Commodore 64 Demomania!

[GershTV]

Man....im 24 and JUST now finding out about this scene.... Im actually in school for video game production and this stuff right here is soooooo inspiring...3d modeling is my newest digital infatuation outside of photoshop and illustrations

[Exarian]

geez, this is c64? why are these people not making professional games, or at least being advisors to get the best performance out of a given console?

[riesenpimmel69]

Lookiing since ages for a c64 demo with same women @ 3:24 , center of screen. Release date prior 1990. The tune of the demo is partly digitized but i didnt found it at HVSC. Hints?

[Horazio]

I never get tired of this tune

[MrOllyK]

Psygnosis are a big name now on X-Box or something, but started on the good old Miggy or earlier. I still have some of their early demos, and the Miggy. Not forgetting Scoopex and Fairlight. Wow - so long ago.

[acidgecko72]

Wicked Demo! Excellent Music! 5 *****

[onlineboxingdotnet]

The one at 2:51 cannot be a commodore 64 demo, it must be an amiga demo. Theres way too many colors

[elsenator]

The hypercreative C64 crowd invented ways to flicker colors to make it seem like there are many more colors. So yes, that is entirely possible.

[MrOllyK]

You'd be surprised what the C64 could do using the Copper just like the Amiga. 24 bit colour is possible on both machines but can be hard to work. I've been programming the Amiga since 1990. It takes only a few hundred bytes to invoke a copperlist, then add a playfield or 2 with the copperlist and there you have it. I still love the older demos. On the cutting edge at the time.

[samplesmasher]

yeah, you're right....this pic is from Hein/diArt who was a member of vision, a pure Amiga group....

[h3akalee]

Drop some exctacy then listen.

[ace942]

Thanks for posting those. The 64 demo scene had some really good programmers. They did some amazing stuff given some of the limitations that they had to work with.

[IoYoI]

Good old times. :)

[Pelham600]

Class in a box.

Some of these I'd not seen before, do you have a list of them?

[BitSmacker]

I wasted a large portion of my childhood downloading demos and crack screens from BBS's at 300 baud. It still amazes me at what we could squeeze out of a 1 MHz processor back then...

[gmotion4u]

I LOVE THAT STUFF ON THE LITTLE SIXTYFOUR !

I SAW ALL THESE WONDERFUL DEMOS ON 1MHZ !!!!!!

IT WAS A GREAT GREAT TIME THAT NEVER COME BACK !!!! :( :( :(

Greetinx to all c64 freeeeeaaaakkss !!!

[morph10]

you sure thats not Amiga demos

[knoeki]

uhm, nope. this is not Amiga... definately c64 stuff...

[AsimovIII]

This is c64 demos beeing showed, lol get your facts straight.

[uoodSJW]

It's one thing tonot know what Amiga demos look like compared to C64, but to commit yourself to posting a comment and insulting those who do know, and indeed remember the demo scene is truly 'awe-ful' I can't help feeling ignorant children should keep their opinions in the playground, and websites should move away from 'Comments' giving a permanent eipitaph to any random persons bile. (Including this comment)

[chemicalglee]

Anyone ever see the masturbation demo?

[w0ppe]

loll Internet post fights!

WOOO!

On to topic: This is awesome!

[TheBellows000]

I will not stop posting crap until YOU explode in any way, shape or form.

[TheBellows000]

No this is not a good C64 remix and i know i can do better, but that has nothing to do with it.

I'm a bit into the C64 scene (which is still alive today making demos) and i have worked with guys that are able to do stuff like this on a c64. I have contributed a bit to a couple of demos and if i had seen some of my work molested in such way as you have done here i would explode in fury.

As a C64 musician and graphic artist i must say this sucks!

[Kenzoid27]

I would be more than happy to "molest your work in such a way" if it would result in you exploding in any way, shape or form. Now go away and stop posting crap!

[Kenzoid27]

It's a very famous COMMODORE 64 MUSIC REMIX - how is that not appropriate to accompany a montage of Commodore 64 demo footage ... YOU PRICK!

