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    Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)

    Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2010–2015

    YouTube

    3:24 · 139K views · Jun 9, 2006

    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

    1. @LeynosDec 2010· in “Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20”

      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.

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @msarnoffNov 2015· in “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]”

      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

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @neumann_alfredDec 2012· in “Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong”

      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)

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