Booze Design - Edge of Disgrace - C64 Demo (50 FPS)

Highly regarded as one of the best C64 demos ever made, and it's quite easy to see why. This is Edge of Disgrace By Booze Design. Released at X 2008...

Credits:

Code.... Dane, HCL
Music.... Dane
Graphics.... Dane, HCL, Jailbird
Design.... HCL, Jailbird
Linking and Loader.... HCL

HD (50fps on compatible browsers)

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Commodore 64 Tech Specs! (Introduced in January 1982)

Internal hardware:

Microprocessor CPU:
MOS Technology 6510/8500 (the 6510/8500 is a modified 6502 with an integrated 6-bit I/O port)
Clock speed: 0.985 MHz (PAL) or 1.023 MHz (NTSC)
Video: MOS Technology VIC-II 6567/8562 (NTSC), 6569/8565 (PAL)
16 colors.

Text mode: 40×25 characters; 256 user-defined chars (8×8 pixels, or 4×8 in multicolor mode); 4-bit color RAM defines foreground color
Bitmap modes: 320×200 (2 unique colors in each 8×8 pixel block),[36] 160×200 (3 unique colors + 1 common color in each 4×8 block)[37]
8 hardware sprites of 24×21 pixels (12×21 in multicolor mode)
Smooth scrolling, raster interrupts

Sound: MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID
3-channel synthesizer with programmable ADSR envelope
8 octaves
4 waveforms per audio channel: triangle, sawtooth, variable pulse, noise
Oscillator synchronization, ring modulation
Programmable filter: high pass, low pass, band pass, notch filter
Input/Output: Two 6526 Complex Interface Adapters
16 bit parallel I/O
8 bit serial I/O
24-hours (AM/PM) Time of Day clock (TOD), with programmable alarm clock[38]
16 bit interval timers

RAM:
64 kB, of which 38 kB (minus 1 byte) were available for BASIC programs
512 bytes color RAM (memory allocated for screen color data storage) [39]
Expandable to 320 kB with Commodore 1764 256 kB RAM Expansion Unit (REU); although only 64 kB directly accessible; REU mostly intended for GEOS. REUs of 128 kB and 512 kB, originally designed for the C128, were also available, but required the user to buy a stronger power supply from some third party supplier; with the 1764 this was included. Creative Micro Designs also produced a 2 MB REU for the C64 and C128, called the 1750 XL. The technology actually supported up to 16 MB, but 2 MB was the biggest one officially made. Expansions of up to 16 MB were also possible via the CMD SuperCPU.
ROM:
20 kB (9 kB Commodore BASIC 2.0; 7 kB KERNAL; 4 kB character generator, providing two 2 kB character sets)

[pishiver]

Nobody who wasn't a nerd in the 80's will ever understand how incredibly, black-magic-fuckeringly impressive this is.

[fygarOnTheRun]

The music is out of this world, Dane. Can't say how often I watched the demo just for the music.

[yodi]

Still today one of the most impressive c64 demos ever created, amazes me every time I see it.

[deano]

An absolutely gorgeous piece of electronic art unsurpassed by any other C64 demo that I have seen to this date.

[kingoftheperforations]

This is a masterpiece on so many levels that I lost count...

[Cynidecia]

to those who don't know, think of this like a magic show, as in "how did they manage to make such an old computer do all of this insanely complex stuff?"

[iwarptimeandspace]

5:39 starts Daft Punk - Get
this chiptune is made in 2008, Get Lucky is 2013. Incredible. Not even talking about the level of creative composing of music and animation in 3 discs totaling just 500kb....

[kodiak]

Has this ever been bettered? The finesse shown here is staggering.

[baseddoggie]

This will always remain the most badass C64 demo ever released! I wish I could have been there in person!

[madzen]

Came for the graphics, stayed for the music!

[lavinagotu]

One of the best 8bit demos out there. Period.

[anaformiaabalatusdispositi]

Still, to my mind, one of the best 64 demos. If not, the best.

[sithsmasher]

A gem, a milestone. Booze at its finest hour.

[allan.n.]

WOW WOW WOW ... the music out of words.. EARGASM

[hypnoshypnos]

The music and visuals are so well synchronized in this!

[TRX]

"Uncensored" by the Booze guys is another really nice production, which is the first one after all those years that I would consider a sequel. But even that new demo, while being state of the art design- and code-wise, just doesn't create this special feeling which EoD has. Some would disagree, but I think this 2008 production still makes sceners try hard to come up with something better. This ongoing competition thing is one reason why I like the C64 scene so much.

[mjrauhal]

Very nice. Funky and varied use of the border area. Among many other things, of course.

[digitaldreamer]

Wtf!!! The music and graphics are insane. From a C64???!! 😮

[yessopie]

When I heard this song in Demovibes it didn't even occur to me that it was a C64.

[psycho]

Sometimes I imagine how it would have been if I had seen a demo like that in the 80s. Guess I would have asked where the hidden VCR is.