The Commodore 64 - a technical perspective

This video provides a technical and historical introcution to the Commodore 64, and will be referenced in future videos in the TRSE tutorial series.

watch the first video in this series:   • Create a game for the Commodore 64 us...  

If you're interested in learning about programming for the C64, check out http://www.turborascal.com


Notes/bugs in the video:
some words are muffled. still learning how to do voice recordings.
sound will probably be more consistend when I don't have to create a pillow fortress for use as a recording studio (with cats included)
40 columns and 25 rows, not the other way around!

a note on the colour location in bitmap mode: Hires has color data located where the text mode screen data is located, not at $D800. Same goes for multicolor, but it uses $D800 as its extra colour data.

watch some of my demos for various platforms:

"1981" (C64, 2021):    • 1981 (Happy New Year!) - A C64 demo b...  
"Aroused" (C64,2019):    • Aroused by Proxima - 2019 Commodore 6...  
"Splösh" (Pico-8,2019):    • Splösh by Proxima - a  pico-8 demo (2...  
"Yo-girl makes a demo", (Gamboy, 2019):    • "Yo-grl makes a demo" - a Game Boy de...  
"Mørketid" (Amstrad CPC, 2020):    • Mørketid. A 40kb Proxima production f...  
"Beep" (BBC Micro, 2021):    • Beep! A Demo for the original 32k BBC...  
"Purple Planet Yo" (VIC-20, 2019):    • Purple Planet Yo - 2019 VIC-20 demo  
Music used in this video:

Technical parts were made with ManimGL, a python library for mathetmatical animations: https://pypi.org/project/manimgl/


Opening: Slow Motion - Bensound
https://www.bensound.com

SIDs:
Ole Marius Pettersen - Losing Light
Michael P. Bridgewater - Saudade No. 2
Martin Galway - Comic Bakery
Stein Pedersen - Teltale
Ole Marius Pettersen - Rommel - tysk politiker
Glenn Rune Gallefoss - Curved Salmon
Geir Tjelta - Artillery (sorry for slicing it!)
Thomas Mogensen - Waste Pocket
Ole Marius Pettersen - Fopcycle
mA2E & No-XS - Good Ol' Times
Stein Pedersen - Datastorm Leftovers (song #3)
Thomas Danko & Figge Wasberger - We are 64
Rob Hubbard - Commando (song #2)