Commodore C64 Video Player - Dallas Intro

The Dallas intro played on a C64 with 1 MHz, 16 colors, 320x200 pixels and 16 MB RAM.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Commodore
• C64
• Dallas
• Nuvie

[keoni29]

It must have taken ages to load this thing :p

[YouRolandTube]

@keoni29 : about 40 seconds on the 1541u

[sglider]

Looks better than Sega CD video. 

[TMR6502]

@thelasthallow The 6510 in the C64 can address a maximum of 64K, but the RAM expansion has a DMA and can chunk data into and out of that 64K from the 16Mb at a byte per cycle. That's what this is doing, "loading" each frame from expansion RAM.

[jci10]

@thelasthallow Unlike the Apple's, the Commodore had a MOSFET 6510 chip (versus a MOSFET 6502) which used address 0 and 1 as special Memory Bank addressing allowing for such things as you see here.

[thelasthallow]

16 MB ram in a C64? im not sure but i thought i read somewhere saying that the CPU in the C64 couldn't address that much memory?

[BoctorPoo]

I wonder how Hank Hill thinks about Dallas now.

[justaguythinking]

that's pretty impressive, for a c64!

[Paulmstiffy]

load of shite. The sounds from a SID chip ie C64 but the video is just a 8bit (16 colours) reduce effect. Your not kidding me. Anyway what happened to the screen when this so call 16meg of RAM was loaded, Nothing, Not even a replacemt from VID buffer to SYNC RAM (The wavy lines you normally see when loading or loaded) Tosh pure TOSH shame on you

[ralphisok1]

sound sucks

[ralphkey]

@kelli217 Yes I have ... ;-) But RAMLink was not manufactured by Commodore (fan made by CMD). The only original expansion i remember was 256KB that came out around 1987. Cheers ;-)

[kelli217]

I will say that nuvie is a great codec for throwing IFLI video pages to the screen at 30fps, and it's great that it leaves enough CPU behind to play SID files, but I bet there's not enough CPU to play 4-bit sampled audio instead of SID files.

[kelli217]

@ralphkey I suppose you've never heard of RAMLink.