@@RetroRecipes Yes, I am Danko of Fairlight and we're still highly active. Member since 1989. csdb.dk/scener/?id=23 I did watch that video with great amusement yes, keep up the good work!
@@tomasdanko8760 that is super cool. If I didn't thank you under the original video, thank you for your contribution to my teenage years. Merry Christmas from a huge Fairlight fan. 🎁🎄⛄
I have a similar mystery as to how I acquired the demo. I remember seeing the demo playing in stores that were selling the C64 in the early days. But I don't remember playing the demo at home until I had my C128D, probably around 1986. So, I can only assume that it came with one of the many disks included with the 128D, or possibly I downloaded it from a BBS.
That's cool, I'm seeing a few people who had the same mystery. It's fun trying to retrace our steps from such happy times. I didn't have the luxury of BBSs until the commodore amiga. You guys were much more advanced! 🤷♂️
Yep I remember seeing it in the stores as well, before the SX64 came out. It was common during the holidays. I ended up with it on disk as well but I must have gotten it from someone at High School in those days. As the @8-Bit Guy mentioned in his video it was previewed in the December 1982/Jan 1983 issue of Commodore the Microcomputer magazine, although it does show a couple different screens. It was out there in 1982/1983 because that is when I would have received a copy in early to mid 1983.
I think I saw the demo already at the end of 1982. I doubt if "The Very First" cassette was also the first source. I think that cassette was made at a later date. The SX-64 also only entered the market in 1984. The Compendium pack also seems to be from 1984. I spoke to a salesman from that time and he said that at the end of 1982 they had received a promo package from Commodore that also included this demo. He thought it was a cassette as the disk drives were not common back then.
Here in Australia in the late 80s, early 90s, I myself use to load up this demo every Christmas and leave it playing in the background with the music up... from memory My copy came pirated on disc with the machine itself as my grandfather bought it for me second hand and it came with many extras and a whole collection of zzap magazines etc... I didn't have a very pleasant childhood or parents but memories like this warm my heart and my Commodore 64 was my childhood escape... I recall later on when I got a 486 around Xmas 1994, a friend gave me another Christmas demo program for Windows 3.1.. I'm 38 years old now..
@@RetroRecipes Oh well, it is the season to be nice. While watching I too got nostalgic. I didn't have the Commodore demo but another one my parents bought me. This one was on a Commodore and Apple 2 disk (on on each side). And I did the same thing as you every year.
I did some research. After an hour I managed to find it again! It was called Jingle Disk and was released in 1985. If you download it, make sure to LOAD"JINGLE",8,1 😁 the PRG is not on top of the disk.
Loving this!! There are so many "Firsts" I'd love to go back to the 80s and do again.. the excitement of recording computer data off the telly and playing it back onto your computer..the first time my BBC micro dialed out the number for Prestel \ Micronet 800.. and logging on..think the number was. 618. From Edinburgh!..and the first time I stayed up all night on the school holidays typing the code listing for the game " Run Silent,Run Deep " into my Vic20 .. an then spending hours going back over the code to fix the errors...😄.. I miss that time... Life seemed so less..... complicated then. Merry Christmas to you and to all of your followers. !! 🏴😍👍😃
What makes me nostalgic is that distinctive smell that eighties electronics had. I don't know how to describe it, but no electronics I can think of since have ever smelled quite the same way. Perhaps it was the specific type of plastics they used or where or how they manufactured them.
@@RetroRecipes Yeah, exactly! Apple! I still remember the smell of the very first Apple II computer I sat in front of at my middle school. It was literally the first computer I ever typed on. It was such a weird experience because it was the first computer class in the history of my state, and they only had one computer to begin with, and we each took turns approaching this scary object and following the instructions on the screen. "What is your name?" We typed our names in and got the classic Hello program. "Hello, Michael!" From then on, I was hooked. That was almost 40 years ago now.
This!! I just got hold of an filthy Mac Lc, I'm guessing it was used in a car garage or somewhere really dirty, opened it up to see if there was any goodies in there and got the good old 1980s electronic smell. lovely lol
One of the smells I really miss is the smell of an old Radio Shack. Many years ago I went to a computer store that was opened in an old store and as soon as I stepped in, the smell was still there! You couldn't believe how amazed I was...
One of the best episodes yet! The look on your face when you thought it said, "Don't use the force"! Priceless! I either saw this in a store, a friends house or my Uncles place. I was very heavy on the Atari 8bit side in the computer wars of the early 80's, but it was this demo that inspired me to make little animations, especially for Christmas, on my Amiga in the 90s!
Thank you for the happy burst of nostalgia, Peri! I enjoy watching your videos as someone who grew up on the C64! My story about the Christmas demo: I had purchased one of the first C64s in October 1982. Prior to that I had spent a year delivering newspapers (one of the few ways for kids to make money in those days) saving up for a computer. During that time I'd read lots of magazine articles to figure which model to buy - the main contenders were Commodore VIC-20, Atari 400/800, TI 99/4a, TRS80 CoCo, and Ohio Scientific Challenger. My sister's boyfriend at the time worked at a small software company, and one day brought me there to show me a pre-release version of the C64, which he was very excited about. He strongly suggested that I wait for its release. After a few months the local Commodore store in the San Francisco Bay Area started demoing the C64, and they were already showing the Christmas demo. I remember that the 1541 had not been released yet, so they used a 1540 (together with a special POKE command to make it compatible with the C64) to load the Christmas demo in the store. So this demo has been around since the C64's very early days in 1982. I distinctly remember getting my copy of the Christmas demo on diskette before I had my own 1541. It was either from my sister's boyfriend or from an employee at the Commodore store. My copy of the demo has a sales pitch at the end mentioning the initial price of $595, which was amazing for the time. I didn't see the sales pitch on your version after "Frosty the snowman" so they might have cut it out! Note that by Christmas 1983 the price here had already dropped to around $350 so the sales pitch would have needed to be tweaked. The 1541 started showing up for sale around March 1983, but it was in short supply and could only be purchased from a few mail order houses at the full $395 list price, so many early C64 users in the US like myself used cassette tapes for storage before being able to upgrade to the "super fast" 1541.
Wow I always thought that the dealer's only had these demos. I got mine on disk from my local dealer. At Christmas time when I bought my 1541 drive. It was playing in the store. I asked for a copy of it. Still have it today. Thanks for the great memory. Merry Christmas.
I remember getting a copy of this as a kid. I saw it in a Compu Center store and I asked them if I could get a copy of it. The guy got a disc, made a copy and I brought it home and played it all through out Christmas. And every Christmas after that I played this demo. Merry Christmas everyone!
You know when the snow started... and you said "it is!" I welled up , it also took me back to early 80's with my own buried away memorys, great times.. and you're right we was VERY lucky to have that box of magic in our bedrooms. Have a great Christmas from me and mine in the 🇬🇧
Every Christmas I would play this over and over in my dads office upstairs (where it was unheated). Today I still find it online and watch it and the memories flow back.
