C64 Demo Deus Ex Machina (on real C64)

C64 Demo Deus Ex Machina on my real C64 - i filmed my TV while my C64 was playing the demo.
It is amazing what is possible with such a slow cpu and such a small memory.
It is funny how the flickering effects (can be seen only on the video, did not occur on the tv screen) are going with the music at the beginning.
I had to cut a bit of the beginning to fit the video into the 10 minutes limit.

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[daddlerTL]

I made a better Video of the demo (captured from C64 using a tv card): youtube(dot)com/watch?v=Fiul1X­u9wbg

[daddlerTL]

The sound is made by the C64 (played by the speakers of the TV connected to the C64). I recorded it with the camera picture and sound, no sounds are inserted with video editing (the video isn`t edidet at all, only a bit cut off of the beginning and end, it is taken directly from the memory card of the camera).

[daddlerTL]

It flickers only the first 90 seconds, must have sth to do with the kind of programming of the first part. All the other parts after BigBreadbox do not flicker. I think they used a refresh rate of 60Hz which causes an interference with the 30frames/seconds my camera is recording. The other parts are maybe 50Hz which causes no/only a little bit flickering.

[daddlerTL]

Yes, this would be better but I have no capture card here an wanted to film a real screen, if you listen carefully you can also hear the sound of the disk drive when it is loading another part of the demo (and you can also hear some talking from my father :P). There is a video of this demo in youtube which is captured from an emulator, it has perfect quality, but was not played on a real C64.

[daddlerTL]

You can get the demo on c64(dot)ch

To transfer the demo to your C64 floppy drive you need a special cable and the program C64 Star Commander

[harleykman]

Why do people camcorder their TVs? All you have to do is run the S-video from the C64 into the input of your VCR (or DVR), and the C64 audio cables into the left/ right jacks.

Easy and you get a perfect copy.

[xxmaniac43]

i love the c64

[kroemme]

wooooowww...on a real c64? i'm impressed...NOT! yeah that was a NOT one

[EvilMrDark]

Why dont use emulators and record videos in HD?

[MsBickle76]

deusexmachina2[DOT]com

[ematech]

Amiga and C64 the only computers with a soul

[ematech]

Amig and C64 the only computers with a soul

[slitor]

@r8qt7 my argument to that is...AMIGAAAAAAAAAA!

[NLGAMER1000]

more demos ? goto my nlgamer1000 for more commodore 64 demos!

[muffinproject]

@initvesa

I thought basic was a certain type of assembly code? You learn every day.

Anyway what i meant was that having to convert through several languages is a waste. Imagine you having to translate Dutch to German to English instead of reading Dutch as a first language. Not only does it take extra time to convert - but there are also sayings that would be weird if directly translated:

Nu komt de aap uit de mouw (now the real intentions show) -> now the monkey comes out of the sleeve

[initvesa]

@muffinproject I really hope you mean Crysis in C/Assembly. Basic is a interpretative code so it is just as slow if not slower than Java! (Actually BASIC has an almost one to one correspondence with assembly so it doesn't really affect things that much.)

[dcotar77]

video flickers becouse TV and Cam are not synced to the same frequency. cant be done on consumer equipment (vhen recording the TV set) so dont worry