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This is an astonishing demo -- and I very nearly missed it, because I thought the scrolly graphic at the top was just a fancy animated header, followed by a bunch of text that seemed to be refering to something else. I only discovered the full demo when I accidentally scrolled up, and found it lurking there well above the start-point for the page. I can't help but think that a lot of other viewers must be missing it entirely.

So a note to web-masters: please put any content you want your users to see below the top of the page, not above it.

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This is intentional. If you visit the bare domain, you get the intro. If you visit an article, you get the article.

Yes, the demo was not obvious until I scrolled back to the top. It is beautiful, and I'm sure it took a lot of hard work. After trying it both FF and Chrome, it's frustrating that a 3 year old machine with a decent dedicated Radeon 4670 GPU, can't run such a simple demo at full 60 FPS.

As cool as it is, am I the only one that thinks the "web penalty" is ridiculous? From Crysis to StarCraft, I can play most new games no problem, but not a simple web demo like this.

That's interesting, I run it on Pentium G860 with Radeon 7770 (so current hardware but pretty low-end) and had butter-smooth 60fps with Firefox 23, Windows 7, CPU usage ~15%, GPU usage ~5%. Perhaps you could check if your hardware acceleration in Firefox is enabled (about:support)? Try webgl.force-enabled in about:config as well.

Yeah same here: sucking at 6-11FPS.. nuff, going to compile ffx v23

Runs fine on my 3 year old laptop with a mobile Radeon 5730.

What's ridiculous is that we're fawning over something we've always been able to do, just because it's now done over the hundreds of useless layers of indirection that the web imposes.

"The computer revolution hasn't happened yet"...

Make sure to click the "play" button in the header for the full experience.

I think they intended this (if you don't notice it it just looks like a nice header. If you DO notice it...)

Though even once you see it, easy to miss is the "settings" cog in the top right. EGA mode!

Exactly. It's like a cool easter egg.

Speaking of hidden things, I just discovered you can rotate the blue ribbon art work as well :)

…and you can unlock an achievement by repeatedly scrolling up/down/up/down/up/etc.

Yes, I missed it, too. I had to come back the 2nd time to see what everyone is talking about.

I almost gave up also - until I scrolled down to Turn Right Past The Header - then scrolled back up :)

Also reload the page with the javascript console on.

I stared at it and played around for too long....

Little badge popped up on the bottom of the screen: Achievement Unlocked - All Glory to the Hypnotoad

The thing about acko.net is that's the way it has looked all along.

So the rewrite simply added a cool multiplier.

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