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by tripzilch 4083 days ago
There's loads of demo source and demotools source been and being released.

The main reasons, afaik, for demo sourcecode to not be released are mostly circumstantial. Either the democoder forgets about it, because a lot of the code is one-off stuff and the next demo is going to be fresh and new! The other reason is that their code is a terrible mess of glue, ducttape and kludges, hacked together moments before the compo deadline (see article ;-) ). The democoder intends to clean up the code (see elsewhere in this thread ;-) ) but then forgets about it because after-demoparty-crash. Occasionally, however, they rest up a bit and later on write a great article about the tricks they pulled (while promising to clean up the code and release it "soon") -- saying this with a great big ;-) of course.

And when something happens to be not released, I've always found just mailing the coder about it incredibly helpful, they're happy to explain, I've made great friends, and learned amazing stuff.

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Besides, I don't think my interrupt handler and API would be of that much interest (oOoooh, sexy, an API!)
... but someone could use it to disrupt the interrupt market.

Anyhow, omg Trixter :) You don't know me[0] but thanks for all the work you did on the Hornet archive!

[0] just a random 4k coder, ritz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=620CmQ9CJoU / http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=343