Commodore 64:
This computer has been explored and exploited for more than 20 years, and it has seen
most kinds of demo effects during this time; everything from old-school rasterbars/scrollers
to the most advanced and beautiful trackmos of today.
We love this piece of hardware and, like many others, still make software for it...
VIC-20:
The older sibling of the Commodore 64. What it lacks in power it makes up in virginity.
Since the more powerful (especially when it comes to memory) C64 came so soon after the
release of the VIC-20, people soon forgot their roots, and there never actually was a
scene for it. Now, we're trying to make up for the sins of our scene forefathers.
At LCP 2003 we released our first demo for this lovely little thing.
Our tools:
Since we don't like the notion of making things unnecessarily difficult for us just for
sports, we use a cross-compiling language created by Hackzoid: 65CM.
Using a PC in developement gives us the possibility to actually not care about the space
needed for commenting our code and making it look good enough for us to release it under
the Gnu General Public License - unlike many other groups out there... *cough*
But of course you cannot create everything in an environment like this, since sometimes
(especially when coding demos) you wish to do some patch'n'run. Up until very recently
there was no good way of doing this on a VIC-20 computer. Fortunately there is now.
VASM is a VIC-20 assembly language environment featuring a full-screen editor, TASM-like
error-notification and a two pass assembler. It is key-compatible with TASM for the subset
of commands it supports to avoid brainfarts. The only requirement is that you have at least
a 16k RAM expansion.
And like everything else we release, it is fully open-source and released under the GNU GPL
to ensure that all enchancements released by us and by others are available to all, with
source and everything.
Contacting us:
Mail Hackzoid or
ZTX, but make sure that you change the character "4"
in the mail address into an "a" before posting it.