very wicked - most delicate by Padua [web]
"Very Wicked / Most Delicate"
by Padua
an entry for the
Beastie Boys A/V Logo Contest
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person/group: Padua (a C64 demoscene group)
platform: Commodore 64, PAL version
type: single screen graphical demo *with music* (<-that's a must hear!)
filesize: 14609 bytes (= 14.3 Kb)
style: late 80's C64 demo style
running time: around 3 minutes and 15 seconds for the music, a couple more
minutes for the white entire scrolling line text to wrap around
music type: remix of Intergalactic using the C64's "SID" sound chip
special: The song had to be recreated to suit a sound platform that
has no "sampling" voices as such, and only three voices
over all. A hit remix in only 4232 bytes including the
player routine. :)
instructions
for running the
demo: in a C64 emulator, with the disk image loaded, type
load"*",8,1 (and press enter), then
list (enter) this is used to see our
"cool" inside joke!
run (enter)
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Our inspiration for this small demo largely came to us through discussions
on what the Beastie Boys meant to us, and on how we perceived their work.
It dawned on us that we just had to do a remix of sorts of one of the many
tracks the Beasties have created throughout their time in the "music scene".
After a while, we settled for a combination/medley of two popular songs,
so that even people not knowing any of their albums have a chance to recognise
the tune. These songs were "Intergalactic" and "Sabotage", the combination
style of which had to fall through because both are great songs in their
own right, and practically request their own remixes.
Intergalactic stayed with us, and from there on we made sure to design a
screen that would carry a strong resemblance to demos from the past,
particularly from the time most of us started listening to music such as
that of the Beasties. This time travel affair took us all the way to the
late 80s demo style, and in kind of a self-retrospective manner, we use
the past to show us where we come from and how we have evolved since.
This evolution has also been a recurring factor within our discussions
on this demo - our own evolution, and that of the Beastie Boys, as expressed
in their music. Actually, this is what made us want to enter the contest
in the first place - to show our respect for people who've never folded
and willfully sold out to whatever "Zeitgeist" values were roaming about.
As much as one BB album is different from the next, we didn't know how the
screen would turn out in the end. However, from a technical and artistic
point of view are kind of satisfied (at the moment) with what it looks like
and what it says. The composition of the screen is rather simple, the graphics
are kind of nostalgic (though not overly so), the scrolling line is fancy
yet not complicated at all, the synchronization of the snare drum to the
graphics powerfully communicates a message "embedded" into the graphics. The
music, indeed, is the most modern part about all of it, and the focal point
of our creation.
We sacrificed the eye-candy of advanced graphics programming for the sake of
being able to send a message without (much) distraction. After all, this
musical piece deserves full attention! Bop along and think about what the
graphics say... and remember, you can be "wicked" and "against war"!
Tools used to create this production:
* "Amica Paint", a wonderful graphics program
* "Input Assembler", a programmer's tool
* "Turbo Assembler", another tool like the former
* "Mister Ed.", a text editor on the c64
* some music editor
* Commodore 64 (the real thing), PAL version
* Vice, a windows emulator for the c64
* brain (though not much of it, the program code is kind of simple)
Notes: Apart from the last tool mentioned, all of them run on C64 only! ;)
The graphics you see have been hand-pixeled (yes, drawn by hand,
pixel by pixel).
Complete list of credits:
* "IntergaViptiC", a C64 remix of Intergalactic, completely con-
verted using ear, hand and mind, then rearranged and C64ified
by Vincent "Vip" Merken
* "Very Wicked", "Gone Mad", "No War" graphics, the font used on
the introduction screen and the Beastie Boys logo (a
reinterpretation of the logo present on the cover of the "Check
Your Head" album) all by Antonios Grizis (a.k.a
Alias Medron)
* Padua logo on introduction screen by Carsten Strehse (a.k.a.
Arena/Padua)
* big font (upper white scrolling line) by Michael Arrowsmith (a.k.a.
MAD)
* small font (lower, grey scrolling line) by Chris Heilmann (a.k.a
Cupid)
* (additional) program code by Aggressor/Padua and Frank Michlick
(a.k.a. Anonym)
* Screenfader programmed by Daniel Beau (a.k.a Leonardo/Padua)
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Nothing more to say. Enjoy, and never stop thinking!
The Padua Posse in Effect, late March, 2003
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