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Onslaught - Bad Apple 64 - C64 Demo
Onslaught's Bad Apple 64 is a Commodore 64 demo that streams over 2000 frames of the Bad Apple animation from a single disk side at 12fps, with each frame packed to around 70 bytes.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as an impressive example of squeezing video and compression onto a 1 MHz 8-bit machine in Bad Apple porting threads.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- RetroDemoScene
- Topic
- c64 demoscene
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2026
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
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The remarkatble thing is less the compression of a 3:12 video with sound in 1MB, and more the c64 being able to decode it in realtime with a framerate > 10. I especially like the unique but still 64-flavoured compression artefacts of the video. Heres …
iammyIP on Hacker News · 2018-03
In A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64C64 version using VQ compression: [VIDEO] A much much more impressive display of the same tech in this Onslaught Eclectic demo by the same author: Real time decode of video and audio from floppy at 16fps [LINK]
cromwellian on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video]
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