C64 Demo Deus Ex Machina (on real C64 captured with tv card)

[mcklain]

The power of the SID.

[Gumblert]

does anyone where to get a longer version of the very last song?

[moptim]

the music in the beginning kicks ass. I was born in 1994 so I could never witness the era of c64, neither did I see when 486's etc were hot stuff. my first computer had a pentium 4 -based celeron, wonder when it becomes oldskool and hot stuff.. :P

[keoni29]

NTSC=Never Twice the Same Color

[MsBickle76]

deusexmachina2[DOT]com

[twylo]

This is one major reason why I want to get my hands on a PAL C64. The PAL demo scene is just so much richer than the NTSC demo scene over here :(

[chaddyracine]

@twylo lol wtf are u talking about

[KubaPSP]

@chaddyracine If you don't know what's PAL and NTSC then this video is not right for you.

[chaddyracine]

@KubaPSP you're an idiot

[KubaPSP]

@chaddyracine Why? Because you don't know what's PAL/NTSC I'm idiot? heh

[tronlaser]

Someone please remix or remake the Turn Disk music!

[shairaptor]

Cool Demo. You must realize that games have joystick, enemy, sprite and other requests, that demos don't have. don'T NEED to have. so I doubt that 320x200 16 color graphics with several paralax scrolling backgrounds and 64 sprites with joystick queries AND 60 frames per second could be done in real time on a C64 ;)

[poopdogtaco]

the music at 3:45 is just so beautiful.

[HoneycombAgent]

Someone needs to remix the Side 2 music

[HoneycombAgent]

SID 8580

[officialmashitup]

Wonder what would happen if you ran this in an emulator, does the text display something different?

[Brew78]

@officialmashitup Actually, I wouldn't mind hearing the difference in audio.

[tronlaser]

@officialmashitup I tried it in VICE, it still said the exact same message XD

[dasandy1975]

Pure Love since 1988. (Got my first C64^^)

[myid9876543]

I play this just for the music. Seriously some damn good demoscene music.

[NLGAMER1000]

more demos ? goto my nlgamer1000 for more commodore 64 demos!

[Dingo1336]

No breakpoint this year :(

[Straylight4299]

Wow.

I can not believe this was a real C64.

I know a little bit about how the graphics worked on a C64, and i can tell you this 3D stuff seems impossible to me! And on top of all, it's smooth like hell!

Amazing work!

[tronlaser]

i was born in 1998 so unfortuantly never experienced the c64. after finding out about it on Google i discovered one in my loft! i instantly dragged it out and began to play with it. now i can fully understand the awesomeness of this demo, all that in 64K and 1Mhz cpu is incredible, even to this day. proves that even thought i was'nt around in the 80's, i can still enjoy a retro masterpiece like this. :)

[mathewdeering]

I was born and raised in the heyday of the C demoscene. And...

OMFG. Nuts. That is all I have to say.

[bookerC64]

I guess you used 8580 SID machine? Wrong! :D

[IsaakHunt]

Wow, you really push it to the limits these days.

[UTUBESUCK666]

Just listen to the amazing sound of the SID chip. Nothing came close to this for many years after its initial release in 1982. All the sounds and effects you hear are rendered in real time on the SID, no samples there!

3 audio oscillators

Four waveforms per oscillator: sawtooth, triangle, pulse, noise

3 attack/decay/sustain/release (ADSR) volume controls

3 ring modulators

Oscillator sync for each audio oscillator

Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass outputs filter 6/12dB rolloff

[Argathronn]

these were the real programming!

[ForceTrekkie]

Man, you gotta be good with code to do this stuff. I wish normal people could appreciate this art.

[hewey999]

impressive coding, how they did that coke can is mind blowing!

