Woah! That’s some views and comments our little demo has managed to attract! Thanks all ❤️❤️❤️
@tommysund470411 ай бұрын
The perspective scroll and that sound modulation was unbelievable. The rest was epic too. Mindblowing!
@BillAnt10 ай бұрын
Friggin' amazing .... "What happened to my life?!" Yep, that rings a bell to lots of aging C64 fans nowadays. lol
@jameyspielt9 ай бұрын
it really is awesome! you guys should make music videos in this style. ;)
@moongooat6 ай бұрын
I really like the storytelling part of this demo. Engaging and humorous too! Amazingly well done!
@massimobattaglia50935 ай бұрын
AWESOME DEMO !!! YOU ROCK !!!
@MateusAuri11 ай бұрын
This is so artistically solid, you don't even need to be familiar with the system's limitations to be impressed
@BillAnt10 ай бұрын
And if you're familiar with the system limitations, it's even more amazing. ;)
@bradallen89098 ай бұрын
You kinda do. Most people wouldn't be impressed with this at all. It's not impressive when you don't know anything about the hardware it's running on.
@AndersSundstedtАй бұрын
@@bradallen8909 Possessing talent, a discerning eye for quality, and refined taste in art and music are commendable traits in themselves. Whether or not you are familiar with the hardware becomes impressive in this context.
@rebulus19 күн бұрын
Looks like it never had any real limitations...
@st3ddyman Жыл бұрын
That's incredible. Must have taken years to put that together. Not only is it a technical marvel, but the story telling is top notch too.
@JoachimLjunggren Жыл бұрын
It took us five months of very hard work. :)
@st3ddyman Жыл бұрын
@@JoachimLjunggren wow, that's some going. You must have had lots of copy / pasta of previous work to do it that fast :) I used to code on the C64 back in the 80's and did some work on recreating the VIC-2 on FPGA so know the limits of the C64 well. I am gobsmacked what you can fit into memory and a floppy. Loads must be generated rather than designed.
@JoachimLjunggren Жыл бұрын
@@st3ddyman I don't think we did any reuse of code. Maybe some for some tiny detail here and there but everything you see is written especially for this demo. We had a couple of parts (3-4 pieces) that was coded before that just needed redesign to fit the demo. But that was new code as well. We really worked our buts off on this one.
@st3ddyman Жыл бұрын
@@JoachimLjunggren Life hacking. No sleep for 5 months no doubt. Incredible work.
@DavidFilskov11 ай бұрын
@@JoachimLjunggren- Impressive! Thanks for (sharing) all your effort. Like with much of the technological evolution today such incredible work makes me feel kind of spoiled as a "consumer" :) - I better give something back!
@larswadefalk6423 Жыл бұрын
It's just incredible and mesmerizing. Thinking how we oldschoolers would have reacted in the 80's if a group would have come up with this in a compo. I mean, think we would have shat ourselves.
@adamb8911 ай бұрын
What are you talkin about, I'm 45 and my pants are full of crap anyways.
@larswadefalk642311 ай бұрын
@@adamb89 haha, yes. 😂. It's actually crap-oneself-worthy. It's just that these days, we've seen so much, and we know that demos are not coded on the actual machine anymore.
@shred_11 ай бұрын
@@larswadefalk6423 Yes, but they RUN on the actual machine, with a single core 0.001 GHz CPU, 0.0625 MB of RAM, and without GPU. No less impressive.
@MarkTDKKnight8 ай бұрын
Haha - too right!
@DougDingus4 ай бұрын
The phone ring is dead on. The art in this is top quality and it very fully exploits the C64. Love this demo.
@midnightcassettelibrary51714 ай бұрын
This is bananas. Grew up in the c64 scene as a kid in the 80’s and to see that machine from 1982 do this just basically breaks my brain. A powerful machine for its time to be sure but this demo is just crazy. Right down the sid music which is going the extra mile to compliment the visuals.
@MrMegaManFan Жыл бұрын
Demo scene stuff continues to impress! Imagine if we had seen this on the hardware back in its heyday.
@samplehunter Жыл бұрын
We surely had accused the coder of using some form of devious witchcraft and mobilized a mob with torches and forks ;)
@un2mensch10 ай бұрын
I can't believe how fucking good is the soundtrack. Loving the bonus Judas Priest, and the Rob Hubbard remix is sick
@AgePi-AroundTheWorld4 ай бұрын
Lol. The Heavy Metal Knitting on Breadbin. Nice Easteregg on 432!
