Commodore 64 demos
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The Commodore 64 demos for the Commodore 64 (C64) were, as far as is known, the first real demos produced on any home computer.
The first demos on the C64 were not called demos but rather letter, message, supermessage, et cetera. They were initially produced by the same people who cracked software protection, e.g. The 1001 Crew. The label "demo" appeared later.
Among the earliest demos are:
- Borderletter from The 1001 Crew
- Think Twice I-V by The Judges
These demos would later evolve into a subculture of their own, resulting in massive parties where demo coders would compete. For the C64, the peak point in time for this culture was the year 1989 in northern Europe. Here, hundreds of Dutch, French, Belgian, German, Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian groups would meet, for example at Venlo in The Netherlands.
When the Commodore Amiga appeared, many former C64 demo programmers switched platforms and continued to make demos, but for the Amiga (see Amiga demos). The Atari demos were also heavily influenced by C64 demos. In Britain, the main alternative demo scene was the one of ZX Spectrum demos.
External links
- C64.CH - The C64 Demo Portal (http://www.c64.ch), The #1 site for C64 demos
- The Digital Dungeon (TDD) (ftp://ftp.scs-trc.net/pub/c64), FTP site for C64 demos