I am a PC guru and a 3d nut - a friend mentioned this to me today at beyond3d.com (the world's best technical website on everything 3d).
This is a tiny file - think of an elephant squishing 3d mark into a thimble and you get a mere inkling of what has been achieved using Assembly 03. The compression is about 5,000 to one!
I just downloaded this tiny little file and ran the 8 minute demo at full resolution with the sound pumped running heavy shaders.
Its stunningly good on anything at or beyond a Geforce 3 - you need pixel shaders 1.1 and vertex shaders 1.1 or higher - easy peasey!!!
But the kick is this is graphics like 3d Mark 03 but not as a 180MB download - this is all an contained 65K exectable that just rocks hard!
This is simply a must see!
http://and.intercon.ru/
How it was all achieve by one guy - explained at the Moscow GDC last week!
http://and.intercon.ru/zoom3_idp.pdf
Wow I knew Beyond3d had some talent visiting it, but I bow to the awesome display achieved by Dmitry Andreev
PS
I virus checked this myself using the latest PC Cillian 2003 - engine 7.00 pattern file 847 - current as of yesterday.
More demos here
http://awards.scene.org/pastawards.php
PPS
Squash is also excellent
PPPS
Comments about this on sites (mostly amazing)
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=1&c=1&t=34569
http://forums.networknext.com/pcpp/viewtopic.php?t=21033
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11284&sid=4e6bdfcb2c967e95b38de1d834211bbb
http://www.3dgpu.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9761