Lovely. I remember receiving the Amiga A500 Batman pack in Christmas 1988. Unfortunately, the included A520 modulator was faulty, which prevented the Amiga from booting. We had to wait a few days (which felt like weeks...) for the shops to re-open in order to pop into Norwich city centre to buy a replacement modulator. Upon returning home, one of the included disks we loaded was “The Very First English Version”. I distinctly remember a section of the demo which displayed images of different Amiga accessories, including the A520, along with the strapline “Get the Best!” - something that my father and I found rather entertaining. I’m now off to rewatch that demo to bring back the memories of a Christmas many years ago. Take care everyone!
Greetings from 'across the aisle'...! I was a teenager attending high school from '82-'86 and at the time, I didn't know BEANS about computers, other than the fact I *HAD* to have one. My parents were wary but not unreasonable about it, so in '82 I ended up with an original Atari 800. I fell in LOVE with that 8-bit straight away, and like all young teens, loved the video games. It was programming, however, that kept me HOOKED. In those 4 short years in high school, NO one could tear me away from that machine. I'm now 52, and 8 years ago I got nostalgic for my first love, and I grabbed one off 'flea-bay' (love it!), as well as an 810 disk drive and a 410 program recorder along with several disks, cassettes, and manuals. My wife thought I was NUTS after I powered the system on and spent several minutes just staring at the blue screen that simply said "READY". Much like yourself with this Christmas Demo, there is an Atari demo simply called 'Swan', which features a rotating Atari 'FUJI' (solid on one side, 128 shifting colors on the other), with a sprite swan flying past it. THAT demo was on one of the random diskettes that came with the bundle I purchased, and when I saw it again for the first time in 30+ years, my heart just MELTED. ALL of my memories from the 80's hit me right THEN, right THERE. You're right, my friend - pictures, paintings, and other things are great, but they're not 'inter-active'. It's WONDERFUL to know that almost ALL 8-bit computers of that time are still with us, and while we can't live in the past, we can carry the past along with us if we CARE.
I watch and enjoy quite a few retro computing channels, but, yours has become by far my favorite. It's not just showing off and talking about these incredible vintage machines, but, the genuine joy and emotion you show at moments like loading up the demo. Watching the joy such moments brings you brings me joy. Keep sharing that. Merry Christmas to you and all of the Fractic Family.
Well Christmas is almost cancelled in the UK due to the new COVID strain. So a Christmas demo was a nice thing to watch. I loved the magical snowfall effect. I also recognise Perifractic and the Patreons release playing in the background. Have a happy holiday all.
@@RetroRecipes Well, then I should also say have a safe, sanitised and healthy holiday to all. To slightly misquote Bob Geldof "The greatest gift we'll get this year is life." That's a pretty good gift for all of us.
I discovered your channel last year and have been enjoying running through your videos. Such a breath of fresh air to see people who have charm and wit and talk in a polite manner. No shouting, obscenities or huge egos. This video really hit home as i grew up with the Speccy, C64 and Amiga. So many great memories of gaming in the 8 bit days. Especially at Christmas. Love you guys and keep up the awesome work and awesome channel
What a lot of people forget is 'back then' not everyone had used a mechanical typewriter - or any QWERTY keyboard for that matter. Teaching someone to use a keyboard would definitely set 1. Consider that they 'taught' typing to kids at school for a term as part of the curriculum. Computers were a luxury before the home PCs like the ZX81, C64...
I feel this one, deeply. There's still a weird-ass C64 game I remember which was a sort of strategic stage-based 2d shooter which scrolled in every direction. It was far beyond anything else I remember on the C64, tech-wise. It was super obscure, maybe Codemasters. It has been driving me insane for years.
I first saw the Commodore Christmas demo being showcased on a Commodore SX-64 computer at my local K-Mart store as a kid. My Grandmother asked Andy, the sales guy in the computer department if we could purchase the program and he said it only came with the SX-64. My Grandmother proceeds to tell Andy that "oh my Grandson would really like to get that program", so Andy says he'll be right back and walks away out of sight. A few minutes later he returns with a disk with a hand written label on it and hands the disk to me. My first pirated program! LOL. I still own that floppy disk in 2020 and it still works! I do own a original copy as well which came with my SX-64 computer I purchased from a family friend 20+ years ago. The end :-)
P.S. also notice on the beginning of the Christmas demo Commodore messed up the colors on the chicken lips logo. Red is in the wrong place. This is the same on the disk version too.
Ahhhh the nostalgia...........the waiting for programs to load.......only a true Commodore 64 aficionado would be be familiar with these touching moments. Great video as always. For those of us who first "made contact" with the great machine more than 30 years ago, the memories are strong of a brown box which opened a portal to a world beyond our imagination. Even more astounding is that they are still going strong all these years later, and are infinitely more interesting than the white goods coming off the production lines these days. Long live that magical 6502 and all the happiness it brought at Christmas and throughout the year. God Bless you Mr Tramiel, Mr Peddle, Mr Yannes and Mr Reynolds.
Commodore did have a lot of really cool Christmas programs including this one. You've got a Bob Ross style voice yourself. Quite a trip down memory lane, a lot of fun to watch with the humour and you've got a surprising amount of patience for cassette loading these days.
Absolutely brought a smile to my face along with a heart felt memory. I was about 14 and LOVED my C-64 demo. I lived in the States so mine was on a 5 1/4 floppy disk. Thanks for the video. 👍🏻
You have inspired me to load up my Christmas Demo :-) It took a moment for me to recall how I did it but I remembered my C64 endlessly running the demo without the Sales Pitch at the end. On my machine once the Demo is loaded it runs SYS2061 to get things started. That loads a basic program that can be edited :-) Then it waits for you to press a key. Fortunately they do not disable the break key in their code, so I press the break key to stop the program. I typed LIST and attempted to refresh my memory on how to do this..lol. I removed line 12, 13 and 15 to allow it to loop without waiting for a key to be pressed. Then I found line 590 for which I removed the tail end that reads :GOSUB 800:REM SALES PITCH - And whalla! Beautiful. The things we remember from childhood :-)
My grandfather bought me an IBM PC in 1990, toward the end of his tenure at Sears. (Turns out, a percentage-based employee discount goes a LONG way at IBM prices in those days.) Anyway, being the first computer I ever learned on, there's LOTS of nostalgia clues with it. I think the most pronounced one is the power switch, strangely located on the front of the monitor (rather than the system itself). The power button mechanism had a very authoritative, chunky, CHINK-CLONK type sound and feel every time you pushed it to turn on. Turning it off yielded a very resolute CLINK-CHONK -- one always knew whether they were turning the machine on or off. That machine is stored away right now, but every time I come across it, that power button still has the same authoritative feedback. Being a lot more confident in my electromechanical restoration skills these days, I'm intent on giving it a once-over and powering it up again at some point (soon?). Endless projects. I should do something on my own TH-cam channel when I get to that particular one. The IBM PS/1 line was a commercial flop for IBM, and I have the very first model (2011), so I haven't even looked to see what info is "out there" for it. As fast as technology was moving even then (this was a 286 amidst 486s), I didn't appreciate the machine as much as I now realize I should have. Hindsight is... well, you know...
