Ancient School (VIC-20 demo)

[myrddinistheshit]

name of the song?

[my4trackmachine]

ace. that is all. simply ace.

[KaitainCPS]

This is pretty remarkable. Had I not been told otherwise, I would have assumed this was a C64.

[dreamcastII]

why couldn't this type of stuff have been done in the 80s when people actually used their Vic20s and faced ridicule.

[inphanta]

This is damn near witchcraft! :O

[art2art]

Beautiful... What talent!!

[Svedala]

Nice, I went with Noice to Dreamhack 1992 or was it 1993. Great group!

[NotATube]

I don't get it- is this for real? Could this really run on a stock Vic 20 with 16K expansion and no further tricks? The Vic was character based, so I don't see how they could do that effect at 1:11 and even *less* the one at 1:35 without pre-rendering and storing in tons of emulated RAM...??????!!!

[ShadowOfNoice]

@NotATube:

This is for real, the video is captured from my VIC-20 w. 16kb expansion running the demo.

Nothing is prerendered, everything is realtime.

As you say the VIC is character based, but it is possible to redirect the char-definitions from ROM to RAM, making it possible to draw just about anything.

[NotATube]

@ShadowOfNoice Oh, yeah, I know you can redefine the characters, I just don't see how you could do the two mentioned effects in real time without pre-rendering, but 16K wouldn't be enough to store the whole demo in then(?), and you say it's not pre-rendered anyway.

Anyway, I'm damn impressed.

[OBSysteme]

@NotATube Yes, fuck the inventor of 1+megs of ram... that all I've got to say...

lets get deep into the BYTES !

[elephantrange]

@NotATube There were a lot of UNDOCUMENTED tricks you could do with the VIC. But, without the 'Super Expansion' cart which threw in a few convenient commands like DRAW, you had to do everything the hard way, including learning assembler, to really get the most out of it. (I used a FOR-NEXT loop to throw values into a POKE command and see what they did. Wish I could remember the one that fooled the unexpanded VIC into thinking it had 16k!

[AMindForeverVoyaging]

Awesomeness!

[CUR50R]

4mat/Orb ??? or Orbs ???

[molebrain]

I don't understand how they can program this stuff.

[ZXRulezzz]

Just incredilble :D

[jci10]

Good try! Viznut could probably do this demo in 3k and better... :-P

[chicoflaco]

I could do it with 1k

[JimSting]

I learned BASIC on a VIC 20 back in the day. This here demo is totally off the hook! Mind-blowing that you can make a VIC do this! Respect!

[Retrogamer71]

So nostalgic! Vic 20 was that

bridge between a console and

a user programmable computer.

Respect!

[dkim68]

That's pretty amazing for VIC-20 graphics!

[jcraggy76]

pretty sweet

[steffoBogga]

Awesome!

[gklinger]

Respect.

[GPadd]

@m134mr: Word

[m134mr]

fantastic demo. the music spooks me, its fantastic, and pushes the VIC 20 hardware. 5 stars

[whale102]

8D WOW!!!!

[rugkut]

I love it!

Great music and great fx for the vic20!