FairLight - 1337 (C64 Demo)
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- Released 11/05/2024 at X2024 and came 1st in the C64 Demo competition.
Credits:
Code & Directing : Trident
Graphics & Art Direction: The Sarge
Music & Sound Design: Fegolhuzz
Graphics: Soya
End Tune: Danko
Video Capture: Pitcher 
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I love how modern C64 demos utilise story-telling techniques mixing in highly technical and advanced techniques and skills in order to deliver stunning visuals and sound with a great storyline.
Add the music to support the story. Have another look at the demo and look and how the music also drives the story. I am biassed but I love the full package...
Amazing. I especially love 1:47 where the boot screen is projected onto the war room wall. Really nice touch!
The crowd went WILD over that... :)
It's not just excellent coding, it's also art. Excellent narration.
Indeed art. The coding would fall fairly flat without a story that is supported by graphics and music.
@@FairLight1337 - It's a fusion of art and magic.... really, it's that amazing. Question, the new full screen graphics in all borders, is it only in monochrome or can be made color too? It's incredible as is. ;)
All of it is art.
Going multicolour you always loose resolution.
Absolutely blown away that the C64 is capable of this
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exactly ... I saw some effect that shouldn't be possible (?)
Amazing - the story, the coding, the gfx, the cute sound. Everything!!
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@@FairLight1337 - Love the story line, it's really compelling making you WANT to watch the entire "story". :)
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Remember when 1001 crew showed the world border sprites.. and that was just the start, this demo is insane, technical it's incredible, and it backs it up with so much confidence in it's style and graphics, pretty much the number 1 C64 demo i have ever seen...
I need to boot up my MISTer and watch this on a CRT screen..
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There are quite ome demos where one gets at least an idea how it's done when you watch them a second time. Raster here, FLI there, sprite multiplexers everywhere...
And then, there's THIS.
The sheer craft of it is awesome, but even combining it with a story... and the icing on the cake is the ending that wraps it all up, you guys delivered.
I bow in humility.
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I'm not a very emotional guy but hearing the crowd on the X party, I had a tear or five escape me ;)
It wasn't just any demo that saved the world. It was a demo that went far beyond what anyone could have imagined just a few decades ago. But it was a demo we dreamed about. It was something we visioned the world would look like in the future. We didn't even know what human love and passion was capable of. But then... then came the rastersplits. In that defining moment we realized who we really are as humans.
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Utterly incredible. The C64 is still blowing my mind in 2024. Unbelievable
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The zoom effect at 6:14+. I am dumbfounded.( well this whole thing is basically unbelievably great lol ) edit: OMG the perfect rendering of the false colours around 11:42.
I love the disk swap prompt at 9:42
He says it without breaking the 4th wall, I love the meta of this little story.
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@@FairLight1337i found "hidden" part - don't swap disk, just wait
if you would show this to demo to young girl me, struggling to understand C64 ASM, and say “try for the rest of your life”, i could not create something like this. Truly inspiring work from everyone on display here!
Trying is a great step. Not many are able to do this but start coding and you will find a way!
The music is so good, I can not even focus on these amazing graphics!
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Kids of today, with quadruple GeForce RTX boards in their gaming rigs, must be wondering what the F*** this is about..? :D You must have "lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road" to appreciate it! And appreciate I do..!
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(Wasn't aware you followed us but I am humbly grateful you so)
I have my iPhone Picture in Picture set and will open up demo and cracktro videos on RUclips and set to full screen mode then press the home button so it's playing PiP and then lock my phone so the music still plays and listen to that whilst gardening, taking my dog for a walk or using public transport. My wife and adult boys (20 and 24) think I'm a bit strange but as you say there's a certain level of understanding needed to appreciate it - you either get it or you don't.
At one company I worked at I had four monitors and on one of them I would literally have these things playing in full screen without sound and people would be like "cool screen saver" or "retro screen saver". Only one guy who was a lot nerdier than me came up and said "C64 - nice".
@@FairLight1337 Always interesting to follow an old colleague with an odd hobby... Or if it's "an odd colleague with an old hobby"? :D
Woo that made me lol. My lesbian not gf but kinda gf thinks its strange too. 😂 I learned to code the C64 under the stairs in my friends house in Ireland. Then met few other guys we did stuff as MDMA. Mostly on BBS, downloading, hacking cracking a bit. Up till 6am working on code, music, gfx. Those lack of borders. Nobody gets the tears in my eyes watching it appreciating beautiy of the timing in between raster interrupts 😂 anyway this just made my day 👾👾👾
It s like a story happening. There is tension. Stunning effects (i can t even comprehend how half of them are made)
Skilled coders don't understand it and are likely in their debuggers now to find out :)
@@FairLight1337 - Haha, good one and it's true. ;D
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Just like rice grain painters are able to create beautiful paintings on a tiny canvas, the c64 demoscene wizards never cease to amaze me! It's creativity in spite of restrictions. THIS is ART!
