Fairlight & Prosonix & Offence - We Are All Connected - C64 Demo

Stunning demo by Fairlight & Prosonix & Offence. This is "We Are All Connected"
Released at Datastorm 2014 - Ranked:1st
Credits:
Code .... Bjørn Røstøen, Kribust, Pantaloon, Perplex, Stein, Pedersen.
Music.... Groms Kribust, OMP / Ole Marius Pettersen, Scarzix, Stein Pedersen, Wiklund.
Graphics and Design .... Pal
Text .... Lemming
Linking .... Pantaloon
Loader.... Krill
Datastorm 2014 Playlist: • DataStorm 2014

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

You know the soundtrack is good when the timestamps people post are all over the place.

[@nonsensorama]

The trax... madness. Some of the best SIDs ive ever heard. Madness.

[@moshly64]

The intro music is 'I talk to the wind' by King Crimson

[@ps8437]

Watching demos on computers again and again was awesome times, watching them on cellphones via KZbin again and again shows how powerfull this magic behind them is 🕺💃✨💫🤘

[@user-hx9gu5nh9p]

One of the most genial ideas in the demo scene ever 6:53 - that tune!

[@HarhaMedia]

That collision-detection physics part gave me goosebumps.

[@Chriva]

The composition of this thing is just WOW. They really knew how to weave everything into a beautiful piece.

[@devjock]

I don't know what to say. It's beautiful!

[@STriderFIN77]

yes, it is Amazingk!

[@xoen6]

idd

[@LERobbo]

I come from a time where border sprites and digis were the bomb. Now there is this, amazing.

[@Preview43]

There's always been a place in my heart for SID and Chiptune audio. There's nothing quite like it. And hearing it with a decent subwoofer takes it to a whole new level.

[@knifegrinder3729]

IMHO the best C64 demo ever made still today.

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

It is not only the best on C64. This is the greatest "DemoScene" of all time.

[@akgh2010]

I just can't believe I'm seeing this on C64, this is on a level of Amiga 500 and above. It's so amazing that I can't find the words to express what I feel. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

Are you still there? 1yr later i write comment.

[@akgh2010]

@@RabiesTheBeagleNo, I died last year then I was resurrected this year. So, what was your comment cause I missed it then, I was at heaven playing with angles 🤣🤣🤣

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

@@akgh2010 ha ha. 1 month later. R U still there?

[@akgh2010]

@@RabiesTheBeagle no, I'm dead now.

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

R u still there?

[@AlcatrazLives]

Absolutely speechless AMAZING SID music at 6:53! I cannot believe it ... this machine keeps rocking! Thank God I still got my 128D!

[@RetroDemoScene]

Love the music in this also. Been a great year for SID love... and it's only March ;)

[@fcycles]

+AlcatrazLives yup.. could not agree more. I was configuring audio on my nealy raspberry pi while suddenly audio started to stream on TV, right at 6:53! :)

[@ladeluff_]

AlcatrazLives totally awesome 8bit magic by Ole, groms and the rest

[@WittichWolf]

Wow, amazing demo! Sound, graphics and ideas are incredibly beautiful. It is astonishing, what’s possible on a Commodore C64 🤩🤩🤩

[@zerotonic2659]

The music from 2:07 until 5:44 is so beautiful. Thank You for this jewel of a C64 Demo. :)

[@massimiliano2258]

time to listen again then!

[@tongey1]

I agree, and combined with the animation it is truly stunning! I come back and listen regularly

[@-Lotek-The-B0T-ASSASS1N]

@@tongey1 Same! This tune and Geir Tjelta - Artillery #1 are at the top of my fav SID tune list. I really wish more people would be exposed to some of these masterpieces of composition.

[@captainfuture2882]

It's simply wonderful!

[@archivushka]

I just love how it starts with tornado

[@ericsminia]

6:53 unbelievable dance music from sid 10:45 Jeroen Tel and Martin Galway collab this demo is simply amazing

[@mauricelaumen2460]

The Jeroen Tel and Martin Galway collab is one of my top-favorite SID-tunez managing to gimme goosebumps every single time..., what more is there to say...

