The Amazing Commodore 64 - Look Sharp Demo

Here is a demo for the C-64. The music is a real audio sample. Also, don't buy ATI video capture cards. They're pieces of crap. I captured the video using a real C-64 and a DVD Recorder, then converted it to an MP4. More old technology and odd stuff on my blog: http://classicalgasemissions.blogspot.com/

You can download the actual demo here:
http://www.c64.ch/demos/realdetail.php?id=1115

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• commodore
• c-64
• c64
• contex
• demo
• demoscene
• scene
• 1989
• roxette
• classic
• cycleburner

[subclonk]

When I watch the demo on my PAL C64, the dot bangs into the top and bottom letters exactly on every snare hit throughout the entire demo.

I take it that the video and audio are out of wack here.

[drbpony]

Apparently my C-64 doesn't sync very well because this was programmed on a PAL version of the C-64. We're all NTSC over here. It's still a cool demo though.

[matzux1978]

Where can I get the disk image (.d64) for this intro?. I want test on my c64. Good luck ;).

[drbpony]

Sorry, I'll put the link in the description

[OysterLava]

I never understood how the C64 could play sampled sound.

[colliander242]

very cool! 

[leerees]

Things like MP3, multichannel sound, countless graphics effects, video compression, all this stuff came from the demo scene. Just think without all this stuff we'd still be on 56k as ISP's wouldn't have bothered to commercialise broadband. They'd be no downloading movies or music and thus no market or demand for broadband, there wouldn't be datasticks or even CD-roms, without these pioneering demosceners we'd all still be in the dark ages, staring at dreary green screen terminals.

[leerees]

@worldwhore3 The graphics are rubbish, that's not the point, the person that made this is showing off the fact that he is playing digital sound samples on a sound chip that doesn't "support" digital sound. As a c64 owner in the 80's if you heard this you would be gobsmacked. That's is the whole point of demo's, programmers coming up with new ways to exploit the hardware. A lot of the effects you see in games today came from the demo scene of years gone by.

[NuttaPearl]

Where is it possible to get this demo-sound from? Never heard this version before...

[MrProgHouse]

You're wrong.

MOS 6510 runs at 0,985248 MHz in PAL version

and at 1,022727 MHz in NTSC version.

So there is just a small difference.

[maltadude]

amazing ! they realy pushed the c64 hardware to the limit :o

[spikeman14]

Commodore 64 using the NTSC are different from the PAL version, not to mention a big difference in processing power. NTSC models have 5mhz and the PAL ones only have 1mhz so the you will have a big sync issue when running PAL files!

[subclonk]

Ahh.. The main reason I like Cycleburner demos is that he always exactly syncs the visual with the audio. That's what makes his demos good. I wonder if there are NTSC version of his demos?