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

Commodore 64 c64 demo full length digital sample being played real time from a 1581 disk drive with no skipping, jumping, or any other interruptions

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• c64
• commodore
• 64
• hack
• demo
• 1581
• digitized
• sample
• sampling

[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. :)

[erinlassley]

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

[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.

[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. :)

[tbsys31061]

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

[Gomek2]

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

[kerkyraInc]

@erinlassley i know  .... just joking

[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!