Commodore 64 demo: Lethargy - Das Boot (2024)

This is a Commodore 64 demo "Das Boot" from Lethargy, released at the X 2024 held in Netherlands. It participated the Demo compo and was third.
Credits:
Code by Sei, Loloke and Visage
Graphics by Grass
Music by Vincenzo
More information about this production is available at Demozoo:
demozoo.org/pr...
This video has been recorded with a genuine Commodore 64 with a SID 8580.
#lethargy #demoscene2024 #hungariandemoscene #demoscene #commodore #commodore64 #c64 #demo #sidtune #chiptune #sid8580 #mos8580 #rt4k
More similar videos are available from these playlists:
• Commodore 64 demos
• Commodore Amiga demos
• Commodore 128 demos
• Commodore 16/Plus 4 demos
Some release details have been gathered from Demozoo, demozoo.org.

[@zdenek7220]

My life flashed before my eyes

[@eurybaric]

Fucking same!

[@rolfedrengen]

The music is soooo jazzy! The sound of the hihat, the bassline, the chords - and the timing! That's just amazing!

[@powerdude_dk]

The music was SO GROOVY!

[@carlgeorgbiermann2915]

Windows update into C64 boot screen was a nice one 😂

[@larsmuldjord9907]

That last Windows Update part should just have stayed at 14% for 20 minutes, then suddenly go to 97% for 17 minutes. Then restart, start over at 0% and sit there for 40 minutes, then go to 40% for 2 minutes, then increment 1% per 10 seconds for the next 2 minutes, then go to 100% and stay there for 5 minutes, then restart and THEN end.

[@rtiainen]

regular windows experience :D

[@jimbotron70]

Perennially idling between 95 and 99%...

[@Goerp]

I loved this one at X. The flow, the rhythm, the music, funny, not too long and coming full circle. Boom!

[@thygrrr]

Beautiful demo and hommage. Cute idea, executed with humour and gusto!

[@Theezakje2009]

Wow. This is really really nice one. I hope more computer start ups demos on part II.

[@rokker333]

Love it. Creative, cool, great to watch. This is demo scene. And finally a modern demo that is not doing all the same "crazy" effects, precalculated on modern machines and cross developed with generated code.

[@BikeArea]

What a cool idea! (and perfect execution, of course) 👌👍

[@commodoreclub]

Absolutely Awesome Demo!!!

[@LouisTheSEGANerd]

Love it! There's something so oddly charming seeing the Windows XP loading screen running on my C64C

[@ivannasha5556]

I love this

[@jakubkrcma]

I am SO glad the C64 had that specific default colour combination! ❤

[@TheFlushentity]

That was amazing

[@jasondodt4328]

mighty fine demo... totally out of the box

[@regmtait100]

Wonderful. That's progress 🔥

[@ameldancalippo6912]

Stunning. Brilliant music too.

[@MystLgnd]

"Guru Meditation" AAAAAAH THE PAIN 🤣 ... a delicious nostalgic pain ❤

[@a64738]

"Guru Meditation" and "It was the Generals fault".

[@adamSmith_1723]

That windows 10 boot was GOLD

[@tourist6290]

Good one. Nice tune!

[@patton72010]

This is so great and unique., including the word play on title.

[@matt47110815]

Boot as in Bootscreens, i get. Also "boot" as in shoewear and how a boot can kick(start). Clever. Yet, the Demo's name is "Das Boot" which means "The boat". 🤔And it usually refers to a submarine movie.

[@patton72010]

@@matt47110815 yes, I meant Das Boot from movie/book and a boot to kickstart computer.

[@alexandermirdzveli3200]

Marvelous!!!

[@g.s.6255]

Excellent ! 😍

[@pappeterjozsef]

How cute!! 🥰

[@Pawel_Strong]

i love this video

[@KymyA74]

GENIUS

[@skowron_1978]

This is a masterpiece!

[@pi4630]

Great demo and great idea ❤️

[@DJSpaceRetrotunes]

Very neat! I love it!!!

[@Rocknrollthor_norway]

Very cool demo indeed!

[@grakka72]

Awesome

[@raze7x]

Fantastic idea, very original!

[@RaymondDay]

Ate lest this one works on a NTSC C=64 thanks that's a neat demo. It bed good if they could have the old Windows start up sound in it.

[@Ernoburger]

So cool.

[@MrAsrgr]

What a great idea for a demo! I notice no atari computers were simulated!

[@rtiainen]

True, interesting..

