mPony ,

On another forum, I was complaining about how Microsoft was planning to remove WordPad from Win11. I was advised that installing OpenOffice or LibreOffice was an appropriate replacement. I replied that WordPad was only 3 megs large, as opposed to the recommended replacements, which are decidedly larger.

I guess not everybody appreciates tight code, but I surely do. Things like this are amazingly impressive.

IllNess ,

I just looked at how big LibreOffice Writer is, 210 MB as a portable app... Wow...

AbiWord Portable is probably the smallest and even that is 15 MB installed...

HubertManne ,

I was gonna say notepad but I just looked and its 18mb. granted I have a few plugins installed though.

altima_neo ,
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Reminds me of kkreiger, an fps with impressive graphics and sound for the time, that weighed in at 96KB.

https://youtu.be/2NBG-sKFaB0

Corkyskog ,

This is crazy!

I have so many questions, but lack the technical know how of how to ask them.

altima_neo ,
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Basically it's all procedurally generated assets. It takes a long time to start to because it has to make all it's textures and sound effects.

Check this video out by Nostalgia Nerd

https://youtu.be/bD1wWY1YD-M

dustyData ,

kkreiger is more impressive to me, because it creates itself on execution time. While this 13kB game is willfully ignoring the fact that the average web browser today is already a 2GB behemoth. While kkeiger is pure C++ and it does the whole thing, including the game engine and sound processor and everything else.

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