C64 Demo: Wonderland XIV by Censor Design

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CENSOR DESIGN 2023 WONDERLAND XIV (C64)

CENSOR DESIGN: WONDERLAND XIV (2023)Code: Bob, Edhellon, Firehawk, Krikkit, Lavazza, Magnar Harestad, NiM, Oswald, Peacemaker, SwallowGraphics: Carrion, Cree...

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WTAF?

I cant believe they got so much out of the hardware with this.

 

[Pooh]

Spend many an hour on my trusty C64

As you say some amazing demos for the time with such limited hardware.

 

[Pooh]

.and it had to fit on a floppy (if you were lucky) or cassette

 

[Pooh]

I remember spending many hours typing in " super basic " into the C64 from a magazine listing. It was brutal as it was basically a header with some simple poke commands and a massive list of of three digits ranging from 0 to 255, delineated by commas

Not matter how carefully you typed you always made mistakes, especially nasty one was when you hit a full stop rather than a comma to separate the number. Trying to spot that was a nightmare

After gawd knows how many hours I eventually got it right.

 

[Pooh]

 

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Hard to imagine now, how good it was back in the day. I remember Staff of Karnath pushing the hardware limits but it's certainly a case of rose tinted specs with those cassette load times....

 

[CaPtBlaCk]

I remember spending many hours typing in " super basic " into the C64 from a magazine listing. It was brutal as it was basically a header with some simple poke commands and a massive list of of three digits ranging from 0 to 255, delineated by commas

Not matter how carefully you typed you always made mistakes, especially nasty one was when you hit a full stop rather than a comma to separate the number. Trying to spot that was a nightmare

After gawd knows how many hours I eventually got it right.

Pages of coding all that needed to be diligently typed in for a game that produced more excitement that it actually worked rather than any game play.