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No Sprites   [2023]

No Sprites Released by :
Fairlight [web]

Release Date :
17 December 2023

Type :
C64 Demo

Released At :
Only Sprites Compo 2023

Achievements :
C64 Demo Competition at Only Sprites Compo 2023 :  #1

User rating:**********  9.5/10 (65 votes)   See votestatistics
**********  9.9/10 (22 votes) - Public votes only.

Credits :
Code .... Trident of Fairlight
Music .... Fegolhuzz of Fairlight
Graphics .... tNG of Fairlight


SIDs used in this release :
The DemoSceniors(/MUSICIANS/F/Fegolhuzz/Demosceniors.sid)

Download :

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User Comment
Submitted by Wile Coyote on 12 January 2024
@TheRyk I fully expect such a reply. You beat Geopants to it ;D
User Comment
Submitted by DKT on 12 January 2024
Next compo will include new rule for sure: "...has to use at least one sprite on screen..." ;D
BTW great demo <3 congrats. it's amazing how much can be done without "flesh"...
User Comment
Submitted by TheRyk on 12 January 2024


@Wiley: read the rules and check what has been used -> perfectly valid entry & deserved winner imho
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Submitted by Wile Coyote on 12 January 2024
As cool and as clever as 'No Sprites' is, is it really entering into the spirit of the compo?
For an 'Only Sprites Compo' i want to see sprites! ..and lots of them! ;D
User Comment
Submitted by Peacemaker on 12 January 2024
uh, nice!
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Submitted by chatGPZ on 12 January 2024
I somehow missed this one - cool stuff!
User Comment
Submitted by daison on 12 January 2024
What the hell?
User Comment
Submitted by Flotsam on 20 December 2023
I admit: first time around I didn't realize that the title is to be taken literally.
User Comment
Submitted by Count Zero on 20 December 2023
WTF!
User Comment
Submitted by Jammer on 19 December 2023
Cycleporn at its usual finest <3
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Submitted by Raistlin on 19 December 2023
Holy shit, this is awesome! Really amazing work, guys! Trident, what the heck? I’m starting to suspect that someone’s figured out how to use AI to make C64 demos and this is the result. I’d say that Bacchus was commanding the AI - but these demos have too much style! :p

Brilliant stuff.
User Comment
Submitted by spider-j on 19 December 2023
WTF? How?
User Comment
Submitted by psych on 19 December 2023
Amazing! Great work Three Musketeers!
User Comment
Submitted by Ko-Ko on 19 December 2023
I can't believe my eyes, what you guys have done is absolutely fantastic! 11 :-)
User Comment
Submitted by Xiny6581 on 18 December 2023
Just crazy! And I love it :)
This is what code and challenge is all about and also, to make it looks great! Just impressive and dazzling!
User Comment
Submitted by Bob on 18 December 2023
Wow!!.. Raster'n'shit... Ghostbytes... and wtf... wierd and cool stuff.. no sprites amazing!
20:th demo and counting ;) "In human !!!"
Nice music!
User Comment
Submitted by katon on 18 December 2023
Congratulations, absolutely everything here is incredibly wonderful!
User Comment
Submitted by ws on 18 December 2023
Insanity level: yes. Great demo!
User Comment
Submitted by HCL on 18 December 2023
WOW!! Some crazy effects in here!! Can't believe it's really no sprites or chars! Impressing!!
User Comment
Submitted by Stone on 18 December 2023
Wow this compo just keeps on giving! \o/ Fantastic effects and music <3
User Comment
Submitted by Pararaum on 18 December 2023
You guys now that using witchcraft in a demo is punished by being burned at a stake, right?
User Comment
Submitted by Oswald on 18 December 2023
hahaha, awesome, winner of the non existing d020 only compo :)
User Comment
Submitted by Didi on 18 December 2023
Insane production! Right out of timing hell! Great!
User Comment
Submitted by 饾榿饾棥饾棜 on 18 December 2023
@Mibri: Crunchy rice, some chicken or beef and a whole lot of <3
User Comment
Submitted by 4gentE on 18 December 2023
Wow this is really impressive!
User Comment
Submitted by Mibri on 18 December 2023
What the hell is Fairlight feeding Trident? This is bloody amazing.
User Comment
Submitted by MCM on 18 December 2023
This really is insane stuff..... just wow. this must be a timing nightmare with all this ghostbyte and grey dot stuff going on ! i like the sid really much too ! Fantastic entry !!
User Comment
Submitted by Mixer on 18 December 2023
Crazy! This demonstrates the scene-spirit: unintended hardware bug/feature is used for effects that should not be visible in the first place :)
User Comment
Submitted by Joe on 18 December 2023
Awesome!
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Submitted by PAL on 18 December 2023
EDB! Datamaskin! The inner shit! FANTASTIX! I ADORE IT! What a total suprise...
User Comment
Submitted by Strepto on 17 December 2023
Crazy, crazy, crazy! Im jelous :)
User Comment
Submitted by Wile Coyote on 17 December 2023
I adore the tune!
Watching all those FX.. thank you Fairlight ^_^
User Comment
Submitted by Mythus on 17 December 2023
Damn, what a cool release :)
User Comment
Submitted by Scrap on 17 December 2023
WTF?! Crazy sh.. going on here! Amazing!
User Comment
Submitted by celticdesign on 17 December 2023
Holly magic molly!
User Comment
Submitted by trident on 17 December 2023
@trap: thanks! :) the final, smooth, moving bar uses a ghostbyte split to open up to the underlying $d021 color at the right cycle, and $d016 to make it smooth across cycle boundaries. all the other moving bars use a raw $d020 split, so that's why they're so chunky, as the split always has to happen on a cycle boundary.
User Comment
Submitted by 饾榿饾棥饾棜 on 17 December 2023
Okay for some fun again! Trident Tortured me this week with setting up real C64's and i had various results with machines, some worked better when WARM and some didnt not work as well as other machines. The Vic Gray Dot bug is fickle one. It needs to be run on a New Vic model. Also I had issues with the sound on one of my machines and the other sid songs sounded fine, so I tested demo on another machine with the same sid-chip and then it sounded good, might be some other thing that is bad in the machine I tested with first. Best of luck playing this on real hardware, VICE is simply there and works best if you in a pickle.
User Comment
Submitted by Bacchus on 17 December 2023
Silly proud to have this released under our name. Super well done, dudes.

The snowman made of colours and gjostbytea is silly cool.
User Comment
Submitted by Walt on 17 December 2023
Love the d016/magicbyte effects :)
User Comment
Submitted by iAN CooG on 17 December 2023
/me removes glasses
mother of god
User Comment
Submitted by Trap on 17 December 2023
Nice one, Trident. It's funny. We wanted to make a moving chessboard using cycle delay and d016 for the last part in our demo, but the sprites broke the timing so we had to give up that plan. Nice to see an implementation of a similar technique in the smooth bar near the end in your demo or maybe you used magic byte to get it to move smooth?
Anyway, really really nice! Thank you.
User Comment
Submitted by DeMOSic on 17 December 2023
WHAT THE FUCK. niice!
User Comment
Submitted by trident on 17 December 2023
this demo uses no bitmaps, no chars - and no sprites. everything you see is done with the color registers $d020/$d021 and ghostbytes.

(so while it technically follows the letter of the rules, it could certainly be argued that it breaks the spirit of the rules ;) )
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