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Hell yeah! This is epic. The story, the music, the visuals….it is a perfect package. I know what I will be blasting at full volume at the DoReCo party this year ❤
Please do :)
If humanity had just stayed with C64's we wouldn't have any problems with AIs. (As I have said before...) Amazing demo.
There might be hope if they just deploy tunnels and release the raster splits on other platforms :)
Impressive, every time I think we've seen it all... somebody pushes love even further.
Keeping the passion up for another decade! :)
It will endlessly amazing me how much amazing power you can get out of such primitive machines!! bravo to everyone of you!!!!
Merci a vous assie! :)
great storytelling, ass-kicking tune and afaik heavy sprite-mulitplexing ... one of the best c64 Demos!
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Insanely good. Eight year old me would have fallen off my chair.
I guess we managed to have a number of people in Holland stand up and cheer for it :-)
I've seen the how computers have evoled since the 80's. After seeing it all it's really hard to be genuinely impressed anymore about the latest advancements.
Yet hardware from 8-bit era with computing power of less than 0.00001% of a modern portable device using only 3 tone polyphony can still genuinely impress me when used like this.
The technology itself is not the answer and has never been. It's almost poetic how it's actually the human element of effot, care and love that makes this magic happen.
Humble thanks! There is enough here to impress from a tech standpoint as well, but I guess what won most people over is the story ...
BRAVO!! Had me captivated, and that final sequence with the full-screen raster bars and expanding countdown clock was spellbinding!
Agree - I also find the pacing really worked!
@@FairLight1337 Absolutely - the way the tension built throughout the demo was subtle but powerful and really made the crescendo shine.
And music going crazy mear the end :-)
@@FairLight1337 When the music started to speed up at the end it was anxiety inducing, in a good way. Like Train Rush from A Hat In Time. Definitely sells that "race against time" feeling.
Technically flawless, a masterclass in demo production.
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@@FairLight1337 I am looking at it thinking, "can I use any of these ideas in Parallaxian's title screen"!
Please do :-)
This is such an amazing demo that it took me a couple of days to come up with the words to put here. This is just fantastic. The visuals, the music, the story, all fantastic on their own but come together to make something truly epic! I was not there for the C64's initial heyday, but man am I glad to be alive during it's second coming.
Also, I know you're not suppose to compare your chapter 1 to someone's chapter 20, but as someone who is still just getting started on their programming journey, I do hope to one day be good enough to be able to pull off stuff like this.
Humble Thanks and we are looking forward to what you eventually achieve. There is a bit of shortage of new blood...
This is the most important thing I have seen on RUclips in some time.
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It really is amazing to see what's possible with the computer I grew up with. Great demo's after all these years, grats on the 1st place win!
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I asked a young man what he thought the save icon was. A Gameboy? He asked. He had no idea what a floppy was.
The next generation - all hope is lost. Said every generation ever ;)
If someone was born around 2000 it's not a big surprise. Just like most people don't know about punch cards nowadays. When I tell people that first machine I used to play a game was taking a huge room and required over 60kW of power just to shoot some Klingons, they usually freeze for a few seconds. Now you can use a microcontroller that costs just a little more than average ice cream to emulate that mainframe and it will run for about 5 years on a single CR2032 battery.
True, true. A depressing fact that a lot of old knowledge is lost with every new generation. But that is true also for us in the 50s today. There are som many things our parents and grandparents knew that we don't. So many things they could do that we can't. That's just life.
Raster Splits are the best, I used to stop games from loading on tape sometimes and just watch the raster splits, often whilst the loader music still played.
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One of the best demos ever. Well done FairLight!
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Thank you for keeping the Scene alive. You guys should visit the Oldenburger Computer Museum some time.
Might be passing this summer, but can't promise. Would you be interested in any scene memorabilia? (Mail me on Bacchus@fairlight.to for a separate discussion)
Amazing work! The music is also such a banger! Truely inspirational piece, makes me go back to my own retro/nostalgic demo project which I have put aside for some time. 😀 Thanks for the inspiration!
Agree on the music. It's easy to miss how it carries the demo but it really does...