[therealcyrano]

@hewey999 and you know what? thats not even the most impressive piece of code... take a look at the drive access code... while its doing all of this in realtime, its using a 1bit fastload routine to transparently load the next routine into memory and decompress at the same time... ;-)

[hewey999]

@therealcyrano WOW

[KaslarProductions]

Utterly Amazing sampling done in all these demo songs

[fantaaaasy]

Nice work. I have been a member of Crest in the early 90s. What a great time it was, especially meeting all the people on those partys in Denmark, Sweden, Holland.

[KaslarProductions]

is this a 6581 or a 8580?  It sounds like a 6581 to me. i could be wrong

[bookerC64]

@KaslarProductions Tunes in this demo has been done on 6581, but it has been recorded for youtube with 8580.. wrong chip :)

[KaslarProductions]

@bookerC64

cool..... The 8580 has the best filters and deeper bass IMO...... but the 6581 has that grit that just screams SID. =D thanks for the info

[bookerC64]

@KaslarProductions yep, compare to clafey version :) (search: clafey deus ex)

[bptaszynski]

scena c64 rządzi!

[thorgallpl]

@bptaszynski atari ma lepsze dema, ale i tak c64 jest fajne. lubie dzwiek sid-a. lata 80te...echh

[Mittarimato]

I would like to hear more that "turn disk" -music

[turbolenza35]

very nice demo!!

[Dygeron92]

You know, Deus Ex Machina, means "God from the Machine" in Latin.

A perfectly fitting name for this masterpiece.

[darkcicera]

thx for this well coded demo :)

[OnlyGoodCommie]

Bloody impressive VIC technology!

[SquidMan64]

Damn epic demo.

[vitralizer]

This looks and sounds more like an amiga than a commodore 64

[kendow11]

3:45 that's LSG  Netherworld. Sasha and Digweed used to drop that. :)

[mimdotcc]

@kendow11 Now that you say it, I could swear those notes rang a bell :) Great song.

[MaverickM1]

1mhz, 8 bit, 64k of memory. The brute force of the early 80's. If i had one wish, it would be this: bring us back the C64 and Amiga scene era !!!

[plord28]

I remember when I was a weeee youngster programing on the C64, going stark raving bonkers and becoming really pissed off spending who knows how many hours programming games or school physics stuff to just have my nephew *WOMP* the power cord out of the wall. We didn't have the disk drive, just the casette drive. Enough PEEKS, POKES, GOSUBS to make me blind. Not to mention my rats nest of code. Now thinking back I kind of miss it.

[jaktrip]

@MaverickM1 Maverick, you are quite mistaken here! This demo is from 2000, so calling it "80's" is not really fitting... also the C64 scene is still alive and kicking... have a look at noname's csdb to see the latest releases. However, I also would like to have the early era back, when we had no internet and swapped disks with long friendly notes.

[MaverickM1]

@jaktrip Read one more time, "1mhz, 8 bit, 64k of memory. The brute force of the early 80's." This all about the good old C64, not this demo, or another! And yes, this is the brute force of the early 80's, because the hardware is born in 82. And i know very well, there is still some scene life out there, but things will never be the same. Yes, the latest releases are very cute, but compare the amount of stuffs to the 80's-90's real scene era... That's why i wrote, if I had a wish...

[FPAMulle]

Damn cool demo!

[madderscientist23]

I love the C64. Could anyone tell me how they managed to get a beat sound like that out of the sid chip? As powerful as it was, drum beats always sounded 'splashy' if I was to critisise. I'm not a coder, so please use words and pictures :)

[stunthumb]

I know what you mean, sounds a lot cleaner than other C64 SID music.

One thing a lot of composers would do, albeit on higher spec computers, was to use sampled drum sounds, even just 1 can go a long way.

[pyramidheadthingy]

for real man. that bass drum was really good sounding for a chip tune.

[SkuldChan42]

Its a hardware synth - so its resolution is pretty much infinite. Not sure what you mean though I used a C64 for about 10 years - this demo isn't doing anything special.

I'd also add this demo runs perfectly accurate on Vice too.

