This has to be seen to be believed. The guy actually coded a 1K exe from Assembler language + a vertex shader 2.0 source which is straight in (not compiled). The result is a wonderful little effect. There is also a little bitmap stuffed in the 1K for the displayed text. I think it's a very nice thing to look at for learning a little assembler and performing direct X 9 calls from that. Very clean coding also.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=32030
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=32030