This makes me, like others and you, very nostalgic too. I don’t know where I got the demo either but I also played it every Christmas Day and playing or seeing it today takes me back 35 years and 600 miles away. Memories are such awesome places to visit! ❤️🎄
Wow talk about flashback, this is so close to my own experience. My mother who passed away in the last few months, bought me the very same christmas compendium pack. It really was the best Xmas ever, I was 13 years old at the time, I used to play that same demo from the same very first tape. Very emotional for me to watch this, took me back 35 years. Would do anything to go back in time and see mum again, thanks for this great video, fantastic viewing as always.
It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the Retro Recipes Xmas vid. Now I know it’s Xmas. Thanks Peri, Lady and Puppyfractic. Merry Christmas to you all.
I love watching these old things from the mindset that, this was once the top of the line tech. It'd be like playing some christmas thing on your new PS5, you never know it'll be nostalgic until it's been 30 or so years
@@ukcroupier So did I as I work from home and have done since 2003, however this year their was a very strong danger that I might get Covid and Die as I am 62 with high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. Hence I am hoping I get the call for the jab soon and then things will be a lot better!
Christian (Perryfractic) ,...This video brought a tear to my eyes... I too, (Now 50! Egad!) got my first C-64 in the winter of 1982. I still have the original receipt! and the C-64 which which is an Original "Silver Label" Early unit as well.. I was 12. In my Junior high (now called Middle School today) we had an array of Commodore Computers....PETs, C-64s, and Yes, (1) SX-64. The computer teacher let me copy the SX-64 Christmas Demo Disk...and all through the 1980's I would play the "Christmas Demo" at every family Christmastime gathering. I am very surprised to hear that it was available on Tape for the C-64. Thank You for this video! Ahhh, The memories!! Thanks, Tony K. , Melbourne, Florida (Formerly from Long Island, New York!) :o)
A fantastic kick in the nostalgias mate, You hit the nail on the head. Sights, sounds, touch, smell. I get blurry eyed just seeing my Amiga sitting on my desk, even though it's seldom on. It's not a computer. It's a box of memories. Just looking at it and I am 16 again, with my old friends, up the park, on our BMX's, or Skateboards, or Skate Hockey or whatever was the flavor. We're all there having a great time and my biggest stress is the fact that the holidays are nearly over and I've not done my homework yet. Thanks as always for the trip back through time, even though yours was a C64 :D BTW, "The Very First" is also a disk that came with the Amiga. No Christmas demo though :(....well....not that I've found yet.....
I just love the Commodore memories you share. I've had many different computers, but my 64 and 128D hold a very special place in my computing heart. The 8 bit period of computing was a special time. Merry Christmas to you both. I think I got some dust in my eyes...
Great video as always. It is really touching to See how much that little Demo means to you. One can always see that you put your heart into your videos, but this one was special, as one could see you were fighting your tears eben the Demo starts. That kind of authenticity is what makes you, lady fractic and the videos you are doing standing out against all the other youtubers on this platform. I really love you, lady fractic and of course puppy-fractic. Have a *Peri Christmas* with all of your loved ones.
Wonderful memories! Thanks for this video - it took me back to Christmas 1983 and my family's first computer; an Acorn Electron. The manufacturers put a lot of work and care into those introductory cassettes (they were a showcase for the computer after all). Thanks again and Merry Christmas!
Hmmm fascinating point why are computers more nostalgic than films, paintings and indeed old schoolbooks. And I think this is the answer. Computers have meanwhile evolved into these easy to use everyday appliances, there’s nothing special to it any more and I don’t think kids these days would be nostalgic to their MacBooks (which have been the same for the past 15 years really). But when we got computes they were hard to use any thing you managed to achieve(after days), gave a deep satisfactory feeling. I remember this BBC TV show from about 10 years ago, where a family is put into a New decade every week, with that decade’s tech. And the so dad was elated when he finally loaded a game. And then kid was showing off his 2010 schoolmates how to program in basic. I think it’s that incredible effort us 70 kids put into it that rewarded us. And we feel that sense of reward again all those years later.
FINALLY!!!!!! I had ( ahem, a backup of ) the exact same cassette and for years I've been racking my brains on where the demo was from. All I could find was that it wasn't released for the home C64 but yet I had it. Happy memories and a super thumbs up for filling in a blank - Ahh, freed and relaxed brain cells. Merry Christmas. As a side note I also found the Buster 1983 annual which has my favourite Ivor Lott and Tony Broke Christmas skit, but that's another story. Thanks for all the great content throughout the year, it's been a real joy to watch.
I'm a bit more than a decade behind you on the nostalgia factor, but I can relate with unearthing old memories from a simple piece of software or old game. No matter the age, the feeling is the same! Hope you and all of yours have a safe and happy holidays!
I hadn't seen that demo before... so, this was _my_ very first time 😁 It's fun to find something in your childhood and bring it back as an adult to enjoy. Cheers and Merry Christmas!
I didn't have a C-64 back then, Chris, but I got a second-hand nostalgia buzz just from seeing your reaction, the SID music, and the CRT pixels. Happy Christmas, indeed.
I also bought a copy of this off fleabay last year as curiosity got the better of me, and I needed to know what the hell it was. It was errr, interesting to say the least, and I would say the best part about it is the Christmas demo which is lovely, and something I also like to watch around Christmas every year. All the best to you and yours.. Have a Peri merry Christmas mate🎄😂
...And a Perry, Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. Fractic as well as the puppies! May the love and joy of the holidays fill your heart as much now as it did then!
I don’t remember the Christmas demo but seeing your face light up when it loaded was priceless. So many happy memories we can bring back :). Merry Christmas from Guernsey.
We were all very lucky kids to get these magical boxes. We really were. The world was our oyster and the future looked so incredibly bright. Merry Christmas Perifractic, Lady Fractic and your family, and Merry Christmas to everyone who watches and enjoys your fantastic channel. You have created something really, really special. Best wishes for the new year Cheers! 🍻
That has to be one of your very best videos Perifractic. I absolutely loved this. A great many thanks for sharing your childhood nostalgia with all of us.
The ability of choosing a file on a tape was based on Indexed Sequential File System. At the head of the set of files was a header with file "meta-data" that the machine could read and use in fast forward mode to find the right file header as you selected. Tres Ancien!
Correct. However if you played option two, and at the end wanted to play option one, the only logical way would be if it was repeated several times so 1 came after 2 as I depicted. I don't think it asked you to rewind the tape...
That reminded me of the time, when I requested a double-decked cassette player (with high-speed copying) as a Christmas present from my parents. I needed it so I could copy C64 programs and games from friends cassette to my cassette amazingly FAST.
I got a Vic-20 for Christmas my first year of high school. The C64 came out a little while after that and my parents were willing to upgrade me over the summer. I remember seeing the demo running in stores but I don't think I every had it. Looking forward to Funboxing Day.