[@ivanustinov3970]

Woww. Every time I see and hear this demo I get really excited. A feeling of warmth runs through my whole body and I get very emotional. Music touches my soul. Awesome!

[@patkorre3177]

very very cool demo. Original class. thnx guys. Greetings from Sly (Orion)

[@kebab2002]

After all this years still amazing. Can't imagine my reaction in 1987 if I saw a demo like this then...

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

This is the best thing you will ever experience on a computer........

[@laama666]

one of the top3 coolest C64 demos i've seen

[@ginabean9434]

13:05 SX-64: the one and only :-) Still have it. Still booting and loading 8,1 in 2022.

[@davidcox1508]

I'm an Atari 800 user, but will give credit where it's due. Simply stunning. The SID sound chip really IS awesome.

[@f3k]

coolest thang i ve seen a long time on c64, everything fits

[@BobbyCharlz]

IDK if this represents the work of a single, inspired individual or a gifted group of true artists, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that this work brought me to tears more than once. Your work is so absolutely beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing this magnificence!

[@chiclone-tests71]

The Music in the middle of the demo is too unbelieveble. Would pay for it as mp3

[@ozzie_goat]

+Chiclone- Tests youtube-mp3.org

[@chiclone-tests71]

+Max Greyfeather Thanks, i know this possibility, but like to have it with Name, in good quality...

[@shoopdawhoop]

+Chiclone- Tests You can explore about this demo at csdb.dk/release/?id=129091 . You can download there SIDs from the demo and play it with special player like ACID64Player, and record it using Virtual Audio Cable (high quality) or your soundcard's Stereo Mix (perhaps a tiny bit lower quality). SID-files also can be played on Android devices with Droidsound player. I hope this was helpful!

[@chiclone-tests71]

+Frederic Shuttleman Thank you! I know the song now, but no tool for linux can convert this song correctly. Then i ripped it from the youtube-stream. I love it!

[@shoopdawhoop]

+Chiclone- Tests Good, but youtube is compressing the sound, so player-ripping variant gives a better qty. By the way, I just learned that VLC Player also supports playback of SID-files, and it can directly convert it to sound, like any other input file or stream.

[@l3g1nus]

Speechless!! I only wish we could go back in time and code demos like this back in the day before colour hacks existed. People would have been even more blown away. Amazing!

[@Radek0582]

omg 1:38 Druid 2 Enlightenment Theme

[@sydehawk]

+Radek yes, that's Fairlight's theme song :D

[@Mariusz_Wlodarczyk]

All elements of the demo are amazing!

[@sydehawk]

so beautiful!

[@KennethJaeger]

This is wonderful - I have to find some more of these.

[@H3wastooshort]

I love that intro with the tornado! And the music at 10:45 is rereally fucking great

[@barryb1490]

Top demo, Wish I could go back to the 80's the best times

[@andox011]

Just amazing, kudos to everyone involved.

[@giacjack]

This is art, you are great guys !

[@littleandy1209]

Awestruck! It''s SO singular and GENUINE !!! 🤩

[@GustafStechmann]

beautiful demo. touching

[@Tommi1981]

This is like the seventh wonder or whatever. people are amazing! 😢

[@jogibaerr50000]

This demo really kicks ass. If I had seen this in the 80th, I would have been fallen from my chair several times :-)

[@shoopdawhoop]

The Golden Moments part, gave me a nostalgic teardrops... Why do? I am only 19, and I even didn't knew the C64 at my childhood...

[@sydehawk]

+Frederic Shuttleman its because this is a very beautiful demo!

[@AgeofReason]

Mental illness.

[@dirtyme6939]

Best thing I have seen in 3 weeks. Outstanding. Glorious.

[@hupekyser]

Mesmerising. Stunning, beautiful. Form function and frequency in perfect Union.

