Never been into building tracks, always the coder (assembler on 6502 and MC68000). Somebody should do a similar article about all the demo build tools like kkrieger, or modern ones like Tixl. Anyway…good old times :)
A couple of additional links from my bookmarks:
- The EXE packer : https://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/
- Some tech details in "The Farbrausch Way to make Demos" slides : https://llg.cubic.org/docs/farbrauschDemos/
- Various related videos (search for ryg/chaos/fiver2): https://files.scene.org/browse/resources/seminars/code/
- Overview of their tools + misc links: https://adrianboeing.blogspot.com/2012/04/farbraush-demo-too...
- Some .kkrieger details: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...