Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)
Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 months, 2010–2015
demo · general · evergreen · 2010–2015 on HN
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.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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
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.
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)