Patreon Exclusive: The Ultimate 64 showing off its colours (Patreon)

Hello my patrons! This is a little bit of a spoiler about a future SMMC episode. What is happening here is an Ultimate 64 Elite in a clear 64C case with addressable LEDs driven by activity on the SID chip. (Each of the 3 channels gets a color -- red, green and blue.) It's running the demo Lunitaco by Lft. The 1084 is connected via composite running in NTSC-50. Sound is being generated by an actual 8580 SID chip.

I think I know the C64 pretty well but seeing demos like this still completely blows my mind that this machine came out in 1982 and yet it can do stuff like this! (And this demo isn't even the most wild when it comes to graphics.)

NTSC-50: What that means is it's a 50hz video signal like a PAL signal but it's sending NTSC color to the monitor versus PAL color. A US/Canada 1084 cannot decode PAL color, so would be black and white with a normal PAL signal. The Ultimate 64 can output a NTSC-50 signal, so you get the right timing on the C64 but it's compatible and you get color on a lot of US/Canada monitors.

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=151273 

Read about how this demo abuses the C64 VIC-II in ways never done before: https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/lunatico/misc.php

Direct Link: https://youtu.be/DUfPuuryYfs