[TheBellows000]

Where is the original music?

If it weren't for the crap music that was added this would be a nice collage.

Would you approve if someone stole pieces of your videoes and artwork and added crappy music on top and posted it on YouTube?

[Kenzoid27]

Okay, you are kind of missing the point of this video. It's basically a VERY GOOD C64 music remix and a montage of clips from my fave (at the time) C64 demos. This montage was actually produced in 1991 using just a C64 and a VHS video recorder. If I had just strung a load of C64 demos together with the original sound it would have been a right mess! But anyway, I digress. If you think you can do better then please be my guest! I see from your profile you have contributed a lot to YouTube. ;)

[blade004]

Well Mate, i enjoyed it and i thought you did a great job in making a tribute to the C64 demo and music scene.  The Last Ninja theme tunes go down in history as some of the BEST music EVER made and i that includes commercial music!!

[snake2006]

Christ How in the hell was the C64 capable of doing this stuff. I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it.

It's crazy actually, the stuff the demo coders have done on that machine is beyond real.

Nice job.

[lasha1974]

The Original Pirates, Crackers, Hackers & Coders. If it wasn't for the C16, Vic 20, C64 & AMIGA!?!?!---GTA 4 in 26 days, BRING THE MATRIX!-I Miss my Freeze Machine!!!!

[nilazz]

damn I have this song on my mp3, nice one

[Mrazzzzzz]

...Grymt!

[roskildahphreak]

I hear Commodore is making a comeback!

I also hear that The Last Ninja 4 was in making from 2002 to 2004... but it's future right now is encertain.

TLN 4 was also suggested in 93, but turned down.

We can always hope someone else will pick up the thread in a couple of years and make it happen.

[grisapa2]

Anyone hwo knows the name of the fairlight demo in 1:46?

[Kenzoid27]

I think it's "Legoland" by Fairlight.

[grisapa2]

Thanx a lot!!

:)

[polarsequence]

Commodore 64 Demo writers pushed the machine to it's limits and beyond! If it wasn't for the 64 and it's coders, I'm sure the computer industry today wouldn't be the same. P.S. Anyone here from COMPUNET? :)

[xeikon]

Brilliant, the best C64 music ever.. Great game too (Last Ninja).

[ShinjiKi1986]

very nice...amazing what those guys could do :P

[pacman80500]

my god, how long did it take you to gdo this,

is it still in commodore basic?

how long is the program.

[Powzone]

It's assembler and it's a collection from demos made by the sceners from the old days... They still are doing things like that today! The funniest fact is, that a lot of sceners had and still have better coding skills than game developers themself!

BTW: The latest game release is called "Joe Gunn" just a few weeks ago! :D

[cosine303]

a lot of game people were demo coders also. I don't think you can compare the 2 100% as remember you are limited more with raster time/memory when making games.. The sprite multiplexor in armalyte was great.. also mayhem in monsterland, again AMAZING. Boys without brains did hawkeye also did demos. loads more I can mention, although some demo tricks did feature in games =)

[floris1976]

commodore best computer ever

[edonldutch]

c64 was amazing, such same they never continued :(((

[Audiomancer]

Wow, I didn't even realize that a Commodore could push those graphics, nice vid.

[cablo101]

This is my favourite music and powerdrift also

[Databamse]

I wish I still had my C64, I would be looking at it again just for fun, load stuff, its cozy..

[Justarius1]

I was an avid Commie (heh, aka C=64 kid) and I have seen over 70% of these the 1st time around. It's 100% real. You'd snag a game off BBS's and it would be 250 blocks and like 100 of those or more would be an intro like these (and half the time they had better graphics than he game)!

[Justarius1]

Oh ya, the only part that isn't an actual C=64 demo is the very start with the flyby video of the keyboard overlayed into it. The C64 could never do video. The guys making the montage must have made that intro to the intros. The rest is pure. "Bang the bar to continue!" (or "Mace the Space!"). Heh, man I miss the C=64 scene.

