A local store had this on display for Christmas. Nine yo me gazed upon the dazzling graphics and smooth animations. It was almost as watching a cartoon. This was the exact moment in time I knew that all I wanted was my own Commodore 64 so that I too could create such beautiful stuff.

Fast-forward 40 years and I am still making demos for the greatest home computer ever built <3

Fast forward 40 years is right. That demo was released forty years ago as of this year.

And a couple decades later: https://youtu.be/Rcu12JKxoM4

Who would have ever thought in 1982 that something like this was possible on the C64?!

And here is commentary from The 8-Bit Guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWovQ2ngdAQ

Merry Christmas, Hacker News.

We all stand in the shoulders of others.

Forty years ago, this was my state of computing.

This reminded me of typing in a program to play a reggae version of "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" from Family Computing. It was not the coolest magazine, but it was what my school library subscribed to. A search reveals it appeared in the December 1985 issue!

I remember as a kid with these graphics, thinking that there would be no way a computer could ever replicate full motion video like on tv. Crazy to see how things worked out and how wrong I was.

>Only $595!

Which is $1,835 in current dollars. How long did it take for the Commodore 64 to drop to $99? It's amazing how rapidly computers advanced during that era and how quickly the prices declined, at least until the RAM crisis.

I remember this! Dad sold commodores and we had this, I think i had it on quite a bit.

Nice work, sid and vic!

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