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Merry (1982 Commodore 64) Christmas! watch!

youtube.com — "Commodore 64 Christmas Demo (1982)", thanks to my friend Eddie for the link (eddie.com)!

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  • webcure, on 12/25/2007, -29/+5Happy Holidays Kevin!
    Nice to see you in the tubes!
    • CaviMike, on 12/26/2007, -3/+11You got a little bit on your chin.
  • r2builder, on 12/25/2007, -2/+8610 PRINT "MERRY CHRISTMAS";
    20 GOTO 10
    RUN
    • TwinTurboMike, on 12/26/2007, -5/+6MERRY CHRISTMAS
      MERRY CHRISTMAS
      MERRY CHRISTMAS
      MERRY CHRISTMAS
      MERRY CHRISTMAS
      MERRY CHRISTMAS
      MERRY CHRISTMAS

      BREAK IN 10
      READY

      ...or something like that. ;-)
      • sspooner, on 12/26/2007, -0/+12Not quite, notice the semicolon at the end of the print.
        • andywebb95, on 12/29/2007, -0/+1MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS

          BREAK IN 10
          READY
    • Awspire, on 12/26/2007, -1/+4Ahh yes, that brings back the mems. Sitting at my Tandy MC-10, as a wee little one, typing in line after line of code from a book my parents bought me at the mall to make games.
    • JettaMan, on 12/26/2007, -1/+2I read all about Commodore in the book "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore". Weird company. Lots of screwballs.
    • roberto_deneero, on 12/27/2007, -1/+1You forgot to tell the turtle to go 10 turn right go 30 turn left go 50...
  • mvanhorn, on 12/25/2007, -2/+77dugg for "hi-res graphics"
  • adrian67, on 12/25/2007, -19/+3Have a good one Kevin
  • ekai, on 12/25/2007, -4/+86502 + SID ftw!
    • spazm, on 12/25/2007, -1/+26510 + SID(6581). The 6510 was a modified 6502 with an additional general purpose i/o port
  • iammzac, on 12/25/2007, -0/+20Only $595!
    • anononon, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2And people complain about the PS3 price?

      What does $595 in 1982 dollars amount to adjusted for inflation?
      • tomato3017, on 12/26/2007, -2/+1There was also alot less competition back then.
      • AriaStar, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2What cost $595 in 1982 would cost $1272.61 in 2006. Inflation for this year is about 4.5% more.
    • tyywebb, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1Yeah that's gotta be like 800 in today's dollars. Crazy.
  • allaboutdatiki, on 12/25/2007, -2/+5twisted mashup coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
  • roastedbagel, on 12/25/2007, -8/+2wheres the any key?
  • Lane, on 12/25/2007, -10/+5Guys look on ebay these things are cheap! I have no idea why they aren't selling for full price but lets all be thankful!
    • djames42, on 12/26/2007, -2/+0Maybe 'cause emulators are free?
      • andywebb95, on 12/29/2007, -0/+1Emulators are nice and goodness they are convenient.
        But they still don't beat the original hardware
  • Dokument, on 12/25/2007, -5/+17aww. thats no NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR!!
  • leonardoty, on 12/25/2007, -5/+2WTF
    Santa only had one reindeer

    "The Perfect Holiday Gift"
  • Dylson, on 12/25/2007, -3/+14Ah, this brings back memories. Even though I was born in 89.
    o_O
  • WTC7WasPulled, on 12/25/2007, -1/+9Sure that's pretty cool. Brings back memories. Merry Christmas everyone!
  • anesthesia, on 12/25/2007, -0/+7man that snowman during the jingle-bells section is the creepiest snowman i've ever seen
    • epilonious, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Can't sleep, Commodore Frosty will eat me?
  • Joomal, on 12/25/2007, -8/+2I'm pretty upset!

    I watched the entire thing waiting for 'All your base are belong to us!' to pop up somewhere.
  • Bidofthis, on 12/26/2007, -0/+27According to the BLS inflation calculator, a Commodore 64 bought in 1982 for $595 would cost $1,295.91 in 2007
    • epilonious, on 12/26/2007, -1/+5But it had twice as much memory as the apple II!!
      • smacksaw, on 12/26/2007, -2/+248*2=64???

        By then, most ][+ were coming with 64k in them.
    • SpyDerMann, on 12/26/2007, -0/+6well, it's more or less the price of a laptop.
  • LoveWidescreen, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3Ah, the memories of that glorious computer come flooding back! I still have this Christmas demo for my C64 emulator. You can have it when you pry it out of my cold, dead SID chip. ;)
  • Jumile, on 12/26/2007, -0/+14Oh man... I was 10 when this was released. It changed my life, and some of its games are still my all-time favourites. I still have my C64C that I saved up for out of my own pocket money - took me over a year. Happy days!
  • epilonious, on 12/26/2007, -1/+1All this SID chip music has me wanting to start listening to Beck's Hell Yes EP again..
  • RealHyperX, on 12/26/2007, -1/+6This is what got me started in computers. Love the memories. I was 12 when this was out. Straight out of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