Insane piece of work.... you brought back the "how is that even possible" feeling to c64 Demos.... i didnt thought that would ever happen again. Now i have to put way more effort in my next coding sessions.... thanks guys!
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The strong theme, storyline and jaw dropping FX make this a highlight for the year for me. Godspeed to Trident and the Fairlight team for an absolute banger! 💥
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Pure Genius - barely ever saw something like this and i'm in business since '88....
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The artsyle alone is enough to write home about. Incredible work!
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Last part hits so hard... Love it!!!❤❤❤
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The art of creating demos is mainly given by the union of an absolute knowledge of the hardware and the application of magical algorithms. And, yes, there is also a lot of artistic flair, of course. Great demo!
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I wish I could upvote this multiple times… it’s just so good
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Mind blowing. We were just lamers on the scene. You were always the gods. 🖤
One must keep pushing if one seeks to avoid being hasbeens. Id say we do a pretty good job at that, but we are glad there is challenge in trying our best to maintain the edge.
Elite stuff straight to the history books! Done with love in mind. Only time will tell if humanity is saveable.
That's our goal. Save them all :)
What a masterpiece! Man, that's so beautiful. Whole demo is perfect. And that music...omg, i love it.
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The same Fairlight from my old Amiga days? Awesome! Glad to see you guys still around and still kicking butt!
There is only one FairLight. The same from 1987 until today.
Så jävla episkt! Vilka hjältar!
Tack
Top demo of the year. I haven't seen this epic demo for a while, all platforms combined.
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Whenever I see a C64, amiga or atari demo I think to myself "I was there, 3000 years ago..."
So we're we. But we are still here. :)
I am just floored. Is this really the same machine that brought us The Gret Giana Sisters?
Amazing just dont cut it.
AI stopped by raster splits and nothing about it on CNN.
Far out and massive massive respect!!!
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Amazing demo! Awesome ideas and conception. Lots of respect.
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Awesome demo, just what to expect from FairLight! 🤗
Do expect that :)
Cool, as usual, in fact more than cool, Excellent stuff and deserved of the 1st place.
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Aaaaah SID sounds so good as always.
Glad you like it as much as I do :)
Masterpiece it is. Brings back good memories. Future is bright
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An outstanding work-every bit of it. The full-screen scaling effect is most impressive. I can’t wrap my mind around how that’s accomplished.
There are a number of black magic tricks here...
That is a Masterpiece. Everything in this project screams love. Im so into it. And the plot.. kept me on edge man. Im truly amazed. Not much these days has as much charme as this Demo.
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Thanks to you to :)
RESPECT ! Virtuoso, I especially like the war room illustrations! Thanks for the effort
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What a superb experience 🥰Nice one!
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what a work of art!
Agree. The team did REALLY good!
Absolutely incredible. I can’t even imagine how we would’ve reacted 30+ years ago when the C64 was still new.
It caught a bit of attention already this late in the process :)
Great demo! Clearly the XParty demo winner. Absolutely loved it.
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I can not describe how much I love this demo.
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Spectacular ❤️
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I love these demos from Public Domain!😊👍👍👍👍👍🥰
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Amazing, I really enjoyed that era, specially the amiga one. Glad we lived it.
Glad you enjoyed it
The package, as you so eloquently put it! The whole package deal here, awesome demo as always.
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Just incredible to see full screen gfx, couldnt believe my eyes!!!
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Just unbelievably great! Kudos to everyone involved, this is a classic straight out of the gate. Incredibly smart use of the C64 color palette everywhere too, in addition to the fantastic music and great story pacing!
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This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen
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it’s amazing! Gfx amazing and the SID is the secret star in this demo, keep in mind, three voices ! Respect
Damn, that ending... 🥲 ...hits you right in the tear ducts.
A work of art - you outdid yourselves this time.
Agree. Also cracked a tear or two in the end ..
Thanks. So nice to hear.
gr8 d3m0 m8s
story, colors and music kept me glued watching it, keep up the good job!
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I cant believe this runs on hardware made in the 1980s.
People with competence, undestanding and a sufficient time at their hand can squeeze this out oif the old machine. In most of todays world, we lack all or at least one of these aspects and then just throw more computing power on inefficient code so that it becomes usable...
Your groundbreaking work is very exciting for me. As always, I applaud. Thank you Fairlight.👏👏👏
Glad you enjoy it!
Watching this demo in live was a great and unforgettable moment ! Thanks Fairlight for this great demo ! Mind blowing and epic atmosphere, design, and coding ! All the best !