@subliminallabs5 ай бұрын
That QR Code at 4:32 - Inside Edition talking about Knitting and Metal being intertwined at a specific little rock fest.... amazing!
@emmanuelviktor3 ай бұрын
? You mean it's a real QRCODE pointing to where?
@w.w.7469 Жыл бұрын
Just simply beautiful. I loved the "Tick Tock Tik Tok" Part. Great Story and Visuals
@rndm-lp5er9 ай бұрын
Everytime I think - ok they've reached the maxium, i get surprised again - C64 demoscene is just fantastic!
@ideegeniali Жыл бұрын
This is astonishing! Perfect on every detail, transition, effect. And the flow in the story telling. You can second guess different contributors, but it's stll organic. Hell what lot of work and coordination! Thank you!
@adventureswithpaulandsally551611 ай бұрын
Good effects, and watching all these sceners incorporate elements from their life over the years is really uplifting and inspiring.
@deserialized27 күн бұрын
Seeting this 40 years after I played the C64 is crazy! You are really pushing the limits! Great work! Yes, I do have the first edition of Datormagazin :)
@BroqHans11 ай бұрын
Jävla bra! Best story ever in a demo full to the brim with amazing stuff that doesn't even look like it runs on a C64 (domino bricks and the psychedelic colours especially). Loved the Green Tentacle lamp as well!
@deimos2k6 Жыл бұрын
this teaches us how much our old machine were capable of. clearly hardware ahead of its time. the only natural limit were us, waiting to reach technical skills good enough in order to pull c64 real potential out. just wow!
@daishi557111 ай бұрын
Had Commodore used a 2MHz 6502 (6510) instead of that 1MHz it would have been next gen :-)
@janderogee3106 Жыл бұрын
Wow, that was awesome. Great story, great art, great effects, i really like this one!
@rubenjuanfradestevenson182911 ай бұрын
Certainly INCREDIBLE...in 1986 when I was studying Basic with the C64/C128 I would not believe that something like this could be done...CONGRATULATIONS FOR SUCH A BRILLIANT WORK!!
@gatorhand7 күн бұрын
I got extremely emotional when the demo ended and it returned to the BASIC screen. While experiencing this fantastic demo, you barely realize this is a 1Mhz 8-bit system released in 1982 - a time so far away and so different, but kept alive and brought into today through these wizards. All that just hit home when that screen came back, it's like this part of the past will never die.
@PeteCovert Жыл бұрын
References I could pick out: Games Zak McKracket/Maniac Mansion Day of the Tentacle Lemmings Commando - for the win Music references: Wasp - poster Wasp- Disk 4 insert screen Judas Priest - Breakin' the Law music Motley Crew - magazine cover Dio - jacket Samantha Fox or Lita Ford? - poster Kraftwerk - The Robots music What did I miss? Awesome stuff! I smiled the whole way through, and lost it at the Commando music.
@pretzellogic6411 ай бұрын
Thanks for the appreciation! There are some synth references too, like Nitzer Ebb and connecting aesthetics. The poster on the wall is Sam. In the flashback scene "the kiosk" (Pressbyrån) there are computer magazines like the last issue of ZZAP!64 featuring the Pretzel Logic game "Breakdown", Datormagazin, Tintin on the Moon, Fix & Foxy, candy from the 80ies and so on.
@PeteCovert11 ай бұрын
@@pretzellogic64 Going back, I can spot the two Tintin on the Moon references. It also appears that the scene with the cat is a homage to Little Computer People, but I could be wrong on that.
@mechamania11 ай бұрын
The TAC-2 joystick on the C64 desk...
@jakubkrcma2 ай бұрын
@@PeteCovertYes, it is. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJehlbGC2MzYm4E.html
@MrDigiSpud11 ай бұрын
Has to be the best C64 demo of all time! It's like a mini film! Awesome story and some of the effects are brilliant!
@xbmc79 Жыл бұрын
The green tentacle at 8:15 :D
@danjeln8 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing, i coded on this awesome machine in the 90's, but this is in another league.Thanks for sharing. awesome story too.
@siddcandy8 ай бұрын
Back in 91 when I was pixeling logos at 13 for my group on my C64 I would never have thought that in 2023 I would be watching a brand new C64 demo… wonderful job!!! Greets from Scotex/Trias
@thaywizgwar8238 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's a pretty good demo. Love that folks are still creating content for the platform. Thanks!
