Commodore C64 Video Player - Dallas Intro

[thelasthallow]

16 MB ram in a C64? im not sure but i thought i read somewhere saying that the CPU in the C64 couldn't address that much memory?

[jci10]

@thelasthallow Unlike the Apple's, the Commodore had a MOSFET 6510 chip (versus a MOSFET 6502) which used address 0 and 1 as special Memory Bank addressing allowing for such things as you see here.

[TMR6502]

@thelasthallow The 6510 in the C64 can address a maximum of 64K, but the RAM expansion has a DMA and can chunk data into and out of that 64K from the 16Mb at a byte per cycle. That's what this is doing, "loading" each frame from expansion RAM.

[BoctorPoo]

I wonder how Hank Hill thinks about Dallas now.

[justaguythinking]

that's pretty impressive, for a c64!

[Paulmstiffy]

load of shite. The sounds from a SID chip ie C64 but the video is just a 8bit (16 colours) reduce effect. Your not kidding me. Anyway what happened to the screen when this so call 16meg of RAM was loaded, Nothing, Not even a replacemt from VID buffer to SYNC RAM (The wavy lines you normally see when loading or loaded) Tosh pure TOSH shame on you

[ralphisok1]

sound sucks

[kelli217]

I will say that nuvie is a great codec for throwing IFLI video pages to the screen at 30fps, and it's great that it leaves enough CPU behind to play SID files, but I bet there's not enough CPU to play 4-bit sampled audio instead of SID files.

[ralphkey]

16 MB RAM hahahahaha in your dream!!!

[kelli217]

@ralphkey I suppose you've never heard of RAMLink.

[ralphkey]

@kelli217 Yes I have ... ;-) But RAMLink was not manufactured by Commodore (fan made by CMD). The only original expansion i remember was 256KB that came out around 1987. Cheers ;-)

[creeper283]

Saving this on REAL 5.25"-Floppies ... let's see

- 170 KB every side

- Speed: 40 Bytes/Second

- I guess 5 MB Video size

Disks: 5,000,000 Bytes / (2 Sidesx170,000 Bytes per Disk) = 15 Disks (double sided!)

Time to load Video: 5,000,000 Bytes / 40 Bytes per Second = 125000 Seconds = 34 Hours ..........

Take a video tape instead !!

[Lumotaku]

its important to point out that the cartridge is doing the actual graphic processing.

[noctania]

Fake?

[tribeofthesun]

@noctania

NOT

[noctania]

@tribeofthesun

What Framerate?

[tribeofthesun]

@noctania

no idea but its proven that the c64 can play videos

[noctania]

@tribeofthesun Ok, but how? 1. you need 40*25*8 Bytes (8000 Bytes) for one Image 2. you need 40*25 Bytes (1000 Bytes) for Multicolor setting =9000 Bytes. That is just one Image! Next is you need ca 80 Rasterlines to copy 256 Bytes from A to B. BUT you need 9000 Bytes per Image, not 256. So you need 9000Byte/256Byte*80Rasterlines­=2812Rasterlines per Image 1/50s is 312 Rasterlines 2812Rasterlines / 312 Rasterlines = 9*1/50s That means 5 Frames/s ?!?! =====================

[SirKemodero]

Hahahhaah. AWESOME.

There Is Something With Class Music That Just Feels Me With Nostalgic Happyness.

[zungaloca]

1 mhz overkill

[tonygrown]

kewl



[the3dom]

1MB/s? :D How can you address 16MB with 8/16 bit instructions? 4KB bank switching?

[kekcsi]

64K ought to be enough for everyone!

I love the SID adaptation of the theme song, is it available in a sid or ogg file or something?

[fortressofcomfort]

Amazing. It just goes to show you how much RAM was the limiting factor on these little machines.

[DracIsBack]

Cool!

[Raunchola]

Can i download this as a *.D64 File??? ;) ;)

[dletter]

Well, that settles it, time to get a C64 DVR

[djsmithy]

BTW,

please do the A-Team intro next!

[djsmithy]

LOOOOOOOOL.

Its so funny seeing the intro with the sid playing, haha.]

I need to order me a 1541u.

[frontenbrecher]

Crossbow, you still happen to amaze.. even years after all the prime time of c64 is gone ;)

maybe c64 including yourself just got immortal for unending coolness!

[Thunderblade64]

1 MHz ... yes... plus DMA controller that can move around almost 1 MB/s (REU)

[keoni29]

It must have taken ages to load this thing :p

[YouRolandTube]

@keoni29 : about 40 seconds on the 1541u

[FlyingSurprise]

I gotta test this on my real C64. My 1541 Ultimate can emulate a REU. Please link the disk image(s).

[philiptwood]

It look like some Stienberg dithering going on with this video... Very nice. :D

[medvesajtgaz]

chords are wrong

[HydraSR]

C64 with 16MB RAM????

[fuzzface100]

@HydraSR It uses a 16MB REU (Ram Expansion Unit)

[shairaptor]

@Nil3E haha best comment on here! =)

[anunnaki2006]

Wow I wish we had GFX back in the day like this running on a C64 no one would have gone to the Amiga haha

[sickanboy]

Crest rules, so does our beloved C64, the best computer ever made. \O/

[ArcadeGames]

What does the gameplay look like?

[LeightonW87]

Can this be done with a clip from Family Guy to see how it looks?

[sglider]

Looks better than Sega CD video.

[gabrielirlanda]

wow this intro is really good, as good as I enjoyed the bouncing breasts of Victoria Principal 0:53 because I completely forgot it is made in a C64 , haha

[shairaptor]

@gabrielirlanda I'm gay, didn't see those breasts haha! :)

[johneymute]

i can,t believe that this all becomes possible in 4bit 16colors,cuzz today we need 64bit billions od colors to get perfect video.

it,s just simply amezing i bet this can also be done on a nes

[jci10]

Try looking at the "blureu by crest" demo for near VGA-realtime video on a C64 with a 1985 ram expander.

[cmMerlin]

Wow! In 16 colors!? Amazing!!

[Pulchism]

16MB ram :-O ?

[daddlertl3]

cool, gibts die REU-Datei irgendwo zum runterladen, damit man das auf einem C64 mit 1541u abspielen kann ?

[fuckutube65]

Haha, najs... Now GO ANSWER YOUR MAILS! ;-)