Agree 100%. Back in the day when memory and other resources were expensive or didn't exist and 4mhz was considered extremely fast (the C64 only had 1mhz), system designers figured out all kinds of ways to get the most bang for their buck. These clever tricks are what gave those old systems (e.g C64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Atari 8 bit etc) their personalities. Modern systems have so much power and RAM is so cheap that they all start looking the same. They even have the same output and color capabilities. No one stands out.
Ever 8bits has more personality than a PC because the PC has been brough in to turn its users into clone: socialism at work. Watch Yuri bezmenov videos and see PC origin video at Boca Raton and you will understand the trick: the PC is a mind molding and taming machine as its users all 'think' the same: like bureaucrats.
I digitized a few Van Halen songs back in the day and put them on BBS's. I don't think I did that song though, I remember doing "Girl, you really got me now" and "Jump"
I used to have a file called Foghat that when loaded and run, would play a crystal clear loop of lines from a song, "Slow ride, take it easy." It was the clearest digital sample I ever heard on the C64.
Here I am with an Alienware area51 gaming laptop over 2,000,000 times more powerful and yet I can appreciate these oldies but goodies! My first real computer was an original commodore. It had a screen, keyboard and a floppy drive. It was seriously underpowered but the damn thing worked and did exactly what it was designed to do, bring a budget fully functioning 'computer' to the average joester. It worked for nearly 10 years!
I was stunned as I played TRANSFORMERS on an 64, the first Disk was only speech and pictures explaining the plot with an endless MC quality sound👍 Awesome even though the game was a steaming pile of….
Actually, it would be much less than 20 floppy disks. One disk (double-sided) is around 340 kB and this part (over 12 seconds) is less than 64 kB. So, a single floppy disk could store over 63 seconds of digital audio in this format. The 4:48 12" version requires 5 disks, at most. The ordinary 3:48 album version fits on 4 disks with ease.
They has some sound grabber/digitizer hardware back then. But of course do the memory limitation of the C64, you could only sample a short time, even that was crunched to fit in memory.
640 blocks, 254 bytes per block, single sided unless you cut a notch and flip the disk over. I can't remember whether that includes the directory track (18) or not, probably not.
@@immortalsofar5314: No, it depends on the model/kind of drive and disk being used. If it's a single side of disk for the 1541, then it's 664 blocks per side, not 640. For a 1571 (also 5.25") disk that was formatted in double-sided mode, it's one contiguous set of 1328 blocks per disk. For the 1581 (3.5", always double-sided in Commodore's case) it's 3160 blocks.
Ah those were the days. I had to smile when I spotted that "Fast Hack 'Em" label in the disk box, good times! :D Some of those demos were pretty crazy, getting the ole Commie to do things it was never thought possible to do.
HEHE i remember not owning a diskdrive to my c64 cuz danish tax is insane and by the looks of it not getting any better any time soon cuz we danes are stupid cattle who let our politicians walk all over us i was kinda hoping for a big tidal wave sweeping us all away lol
This is an original C64 with an original 6581 SID. There were quite a few digital audio demos like this back in the day (though this is the only one I knew of at the time). This demo takes a full two minutes to load (I shortened that in the video), for just 13 seconds of audio. So the limitation was not the SID but the ability to get data into RAM quickly enough. I hear that with modern flash-based storage C64's can play sustained digital audio at decent quality. But with original hardware (as I used here) all you get is a few seconds of decent-but-grainy audio.
Back in the day, within the C64 universe and when sampling was still a novelty, this was fantastic..... But in 2021 it's crap from the tap, perhaps the technique behind playing digis may be interesting though.
You stole this from the "A Pig Quest" lead developer Antonio Savona. He has a demo of it on his channel from 2018. Plus, his version sounds much, much better, but is probably higher bitrate given that he is using a cartridge instead of the internal memory of the 64.