[@jorgeandrade20]

No MSX systems either...

[@FlightEagle]

So cool. And yes, a bit like watching your life go by right in front of you.

[@alexanderwingeskog758]

Haha awesome name! Awesome demo!

[@RamonddeVrede]

Love it! Magic on the C64

[@uttula]

I remember back in the day when we were brainstorming with friends and an idea of a C64 demo with W95 logo.sys & default desktop lookalikes … but never ended up doing it. Others occasionally did, so we obviously weren’t the only ones to come up with the idea :-/

[@blenderfox]

The old Amstrad and Amiga Workbench load screens make me nostalgic...

[@uriituw]

That was quite remarkable.

[@Suralin0]

The Guru Meditation made me skip a beat briefly XD

[@falkaseltza]

Amazing.

[@user-tc2ky6fg2o]

Wow, even a Videoton got place! 👏

[@drszilardtorok]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@gabrielirlanda]

Great, Commodore-64: The most versatile computer ever. 💪

[@MD_Mastro_Commodore]

bellissima demo!

[@pasromano75]

Just wow !!!!

[@johnmshearing]

Very nice!

[@temp911Luke]

Really good :)

[@francoisleveille409]

The creator of PLAnkton and TOLB says h3ll0 ! Nice work!

[@bitwize]

If they're gonna put up the Enterprise bootscreen they could've at least shown the TI-99/4A some love. I know us TI people were a bit niche but no one used an Enterprise.

[@chainreaction8977]

Gold.

[@FuerstBerg]

Had to look several times if it is a C64 or a real other machine...

[@micwarz]

nice

[@sub-zero-kitty]

but can it run doom

[@Schraegsicht]

More BSODs!

[@saganandroid4175]

They should have a V2 of this playing the startup sounds of the machines. Include the big PET startup sound (and screen), the Amiga 1000 startup sound, the Mac startup sound/screen and use the same Apple ][e start beep for the wintel boxes before Windows loads.

[@nowster]

Interesting that they used a Video Genie instead of a TRS-80. (Ready? vs. Mem size?)

[@dr.ignacioglez.9677]

I REALY LOVE MY C64 ❤❤❤ FOREVER ❤❤❤❤

[@axemanracing6222]

Still don't understand why it's called a submarine.

[@g.s.6255]

what "submarine" are you talking about ??

[@axemanracing6222]

@@g.s.6255 Das Boot

[@StrayBoom]

It's just playing with words in different languages eg. "Boot" in English refers to the bootscreens, "Das Boot" in German is submarine.

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Oh my

[@bang1338]

this sound like a meme to me lmao

[@MyNameIsBucket]

Macs not featured, because that's not what real computer nerds use.

[@rtiainen]

Hmm!

[@bengelman2600]

Great song

[@BikeNutt1970]

Awesome. Amiga GM error 😂 Windows BSOD 😂 Edit: cool tune too.

[@intrinia]

I miss Linux in there.

[@chekiechekie]

You missed the BBC micro...

[@urukh]

maximum os confusion after watching this :D

[@rtiainen]

Identity crisis :D

[@patsk8872]

Am I sensing Atari hate for not including any of their screens?

[@rtiainen]

Perhaps they run out of space just when they started to do some Atari bootscreens? :D

[@StrayBoom]

There's no hate at all. This demo is a onefiler which means everything you see is stored in that limited 64kbytes, loaded from a single file. This what we had space for, no more kbytes left for any other bootscreens.

[@greenscreen5994]

Is there support for Windows 12?😁

[@rtiainen]

:D

[@mrrafalb1776]

This demo is the ultimate Windows 12 patch. 😉

[@markuszeller_official]

Cool OS!

[@jimbotron70]

Does C64 Basic crashes at times?

[@mohamedmonem2645]

Linux ?

[@EWARS_2]

Videogames

[@stefankrause5138]

[Ti99/4A has left the chat]

[@rtiainen]

:D

[@Nookdashiddole]

Vote Trump

[@kapsel1941]

no Atari? no TOS? 😉

[@karstenostwald7093]

... and No MacOS/Linux ?

[@rtiainen]

No OS/2 either! :p

[@saszab]

No CP/M, no DOS :-)

[@jimbotron70]

​@@saszabNo QNX

[@saszab]

@@jimbotron70 Yes, I remember the demo 1.44MB diskette with this great OS from mid 90s. It was very impressive to have entire OS with GUI and a web browser in such a small size!

[@a64738]

Running windows 10 on a C64 that is impressive ;)