org for his help)
= 32 bits after 32 years =
We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.
conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...
We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.
conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...
August 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I spent painstaking months on this, and without a doubt this is one of the proudest I've been of everything I've ever worked on.
SR is a demo without which a lot of us wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so to make it run natively on my machine was very emotional.
(❤️ to @oldskool.org for his help)
SR is a demo without which a lot of us wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so to make it run natively on my machine was very emotional.
(❤️ to @oldskool.org for his help)
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= 32 bits after 32 years =
We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.
conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...
We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.
conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...
August 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
= 32 bits after 32 years =
We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.
conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...
We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.
conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...
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Look to the stars again at Assembly.
July 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Look to the stars again at Assembly.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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We've been a bit quiet recently, and this is one of the reasons!
Go check it out!
Go check it out!
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is out now!
🎮 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1721060/...
🎮 GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/mand...
🎮 EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/mand...
🎮 PlayStation 5: store.playstation.com/concept/1000...
🎮 Xbox Series X/S: xbox.com/games/store/...
#actionrpg
🎮 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1721060/...
🎮 GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/mand...
🎮 EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/mand...
🎮 PlayStation 5: store.playstation.com/concept/1000...
🎮 Xbox Series X/S: xbox.com/games/store/...
#actionrpg
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree on Steam
Slay your way in Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, an epic action RPG in a dark fantasy world. Battle monsters, master six unique Classes, craft hundreds of useful items, and explore the…
store.steampowered.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We've been a bit quiet recently, and this is one of the reasons!
Go check it out!
Go check it out!
Breakdown of a 64k intro: the contents of Tension (www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...) look like this after compression. Green is visual data, blue is audio code+data, brown/yellow is engine code and red is the exepacker+stub.
April 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Breakdown of a 64k intro: the contents of Tension (www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...) look like this after compression. Green is visual data, blue is audio code+data, brown/yellow is engine code and red is the exepacker+stub.
And what an honor. This project would not have been possible without the guys helping out with the audio: @virgill74.bsky.social, @kebby.org and gopher
Slowly getting out of my Post Revision Brain Fog, and, oh, right, I had a release!
www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
It was an honor to work with @virgill74.bsky.social and especially @boyc.conspiracy.hu - 22 years after meeting on the Easter Party stage as rivals, we finally did so as collaborators.
www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
It was an honor to work with @virgill74.bsky.social and especially @boyc.conspiracy.hu - 22 years after meeting on the Easter Party stage as rivals, we finally did so as collaborators.
Tension by Digital Dynamite & Aenima
64k for Windows, 1st at Revision 2025
www.pouet.net
April 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
And what an honor. This project would not have been possible without the guys helping out with the audio: @virgill74.bsky.social, @kebby.org and gopher
Whoever thought that it'd be a good idea to have the copilot key send a ctrl-shift-f23 shortcut so there's no way to map it back to ctrl so that it works with shift-ctrl-arrow selection navigation needs to get persistent hiccups like right now.
April 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Whoever thought that it'd be a good idea to have the copilot key send a ctrl-shift-f23 shortcut so there's no way to map it back to ctrl so that it works with shift-ctrl-arrow selection navigation needs to get persistent hiccups like right now.
Spent my evenings in the past 6 months working towards one of my holy grails: a real-time recreation of an old prerendered video, in 64 kbytes
It won the 64k competition at @revision-party.bsky.social.
Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...
Executable version: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
It won the 64k competition at @revision-party.bsky.social.
Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...
Executable version: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
Tension (64k intro)
YouTube video by BoyC
www.youtube.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Spent my evenings in the past 6 months working towards one of my holy grails: a real-time recreation of an old prerendered video, in 64 kbytes
It won the 64k competition at @revision-party.bsky.social.
Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...
Executable version: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
It won the 64k competition at @revision-party.bsky.social.
Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...
Executable version: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
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Our soundtrack for Clean Slate has made it into the latest edition of the legendary Demovibes compilation!
Demovibes vol. 15 : Tracks, Odds & Miracles (mixtapes from the Demoscene)
YouTube video by Willbe
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our soundtrack for Clean Slate has made it into the latest edition of the legendary Demovibes compilation!
@c0de517e.bsky.social do you perchance happen to have public contact information for Earl Hammon? Would love to see his thoughts on www.jcgt.org/published/00... given his earlier excellent work on the topic.
www.jcgt.org
April 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
@c0de517e.bsky.social do you perchance happen to have public contact information for Earl Hammon? Would love to see his thoughts on www.jcgt.org/published/00... given his earlier excellent work on the topic.
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Yes, yes we did 😊
EMPIRES has been nominated for Best High-End Intro and Best Visuals!
EMPIRES has been nominated for Best High-End Intro and Best Visuals!
February 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yes, yes we did 😊
EMPIRES has been nominated for Best High-End Intro and Best Visuals!
EMPIRES has been nominated for Best High-End Intro and Best Visuals!
Tried out openai deep research. Feels the same as when I used google for the first time ever (waay back). It's a filter to get an unshittified google on a more mature version of the internet. This is the sort of innovation that is actually helpful.
Here's a good example.
chatgpt.com/share/67a326...
Here's a good example.
chatgpt.com/share/67a326...
ChatGPT - Real-time Shadow Algorithms
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Tried out openai deep research. Feels the same as when I used google for the first time ever (waay back). It's a filter to get an unshittified google on a more mature version of the internet. This is the sort of innovation that is actually helpful.
Here's a good example.
chatgpt.com/share/67a326...
Here's a good example.
chatgpt.com/share/67a326...
These past couple days the phrase "open source" has been thrown around a lot. I feel this is misleading. Deepseek is as much "open source" as any released binary compiled application is. Open weight, locally executable is not the same thing.
January 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
These past couple days the phrase "open source" has been thrown around a lot. I feel this is misleading. Deepseek is as much "open source" as any released binary compiled application is. Open weight, locally executable is not the same thing.
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Hello #PortfolioDay
We're a group who makes procedurally generated art with the upper size limit of 65535 bytes, music included.
It looks like this:
We're a group who makes procedurally generated art with the upper size limit of 65535 bytes, music included.
It looks like this:
Offscreen Colonies
YouTube video by Conspiracy
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hello #PortfolioDay
We're a group who makes procedurally generated art with the upper size limit of 65535 bytes, music included.
It looks like this:
We're a group who makes procedurally generated art with the upper size limit of 65535 bytes, music included.
It looks like this: