X2010 - C64 Demo - We Are New by Fairlight (Live footage)

[@mkarcz12]

The engineers at Commodore did a great job designing a platform that even 30 years later is a motivation for artists, musicians and coders and the source of enjoyment. I tip my hat to these engineers and to the demo scene. Thank you for this video. I still own, use and program my C-64.

[@ChromiumSilver]

My first memories of being alive are sitting in front of my old C64. The year was 1984 and I was 3 years old. Titles like Bruce Lee, Bee Gee Air Rally, Speed Buggy, RAD WARRIOR!!!!!! Nothing sounds like a C64..... Super street baseball, Star Trek, etc...... Damn... I miss the glory of the 80's. Today, everything seems so dry and driven by violence and hate for other men..... These kids today didn't have it like we did! ; )

[@gabrielhoward9002]

I love how they somewhat converted / sampled Lost Tribes Gamemaster music . Here i am in 2014 being blown away by 1980 tech,,.. this is amazing.. it commences me to imagine what will technology from 2014 be able to do once brilliant minds who haven't given up on "old" technology are able to produce. it just shows how processing grows so geometrically and exponentially that it outpaces our abilities to utilize it fully; because once we are familiar with it - which breeds comfort: with we stop innovating. I wish the tech industry would utilize hardware in the same manor these guys have... which is.. utilize this as such, that it is the last technology that will ever exist. This is beautiful, and sends me to a place of near technological transcendence and nirvana - thus proving that we do not ever come close to fully using, exploiting, researching or leveraging the technology that we have today. AMAZING VIDEO!

[@xonox0]

With the live audio, that was cool! Great demo and ambiance :)

[@giacjack]

guys this is awesome!! greetings from a 24 years old commodore 64 lover! keep it up this good work!!

[@enix9983]

Best Demo,thx!

[@orkestargtmp]

As Louie wrote at the end "takes forever to code demo on c64..", but it lasts forever, too! Awesome work!

[@TechHead711]

Thank you, guys! Thank you very much for making this!

[@Elebreed]

Loved it. I seriously wish I could go to these. As far as I'm aware, though, parties like this don't even EXIST in the US (though I briefly saw mention of one in Utah? Doesn't help any, being in PA, though). Really sucks.

[@Pownyan]

just Wow! i can't believe you can get so much preformace out of a c64... really good job!

[@uglybunny]

This was an amazing piece of art! I love it.

[@vapourmile]

@SYN7HOR It isn't the parralax scroller they're cheering, they're cheering for the technical achievement it is to produce that effect on the Commodore 64, also, they're cheering the fact a thirty year-old piece of hardware was designed well enough to be able do it, and they're chering on the spirit of the '64 scene since this isn't an old-skool demo, it's new and it would take a long time before the people who write todays PC demos could equal this one on it's native machine. : )

[@B05C0104NT0N10]

this is art

[@ZLau13]

Continuing... Those old machines still feel like they have something... Something those new fancy smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs and other iShit will never have. A soul? I don't know. But it doesn't necessarily have to be old computers... I'm mostly using Raspberry Pi, even if I have a 20-70 times faster machine. It's just so much more fun, and it feels so much much more like a computer (should).

[@BINLASH123]

incredible !!! made my approach to the evening ! Thank you :D

[@TRX303]

outstanding.

[@Trancelistic]

makes my proud being a c64 owner, just awesome!!

[@Farmatique]

unbeliveable! c64 alive!

[@sonninnos]

I really need to watch this in true smooth 50hz goodness

[@DrRadio155]

It's so wonderfull!

[@Paulwe1]

Love the panda of doom at 5:33.

[@FTS2009]

Awesome!

[@shenkhar]

Fuck I love SID's so goddamn much.

[@MrMegazuki]

I'm old AND I came!

[@TahreyUK]

That and just the plain artistry of it. A lot of this stuff would still look cool rendered on a more modern machine (maybe with a bit more resolution and colours but otherwise unchanged), and squeezing it all into the RAM and disk space constraints. A 5-screen high Vscroll don't come for free. The parallax scrolling is a nice, literal trick. The commie has built in sprite layering capabilities, but can't show enough of em for a full-screen display. So there's illusion and sleight of hand needed

[@Disthron]

So, I've seen quite a few of these new demos out for the C64. Is anyone making use of these techniques to make new games? Because that would be super awesome. Also, I like to point to these demos when people try to tell me that the current gen consoles are "tapped out". The stuff they do in these demos would have been thought practically impossible back in the day.

[@johneygd]

Whooaah this is mind blowing but it requires to program it till your dead, because of it's complexity.

[@maciej715]

genial

[@ZLau13]

Continuing even more... Also I kinda don't like how they're trying to hide all the "complexity" away, thus making the computer device much more restricted. If I buy a computer, whether its a smartphone or a PC, I want to USE it. Have full access to everything. Not to have to use something thats made too easy and distant. Like the computer is a tool for other things, not the main subject. Sorry for this, I just felt like I'd need to speak out a little, and I got the perfect opportunity.

[@Battledrone]

No, it's not weird. Please take into account that this breadbox from the 80's only supports 16 colours and has a screenres of 320*200 (or something like that). So your average Nokia with colour display beats the hardware on the graphics front. You have to approach it differently. See what the gfx guy accomplished within the limits of the hardware.

[@Flackon]

They are using every trick, optimization and ounce of power to pull of these demos. There are no resources left to add a game in there.

[@Trancelistic]

you make one. Please for us.

[@dingesdingesdinges]

is it weird i like the music better then the graphics?

[@maertsemil]

i am old

[@technoshamanarchist]

10:40 credits go to John Lennon...

[@bugsan]

great demo, the music not so...

[@ZLau13]

But... Can it be nostalgia, when I completely agree with you, and I'm even seriously going to buy a C64. I really think its more... and something different than nostalgia. I'm 14. I basically don't have anything against modern powerful PCs, and other new computers, but its sadly pretty necessary that thing get too lazy, and overkill. The quality of programming work is dropping rapidly, because of too much speed and flexibility in coder's hands. (And that Hdw.Abtrn. Don't get me started...)

[@Battledrone]

The limits of a computer like this one count for 50% of its charm because you have to be creative as an artist or brilliant as a coder to do cooler stuff than the others. A PC with almost unlimited resources doesn't have these limits. Full power pc demos look like boring rendered videos to me.

[@TahreyUK]

Not really. The SID is legendary after all, whilst the commie's graphics capabilities were fairly modest in comparison. Still pretty good by the standards of the time, but nothing mindblowing...

[@jenniferpsaki6176]

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