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Onslaught - Bad Apple 64 - C64 Demo

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A Commodore 64 demoscene release streaming the Bad Apple animation at 12fps from a single floppy disk side.

Excellent C64 demo which is quite Amiga-like and demonstrates what can be achieved in just approximately 170k and a 1 MHz computer from 1982. Released in June 2014... *Rough quick capture* Credits: Code, Graphics, Design and Linking.... Algorithm Music.... Ukimenustah Loader.... Krill Algorithm on 29 June 2014 "This is pure 100% animation and was only created to show that it could be done... over 2000 frames packed to a single disk side on the c64. Each frame packed to around 70 bytes and running at 12fps streaming fully from disk!" Touhou - Bad Apple (With SID Audio) youtu.be/Y9aUChQmKSQ

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What people say. Recommended as an impressive demonstration of extreme video compression and real-time decoding on 8-bit hardware.

iammyIPon Hacker News • Recommends

On “A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64”

The remarkatble thing is less the compression of a 3:12 video with sound in 1MB, and more the c64 being able to decode it in realtime with a framerate > 10. I especially like the unique but still 64-flavoured compression artefacts of the video. Heres another Onslaught demo that fits on a Floppy disk: link to this video

cromwellianon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video]”

C64 version using VQ compression: link to this video A much much more impressive display of the same tech in this Onslaught Eclectic demo by the same author: Real time decode of video and audio from floppy at 16fps link

tomberton Hacker News • Mentions

On “"This Is Not the Computer for You"”

…ams. The Commodore 64 and Amiga demos are fun to play around with because people will figure out the coolest tricks to make these computers do things that they have no business doing. I mean, the fact that Bad Apple has been "ported" to pretty much everything is something I cannot stop being fascinated by. 1 2 3 4 1 link 2 link 3 link to this video 4 link…