[Gamewitzer]

Impressive.

[xxxogchris]

could you record all the music of this demo in mp3?I'd really like to have em.Alternately, it would be nice if you could give me the demo of this and I will ask Stone Oakvalley to record them!

[jci10]

Do you really work for Timbaland?

[xxxogchris]

lol!no!

I hate that thief.He stole that track from Janne Suni, Acidjazzed Evening.

But why did you ask?

[jci10]

I was kidding...or was I? :)

[xxxogchris]

The music is either fake or the version of it I found is different.

[whatthewii]

...are you running it on an emulator?

[xxxogchris]

I'm not the uploader and no I dont!

[whatthewii]

yeah, I was wondering why the music was different in the version you tried.

Maybe you have different version of the SID chip to the uploader... 6581 instead of 8580 or vice versa.

[becomingzero]

And sound like some of the stuff in this demo which is also really cool.......

I've yet to hear a midibox or raped c64 sound anythwhere near as good as this. Having owned a midibox i can safely say i'd rather stick with a 64 with prophet 64 cartridge or a sfx generator and good tracker....

[NameNotaNumber]

It's kind of sad but eventually there will come a time when there are no working C64's left in the world :(

[becomingzero]

Yeah, probabably because people keep making synths out of them. Which is all very well but in that form they stop sounding anywhere near as gritty and cool as a c64 running a decent piece of software does. The whole midibox sid thing as clever as it is has become tired and boring. Who cares if a sid can sound like a 303. So can about a thousand other analogues and va's out there. Making the sid sing like the old c64 stuff did back in the day (hubbard, galway etc) is far more impressive.

[0xFFender]

Yeah, I agree. Original C64 rocks. MIDIBOX SID is just an interface! You can use a MIDIBOX with an emulator (Eek!) to control a real SID just like on a real C64, too! The original 6581 (I think I hear 6581 in this) doesn't sound like a 303 at all. More like a SID bassline from a C64 demo.From what i've done on a real C64 + CyberTracker.8580/6582 are the chips Thorsten Klose and others use for basslines. Fuck 8580. 6581 owns! Thanks for making a vid of this demo. Where did you download/swap it?

[zombiemod]

How did they do the bitmap graphics with overlaid hires scrolly text??

It can't be sprites, only 8 are allowed on one raster line, yet the text looks like it stretches the length of the screen!

The scale and rotate fx could be character mapped graphics.. doing it in hires mode would be a right pain would it not.

Incredible demo though

[fuckutube65]

it is sprites in the endpart, we just multiplexed them, but they're no wider than 24 chars (8x3 chars per sprite).

Scaling is done using char-mode (but no precalced animations) and the rotate-fx are all sprites (can't be chars, it's in the upper border!)

[zombiemod]

Excellent!

That's one helluva lot of sprites for the scroller, no flicker either given the sprites are packed raster line to raster line...

Good job. Just goes to show the C64's untapped potential!

[Cyrix2k]

Wow, the Coke can is crazy!!!

[NeuralKontamination]

c64 is king.

[FleshGrinder3000]

This is absolute fuckin awsome!

With this 8bit cpu. Big up!

[MarzioBalducci82]

a masterpiece

[Tomdoodle16]

This music is some ghetto shit.

[Galient5]

the hell is this?

[NoqturnePL]

@Galient5 - this, my friend, is a 10min demo full of very unique coding methods running on a machine which has a 1MHz 8bit processor and 64kB of RAM (for example and comparision - your Windows Notepad uses about 3-4MB of RAM just when executed) :) Think of it as "art meets technology and optimisation" :) C64&Amiga ftw \o/

[nmnnotmyname]

@NoqturnePL: To be fair about Windows Notepad taking 3-4 MB, much of it is due to the Windows Operating System and it's various libraries and such. While I'll admit i love watching demos, there's no truth in saying that the machine's were truly superior - The code is amazing, but multiprocessing and specialized GPUs are really neat pieces of equipment. (Not as fun to do demos i'll bet, but still fun to program with.) Of course, you never really said it was superior, i guess i'm just picky.

