Nuclear Demo - Commodore 64

[kdc43]

I believe in one nuclear power plant, the one that is 93 million miles from us, all others are crap.

[pentad2k]

Microsoft did all the basic for Commodore machines. Basic 2.0 for the C64 was a hack from Basic 4.0 for the Pet series to fit into the memory requirements. It's one of the reasons why Basic 2.0 sucks so badly. I loved the C64 but Basic 4.0 and then Basic 7.0 were much better.

However, Microsoft licensed Basic to Commodore for a single lump sum. By the C128, though, Microsoft demanded that their name be displayed.

[raulrrojas]

I like the smiling neutron at 3:05. However, In Chernovyl nor Fukushima the neutrons were not that smiling. Also to be considered that this explains the "normal" or "predicted" working condition of an atomic plant, but in real life were cars crash, planes fall, and earthquakes damage structures, ie, things can go bad. And consecuences lasts 10000 years. Not an option, my dear scientist specialist...

[globalvelveta]

Wow

[radonas]

'and does not make people glow in the dark' nice

[Wochensau]

Do that again, this time with the Fuck-U-Shima reactors explained, hahahaha. All your base are belong to us. Make your time.

[dajay82]

Hey Guys, i need another DEMO like "How to build an A-Bomb". I LOVE C64.

[lucio1962]

Ottima grafica

[carl0sgs]

wow, it is actually represented and animated in some kind of ASCII... xD

[Psychlist1972]

@carl0sgs It was called PETSCII. You could get upper and lower case, or upper case and graphics characters.

[senorverde09]

I got to have this demo... Was it bundled as a high school science thing or really a nuclear power plant training demo... lol.

[adigitalillusion]

yeah and what about nuclear wastes? TINY LITTLE particular omitted

[MN12BIRD]

Oh good "it doesn't melt down every 6 months" so what the new Candu reactor is good for a year or two? Hahaha I hope whoever wrote that line got fired!

[smunge]

A Candu Reactor can run for only about 30 years or so. -MN12BIRD.

[cartoonfan1920s]

This is really cool, reminds me of an old game from Commodore Educational Software where you ran a nuclear power plant.

[MN12BIRD]

LOL really?  Could you make it meltdown?

[cartoonfan1920s]

Yes, no cool explosions though, it just tells you that there was a meltdown and that an emergency crew has arrived, want to try again?

[tnralliart2600]

Good video, and very true too. So many misconceptions about nuclear power.

[testiclesDOTca]

Hey nicely done on the video. Now here is a video I'd like you to make: HOW TO COLLAPSE THE AMERICAN BANKING SYSTEM!!!! Please, please, please tell me how!

[h3akalee]

Look's like you found out how to do that.

[polytechnickk]

Back in 1982, running on an 8-bit 6510 processor at 1MHz, on an American made motherboard, this exquisite piece probably took a whole 10K of RAM. Fast forward 26 years, it streams at 64KBps onto my Windows machine and probably sucks a good 2MBs of bandwidth at least. Progress.

[Anayo]

XD!

[nrdesign1991]

@polytechnickk that's weird, my C64 says "made in Germany" on the case and "MADE IN HONG KONG" on the motherboard

[Wochensau]

@polytechnickk Mine was assembled in Germany, with perhaps some parts being imported from Hong-Kong and the like.

[Macminiowner]

oh i see

[Macminiowner]

GO MAC PLUS

[flexyco]

The Macintosh and IIGS were for the wealthy elite, the C64 was for the masses. Why do you think the C64 is the best selling home computer ever, from 1982 'till 1992?

[SpeeBeta1]

Apple Computers were , and still kind of are, for people with money to spare. i saw what makes the 2GS Tick and its just like an overpriced, Computer version of Super Nintendo. *c64 still had nice graphics even compared to some 2gs games

[douro20]

There used to be an PC BASIC game which was a nuclear reactor control simulation- the object was to keep the thing running without causing a steam explosion.

[hohahohi]

sounds fun, just like saving chernobyl from going boom!

[FCCAGut]

Commodore 64 is fun still more games than anything else and people are still making programs for it which is unbelieveable I know. Certain emulators allow you to make a game and save it and run it again.