The other mystery for me was who was Juan Holz from Horasoft that programmed this and lo and behold, I found him on Linkdin :) ev.linkedin.com/in/juanholz/de also found a refrence to The Very First (Tutorial-Juan Holz) (Horasoft) from 1987
Even if for nothing else, thumbs up for the Bob Ross sweater! I have that C64 christmas demo somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. (I've been going through my backup disks for testing purposes and so far it's not on disks 1 thru 44. BTW, I recommend to everyone to check your backup disks! If they get mold on them they're ruined.) Anyway, I hope you and the entire Familyfractic have had a great christmas and new year!
I've always wondered what a port of the C-64 Christmas demo would look and sound like on a VIC-20. Considering the impressive things people have done on the VIC-20 over the years, you'd think something relatively close (and charming in it's own way) could be achieved.
I also fire this up every Christmas (got it running next to me right now!) even though I wasn't a C64 owner back in the day. Yet still it fires up and instills me with a sense of nostalgia for the time as its quintessentially Commodore 64 and of my childhood. So now it's one of my Christmas traditions and it only feels truly like Christmas until I have loaded it up and let it run in the background for hours !
I remember having this for my c64. It was on a disk a friend had gotten from a user group. We enjoyed watching it every Christmas afterwards, I still do.
I think I'll get an M-Disk drive this xmas and make a back-up of my childhood software. Magnetic tape is relatively stable compared to HD but it still doesn't last forever.
This takes me back. I got the C64 compendium pack when I was 12 (from Boots in Kingston upon Thames). My late dad made me load up the demo first, even though I wanted to go straight to the Music Maker. Thank you for reminding me of a moment in time. This really was a blast of nostalgia.
My best friend, who had a Commodore 64 (we had a BBC Micro dammit), always referred to the Zzap 64 magazine as "Zed-Zap 64". When I instinctively called it this in front of friends at school I was resoundly mocked. Thanks a lot Scott The Mispronouncer!
Echoing others, it definitely came on a test/demo/utility disk that came with my 1541 when my dad bought it for me back in the day. I'm pretty sure this would have been in 1983 as I'm pretty sure I got my C-64 on Christmas 1982 but my initial usage of it was pretty limited by the tape drive so less than a year later my dad got me the 1541. My memory is fuzzy but my first C64 definitely had the 5-pin video port, so by Christmas 1983 it should've had the 8-pin one. If not, it might have been I got it Christmas 1983 and the 1541 in 1984.
In the UK my brother and I received a C64 back in the day which came with a demo cassette, if I remember rightly it had tutorials and other programs but it also contained the Xmas demo. Our version might have been different to your cassette the Very First, wish I remembered what it was called.
Fantastic "tear-jerking" video. Like yourself, I fire up that demo every holiday season. Such great memories. Completely unrelated question - what is the model of that Trinitron monitor you use with your C64? Seems the quality is even better than my good ol' Commodore 1702.
I watch the Xmas demo religiously every year. And have done since I got it with my 64 in 1984. Makes me happy and sad at the same time for times gone by.
That was so good. I got my C64 when I was 14 in 1984 in Britain but never actually saw this demo in person, even though I ended up with an SX64 as well Right in the feels my man 👍🏻
How awesome. I had the same tradition. We set up the Christmas tree, and I would play the demo in the background. Good times. The funny thing is, I too always got the side of the tape wrong.
Great video! Glad I subscribed to your channel. I found you when 8-bit Guy showed the car recharging video and kept wondering who those two people stylishly plugging the chargers into their cars were. Enjoy your holidays!
That was amazing as I had the compendium collection too and couldn't remember how I loaded the Xmas demo. Thanks so much for this video as it now solves the thought.
Awesome memories shared.. This is one of your best recipes to come from the channel! Merry Christmas to both you two and doggie too! Looking forward to more like this one!
A lovely heartfelt video. Merry Christmas to you and thanks for this channel. I know of this demo but ive never loaded it up.. think i will this Christmas.
Great video buddy and your face said it all. My friend had this back in the day on that very tape (well not that very tape) and that was the first thing he played on his c64 to show it off haha great times. Loved Puppyfractic's hat btw and Ladyfractic got it right the first time :-). Roll on the next video so take care and have a wonderful christmas guys :-)
Excerpt from a famous X-mas song: "...seeing the joy in the children's eyes". 😂 (Something about Christmas time, Bryan Adams) Ah, these great memories you'll never forget! Merry Christmas to all of you! 🎅
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We still do new C64 xmas demos. Here is one, I made the music so enjoy! th-cam.com/video/nszGUu3sHp8/w-d-xo.html
...we also made this one with a famous Swedish Synth Group xmas cover, let alone: th-cam.com/video/Tjak_4NXtPA/w-d-xo.html
Very nice! Are you affiliated with Fairlight? You may have seen my video featuring that group! th-cam.com/video/-HKAr9-bumI/w-d-xo.html
@@RetroRecipes Yes, I am Danko of Fairlight and we're still highly active. Member since 1989. csdb.dk/scener/?id=23 I did watch that video with great amusement yes, keep up the good work!
@@tomasdanko8760 that is super cool. If I didn't thank you under the original video, thank you for your contribution to my teenage years. Merry Christmas from a huge Fairlight fan. 🎁🎄⛄
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I have a similar mystery as to how I acquired the demo. I remember seeing the demo playing in stores that were selling the C64 in the early days. But I don't remember playing the demo at home until I had my C128D, probably around 1986. So, I can only assume that it came with one of the many disks included with the 128D, or possibly I downloaded it from a BBS.
That's cool, I'm seeing a few people who had the same mystery. It's fun trying to retrace our steps from such happy times. I didn't have the luxury of BBSs until the commodore amiga. You guys were much more advanced! 🤷♂️
Isn't it also possible that it came as a 'goody' with the purchace of, say, a 1541?
Yep I remember seeing it in the stores as well, before the SX64 came out. It was common during the holidays. I ended up with it on disk as well but I must have gotten it from someone at High School in those days. As the @8-Bit Guy mentioned in his video it was previewed in the December 1982/Jan 1983 issue of Commodore the Microcomputer magazine, although it does show a couple different screens. It was out there in 1982/1983 because that is when I would have received a copy in early to mid 1983.
I think I saw the demo already at the end of 1982. I doubt if "The Very First" cassette was also the first source. I think that cassette was made at a later date. The SX-64 also only entered the market in 1984. The Compendium pack also seems to be from 1984. I spoke to a salesman from that time and he said that at the end of 1982 they had received a promo package from Commodore that also included this demo. He thought it was a cassette as the disk drives were not common back then.
Could there possibly be a paranormal explanation behind it? Stores that sold it from a different dimension, for example?
Here in Australia in the late 80s, early 90s, I myself use to load up this demo every Christmas and leave it playing in the background with the music up... from memory My copy came pirated on disc with the machine itself as my grandfather bought it for me second hand and it came with many extras and a whole collection of zzap magazines etc... I didn't have a very pleasant childhood or parents but memories like this warm my heart and my Commodore 64 was my childhood escape... I recall later on when I got a 486 around Xmas 1994, a friend gave me another Christmas demo program for Windows 3.1.. I'm 38 years old now..