[@bjh3661]

Breathtaking. Great message. Amazing music. Beautiful people. I'm stunned.

[@Henrik_Mikkelsen]

Out of this world c64 magic

[@denisevans1308]

What a freakin' awesome C64 demo! - Some great effects, and absolutely loving the track starting at 10:45, with the scrolling artwork being the icing on the cake!

[@AmigaJunglism]

I never knew a demo could be so beautifully crafted.

[@filuferru]

Does anyone else spotted the great number of quotes from Yes songs contained in the beautiful scrolling text of the raster part?? Lyrics from "The remembering", "Long distance runaround" and others are cited in that part

[@X1L3]

Flashback to the 80s - when youthful imagination blossomed, ran riot, coloured between the lines and filled in the blanks - supercharged. The 10.46 scroller - that music - it would have got a LOT of play time back then between adventures in the local quarries (which were to me the planet Fractalus) :) :) :) One of the finest demos i've seen on the 64 to date. Love it

[@goeuldi]

Fantastic work!!

[@SammYLightfooD]

Great! And unbelievable for the C64. Proud to leave like 500.

[@imjustpickle]

Breathtaking!

[@commodoreblog8669]

Awesome :)

[@stainlessdmc12]

Very impressive.

[@Scadanet]

This is why the 64 still rocks today

[@sydehawk]

+Shane Mussell trying to impress the ladies!! hehe

[@lime_tuna]

that rendition of i talk to the wind is astounding

[@OLIV3R_YT]

Awesome!

[@TheUlMaster]

Alucinante simplemente

[@user-pb1kz8gs7t]

Как же это круто!

[@Clemens-Ratte-Polle]

stunning every time :) @3:05 The falling cuboids: is this done by random? Are they falling different each time one runs this demo? Are they interactive so?

[@jonnyjp8486]

It's the same pattern each time but I've no idea whether or not this is pre-computed

[@dr.ignacioglez.9677]

Increíble, una belleza de Intro. I LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩

[@PROJECT-de9pd]

Yeah these SIDs rock

[@johnnybravo8281]

Unbelievable it is stunning beautifull.

[@biomars1033]

WOW. Auch bisschen Gänsehaut.

[@SquirrelMonkeyCom]

Unbelievable. Probably looks even better on a CRT screen.

[@waynecuff3140]

AMAZING!!!

[@Willibef]

So impressive.

[@OliverTacke]

Really nice!

[@genmanyuri]

очень круто, отличная работа! :)

[@menotu000]

Now this is just a grotesque display of power... lol Throwing around color hires like it costs nothin'

[@ltva8781]

6:53 how this smooth fadeout was achieved?! HOW?!

[@jimmars5779]

wow! was that real time physics of the squares falling on the pyramids and the balls bouncing on the star? the whole thing was amazing!

[@ralfjung4156]

Do a thought experiment: Where would Commodore be today if there had already been such brilliant demos when this computer was released in 1982? Because many programmers and game developers come from the demo scene.

[@csmall816]

They would be exactly where they are now. Commodore died due to it's mismanagement.

[@ralfjung4156]

@@csmall816 This has nothing to do with thought experimentation. It's just the result of the past, not what if. Do you know what i mean by that

[@enginerd80]

I think a lot of modern tools were used in creating this demo, e.g. in digitizing and processing photos and converting them so that thay could be shown by C64. So I would say that if C64 would have remained a mainstream computer despite other more powerful systems being introduced (e.g. because of pricing), it might have been possible to use the more powerful systems to create better optimized software for the older C64. But still C64 couldn't do all the tricks the newer computers could do, and a little by little people would move to using the modern systems directly, and there would be less motivation left to put the extra effort to optimize software for the ancient C64. So it probably would have given the C64 some more time, but eventually it would have come to an end.

[@caffeinecritter]

A banger

[@luomotigre2803]

Simply beautiful. Greets to all, specially ass coders! We're all connected! Love ya!

