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Welcome around (to Six and to all people)

Thanks!

It's rare to see USA guys since the demoscene is not well known there (little community as far as I know).

Yeah, I think it's down to us and two or three other groups still in the US as far as the C64 goes.

So nice to seee you here (I like the C64 Musics in demo (I can't really say about the techniques since I don't really the limitations)

A quick summary:
16 colors from a fixed palette, more can be achieved with a frame-swapping technique they call interlacing.  1.2Mhz CPU, graphics modes are all cellular instead of linear.  160x100 pixel display in multicolor graphics modes.  Software modes are possible by tweaking the video chip's registers in different ways.  Generally you can translate any effect to the C64 from a more powerful platform by simplifying it and pre-rendering anything that can be pre-rendered.  More can be done with some of the recent C64 variants like the DTV and DTVII/III.

Hola,
I'm an active C64 demo scener (in the C64 group Style/USA), stumbled across this site while researching for an effect algorithm I'm working on for a C64 demo.  There aren't a lot of places to discuss general techniques and algorithms, all the other forums I've seen are pretty platform-targetted.  From reading here I can see it's a cool place to be.