Thank you for sharing that. I'm glad it brought you some warm times. ❤️🎄☃️
Perifractic: This probably was one of the best shows. I just loved seeing the kid come out of you. Merry Xmas to you and all the family 😊
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️☃️
@@RetroRecipes Oh well, it is the season to be nice. While watching I too got nostalgic. I didn't have the Commodore demo but another one my parents bought me. This one was on a Commodore and Apple 2 disk (on on each side). And I did the same thing as you every year.
I did some research. After an hour I managed to find it again! It was called Jingle Disk and was released in 1985. If you download it, make sure to LOAD"JINGLE",8,1 😁 the PRG is not on top of the disk.
@@Francois_L_7933 very good detective. I'll check it out. 🎄☃️
Agreed!
Loving this!! There are so many "Firsts" I'd love to go back to the 80s and do again.. the excitement of recording computer data off the telly and playing it back onto your computer..the first time my BBC micro dialed out the number for Prestel \ Micronet 800.. and logging on..think the number was. 618. From Edinburgh!..and the first time I stayed up all night on the school holidays typing the code listing for the game " Run Silent,Run Deep " into my Vic20 .. an then spending hours going back over the code to fix the errors...😄.. I miss that time... Life seemed so less..... complicated then. Merry Christmas to you and to all of your followers. !! 🏴😍👍😃
OK who's cutting onions???
Nonono, just got something in my eye!
@@RetroRecipes me too!
@@the_holy_forestfairy Sniff, what memories. Reminds me of my remote control Kitt and watching Black Hole. And the C64 ofc.
What makes me nostalgic is that distinctive smell that eighties electronics had. I don't know how to describe it, but no electronics I can think of since have ever smelled quite the same way. Perhaps it was the specific type of plastics they used or where or how they manufactured them.
Yeah especially Apple I found. I did get a new thing once that smelled the same. I spent more time sniffing it than using it!
@@RetroRecipes Yeah, exactly! Apple! I still remember the smell of the very first Apple II computer I sat in front of at my middle school. It was literally the first computer I ever typed on. It was such a weird experience because it was the first computer class in the history of my state, and they only had one computer to begin with, and we each took turns approaching this scary object and following the instructions on the screen. "What is your name?" We typed our names in and got the classic Hello program. "Hello, Michael!" From then on, I was hooked. That was almost 40 years ago now.
This!! I just got hold of an filthy Mac Lc, I'm guessing it was used in a car garage or somewhere really dirty, opened it up to see if there was any goodies in there and got the good old 1980s electronic smell. lovely lol
@@undergroundbass946fm If I could identify that chemical it might make an interesting video. I'd have to invent smellyvision too though.
One of the smells I really miss is the smell of an old Radio Shack. Many years ago I went to a computer store that was opened in an old store and as soon as I stepped in, the smell was still there! You couldn't believe how amazed I was...
Such a lovely uplifting vid, needed that as we head into a Christmas lockdown here in the south east of the UK 😷 Thankyou 🙂
You're welcome. Stay safe my friend. Thinking of you and everyone ☃️🎄
One of the best episodes yet! The look on your face when you thought it said, "Don't use the force"! Priceless! I either saw this in a store, a friends house or my Uncles place. I was very heavy on the Atari 8bit side in the computer wars of the early 80's, but it was this demo that inspired me to make little animations, especially for Christmas, on my Amiga in the 90s!
Thank you for the happy burst of nostalgia, Peri! I enjoy watching your videos as someone who grew up on the C64!
My story about the Christmas demo:
I had purchased one of the first C64s in October 1982. Prior to that I had spent a year delivering newspapers (one of the few ways for kids to make money in those days) saving up for a computer. During that time I'd read lots of magazine articles to figure which model to buy - the main contenders were Commodore VIC-20, Atari 400/800, TI 99/4a, TRS80 CoCo, and Ohio Scientific Challenger. My sister's boyfriend at the time worked at a small software company, and one day brought me there to show me a pre-release version of the C64, which he was very excited about. He strongly suggested that I wait for its release.
After a few months the local Commodore store in the San Francisco Bay Area started demoing the C64, and they were already showing the Christmas demo. I remember that the 1541 had not been released yet, so they used a 1540 (together with a special POKE command to make it compatible with the C64) to load the Christmas demo in the store. So this demo has been around since the C64's very early days in 1982.
I distinctly remember getting my copy of the Christmas demo on diskette before I had my own 1541. It was either from my sister's boyfriend or from an employee at the Commodore store. My copy of the demo has a sales pitch at the end mentioning the initial price of $595, which was amazing for the time. I didn't see the sales pitch on your version after "Frosty the snowman" so they might have cut it out! Note that by Christmas 1983 the price here had already dropped to around $350 so the sales pitch would have needed to be tweaked.
The 1541 started showing up for sale around March 1983, but it was in short supply and could only be purchased from a few mail order houses at the full $395 list price, so many early C64 users in the US like myself used cassette tapes for storage before being able to upgrade to the "super fast" 1541.
Wow I always thought that the dealer's only had these demos. I got mine on disk from my local dealer. At Christmas time when I bought my 1541 drive. It was playing in the store. I asked for a copy of it. Still have it today. Thanks for the great memory. Merry Christmas.
I remember getting a copy of this as a kid. I saw it in a Compu Center store and I asked them if I could get a copy of it. The guy got a disc, made a copy and I brought it home and played it all through out Christmas. And every Christmas after that I played this demo. Merry Christmas everyone!
You know when the snow started... and you said "it is!" I welled up , it also took me back to early 80's with my own buried away memorys, great times.. and you're right we was VERY lucky to have that box of magic in our bedrooms. Have a great Christmas from me and mine in the 🇬🇧
Thank you for sharing that ❤️☃️
Nostalgic levels going off the charts here. Great video. Merry Christmas to all of you.
Every Christmas I would play this over and over in my dads office upstairs (where it was unheated). Today I still find it online and watch it and the memories flow back.
Lovely. I remember receiving the Amiga A500 Batman pack in Christmas 1988. Unfortunately, the included A520 modulator was faulty, which prevented the Amiga from booting. We had to wait a few days (which felt like weeks...) for the shops to re-open in order to pop into Norwich city centre to buy a replacement modulator. Upon returning home, one of the included disks we loaded was “The Very First English Version”. I distinctly remember a section of the demo which displayed images of different Amiga accessories, including the A520, along with the strapline “Get the Best!” - something that my father and I found rather entertaining. I’m now off to rewatch that demo to bring back the memories of a Christmas many years ago. Take care everyone!
Greetings from 'across the aisle'...!
I was a teenager attending high school from '82-'86 and at the time, I didn't know BEANS about computers, other than the fact I *HAD* to have one. My parents were wary but not unreasonable about it, so in '82 I ended up with an original Atari 800. I fell in LOVE with that 8-bit straight away, and like all young teens, loved the video games. It was programming, however, that kept me HOOKED. In those 4 short years in high school, NO one could tear me away from that machine.
I'm now 52, and 8 years ago I got nostalgic for my first love, and I grabbed one off 'flea-bay' (love it!), as well as an 810 disk drive and a 410 program recorder along with several disks, cassettes, and manuals. My wife thought I was NUTS after I powered the system on and spent several minutes just staring at the blue screen that simply said "READY".
