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Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut) · demo · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputingMusic performance & songs

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a showcase of what skilled demoscene programmers can squeeze out of extremely limited hardware.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2015

What HN commenters said

  1. “I like that the demo effects are used here to tell a story in addition to being a pure display of coding prowess.”

    VIC-20 demo using effects to tell a story.

    Leynos, 2010-12 · Recommendation · in “Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20”

  2. “The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel.”

    VIC-20 demo from an awesome demoscene creator.

    msarnoff, 2015-11 · Recommendation · in “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: demoscene, vic-20, retro computing, 8-bit, viznut

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