@mariaviklund454610 ай бұрын
There is so much talent that has gone into creating this! Woah. The "OKEJ" magazine in the beginning tells me this might be Swedish? Loved it!
@kjetilho10 ай бұрын
Pressbyrån may be a hint, too ;)
@RobertEriksson10 ай бұрын
Yes, a couple of Swedes might have had something to do with it 😉
@StephenDruesedowАй бұрын
Amazing, love the visuals and the sentiments! Really inspiring in a lot of ways demoforever!
@lordraptor42187 ай бұрын
Simply amazing... what a c64 can still do. Greetings from a member of the Amiga demoscene in Spain. - Thanks for that marvel -
@michaelcarey Жыл бұрын
Amazing demo. I'm so glad I kept my original C64 (and Amiga 500) when I "upgraded" to the PC in the early 90s. I get way too much enjoyment out of a 40yo computer. My Son shakes his head at me as he plays Minecraft and Roblox and uses his VR headset 🙂
@galfisk11 ай бұрын
Maybe in 40 years he'll dig up that old VR headset again for his brand of nostalgia.
@jmp01a24 Жыл бұрын
Pretzel has really come back hard and heavy... Was a fan of their oldskool demos but this is next level shit. GJ swedish gold.
@pretzellogic6411 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! We make these prods for you guys!
@alejandrodanielperez6325 Жыл бұрын
amazing! and I learned something new today, I didn't know that heavy metal and knitting combination was possible. Now I need to learn about coding demos and knitting!
@dpac011 ай бұрын
Someone else who did the work for pausing at the right time 😅
@theagentsmith11 ай бұрын
Awesome! Also love the name Pretzel Logic, it is one of my favourite albums haha
@Sinekyre14 Жыл бұрын
I grew up with the Amiga 500. Man it makes me cry just thinking about it. My childhood! :D
Жыл бұрын
Unreal work guys! This was a perfect production! Okej, sam fox and pressbyrån LOL! /Moon
@WolfgangS4 ай бұрын
Btw, the QR Code at 4:31 links a Youttube video "Knitting and Heavy Metal Collide". Very nice ;)
@TrapBonzai11 ай бұрын
Recorded with 6581 SID unfortunately. In case you're wondering about the sound quality. This demo was made for the 8580 SID and as always ... c64 demos should always be watched on real hw
@MisterTuur11 ай бұрын
Is there a recording floating around? This is awesome SID stuff.
@MisterTuur11 ай бұрын
NVM. Found another link. Christ on a bike though, the music in the outro is particularly amazing. Who wrote that?
@TrapBonzai11 ай бұрын
@@MisterTuur Laxity aka Thomas Egeskov Petersen
@TrevorKevorson Жыл бұрын
That was awesome, not seen many C64 demos in my time but the quality (and nostalgia of the old point and click adventures) was great.
@Sinekyre14 Жыл бұрын
Songs recognized: - Breaking the Law! - We are the Robots by Kraftwerk
@PixelOutlaw4 ай бұрын
Excellent demo! I enjoyed every part, the artwork, the music, the effects, and it seems strange to say but also I really enjoy the message here. Life's too short not to enjoy it with a friend.
@TheMusicDimension3 ай бұрын
1:33 : The Dio logo on the back of the jacket gave me a smile ! This demo is awesome !
@djrmarketing59811 ай бұрын
Man times have changed so much. I first learned programming on Commodore and it really blows me away how much people are still getting out of 40 year old computers. Great demo, and great QR code... Using a 2023 mobile phone that's got a thousands of times the performance to get a QR code to a KZfaq video... that was slick AF, NGL...
@deraykrause4517 Жыл бұрын
I really dug the particles falling out of the tube and cascading over the pyramid. I'm guessing it was just an animation loop but it really did look like each dot had its own physics.
