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Onslaught - Bad Apple 64 - C64 Demo

RetroDemoScene · demo · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputingInformation theory & signal processing

What it is

Onslaught's Bad Apple 64 is a Commodore 64 demo that streams over 2000 frames of the Bad Apple animation from a single disk side at 12fps, with each frame packed to around 70 bytes.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Shared as an impressive example of squeezing video and compression onto a 1 MHz 8-bit machine in Bad Apple porting threads.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Heres another Onslaught demo that fits on a Floppy disk”

    Another Onslaught demo fitting on a floppy disk

    iammyIP, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64”

  2. “C64 version using VQ compression”

    C64 Bad Apple using VQ compression

    cromwellian, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: c64, demoscene, bad apple, video compression, retro computing

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