C64 Commodore 64 plays Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive Demo (Digitized Sample)

[erinlassley]

It was never published and only exists on our disks here at home. I've had lots of requests for it but don't have the means right now to move it off the C64 to a PC. When I do, I'll post the link here. Until then, enjoy the video. :)

[tbsys31061]

Hello. I would LOVE to have the code/prg for that! did you publish it somewhere.

[erinlassley]

It was 2900+ blocks and took up most of the floppy.

[Gomek2]

What's the file size?? How many blocks??

[kerkyraInc]

he was starting the hifi in the backround at the same time thats it hahaha

[erinlassley]

@kerkyraInc I can assure you no hifi was used. :) Thanks for the comment.

[kerkyraInc]

@erinlassley i know  .... just joking

[summer20105707]

Love that stuff man. Thats quite the bit of hacking you've done there. Amazng.

[erinlassley]

@summer20105707 Glad you enjoy it and can appreciate what an amazing hack this is. My brother did the programming and he came on the 64 scene rather late. I have a hunch if he could have written this earlier, it would have made it in a magazine or something like that. Amazing what you can do with these old machines when you used assembly and banged the hardware. :)

[senorverde09]

I'm absolutely curious, how or where did this sample come to exist? I'm curious as can be about sampling with the C64.

[erinlassley]

@senorverde09 Year ago, we had an Amiga 2000 and used the Perfect Sound digitizer. I'm the one who made the sample from the Slippery When Wet album. Once we had the sample on the Amiga, then my brother wrote a program in 68000 assembler that would convert the sample to 4 bit for his player. Then we used a null modem cable with swiftlink cartridge and novaterm to transfer it to the C64 and direct to the floppy in the 1581. Took longer to write it to the floppy than to send the data.

[senorverde09]

@erinlassley Sounds interesting! Also, glad to hear a full digitized tune instead of a few second samples strung together. Great job!

[erinlassley]

@senorverde09 Yep! That's what makes this so spectacular is that it is actually loading up the sample from the disk drive and playing it at the same time! Not many people understand how tough this is. My brother actually wrote his own fast loader from scratch in order to do this! It's a finely tuned and synchronized dance that allows the C64 to play the sample and then load new data right in behind what has been played with absolutely no skipping or jitter. It's fun to watch!

[SeetheTruth4Yourself]

I used to have a similar digitizer for the Atari 65xe. It played 'Simply irresistable' by Robert Palmer and the famous 'Beat It". Was pretty cool. Lost touch with the 8 bit generation awhile ago. Anybody still remember what LOAD "*,8,1 was for? Obvious isn't it?

[e5frog]

@SeetheTruth4Yourself

No, LOAD"*,8,1 will give you a "Syntax Error", LOAD"*",8,1 will work better.

[e5frog]

@SeetheTruth4Yourself

No, LOAD"*,8,1 will give you a "Syntax Error", LOAD"*",8,1 will work better.

[Vortexghost]

Love this video reminds me of the video letters I use to made for a friend in Arizona. I went from the C64 - 1984 to Amiga 1988-93 and now Im into the HP Slimline PC with a hacked version of 64 bit Vista running on a mere 32 bit AMD!!!! It runs super fast with some additional tweaks I made!

I still have a C64 Emulator. Commodore Forever!

And Amiga Forever emulators on my external HD!

[EnidBaker]

That's awesome Kevin!! Where were you when I took Practical Computer Methods in Years 11 & 12? :-) I love the funky retro colours on the computer screen too.

Love, Enid.