@@mahanazscha well it can still be an animation even if it’s done with code right? I mean precalculated “animation” vs real time
@RobertEriksson11 ай бұрын
It’s 75 dots that are drawn every frame and their trajectories and impact angles are all calculated real time, but using lookup tables where you normally would need multiplications/divisions. Would be too many data points to store them all as a pre-calculated “animation” :)
@litjellyfish11 ай бұрын
@@RobertEriksson would one not might be able to store key frame deltas and relative offsets to each other, compress that and then real-time unpack that and use the lookup you mentioned? :)
@goodkid45711 ай бұрын
i watched the first half of this while high and it blew my fucking mind
@mortvader4 ай бұрын
You came down in the middle of it? I can't imagine you fell asleep? :D
@dalestyx11 ай бұрын
When I had C64 baxk in 1983 until i went over to the Amiga 500 in 1991, I mever demos existed! I have watched loads of C64 demos on YT and everytime i watch one i get emotional, thinking about the limitations of the system and remembering the C64 only had 64k of RAM. You guys have put together an absolute stonker of a demo, i was absolutely blown away with the GFX, music and precision of this production. How the hell did you even manage to have a huge picture scrolling vertically and have animated sprites that big typing? Absolutely fantastic production I am really looking dorwars to your next demo.
@pretzellogic6411 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! The VIC chip surely has its pros and cons, but you can use a technique called "Multiplexing" where you are able to present more than 8 sprites on the screen at once. It's done in many games and demos. We are thankful to have skilled creators in both our teams :)
@tursilion9 ай бұрын
That is really, really good. Solid and entertaining throughout. Beautiful artwork! :)
@franknurnberger11029 ай бұрын
Absolute incredibly. Storytelling, Graphics, Effects and Music are top notch. You guy are truely remarkable!
@jyrkileskela88873 ай бұрын
Beautiful ❤❤❤ I used to do C64 games as a hobby 1984-1987 so I know what it is like 🙂
@germanMGTOW11 ай бұрын
I like the little Maniac Mansion feeling part.
@MarkTDKKnight8 ай бұрын
Wow! That's amazing! I'd have never imagined seeing and hearing something like this one the C64 back in 1984. I love the message behind it too!
@jamesc23276 ай бұрын
Un-forking-believable, simply amazing work
@GeoNeilUK Жыл бұрын
A great demo always has a great narrative and makes you go "👀 I never thought a lowly 8 bit computer from the 1980s could do that! 👀" And this is a great demo!
@steviebboy69 Жыл бұрын
As the title said maybe the best, I feel this is one of the best. I really loved the sound effect at around 6.36 mark, it sounds like some very heavy filtering or something but I love it. Imagine seeing this in 1982.
@DJCCLDude9 ай бұрын
🤣The QR code in there is funny as hell🤣 nice work dudes🤟🤟 (knitting a headbanger)
@AustinApologue11 ай бұрын
Astounding. I used to program games in BASIC as a kid and then gravitated to the sound and music capabilities of the C64 (and sold my first cassettes of music in the 80s, literally just recorded directly from my C64 to my cassette player, one at a time!). But I could never have fathomed these things would be possible shown in this vid. A+.
@fredrikekholm37187 ай бұрын
Yeah, probably the besty C64 demo I have seen =D
@hermanbodewesNL11 ай бұрын
Really great, and awesome to see all these references to old games in this piece of art! Unbelievable that the hardware is 40 years old, and the community still so active.
@dannycummings30952 ай бұрын
Little demo? That was amazing on so many levels! \m/
@rklein11 ай бұрын
Even knowing how all this is done still amazes me. I watched it in 240p with the browser window squeezed down to give me the C64 demo feels. So good!!
@mortenbjoernsvik65508 ай бұрын
The sound is fantastic, Impressive you got all this into 4 x 170kb disks.
@shoopdawhoop11 ай бұрын
2023 is helluva fertile year for C64 content, a true metadiversity explosion!
@manumores Жыл бұрын
Impressive demo with a good coherent storyline. Well done!
@mechamania11 ай бұрын
It’s all about the many Kraftwerk “samples” and that TAC-2 joystick on the table, next to the kid’s C64!
@sophistifistingАй бұрын
great technicality and lots of love put into a demo... with a message so simplistic and demented i wish it had no message at all.
@retrorter898 ай бұрын
This has simply blown me away..............thank you !!!
@Z0yxx2 күн бұрын
Simply fantastic 🤤👌
@transmission649 ай бұрын
It's a brilliant production, for sure. There were soo many amazing demos at X'2023
@MartGC9 ай бұрын
I felt so sorry for the poor guy trying desperatly to find friends 😥
@PSL196911 ай бұрын
Another mind-blowing demo!
@Knickebokker Жыл бұрын
Wow that's Art..... awesome!!
