A tribute to the Commodore C64
Remember the times when computers had CPUs with a speed
of a single-digit or at best double-digit MHz? Well, the
Commodore C64 for example was clocked at 985 KHz
(yes, you read right, it ran at 0.985MHz!).
Remember the times when computers had CPUs with a speed
of a single-digit or at best double-digit MHz? Well, the
Commodore C64 for example was clocked at 985 KHz
(yes, you read right, it ran at 0.985MHz!).
…or what can we achieve with a given size limit for the
binary? Today’s entry deals with two extreme demos
that have been shown on the demozoo competition in
2013. One demo is 64KB and the other just 4 KB!
Intel’s 8088 processors have been made in 1979 and were
the Celerons of th 80’s. With CGA graphics cards, PC prices
fell to a more human region and you could get one for
about 1500 US$ by then. Of course they had some flaws…