Much like yourself with this Christmas Demo, there is an Atari demo simply called 'Swan', which features a rotating Atari 'FUJI' (solid on one side, 128 shifting colors on the other), with a sprite swan flying past it. THAT demo was on one of the random diskettes that came with the bundle I purchased, and when I saw it again for the first time in 30+ years, my heart just MELTED. ALL of my memories from the 80's hit me right THEN, right THERE.
You're right, my friend - pictures, paintings, and other things are great, but they're not 'inter-active'. It's WONDERFUL to know that almost ALL 8-bit computers of that time are still with us, and while we can't live in the past, we can carry the past along with us if we CARE.
I watch and enjoy quite a few retro computing channels, but, yours has become by far my favorite. It's not just showing off and talking about these incredible vintage machines, but, the genuine joy and emotion you show at moments like loading up the demo. Watching the joy such moments brings you brings me joy. Keep sharing that.
Merry Christmas to you and all of the Fractic Family.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️⛄🎄
Well Christmas is almost cancelled in the UK due to the new COVID strain. So a Christmas demo was a nice thing to watch. I loved the magical snowfall effect. I also recognise Perifractic and the Patreons release playing in the background.
Have a happy holiday all.
I still like the band name you gave us! ☃️ We're on tier 3 lockdown here again too with 0% ICU beds left. Happy holidays! 😳
@@RetroRecipes Well, then I should also say have a safe, sanitised and healthy holiday to all.
To slightly misquote Bob Geldof "The greatest gift we'll get this year is life."
That's a pretty good gift for all of us.
I discovered your channel last year and have been enjoying running through your videos. Such a breath of fresh air to see people who have charm and wit and talk in a polite manner. No shouting, obscenities or huge egos. This video really hit home as i grew up with the Speccy, C64 and Amiga. So many great memories of gaming in the 8 bit days. Especially at Christmas. Love you guys and keep up the awesome work and awesome channel
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
What a lot of people forget is 'back then' not everyone had used a mechanical typewriter - or any QWERTY keyboard for that matter. Teaching someone to use a keyboard would definitely set 1. Consider that they 'taught' typing to kids at school for a term as part of the curriculum. Computers were a luxury before the home PCs like the ZX81, C64...
I feel this one, deeply.
There's still a weird-ass C64 game I remember which was a sort of strategic stage-based 2d shooter which scrolled in every direction.
It was far beyond anything else I remember on the C64, tech-wise. It was super obscure, maybe Codemasters.
It has been driving me insane for years.
Thanks for joining me. You should definitely ask on the Facebook group or Lemon 64. I've gained many answers that way. Let us know if you find it!
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@@Mark-px3rq waaaaay more obscure
@@RetroRecipes will do!
PCB way..... Perifractic's Christmas Bonus! Merry Christmas Everyone!
Aww that was lovely.... Happy Bob-Ross-mas everyone! 🎅
I first saw the Commodore Christmas demo being showcased on a Commodore SX-64 computer at my local K-Mart store as a kid. My Grandmother asked Andy, the sales guy in the computer department if we could purchase the program and he said it only came with the SX-64. My Grandmother proceeds to tell Andy that "oh my Grandson would really like to get that program", so Andy says he'll be right back and walks away out of sight. A few minutes later he returns with a disk with a hand written label on it and hands the disk to me. My first pirated program! LOL. I still own that floppy disk in 2020 and it still works! I do own a original copy as well which came with my SX-64 computer I purchased from a family friend 20+ years ago. The end :-)
P.S. also notice on the beginning of the Christmas demo Commodore messed up the colors on the chicken lips logo. Red is in the wrong place. This is the same on the disk version too.
Ahhhh the nostalgia...........the waiting for programs to load.......only a true Commodore 64 aficionado would be be familiar with these touching moments. Great video as always. For those of us who first "made contact" with the great machine more than 30 years ago, the memories are strong of a brown box which opened a portal to a world beyond our imagination. Even more astounding is that they are still going strong all these years later, and are infinitely more interesting than the white goods coming off the production lines these days. Long live that magical 6502 and all the happiness it brought at Christmas and throughout the year. God Bless you Mr Tramiel, Mr Peddle, Mr Yannes and Mr Reynolds.
Commodore did have a lot of really cool Christmas programs including this one. You've got a Bob Ross style voice yourself. Quite a trip down memory lane, a lot of fun to watch with the humour and you've got a surprising amount of patience for cassette loading these days.
Another RR episode that hits you in the feels!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, RR!
Peri Christmas ⛄🎄
@@RetroRecipes Yes, Peri Christmas! ⛄️🎄
Here’s to another fantastic year of Retro Recipes! Cheers, mate!
Yes, computers are timeless. A painting can fade, but not a game. Just remember to recap in the right way. Merry Christmas!
Absolutely brought a smile to my face along with a heart felt memory. I was about 14 and LOVED my C-64 demo. I lived in the States so mine was on a 5 1/4 floppy disk. Thanks for the video. 👍🏻
You have inspired me to load up my Christmas Demo :-) It took a moment for me to recall how I did it but I remembered my C64 endlessly running the demo without the Sales Pitch at the end. On my machine once the Demo is loaded it runs SYS2061 to get things started. That loads a basic program that can be edited :-) Then it waits for you to press a key. Fortunately they do not disable the break key in their code, so I press the break key to stop the program. I typed LIST and attempted to refresh my memory on how to do this..lol. I removed line 12, 13 and 15 to allow it to loop without waiting for a key to be pressed. Then I found line 590 for which I removed the tail end that reads :GOSUB 800:REM SALES PITCH - And whalla! Beautiful. The things we remember from childhood :-)
My grandfather bought me an IBM PC in 1990, toward the end of his tenure at Sears. (Turns out, a percentage-based employee discount goes a LONG way at IBM prices in those days.) Anyway, being the first computer I ever learned on, there's LOTS of nostalgia clues with it. I think the most pronounced one is the power switch, strangely located on the front of the monitor (rather than the system itself). The power button mechanism had a very authoritative, chunky, CHINK-CLONK type sound and feel every time you pushed it to turn on. Turning it off yielded a very resolute CLINK-CHONK -- one always knew whether they were turning the machine on or off. That machine is stored away right now, but every time I come across it, that power button still has the same authoritative feedback.
Being a lot more confident in my electromechanical restoration skills these days, I'm intent on giving it a once-over and powering it up again at some point (soon?). Endless projects. I should do something on my own TH-cam channel when I get to that particular one. The IBM PS/1 line was a commercial flop for IBM, and I have the very first model (2011), so I haven't even looked to see what info is "out there" for it. As fast as technology was moving even then (this was a 286 amidst 486s), I didn't appreciate the machine as much as I now realize I should have. Hindsight is... well, you know...
You just made my day with that video... possibly my Christmas too. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
That's very kind of you and lovely to hear. Peri Christmas 🎄☃️
Nostalgia?!? That's not what I'm here fo- oh wait... 😂 Another fun video, hope you all have a great and safe holiday season!
