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Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Graphics and audioHistory and cultureRetro computingCreative codingAudio and DSP

A demoscene music video performed entirely on an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive using only 5KB of RAM.

Are machines going to take over the world? A "music video" completely performed by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive. Note that there are only 5120 bytes and 1024 nybbles of RAM available, and the total disk size of the demo is a mere 16 KB. No one had ever pushed VIC-20 programming this far before the new millennium. And don't forget: even the original Terminator was based on the 6502 microprocessor! viznut.fi/ patreon.com/viznut

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2 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as an impressive display of coding prowess and storytelling within extreme hardware limitations.

Leynoson Hacker News • Recommends

On “Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20”

Videos of some of the demos described here: Robotic Warrior link Robotic Liberation link to this video Impossiblator link I like that the demo effects are used here to tell a story in addition to being a pure display of coding prowess.

msarnoffon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]”

The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel. Experimental music from very short C programs: link Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): link to this video

neumann_alfredon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong”

NOBODY expects the robotic liberation! 1 1 link to this video (I am aware this will rightfully get modded down but sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do)