[halidefox]

Awesome remix of the Last Ninja Level 1. How good were these programmers to get these kind of sequences out of the C64? What's more I bet there's all sorts of cool music and SFX to go along with them that we're not hearing. :P

[Alianger]

I've never bothered with the C64, but I'd play a game with these kind of effects asap.

[JimPrice]

i saw some demo too, and it's not 100% then real shit

[cutebikerwannabe]

Impressive! and I chose to buy a BBC computer instead of the commodore!

[RuiFPedro]

what's the name of the music?

[Mandrakethewizard]

por y para frikis...

[buffbff]

that was cool excellent music choice 4 stars

[Intersonus903]

Amazing what the demo scene was able to pull off on hardware originally released in 1982!

And, this is no joke. I've seen quite a few demos that were mindblowing on the C64.

[JimPrice]

i saw some demo too, i'm sure it's the real shit

[Intersonus903]

And it shows the kind of talent the demo scene programmers have considering the limitations of the hardware.

Pure genius.

[nearpar]

Wow brings back memories I have seen most of these demos at one time or another. I still have my C64 and several hundred programs makes me want to get it out again.

[Murple333]

Coolest computer of all time.

[mistapaul]

ATARI XL WAS!

[cosine303]

i had both atari 8 bit.. and c64.. ok the atari had a better 256 colour pallette (e.g. elektraglide by english software) but if you didn't have a disk drive, games took stupidly long to load. No sid chip on atari either, and demo scene a lot of it was c64 rip offs.. so i disagree =)

[mistapaul]

pokey vs sid, pokey anytime. atari ripped of c64 demo scene, i was part of that scene,been a forma coder and demo maker, so no way mate, ya dreaming.

c64 graphics were poor compared to atari 8bit in every game....

[cosine303]

a lot of effects done in that time were FIRST made on c64, FLD etc. as for colours, look at the newer c64 demos. 128 colours ;-) . notice you didn't disagree about the tape loading times, thats where it was rubbish. Just look at demos by the groups Crest / Blackmail / Fairlight / Triad for a start =) ,the sid serious OWNED pokey, go listen to the music from turbo outrun for a start ;-)

[mistapaul]

is that is 128 colours?

xl could produce 4096 using display lists.

tapes loading was very slooow

wasnt the c64 disk drive slooow? think it was

[cosine303]

as for diskdrive,not with dolphin dos, or an action replay cart.. dolphin dos, though seriously fast, blink and u'd miss it kinda fast. 4096 colours? yet i rarely saw that many used in any of the games i played, only on "still" pictures. As for getting games for the atari, that was a nightmare , c64 a lot easier. the atari drive cost a LOT more than c64 also?.

[Audiomancer]

Yes, it was very slow, I remember those days well::laughs::

[mistapaul]

turbo outrun music is garbage! anybody can use a sampler...

[cosine303]

lol its sampling with another tune underneath it.notice you kept quiet about the demo side of effects ;-) . pioneered on the 64, then ported ..

[leokimvideo]

take me back before the modern times..'rolling stock'

[AnalogX]

Nice Mix Kenz. I hadnt some of the newer more awesome demos in that compilation.

[JackDigital]

Those are C64 demos and not Amiga? Impressive!

[kitcarcollection]

awesome to see old times revive this way. Miss my Circle twist demos which I made for Bros, netherlands!

regards from holland.

[viznut]

Some slightly more newskoolish parts could also have fit in (for example, Resource's Soiled Legacy has some really nice-looking effects). For the next compilation, perhaps? :)

[Egregius]

8 bits of raw POWER!

6510 ftw!

[Ireg88]

\o/

[KimmoA]

Wonderful.

[Catalypse1]

Outstanding!. One of the first animations with Tron cycles racing each other - really hard to believe that it was done on Commodore 64! Great stuff

[honorabili]

nice choice of demos

[norwayitalo]

psyko cool music

[landercut]

Really cool. However missed some old school demos from the eighties (1001 crew etc).

[devnull73]

very cool, recognise a lot of those demos :) cant believe no dancing guys from graphixmania 2 tho! left right left right!