@alexanderwingeskog7589 күн бұрын
Going to have game night with a friend of mine to relive some of the first games we played on ZX48 (well there where many games, but not that many "great" games"). We then bought a C64 (so we will mostly play C64 and Amiga games), and there where many more games but also so many many great games... and demos ofc... But I will download a early C64 game and then show this demo... It's a demo to demonstrate what fixed hardware can do thru the ages with brilliant software... Awesome stuff!
@msh6610 Жыл бұрын
Wow, so cool !! The ol' legends still got it ! 😍😍
@RetroGameSpacko11 ай бұрын
These Point and Click scenes.. wow... imagine Maniac Mansion or Zak would have looked like this
@yucelbilik11 ай бұрын
Amazing, thanks. Demo is life and Life is demo 😊
@HyLsT1611 ай бұрын
Really artistic, passionate and wise minded with very cool gfx, anims and great sid !!! I love it ! Well done guys !
@dschangodurango7596 Жыл бұрын
Great demo! The effect at 5.27 is insane cool!
@pretzellogic6411 ай бұрын
It was one of the last things that was added to the demo, not far from deadline. The Syndrom got an idea and went with it. Seems like many really appreciated that effect in particular. An amazed sound went through the audience when the demo was presented for the first time at the competition!
@g.s.6255 Жыл бұрын
Excellent demo, great story! 😊
@ChristianSasso9 ай бұрын
Great demo, and a moving one at it. Congratulations!
@Mind-your-own-beeswax4 ай бұрын
That was top drawer 👏👏👏. Just dug my 40 year old breadbin with 1541 out of hibernation along with its brother the Amiga A500. Amazingly they both still work.
@IXSVideo13 күн бұрын
The Soundtrack is a Masterpiece for sure.
@8bitgamerC6411 ай бұрын
Existential Angst in 8 bits or Mojo is Love, Mojo is Life.
@gabor22211 ай бұрын
I like the rock/metal references in it and that it has a story to tell.
@mechamania11 ай бұрын
Ya like all the Kraftwerk samples, too?
@dizphunkt6 ай бұрын
wow, what I've just watched there? this is freaking amazing. storytelling an effects were incredible. you guys rock!
@fabianwenzel426511 ай бұрын
Amazing and truly inspiring. Thank you for this, you really made my day.
@Retrotude Жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that the beginning of disk 2 had the bassline of Kraftwerk's We Are The Robots?
@ChainShinra11 ай бұрын
Damn! I KNEW it was somehow familiar!
@mechamania11 ай бұрын
There are a few Kraftwerk “riffs” floating about, in here! First thing I noticed. Programmers were brought up right!😊
@mortvader4 ай бұрын
Yeah! \o/
@8BitNaptime9 ай бұрын
Decades later... the picture of the wife looks grim lol
@shoopdawhoop11 ай бұрын
Lost time is never found... but don't call it "lost" if you regret nothing!🤘🤘🤘
@MrFluidsworld11 ай бұрын
I love this! Absolutely awesome! ❤❤
@prowlingfrost5588 Жыл бұрын
2:20 DIO! And Doro/Lita Ford (?) + WASP (?) posters! 2:34 ... KLAUS !!! ... really great demo with rebellious/wise spirit of old times. "What happened to my life?"...
@JoachimLjunggren Жыл бұрын
It's Samantha Fox, not Lita Ford. Thanks! :)
@amigaalive62668 ай бұрын
ohyeah, that was really nice, very cinematic. :-) i wonder when someone will come out with a C64 version of a movie, let's say a movie trailer, e.g. Dracula 1931. i just watched it, lol, it's near-perfect for the technique seen in the demo, when the hands are typing on the C64 keyboard. :-D
@TheRealNormanBates6 ай бұрын
6:00 this reminds me of the Cat segment of *Allegro Non Troppo,* where a mangy cat is going through a bombed out house remembering the family that used to live there and take care of him. It's as happy as you think it is.
@MrZANE4211 ай бұрын
Wow! Very impressive. Also enjoyed the "Nitting and heavy metal part"🙂
@AS-ly3jp Жыл бұрын
Wow! This demo is freakin awesome!!!
@doomniel Жыл бұрын
SImply amazing! Go C64!
@WolfgangS4 ай бұрын
10:13 Someone was quite well fed ... I was laughing so hard ...
@KrautRockt10 ай бұрын
the content of this 64 demo is so GENUIS! ...really!! 🙂thanks for upload #MyLife..
@groovingood2 ай бұрын
Man, this is very awesome. Best C64 demo I've seen