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Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2010-2015
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Robotic Liberation by PWP is a music video demo performed entirely by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive, using only a few kilobytes of RAM and a 16 KB disk. It uses demoscene effects to tell a story.

HN recommends it as a showcase of what skilled demoscene programmers can squeeze out of extremely limited hardware.

Demoscene & retrocomputingMusic performance & songs#demoscene#vic-20#retrocomputing#8-bit#viznut

3 comments from Hacker News

@msarnoff2015 · in “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): ▶ this video

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@neumann_alfred2012 · in “Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong”

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

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@Leynos2010 · in “Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20”

Videos of some of the demos described here: Robotic Warrior link Robotic Liberation ▶ 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.

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