  • Sniperclops, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3I remember having this on my C64
  • popltree2, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1064k of memory?!? Sign me up!
  • xlar54, on 12/26/2007, -0/+36I gave up my 64 back in the day and moved on to an Amiga 500, then to a PC. Awhile into my career of software development, I became disallusioned with writing code. It stopped being fun and interesting. One day surfing around on Ebay, I saw a Commodore 128 and bought it. Its sitting in the computer room, and will always have a place in there. You sometimes have to stop, and go back to the things that made who you are. It may be useless to the average person, but that machine really helped define who I am today. It wont be going out into a trash heap. On topic, that machine was bought for me during the Christmas of '86 if I recall. Boy it felt like I was reliving my youth when it came in the mail. Note to you younger folks.. dont toss those things you love as time goes on. You WILL miss them. Merry Christmas!
  • murki, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4I ran into her on computer camp.
    -"Was that in 84?"
    Not sure, I had my commodore 64, had to score...
    • LoveYouSomeEric, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2last place I expected a Datarock reference. awesome.
  • smacksaw, on 12/26/2007, -0/+6I think that's the first c64 demo I've ever seen that wasn't SID techno and was done by a European demo group.
  • willrs, on 12/26/2007, -7/+1They would probably get sued now days for only including "Christmas" music and graphics.
  • fozzie, on 12/26/2007, -0/+9I know I have that sitting around on a 5 1/4 here somewhere... Oh yeah! on the back of my notched with a hole punch Lode Runner!!
    • meisen99, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1Props for reminding me about "notched" floppies....I remember buying a special "square" hole punch just for this purpose.
  • toaday, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4WOW. . . I remember that program! I drove my parents nuts with it. Ohhh, the memories
  • FunkyNuts, on 12/26/2007, -2/+1Heh...only $595! In today's dollars, that's about $1200. Sounds about right.
  • Error601, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Ah, the old Bach's Invention #13 at the end. Brings back memories.
  • Nudar, on 12/26/2007, -1/+8LOAD "*",8,1 RETURN
  • SittinSidewayz, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1I was only 2 when this came out apparently but I do remember it. C64 was easily my favorite all-time machine.
  • vcleniuk, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1C< rocks.
    Merry Christmas to all.
  • crapmatic, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3If this Christmas program was indeed on the Gazette disc I wonder how many people spent 2 hours entering the machine code with all the checksums, only to find out it didn't work. Been there, done that.
  • DeadBabySoup, on 12/26/2007, -8/+3i stabbed myself in the knee in order to find this video more exciting.
  • Torx, on 12/26/2007, -4/+2they shoulda loaded up gianna sisters and played that for promo purposes.
    • Myztry, on 12/26/2007, -4/+1That was on The Amiga. Their was no C64 version as far as I know.
      • Cimlite, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3Amiga version was a lot better, but it was available on the C64 as well (and the Atari ST).
  • TheSeeker11, on 12/26/2007, -1/+2Bring on Wonder Boy.
  • CaviMike, on 12/26/2007, -3/+3Just skip to 3:30 unless you want your brain to go numb.
  • Deadpixel1221, on 12/26/2007, -2/+0It's the PS3 of it's time.
  • alexkorova, on 12/26/2007, -0/+5I still have my C64 and my favourite C64 game - International Karate +. I wonder if it still works, was quite some years ago I last tested it.
  • Corrosionx, on 12/26/2007, -0/+520 years ago today (I was 7), I received a Commodore 64 for Christmas.

    Memories....
  • brada33928, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2C64 forever~~~~!!!!!
  • asaone, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Around the same time period I had a TRS/80 Model III, yep the trash 80 with 16k ram and a cassette drive for storage. It used the CP/M operating system and I learned to program with Microsoft Basic.
  • nixfu, on 12/26/2007, -0/+5
    God...I am so old.. I remember watching this over and over on my C-64.. I think I remember having it play as background at one of our family holiday parties over and over.
  • petebert, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2there's a few guys at work all into video games and computers and what not. So the other day a conversation of some sort got started and I said, Ya! I had that game on the c64, it ruled!, all I got was a, whats a c64? sigh...
  • Zampa, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4I sought out a Commodore 64 emulator for the express purpose of playing this demo on my PC. It used to be a tradition to have this demo playing in the background in my room during Christmas's back around 1986-1990. Great Memories!
  • futureisours, on 12/26/2007, -7/+1bahhh Atari 800 was better.
    • LeeSoong, on 12/29/2007, -0/+1Sadly, no - it wasn't I had both... C64 was much more flexible in sound and graphics - and much more software was available for C64.

      I loved my atari 800 though - great word processor, spell checker before people knew what that was, interfaced with printers and other items very well...
  • TrevorBradley, on 12/26/2007, -1/+9Oh Sweet Jeebus. I have not seen that since I was 10. I'm 33 now.

    Digg has unlocked secret parts of my brain.
  • alphaterminus, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2The Euro demo scene used the SID to its full potential, and the sound was a beautiful thing to behold.
  • zero, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1I miss my C64
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