[DAnnien]

@nmnnotmyname: Shut your hole

[therealcyrano]

@nmnnotmyname one word to trump Notepad any day of the week: Speedscript

[WATCHINGYOURTV]

yeeaaahhh, old technology forever!

[PHuuSK]

Bookmarking this, to check up on later. (Check if this was reality, seeing such a demo on a C64) :o

[glezmen]

jeez...

i'm shocked! excellent work, congrats!

[xperimentWeb]

Hm, I wonder how they do the texture mapping in the Cola part and the adjacent one. I only managed doing stuff like that via first calculating and then turning the result into a font which was displayed afterwards. Any idea whether it's done like that here, too?

[rovku]

My first thought were sprites (due to the y-stretching) but I haven't disassembled it yet

[nicolunacba]

again... the BEST DEMO EVER MADE!

[nicolunacba]

I said it yesterday.. but again... THE BEST DEMO EVER MADE!!! I love it =)

[nicolunacba]

The BEST C64 Ever MADE!

[markkrul1973]

Can u image the reactions if you would have released this demo in the early nighties at a copy party. Signing off (ex member WWE, Science 451, Focus)

[LeviathanX]

I was and I am still impressed about such demos. demo ! It's quite nice to see what you can get if you know HOW to code...

Nice demo !

[OpticalHaze]

Anyone knows from which SID the Outro is taken from ?! Who done it Jeff , Drax or someone else ? Whats the name of the original track?

[batlin]

Great stuff, I never had any demos on my C64. Just a bunch of tapes, some of which worked :)

What's that brilliant tune that plays during the end scroller?

[pyksy]

Dune's K Remix by Jeff, /MUSICIANS/J/Jeff/Dunes_K_Remi­x.sid in HVSC.

[fuzzymonkey87]

absofsckinglutely awesome!!!

These programmers truly are talented. Great tribute to the best 8bit computer ever!

[originalawol]

Awesome. Bringing back some memories. Cant believe that was done on 64k...

[Sampagui7A]

A really great C64 demo. I especially like the interference part and the FLI images. Almost no flicker and still so rich in color.

[LPUX262]

What is this??? what is c64 lol

[Stanto74]

This is the bomb all time classic!!!!

[xxjohnnyxx89]

wot da fuk iz diz shiiit?

[conradC64]

oh, and a message to those Halo 3 losers:

It's too bad (but unsurprising) that you're commenting with "wot da fuk iz diz shiiit?" If you actually get off your XBox/PS3 for a few of hours, then you may actually realise that computers are used for other forms of entertainment rather than gaming! :P

[xxjohnnyxx89]

Wow for real? I didn't know that (being sarcastic)

Even though i was originally looking for the machinima, this is actually pretty cool

[conradC64]

A demo that will remembered in c64 history! Wonderful work! Music is also one of Jeff's finest I have heard ever.

[GTX200]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus indeed!!

Real 8bit c64 with full power indeed!!

Amazing ;-)

AWESOME Thanks this video =)

[asicys]

One of the best c64 demos! The muzak just f*cking rules! The best phat bass i've ever listened to!

[Maggelito]

I can´t belive it! I looked at a lots of demos in the 80´s. And some guys like you are still making demos for this machine? The best machine ever made! I love this and I am sitting here with a beer in my hand and I am missing my C64... But it´s not far away! It´s in the cellar. I will go down an get it! It´s C64 time again! Thank you guys!!!

[MrBrander]

Lol...

Push the tempo, push the tempo, push the tempo, obey the tempo...

JESUS. 8-bit machine could do that...

[nrdesign1991]

Amazing... just... amazing... O.O

[m3l33u]

what....the....FUCK...was that......

[m3l33u]

what....the....FUCK...was that......