[@trydowave]

great digitalisation

[@scinix8067]

*@**6:52** That music is quite infectious !!*

[@dariorusso7408]

Brilliant :)

[@RetroDemoScene]

That it is and thank you for your comment , it flagged me to watch it again. The audio is just impeccable

[@noctania]

Geile Nummer

[@bpa5721]

Wow.

[@HarryMorris69]

Great demo, one of the best I've seen. Plus I love the fact that that this demo probably fit easily on one side of a 5.25" disc at less than a couple of hundred kilobytes, whereas the video+sound is (according to the stats) 140707kb.

[@asktoby]

That huge raster

[@mspenrice]

Well, it DOES say to flip the disc halfway through... so that's probably closer to 340kb without custom formatting. Even so, it still must have taken a lot of crunching to fit it all in...

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

I reply to 9 years old comment. This is THE BEST "demo scene" I have ever experienced.

[@DarrenAudioguy]

The SIDs sound so smooth and punchy .. surely this has to be post-processed with some multiband compression/tape-saturation or something? I have to check this out in an emulator .. it's just too polished/not harsh at all. Cool stuff.

[@tharkthax3960]

Very nice 🙂

[@saganandroid4175]

This is really stunning, but I admit that I really hoped it was based on "We Are All Connected" by MelodySheep aka Symphony Of Science.

[@maxsessini619]

Impressive

[@candydeebe2725]

WOW!

[@Ama-hi5kn]

10:45 GIves me the feels.

[@pulp2560]

Oo Robert Wyatt on 8 bit. Thanks

[@enginerd80]

Has this video been edited after release? I thought there was a sampled clip of a music video at some point. Or am I thinking another video?

[@Kedian]

🔥

[@airsoftnews]

OMG i

[@xoen6]

2014???? Fairlight, You are...masters. This is impossible. I mean not for You..but..still...No..po prostu nie mogę, hhhehhh...ja pierdolę :D 1:43, mhmmm...okkk...HOW? How the hell this is..possible? Beautiful....RESPECT.

[@denisevans213]

LOVE this demo - play it regularly since it came out! - so many great parts, but I love the music track (cranked up!) on the scrolling scene images part at kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHikpJx-jpaJedUm46s onwards - fantastic stuff, and a great tribute to the Scene!.... :D

[@tongey1]

Absolutely! I regularly watch this too. Stunning music, and graphics.

[@mspenrice]

Haha, nice ending... Also I guess that Amiga must have been at least 68020 based then - A1200 or other?

[@TRX303]

A1200 was launched in the early nineties within a new line of 32-bit Amigas. The basic configuration came with a 68020 built in. Though users had the option to equip it with more powerful CPUs. This 8-bit demo is from 2014 and it does at least rival if not win against many demos that came out for the 16-bit Amiga 500.

[@TomaszWinnicki]

The music in this demo is very beautiful. Is it really C64 or Amiga?

[@RetroDemoScene]

It's all C64 \o/

[@TomaszWinnicki]

Can you get the music in Amiga protracker format? I'd love to add it to my MOD hits collection to join Enigma, Cream Of The Earth...

[@kingvoxel6516]

15:00 is my favourite part - 3D!

[@scellyyt]

10:45 the music is worthy of a video in itself

[@JohnMiller-mmuldoor]

The original chip tunes . Comes with music videos

[@way2muchNFO]

this is another word , 33 years flash forward same hardware .. magic beeps countless incarnations SIE

[@morbidence9213]

Are some of these colours even possible on a C64, i mean that background colour at around the 9.30 mark with wireframe graphics in the foreground....i dont recall that colour being the colour palette of an original C64....or is my memory fading already........

[@TRX303]

?OUT OF MEMORY ERROR ;) Jokes aside, this is a real demo for the unexpanded C64. got it for mine too. a must-have!

[@ssdravidian]

TRX303 LOL !...yep OUT OF MEMORY !!! NEED TO RESET TO FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS !

[@bluebull399]

Play from 6:40 - Seriously high level SID game.

[@thepeller210]

10.40 is whats is all about!