[camperman]

Quite true. I personally don't have a problem that PC 64k intros today will leverage the GPU as much as possible, with all the help from the driver code that that implies. It's how they stay current and awesome. Of course anyone writing a 64k intro with no help at all from the GPU except perhaps context creation and teardown is just giving themselves more creative limitations that I would respect.

[nialv7]

There're 64k demos that use software rendering only.

[nialv7]

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqpD3Mg9hY

[raverbashing]

Do you know if that's specific category?

[camperman]

Indeed - I used to write them when I was young and had more time :)

[Mithaldu]

It's unclear what exactly you're agreeing is "true". If you're agreeing with the "incorrect to conflate", then it is true that it would be incorrect, but not true that this needs to be pointed out.

With only a little bit of investigation, or even participation, it quickly becomes entirely clear that compos divide entries by hardware, and people in the demoscene don't ask oldschool 64ks to measure up to PC 64ks.

I recommend having a look at the various compo blocks on pouet: https://www.youtube.com/user/RevisionParty