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The Xmas Demo 2026

Corneliusen, Julin, Ringstad
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The Xmas Demo 2026 soon poster

The Final Xmas Demo

It's gonna be Xmas Demo number 010 octal, or 0x08 hex. We had a good run. To go out in style, we first spent a couple of weeks figuring out a cool name: Project Incubus. Next, we thought about hardware: Why not use a TX2 like the first Xmas Demo? Unfortunately, they can't be found anywhere anymore. That's actually good news: The lowest end Nvidia devkit available for purchase now is the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit [rs-online.com]. 1024 GPU cores and 6 A78s priced at a reasonable $249 should provide ample headroom.

Sound and Music

0 votes for ST-01 only music, 3 votes for Huelsbeck, 2 votes for voiceovers.

Graphics

Low-end hardware again, so 1080p60. 3 votes for copperbars, 2 votes for old-school bitmap fonts, 0 votes for ZX Spectrum graphics emulation.

Source Code

3 votes for C and GLSL, 0 votes for rust, snakes or other crap the cat dragged in.

Secrets

4 votes for secrets. We have no idea how many people are voting or what they're voting for. This is not a democracy anyway.

Snapshots

Yep.

Apparel

The Icarus T-shirts we got from Teepublic were pretty good, so maybe this one is too: Project Incubus T-shirt [teepublic.com]. We'll order some as soon as Xmas starts closing in. Still summer here.

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