Future 1999 by PWP

[telemetry9]

amazing...

[BaldingEagle51]

Ahaha, wacky. :) What's up with the Shell logo??

[LunaVorax]

1:32 Kim Jong-Ill ?

[oenijo03]

@LunaVorax Dude, wtf. It's not "Kim Jong the 2nd", it's Kim Jong "il" damnit.

[Hiro139]

Great demo, not just from a technical perspective (the speech was great for 30 year old machine!) but from an artistic standpoint its just fantastic. A great dystopian setting. It is the end state of perfect pure egalitarianism which society was trying to achieve in Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. The ending which I assume is meant to be humorous is also interesting, Instead of Space Invaders, it is Human invaders. Glory to the Human Race!!

[jormangundi]

I simply love the stark, scratchy and malevolent speech in this demo! This would work well in some art exhibit too :) Altogether great style and atmosphere.

How is the voice created, or is it sampled? It sounds so natural and complex and much clearer compared to Robotic Liberation for example.

[1337Shockwav3]

@jormangundi RL is synthesized, this is sampled (just like "the next level") which is why it sounds a bit more natural.

[jormangundi]

@1337Shockwav3 Thanks, sounded like it. Now that I googled a bit I found an audio streamer mentioned.

[hillosibul]

Wow what a great demo with an important message! =)

[summer20105707]

Gloory to the human race. Gloory to the human race.

Very cool.

[UoBtExFODA]

Wow this is really disturbing

[Koffe74]

The Vic20 can speak!! I am impressed.!!!!

[NotATube]

The lo-fi ness of the whole thing somehow makes this way more effective and unsettling :-/

Even viewed on its own (out of the context of being an old-school computer demo), this would make an effective video.

[MCP2012]

Do you claim we are headed to such a rather (over-)simplified dystopia? While superficially disturbing (and indeed a critique of kids doing too much vid games!), it falls short as a critique of some future dystopia and/or (I'm guessing) your take on the NWO...not bad, mind you, just not all that WOW-awesome, either (not by a long shot).

[SkyNetGoneWild]

GLOOOGH DEGH-HUMEN REICE

[LCRUSHABLENET]

Inequality no longer exists but I am still inequal, my future has an inequality but not yet too violent or harmful!

[chaoschaosengineer]

I really love this one. I immediately had to copy the file to a orginiel floppy disk and to fire up my VIC-20 connected to a massive hifi-system. It was a fantastic experience, btw. the same is true for robotic warrior, robotic liberation, the next level and progress without progress (C-64). Thank you Viznut for your great demos. Your style is awesome!

[flygonbreloom]

This man wishes he could favorite comments.

[spoonshiro]

I'm reminded of the tabletop RPG Paranoia.

[lakefreefall]

words aren't even able to describe this ultimate win.

[thinedoor2]

Wow...this is pretty disquieting for a game demo using such primitive graphics.

GLOOOOORY TO THE HUMAN RACE! AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.

[EzelWesik]

It says 'PWP 2008' in the end but the info to the right on youtube says it was released in September 2009. ?

[flygonbreloom]

I'll take a blind shot and say that he took a year to actually demonstrate it.

[Jumpseri]

nfo : "Originally to be released at Alternative Party 2008. Due to some

organizational problems there, the release was postponed to Stream 2009

where it came 1st in the oldschool demo competition."

[somacruzfirm]

1:38 isn't Shell old logo?

[gia257]

holy

[crocz]

ALL GLORY TO THE HUMAN RACE!

[viznut]

Ehm, Future 1999 wasn't designed for emulators. It was designed for an unexpanded VIC-20 with a 1541-compatible disk drive. There just happens to be a VICE 2.1 -optimized version available because of certain issues. Read the infofile.

[1337Shockwav3]

fixed :)

[pwEclipse]

very cool demo viznut, congrats

[shaurz]

"...and Social Democracy" - a real LOL moment! And he's improved the voice synth!

[artman40]

So that's the reason Viznut supports robotic uprising in many of his earlier demos!

By the way, one of the finest examples of speech synthesis for VIC-20 indeed.