Haha I was going to say why else would you be here? 😊🎄
This makes me, like others and you, very nostalgic too. I don’t know where I got the demo either but I also played it every Christmas Day and playing or seeing it today takes me back 35 years and 600 miles away. Memories are such awesome places to visit! ❤️🎄
Wow talk about flashback, this is so close to my own experience. My mother who passed away in the last few months, bought me the very same christmas compendium pack. It really was the best Xmas ever, I was 13 years old at the time, I used to play that same demo from the same very first tape. Very emotional for me to watch this, took me back 35 years. Would do anything to go back in time and see mum again, thanks for this great video, fantastic viewing as always.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad you enjoyed this video. Peace and love 🎄⛄
It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the Retro Recipes Xmas vid. Now I know it’s Xmas. Thanks Peri, Lady and Puppyfractic. Merry Christmas to you all.
I love watching these old things from the mindset that, this was once the top of the line tech. It'd be like playing some christmas thing on your new PS5, you never know it'll be nostalgic until it's been 30 or so years
Emotional! Have a happy Christmas and New year! Let's hope 2021 will be a lot better than this year!
Thanks Graham. Here's hoping! Peri Christmas!
This year was no different to any other year, I sat at home infront of my computer :)
@@ukcroupier So did I as I work from home and have done since 2003, however this year their was a very strong danger that I might get Covid and Die as I am 62 with high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. Hence I am hoping I get the call for the jab soon and then things will be a lot better!
I think Peri and I are the same age and received our C64s at almost the same time. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug. 😭❤️
Christian (Perryfractic) ,...This video brought a tear to my eyes... I too, (Now 50! Egad!) got my first C-64 in the winter of 1982. I still have the original receipt! and the C-64 which which is an Original "Silver Label" Early unit as well.. I was 12. In my Junior high (now called Middle School today) we had an array of Commodore Computers....PETs, C-64s, and Yes, (1) SX-64. The computer teacher let me copy the SX-64 Christmas Demo Disk...and all through the 1980's I would play the "Christmas Demo" at every family Christmastime gathering. I am very surprised to hear that it was available on Tape for the C-64. Thank You for this video! Ahhh, The memories!! Thanks, Tony K. , Melbourne, Florida (Formerly from Long Island, New York!) :o)
Thanks for sharing Tony 💖
A fantastic kick in the nostalgias mate, You hit the nail on the head. Sights, sounds, touch, smell. I get blurry eyed just seeing my Amiga sitting on my desk, even though it's seldom on. It's not a computer. It's a box of memories. Just looking at it and I am 16 again, with my old friends, up the park, on our BMX's, or Skateboards, or Skate Hockey or whatever was the flavor. We're all there having a great time and my biggest stress is the fact that the holidays are nearly over and I've not done my homework yet. Thanks as always for the trip back through time, even though yours was a C64 :D BTW, "The Very First" is also a disk that came with the Amiga. No Christmas demo though :(....well....not that I've found yet.....
I just love the Commodore memories you share. I've had many different computers, but my 64 and 128D hold a very special place in my computing heart. The 8 bit period of computing was a special time. Merry Christmas to you both. I think I got some dust in my eyes...
Great video as always. It is really touching to See how much that little Demo means to you. One can always see that you put your heart into your videos, but this one was special, as one could see you were fighting your tears eben the Demo starts. That kind of authenticity is what makes you, lady fractic and the videos you are doing standing out against all the other youtubers on this platform. I really love you, lady fractic and of course puppy-fractic. Have a *Peri Christmas* with all of your loved ones.
Thank you for such kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️⛄
Wonderful memories! Thanks for this video - it took me back to Christmas 1983 and my family's first computer; an Acorn Electron. The manufacturers put a lot of work and care into those introductory cassettes (they were a showcase for the computer after all). Thanks again and Merry Christmas!
Hmmm fascinating point why are computers more nostalgic than films, paintings and indeed old schoolbooks.
And I think this is the answer. Computers have meanwhile evolved into these easy to use everyday appliances, there’s nothing special to it any more and I don’t think kids these days would be nostalgic to their MacBooks (which have been the same for the past 15 years really).
But when we got computes they were hard to use any thing you managed to achieve(after days), gave a deep satisfactory feeling.
I remember this BBC TV show from about 10 years ago, where a family is put into a New decade every week, with that decade’s tech.
And the so dad was elated when he finally loaded a game. And then kid was showing off his 2010 schoolmates how to program in basic.
I think it’s that incredible effort us 70 kids put into it that rewarded us. And we feel that sense of reward again all those years later.
FINALLY!!!!!! I had ( ahem, a backup of ) the exact same cassette and for years I've been racking my brains on where the demo was from. All I could find was that it wasn't released for the home C64 but yet I had it. Happy memories and a super thumbs up for filling in a blank - Ahh, freed and relaxed brain cells. Merry Christmas. As a side note I also found the Buster 1983 annual which has my favourite Ivor Lott and Tony Broke Christmas skit, but that's another story.
Thanks for all the great content throughout the year, it's been a real joy to watch.
I'm a bit more than a decade behind you on the nostalgia factor, but I can relate with unearthing old memories from a simple piece of software or old game. No matter the age, the feeling is the same! Hope you and all of yours have a safe and happy holidays!
I hadn't seen that demo before... so, this was _my_ very first time 😁 It's fun to find something in your childhood and bring it back as an adult to enjoy. Cheers and Merry Christmas!
I didn't have a C-64 back then, Chris, but I got a second-hand nostalgia buzz just from seeing your reaction, the SID music, and the CRT pixels. Happy Christmas, indeed.
Thanks Fletcher!
I also bought a copy of this off fleabay last year as curiosity got the better of me, and I needed to know what the hell it was. It was errr, interesting to say the least, and I would say the best part about it is the Christmas demo which is lovely, and something I also like to watch around Christmas every year. All the best to you and yours.. Have a Peri merry Christmas mate🎄😂
...And a Perry, Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. Fractic as well as the puppies! May the love and joy of the holidays fill your heart as much now as it did then!
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Thanks for keeping us all entertained through lockdown and 2020 in general. Happy holidays and wishing you all the best for 2021
that was one of the most lovely things i've seen in a long time. merry christmas
Aw thank you! 🎄⛄
I don’t remember the Christmas demo but seeing your face light up when it loaded was priceless. So many happy memories we can bring back :). Merry Christmas from Guernsey.
Thank you Chip Skipper! ⛄🎄
We were all very lucky kids to get these magical boxes. We really were. The world was our oyster and the future looked so incredibly bright.
Merry Christmas Perifractic, Lady Fractic and your family, and Merry Christmas to everyone who watches and enjoys your fantastic channel. You have created something really, really special. Best wishes for the new year Cheers! 🍻
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️ Peri Christmas 🌲☃️
Thank you for sharing this, and for sharing your emotions related to the experience of reliving something from your childhood.
That has to be one of your very best videos Perifractic. I absolutely loved this. A great many thanks for sharing your childhood nostalgia with all of us.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
The ability of choosing a file on a tape was based on Indexed Sequential File System. At the head of the set of files was a header with file "meta-data" that the machine could read and use in fast forward mode to find the right file header as you selected. Tres Ancien!
