C64 Demo: 13:37 by Fairlight ! 11 May 2024!

It's 2024 and the C64 scene is still alive and kickin'. Awesome! And.... MY DREAMS CAME TRUE!

Speechless as usual. Being born in 68 i grew up with a c64, and even was playing around in the dutch demoscene. Damn proud we were able to figure out raster-interupts for a simple scroll, bordershit and some music. But this is waaaaaaay out of my league...pheeew if only there where some tutorials to explain how they did it 🙂

32k BASIC Bytes free they said. 16 Colors they said. 3 synth voices they said. WHAT THE F_CK WAS WHAT ?!?!?!

For those that keep asking, there's two ways to put graphics in the border: one byte that shows only black pixels, and sprites. With raster splits you can make limited patterns with the black byte. Easier to use expanded sprites. Removing the borders is about tricking the VIC by changing a counter dynamically, keeping it one step ahead so a certain function is never triggered.

This is one of the best if not the best demo I have ever seen on a C64. No idea how u pulled this off but there are some serious magical skills involved to do this. Respect.

I can't believe these folks are still active after 37 years and still putting out absolute bangers.

All the best cracks of my childhood where by Fairlight. And niw they also did my fav c64 demo. Kudos

Imagine seeing this in 1990.

I remember back in 87 leaving my C64 behind as I grew up and entered the work force and started to carve out a career for myself but the SID music always stayed with me listening to the music on cassette tapes and then CD and then MP3 all in my car. And as PCs were introduced into our day to day running of our business I remember downloading demos over modem from BBS sites and our 1993 high range 486 DX2 66 struggled to display demos this good and now the humble C64 blows it away and even some Pentium demos from a little later. If this was released back then the demo writers would definitely had been burned for witch craft. Amazing work. Even today I'm still surprised, Full screen graphics? WTF!!!! That's impossible but I'm seeing it, I don't believe my eyes. To the youth of today this means nothing, but for us old gits it's highly impressive. I'm expecting Crysis to be running on C64 in the next few weeks now.

Initially: 'A cat! How cute!' Then: 'They made a meow sound on a C64.'

A real masterpiece ❤️ Didn’t saw such an impressive demo on the C64 before - with a continuous story, such incredible effects and wonderful soundtrack. I enjoyed every bit, every pixel and every second of it! Thank you very much for this outstanding experience, didn’t know, that this is ever possible on my lovely bread bin 🤩

Music, Graphic Novel Design, Effects and Storylining. This is love. THANK YOU!!

Better thqn 99% of cinematography created after 2005.😮😮😮😮

This demo marked the day when the C64 was declared superior to the Amiga 500. Utter black magic. And Danko's tune to top it up! OMG

Hey, I was a co-founder of the C64 group CRAZY, and in the beginning times of CENSOR-DESIGN, I helped it to race the charts to the very top back then, as my main work was the import-export things by modem to & from the U.S. So I wasn't a coder back then, and I am not a coder today... BUT MY GOOD GOD!! I CAN TELL YOU GUYS, THIS IS A DEMO OF QUALITY AND ONE TO REMEMBER. 🤜🏿PEACE💋RESPECT🤛🏻 DEREK.B/C64.

Bloody nora that was some demo. The C64 has a special place in my heart. Banging tune. Unbelievable graphics. Fairlight still one of the best demo makers. Well done. :)

Watching this Demo on Twitch during the competitions, I was simply speechless. Fairlight, you are a phenomenally talented group of people! I am sure that this Demo will go down in the history of the C64 Demo Stage as an amazing event that provides amazing audio visual experiences. Hearty congratulations to coders, graphic designers and musicians! <3

"To us, it is love" 😍

This is a piece of art.

Hi its Colwyn of the old group The Force here wow this is one of my all time favorite demos i especially liked the no borders and the demo just showed off a mix of everything that max's out the c64's capabilities with a interesting script to follow. Imagine if we could go back in time 40 years ago and release this demo back then in 84 or in fact most of the demos being done now. Back in 80's theres no internet minimal modems so each creator has to learn from scratch late 80s early 90's modems meant we code coloborate more and copy partys talk about routines and codes together.