THE VIDEO SHELF · vic-20 demoscene
Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a showcase of what skilled demoscene programmers can squeeze out of extremely limited hardware.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
- Topic
- vic-20 demoscene
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2015
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Videos of some of the demos described here: Robotic Warrior [LINK] Robotic Liberation [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.
Leynos on Hacker News · 2010-12
In Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20The 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): [VIDEO]
msarnoff on Hacker News · 2015-11
In Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]
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