VIC-20: State Of The Art

The famous Amiga "State of the Art" demo remade on the Commodore VIC-20!
For more information: http://girv.in/9p

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• amiga
• vic20
• demo
• spaceballs
• state of the art
• remake
• animation art

[etgewgehtrhw]

No. It is just a severely degraded video probably taken from the Amiga version.

[girv73ni]

@etgewgehtrhw No fooling you eh? Read the associated blog post linked to from the video info.

[carthag]

@docdistortion i wish the sid had that nice bass

[carthag]

@etgewgehtrhw lol

[docdistortion]

from th blog: Update: This is, of course, a complete April Fools fabrication. The video is from an A500 running the original State of the Art demo that has been processed through ffmpeg, ImageMagick and VirtualDub to produce the 12fps, low resolution, 8 colour version you see above. The music gives it away; there’s no way a VIC-20 would be capable of playing the soundtrack on the video (go on, prove me wrong!). ....

[SpearM3064]

Also, by using raster interrupt tricks (which are more difficult on the VIC-20 than on the C64 because the VIC does not have a raster interrupt register) you can change the background color and/or the two 'global' colors at specific raster lines to simulate more colors than usual, but a 'stable' raster interrupt is much more difficult on the VIC-20. Without careful synchronization, the raster interrupt causes flicker that you'd have to figure out how to conceal.

[SpearM3064]

@CrassSpektakel Color management on a VIC is very similar to a C64, limiting the VIC to 176x184 resolution in monochrome (one foreground and one background color per 8x8 cell) or 88x184 in multicolor mode (2 'global' colors, one foreground color, and one background color per 4x8 cell). If you've got expanded memory, there are assembly language tricks you can use to force it into a higher resolution (160x240, for example), but these modes are only useful for stationary images.

[MMSZoli]

Well, not allow to put link.

Try on youtube search: plus/4 shade demo

[MMSZoli]

Well, I saw in the past a similar tricky video to say ZX Spectrum can do it... It is just some video filters and reduced fps to show something similar to that, but RAM is not enough, speed is not there. Well, I am a Plus/4 guy, but that one with 64K RAM also not able to make so much great animation.

But there was a REAL try.. It really works on the real iron:

[fortressofcomfort]

Nice try.

[itrabos]

Haha, great spoof :)

[MrRJBowman]

This faker either has no respect for, or no knowledge of, the things that actual demoscene coders have been able to do with the VIC20.