- This looks like the classic fire effect: generate rising flames by averaging pixels below each output pixel, and randomize the last row.
I remember this effect because there was a competition[1] where every entry was a fire effect in 256 bytes, and I was amazed at the simplicity of the core algorithm.
[1] https://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1791&when=1996
by syncsynchalt
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- Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to full-color photos when clicked.
by Aldipower
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- Just in time I received my brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate directly before Christmas. What a lovely made piece of retro hardware.
by andyjohnson0
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- This is very nice, enjoyment-driven, seasonal hacking. Cool.
Brought back happy memories of the much simpler, much less impressive falling snowflakes animation, complete with Silent Night soundtrack, that I laboriously wrote in Basic on my Vic-20 one Christmas back in the 80s.
by TacticalCoder
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- > https://c0de517e.com/026_c64fire/cozy.jpg
That should have been a real CRT monitor to give this picture a true feeling of the 80s!
- i thought this was going to involve capacitor plague. rather a retro dive into coding an 8bit digital fireplace.
- Made me think of the IT Crowd screensaver:
https://youtu.be/KH_0uybs93I
Which was a result of:
https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ
by erickhill
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- Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the non-programmers. Fun read!
by vintermann
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- Spoiler: nah, he just coded a fire effect on his c64.
There was apparently a demo party a while back where a Tiki 100 actually caught fire.
by qinchencq
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- A mechanical keyboard in c64 design would be lovely.
- This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.
by PunchyHamster
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- Why would you put pics with less colors in them than c64 ? They are not even small?! (yes I now I can waste time to click one to see proper one)
by jumbledoor
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