Correct. However if you played option two, and at the end wanted to play option one, the only logical way would be if it was repeated several times so 1 came after 2 as I depicted. I don't think it asked you to rewind the tape...
That reminded me of the time, when I requested a double-decked cassette player (with high-speed copying) as a Christmas present from my parents. I needed it so I could copy C64 programs and games from friends cassette to my cassette amazingly FAST.
Now christmas can come! Thank you for sharing your memories with us!
MERRY XMAS! Doc64!
I remember this on my dad's C64. I have no idea where he got his copy though. Unfortunately his gear has long gone.
I got a Vic-20 for Christmas my first year of high school. The C64 came out a little while after that and my parents were willing to upgrade me over the summer. I remember seeing the demo running in stores but I don't think I every had it.
Looking forward to Funboxing Day.
The other mystery for me was who was Juan Holz from Horasoft that programmed this and lo and behold, I found him on Linkdin :) ev.linkedin.com/in/juanholz/de also found a refrence to The Very First (Tutorial-Juan Holz) (Horasoft) from 1987
Tell him I said thank you ⛄🎄
Even if for nothing else, thumbs up for the Bob Ross sweater! I have that C64 christmas demo somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. (I've been going through my backup disks for testing purposes and so far it's not on disks 1 thru 44. BTW, I recommend to everyone to check your backup disks! If they get mold on them they're ruined.) Anyway, I hope you and the entire Familyfractic have had a great christmas and new year!
I remember the demo very well. I just downloaded it and run it. Ooh the memories - Merry Christmas my dude.
I've always wondered what a port of the C-64 Christmas demo would look and sound like on a VIC-20. Considering the impressive things people have done on the VIC-20 over the years, you'd think something relatively close (and charming in it's own way) could be achieved.
I'm happy for you that you could solve the mystery and relive this blast from the past!
This is huge... I need to feel nostalgia everyday. And you are giving me this feeling. Thank you.
You're welcome Pavel
I also fire this up every Christmas (got it running next to me right now!) even though I wasn't a C64 owner back in the day. Yet still it fires up and instills me with a sense of nostalgia for the time as its quintessentially Commodore 64 and of my childhood. So now it's one of my Christmas traditions and it only feels truly like Christmas until I have loaded it up and let it run in the background for hours !
Great job, Peri! Takes me back to Christmas of '82 or '83 and typing in Christmas programs from the December issues of various magazines.
You have such a silky smooth voice!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
I remember having this for my c64. It was on a disk a friend had gotten from a user group. We enjoyed watching it every Christmas afterwards, I still do.
I remember my friend getting that pack for Christmas and I asked if that was the very first C64 software ever made 🤣 Great memory thank you ☺️
It was the same company (Horasoft) that made the Very First disk for the Amiga 500 in 1987 :)
Merry Christmas, all 'fractics!
Cool I should check that out!
I think I'll get an M-Disk drive this xmas and make a back-up of my childhood software. Magnetic tape is relatively stable compared to HD but it still doesn't last forever.
A demo before the demoscene
I like that an instrumental version of the Christmas song you just posted plays underneath much of this video! 👏👏👏
Good ear! Check out the vocal version released today too
LOVE the Happy Trees Bob Ross sweater :) And 10 points to Gryffindor for solar panels!
This takes me back. I got the C64 compendium pack when I was 12 (from Boots in Kingston upon Thames). My late dad made me load up the demo first, even though I wanted to go straight to the Music Maker. Thank you for reminding me of a moment in time. This really was a blast of nostalgia.
Very cool. As you probably know I got mine from richmond. Most likely boots now I think about it!
@@RetroRecipes my kids find it unbelievable that Boots was once the best shop around for computers and games.
My best friend, who had a Commodore 64 (we had a BBC Micro dammit), always referred to the Zzap 64 magazine as "Zed-Zap 64". When I instinctively called it this in front of friends at school I was resoundly mocked. Thanks a lot Scott The Mispronouncer!
Haha!
Echoing others, it definitely came on a test/demo/utility disk that came with my 1541 when my dad bought it for me back in the day. I'm pretty sure this would have been in 1983 as I'm pretty sure I got my C-64 on Christmas 1982 but my initial usage of it was pretty limited by the tape drive so less than a year later my dad got me the 1541. My memory is fuzzy but my first C64 definitely had the 5-pin video port, so by Christmas 1983 it should've had the 8-pin one. If not, it might have been I got it Christmas 1983 and the 1541 in 1984.
In the UK my brother and I received a C64 back in the day which came with a demo cassette, if I remember rightly it had tutorials and other programs but it also contained the Xmas demo. Our version might have been different to your cassette the Very First, wish I remembered what it was called.
Fantastic "tear-jerking" video. Like yourself, I fire up that demo every holiday season. Such great memories. Completely unrelated question - what is the model of that Trinitron monitor you use with your C64? Seems the quality is even better than my good ol' Commodore 1702.
I never owned a C64, but your nostalgia hit my nostalgia hard...
P.S. Love the sweater! ❤️
I watch the Xmas demo religiously every year. And have done since I got it with my 64 in 1984.
Makes me happy and sad at the same time for times gone by.
That was so good.
I got my C64 when I was 14 in 1984 in Britain
but never actually saw this demo in person, even though I ended up with an SX64 as well
Right in the feels my man 👍🏻
How awesome. I had the same tradition. We set up the Christmas tree, and I would play the demo in the background. Good times. The funny thing is, I too always got the side of the tape wrong.
Haha glad I'm not the only one!
So nice when it all comes together, glad you solved the mystery. Happy Christmas to all the fractic family 🎄.
Same to you!
Great video! Glad I subscribed to your channel. I found you when 8-bit Guy showed the car recharging video and kept wondering who those two people stylishly plugging the chargers into their cars were. Enjoy your holidays!
Thanks for the sub!
That was amazing as I had the compendium collection too and couldn't remember how I loaded the Xmas demo. Thanks so much for this video as it now solves the thought.
Yay! 🎄⛄
Awesome memories shared.. This is one of your best recipes to come from the channel! Merry Christmas to both you two and doggie too! Looking forward to more like this one!
Thank you!! 🎄⛄
Merry Christmas 🎄
Sweet demo! I'm glad you share your memories.
A lovely heartfelt video. Merry Christmas to you and thanks for this channel. I know of this demo but ive never loaded it up.. think i will this Christmas.
Great video buddy and your face said it all. My friend had this back in the day on that very tape (well not that very tape) and that was the first thing he played on his c64 to show it off haha great times. Loved Puppyfractic's hat btw and Ladyfractic got it right the first time :-). Roll on the next video so take care and have a wonderful christmas guys :-)
Merry Christmas and a happy newyear, I hope you have a awesome time
You brought me back to my 80's memories.. Thank you, and Merry Christmas! ✨
Excerpt from a famous X-mas song: "...seeing the joy in the children's eyes". 😂 (Something about Christmas time, Bryan Adams)
Ah, these great memories you'll never forget! Merry Christmas to all of you! 🎅
Gonna load this up on my SX64 Christmas day, just like I used to do as a kid! Oh the memories!