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This is one of the best C64 demos I've ever seen. The art direction & storytelling elevates it above most other codepr0n stuff. Already watched it 3 times and I need to watch again XD 10/10
Watch it again and focus on music. This is really a project standing firmly on storytelling based on code, graphics and music.
"Dude what GPU is that!?"
VIC-II
Yepp. Trident mode enabled...
Trident is a group, no? 😉
Dude is amazing. He keeps pumping out lots of stuff the last month. Impressive!
Congrats to the whole team who worked on this amazing stuff.
I am looking forward to Trident’s next demos.
I am so glad, that the raster splits did the job. To this day I love them.
Rewelacja, przypominają mi się czasy dzieciństwa. Dzięki
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I wish someone with tons of knowledge about C64 limitations and stuff could sit me down and yap for hours about specifically why this is so impressive. I really like C64 demos and retro video game music and sprites and stuff but I didnt grow up with an Nes or C64 or whatever so I dont fully understand just how limiting the hardware is. Like the raster splits, Id love to hear the full story behind those. Or why Demo people love text scrollers so much. Or why the zooming and panning is such a big deal. I love the aesthetics of these demos though, I just dont know where to find information on all this stuff.
Either way, very very cool demo! Im happy that Im starting to see more fully realized stories within these demos! Mojo from last year was another good example of storytelling through a demo, and I think this one did an even better job than them!
Fair question indeed!
The c64 has 8 hardware sprites and 16 colours. You see a lot more than this of both. It has a border where no graphics could go. Here you have graphics there all the time. Sprites are 24 pixels wide so a mat of all 8 doesn't cover the width - you need them expanded, but sacrificing resolution. Here you often see full resolution. Some consoles have functions for hardware scaling and zooming (SNES was one that I know of). On the c64 you have none of that. You need to do it with a 1 MHz CPU that also doesn't support multiplications nor divisions.
Anyone who would like to add aspects to this?
Fantastic!
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It's unbelievable that you can express your thoughts in an artistic way with such an old machine.
Agree!
Fantastic! - nearly dropped a tear! 🙂
I passed that limit. :)
Nearly? Bummer. We have to do a better job next demo then! :)
I did drop a year and proudly so!
I just don't know where all the new ideas come from.
Just when you think you've seen everything possible, the humble c64 shows another way, and of course Fairlight are the ones to do it.
Bravo
Trident has a document where he jotted down a few things he would like to explore. That document is page after page long :)
There are no words. It's perfect.
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Congrats on 1st place :) Awesome demo! Cheers!
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Work of art! Thank you!
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I feel the love, even in 2024! Great demo!
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I ran this on my Mister. Looks Amazing.
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Once in a while, a demo comes out that sets new standards; this time it will take at least 1337 years to surpass this one...
Loved that comment pal :)
Fairly tight.
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Solid. Love the character design.
Agree! I'm just so confused that this is The Sarge. He was able to just adopt a totally new style for this project. Takes someone with next level competence.
Thanks a lot! /The Sarge
that was superb !
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Work of art, good theme and great effects. Well done everyone. Fego/Danko - loved the music. The Sarge: amazing art as always. Sayo, not sure which parts came from you - but all art looked amazing, so hat's off! Trident: Every time you coded something I wondered if that's the peak of your tricks and then the next one is better. This is no exception. Never stop making C64 demos guys! And please save us from AI 🙂
Not contributing myself, I do agree :)
Brilliant! So glad we still have you. It must be nearly 40 years of Fairlight?
Story is at fairlight.to/past. Founded in 87.
@@FairLight1337 Looking forward to seeing your 40th anniversary demo! Have you started working on it yet?
@@FairLight1337 Only three years left until your 40th! Crazyness!
Well given the speed of the current productions, we'd only need a couple of months :)
@@FairLight1337 A suitably 1337 response!
Have you ever been approached to do multi-load cutscenes like this masterpiece for indie C64 games? This is gorgeous.
Not that know of...
That smells like a "Classic"
Kudos to the team
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This is too 1337 to spread! Stamps back!
Nice!
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Makes my day. Good stuff.
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Thankyou Fairlight! A few things to be grateful of here; being part of keeping the C64 world alive today, creating a wonderful demo, finding and pushing new limits on a 42 year old system, creating the art we see here. Was lucky to be one of the kids of the 80s who was part of the cracking, distribution, BBS and intro/demo scene of the time. Q: how long from conception to release did it take to create 1337?
This was a three weeks effort. But Trident and Sarge worked on it pretty much a normal full time during three weeks.