[KlaxonCow]

I love the part where it says "let's have a closer look at the Uranium fuel bundle" and then we see a picture of someone's bare hand holding a pellet of Uranium.

Yes, that's a completely sensible thing to be doing with a radioactive substance! ;D

[thewiirocks]

> we see a picture of someone's bare hand

> holding a pellet of Uranium.

And the problem is... ? Do a search on Google Images for "uranium fuel pellet". You'll see photos of people doing exactly that. Unused fuel pellets produce very little radiation and are reasonably safe to handle.

[WIIRULESMAN]

Hey, it's jBanes!

... Just had to say that. It's wiicademan.

[Ichinin]

No they are not, but not for the reason people think: The pellets can be damaged if they are exposed to human fat from fingers. The only danger i see is someone mistaking a pellet for a piece of liqourish candy and choking on it :oP

[OmnivoreRecords]

"i would feel safer if a c64 was monitoring our nuclear plants than any microsoft operating system." - respect!!! micro$oft vi$ta? trying to quash linux ? i hope people will boycott it because vista is pure evil.

[mortene1973]

You're right! Linux is pure evil!

[tobitron]

The BASIC for Commodore C64 was developed by Microsoft. Hahaha

[NoqturnePL]

not quite - Microsoft DID do BASIC, but for the C128, not C64 ;p

[tobitron]

Sorry mate. Commodore took the source code of the flat-fee BASIC and further developed it internally for all their other 8-bit home computers. It wasn't until the Commodore 128 (with V7.0) that a Microsoft copyright notice was displayed. However, Microsoft had built an easter egg into the original Commodore Basic that proved its provenance: typing the (obscure) command WAIT 6502, 1 would result in Microsoft! appearing on the screen.

[peterlinddk]

@NoqturnePL Microsoft did BASIC for the C64 as well as the Apple ][ - actually it is almost the same BASIC, with the same oddities and features. Microsoft also created BASIC for the Amiga, as well as for many many other home-computers in the early eighties. It was kind of their core-business at the time.

[BrownyTCat]

@NoqturnePL To find out if they did it with the PET, get any emulator or pet and type WAIT 6502, 1 *wink*

[Zoomer30]

I had a few of those games from Cosmi. I had a Wargames style game, think it was Defcon 1 or SGI or something. Also had Chernobyl. Those Cosmi games drove me nuts. Very complex and the damn instructions were...well...THERE WERE NONE! But the Defcon game was cool.

[belovedconsole]

The beauty of the Commodore was that you could use these 'keyboard' graphics to create quite functional games, even if you only knew BASIC. You can't do this game on any other 8-bit machine, in that machine's BASIC.

[ElRamos]

No, it was quite possible on other 8-bit computers. I made "Android NIM" on an Atari 400 in BASIC, using only the graphics characters in text mode.

[kirun0]

Wrong. The CPC not only came with a set of built-in graphic characters, you could re-define them with the SYMBOL command. This is pretty standard stuff.

[replayuk]

Thats the worst ever demo i have ever seen on the 64, you should be ashamed of even showing such utter rubbish.

Replay of Breakpoint cracking teq!

1984, long live the 64!!!!

[Plecostomus1701D]

Well the reactor portrayed in the Chernobyl game was modeled after a Combustion Engineering PWR reactor and not the RMBK-style reactor. You could cause a serious rupture of the reactor vessel though and IIRC if you played long enough the plant would develop a glitch similar to Three Mile Island

[jahovahut]

those c64 graphics are sweet. who needs hi-def.  i would feel safer if a c64 was monitoring our nuclear plants than any microsoft operating system.

[HairyPeo]

Seems like the C-64 program was written entirely or in part in the computer's built-in, but norotiously slow, BASIC programming language. The 64 has the potential to do far better and smoother graphics than this, though that would require assembly language, raster interrupts, "talking" directly to the hardware (no device drivers here :-), etc...!

[jci10]

Search on "C64 Demo Deus Ex Machina"

[jci10]

Especially "Deus Ex Machina - Crest (and Oxyron) Part 2"

[todd7416]

I used to play that C64 game called Chernobyl but I don't think I could ever cause the disaster in the game.