[DJmisplacedmarbles]

C64 yes ... so I could do half that on me Vic 20 yes ? lol

[thoughtprovoke]

retro bizz happenin

[fivedinners]

fkn amazed : 0

[BlankShadowz]

OMG! ):>

So sorry, meant to vote 4.. but voted 3... ):

Forgive me, 'cuz it was just a mistake, and deserves more than what I gave it, really... ):

Oh, and I've never even heard of the C64....

Just the N64... :P (Nintendo 64)

[m1omg]

C64 is an 8-bit computer from 1982, CPU MOS 6501 1 MHz, Standart graphic modes 160x120 in 16 colors or 320x200 in 4 colors but you can get MUCH better with tweaks and clever programming, 64 KB RAM, Sound chip SID with 3 voices, audiocasette or 5"25 diskette data storage

[werre2]

f*****n incredible.

[dragonbreed2007]

man, this out of a c64? amazing. Imagine if these guys did games, instead of demos. ;)

02:05 damn how did they do that bass kick ?

[PhosstheAssassin]

omg...wtf did o watch? wth is this? is this suppiosed to make all you wacked ou hippys high or something? OR ARE YOU HIGH AND YOUR WATCHING THE AND YOU THINK IT'S THE BEST SHOW EVER???

[adfewvrfw]

WTF man its just a song...

[Saur]

PhosstheAssassin: You are watching a feat of programming genius on a piece of hardware older than you are. Instead of being obnoxious why not have a go at asking about things and learning?

[PhosstheAssassin]

omg,.... wtf was that....i'm so

confused...

[Babb26]

what the heck am I watching???

[leorcc]

This is what is known as a Demo. It shows the maximum of the capabilities of the computer (in this case a Commodore 64) and the programmers/artists.

And obviously, there is a lot you can squeeze out of this old machine that was first launched in 1982. Awesome Demo.

[matzux1978]

sorry!, is demo, no intro '^^

[matzux1978]

this intro not works on vice.

EMULATORS SUCKS! :D

[Zhdophanti]

Are this pictures at end painted in interlaced mode or with normal resolution of C64?

[fuckutube65]

Mermaid all made them, in her favourite mode, standard c64 Multicolor mode, 160x200 in 16 colors with 4 colors per 4x8 block.

[Lumotaku]

is there someplace I can buy this on 5 1/4 I cant figure out how to convert d64s and my 64 isnt on the internets.

[fuckutube65]

get a 1541 Ultimate (google it!) and just copy the .d64 files onto SD to use in your c64 like a real floppy. Effing awesome piece of hardware...

[therealcyrano]

@Lumotaku you need to use an x1541 cable (whichever variant you need) hooked up to your PC's parallel port and a real 1541 drive then use any of the software out there like Star Commander or such to convert from D64 format to the real deal.

[nfoo]

WTF!? How did they do that? Where there some chip inside the C64 I didn't know of until now?

[artman40]

Demo makers know indeed the capabilities of the system they're making demos for.

[theviker]

god this brings it all back, great work dude

[jenzobs]

n1 m8

[Ichinin]

Woow! Interferometry. And those color effects! And textured 3D objects - on the C64! And the music is high quality too.

[itekisan]

Great vid! And wonderful music. Amazing that the SID can play such a reaaally fat bassdrum! My C64 is still alive, but I have only original bought software (tapes and floppies). Such demos I can only view on emulators - or DVD etc. (Although I know it's lime... haha)

[hcprhidc]

One way to do such a bassdrum is concatenating a sequence of triangle waveform sounds, where the first sound point is of high frequency, the next points are lower and lower frequencies. The lenght of each point can be chose to be synchronized with the refresh rate of screen. You can play with the exact sound by using a square instead of triangle, by filtering, changing the frequency of the last sound pnt etc. Some of drums also sound like being digitized but not all of them.

[Powzone]

Much better... :D