Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a showcase of what skilled demoscene programmers can squeeze out of extremely limited hardware.
What it is
Robotic Liberation by PWP is a music video demo performed entirely by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive, using only a few kilobytes of RAM and a 16 KB disk. It uses demoscene effects to tell a story.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2010 to 2015.
What Hacker News said
Recommends Leynos · 2010-12 · on “Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20”
Videos of some of the demos described here: Robotic Warrior [LINK] Robotic Liberation [this video] Impossiblator [LINK] I like that the demo effects are used here to tell a story in addition to being a pure display of coding prowess.
Recommends msarnoff · 2015-11 · on “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]”
The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel. Experimental music from very short C programs: [LINK] Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): [this video]