pouët.net

looking for a simple, well-written page which describes how cheesy old fire effect works (so i can link someone to it instead of re-explaining it)
any good ones?

zippo

3 quads with textures.

This one is good;

http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_fire.htm

MFC actually had a nice fire effect :)

Removing your CPU heat sink can make a nice smoke effect.

all that in zero bytes. amazing!

Search hornet

http://www.hornet.org/

Search whorenet

http://www.whorenet.org/

(source) also see the tks news section for if you actually want to run this :) sorry couldnt resist. :). btw: my version of the fire effect uses a dynamic sin*sin*sin palette lookup which is cheap in terms of cpu cycles but adds some "detail" to the flames.