Solution 42, a 4 kilobyte Commodore 64 demo by Cycleburner - premiere with live audience at X'2024

My contribution to the 4k demo competiton at X'2024 in Someren, Netherlands on 11 May, 2024. Awarded with silver in the 4k competition.

[@danielsanichiban]

I’ll bet you Microsoft could pull this off with only 320GB

[@deifury5768]

😂

[@roeloftooms]

Look up the Heaven 7 demo, it is from a competition to program a PC demo within 64k

[@johnsmith1953x]

@@roeloftooms "64k" but they literally have access to gigabytes of libraries on the chips themselves. Its not really 64k at all.

[@politesociety]

Fits on only one thousand floppies.

[@endoflevelboss]

Haha it's funny because they use more memory than they need like all modern applications. Aahahahaha. Oh.

[@AnalogX64]

For anyone curious, I opened Microsoft Word and saved a blank file and its 12.3 KB (12,674 bytes)

[@HyRax_Aus]

It's not blank then - there's 12.3KB of *something* in there! 😉

[@Zejoant]

​@@HyRax_Aus12.3kb of wasted storage

[@HyRax_Aus]

@@Zejoant 100% agreement with you there.

[@playmarket8605]

Там наверно есть пункт, сохранить как *.txt результат должен быть меньше)

[@AnalogX64]

@@playmarket8605 a blank .txt from Word is 2 bytes and when I look at the file with a hex editor I see (0d 0a)

[@TH-td7il]

❤️❤️❤️ absolutely brilliantly executed 4kilobyte demo. Beautifully simple and an incredibly well thought out story-plot playfully joking with conspiracies using clever numerology.

[@8_Bit]

Really nice! In my latest video I was just commenting on how we just moved out of screen memory in years, and I got a comment about your new demo! Great work.

[@meltysquirrel2919]

I was just wondering if you had seen this yet when I saw your comment! 😂 I'm sure you could still make it a fun topic for a video! 😃

[@thetraveller1246]

4kb. Amazing

[@MattLathrum]

Great job, the music was Maniac from the movie Flashdance (1983)

[@Pattot818]

Very Cool, thanks for sharing

[@martinfilteau8668]

That was great! Really creative!

[@Hoglet.Interactive]

Incredible 🤩

[@ProBloggerWorld]

You rock. I like your very unique style.

[@BirthFromFire]

Awesome! Well done!

[@uncleat91sam7s256]

Cool story. ❤

[@BikeArea]

Nice idea. 😊

[@i_never_asked_for_an_alias]

Great Giana Sisters YASS !

[@RamonddeVrede]

Amazing. How can this, all of this fun and gfx and sound fit in 4 KB!!!!!!!!! wow

[@BillAnt]

Well the file is 4K but the actual program and data has been crunched so once expanded it's a lot more. Anyway, really cool.

[@HyRax_Aus]

@@BillAnt Yeah that's always been a bit of a misdirection since, well, forever, but it's still a nice thought.

[@Steven-hq3go]

Demoscene, goes back a long time

[@RamonddeVrede]

@@Steven-hq3go I know :) but it looks more and more tricks in only 4kb in 2024!

[@featureboxx]

great job ❤

çok güzel olmuş eline sağlık kardeşim

[@PeterDoingStuff]

very cool and fun

[@lioandgatoula]

Art

[@andersgregersen9150]

Impressive

[@JohnVance]

This is art, I love it!

[@lukeaussie08]

Wow

[@dnoermann]

Very cool

[@UXXV]

Impressive part starts at 3:46

[@Uhfgood]

Neat.

[@arthurjordison5392]

clever!

[@Micharus]

It's amazing what they could do with just 64k back in the day.

[@BMRStudio]

We should go back, was nothing wrong back then.

[@KC9UDX]

So easy to think that now

[@lovecastle7154]

Yeah let’s just pretend Chernobyl and the Cold War and AIDS never happened

[@malteplath]

... and half of the bands listed in the demo didn't exist. 😜

[@Mr.1.i]

I bet that's an exercise in a university class........4kb ..a 6502 processor ,a vdu and 2 hours to assemble with ½hour at the end where everybodys showing what they did

[@andreamanno4726]

un file di word vuoto è più grande!!, e questi in 4 kilobyte ci fanno una demo!

[@france976]

I want my 4kb back. Kidding, gg.

[@jakubkrcma]

Wonderful stuff! ❤ But it breaks my heart not to see Michael Jackson among the music stars of the 1980s. 😢

[@marcel9568]

Same.

[@jakubkrcma]

@@marcel9568 Maybe they only showed artists who got famous in 1980s (Michael got famous in 1960s/'70s).

[@iKilledMufasaaaaa]

I was waiting for Michael Jackson but no

[@JonJenkins1982]

This isn’t even that impressive of a demo

[@endoflevelboss]

Yes it did suck. People will applaud any old shit these days 😀

[@Octamed]

It’s meant to be fun, not technical.

[@endoflevelboss]

@@Octamed It was neither fun nor technical in my view. As an aside Octamed is awesome. The tracker not you. Teijo Kinnunen: champion among men.

[@brugj03]

Eh...........And that`s it??????????

[@blarghblargh]

let's see your 4kb demo!

[@AgentLazarus]

Garbage