This section contain material related to demo coding. General VIC programming is not available on this page. Instead it is devoted to coding specific demo effects and tutorials on how to make demos specifically (rather than coding in general). General drawing, non-specific to demo coding, is also on the general VIC page instead.

To give an example: Opening the border is commonly made in demo parts, but simply opening the border does not constitute a demo effect in itself (at least not during the last 20 years).

• An Introduction to Programming C-64 Demos - Puterman/FLT. Extensive and easy to read tutorial aimed at beginners.
• Demo world records and world firsts - Who broke what record? Who invented effect X first? When? In what demo?
• Speeding up and optimising demo routines - by conrad

Many demo effects depend on precise timing. Therefore it might be useful to have a look on the Interrupts and Timing page.

The most classic demo effect, apart from scrolling text.

• Rasters - what they are and how to use them (C=Hacking #3) - by Bruce Vrieling - (Note that there is a bug in the last example program that turns border black and white: the high and low bytes of “intcode” are reversed in the lda instructions. Also note that on PAL machines the refresh rate is not 60hz, but 50 hz.)
• Rasterbars source - by Knoeki

Those scrolling texts that we all hate to love that we love to hate. Also see the sprite section for a sprite scroller.

• Scroll text in common - by Monte Carlos

• 1 char sized scrollers:
  • Scroll text - by Vai/Slash Design
  • Scroll text - By Richard Bayliss/TND
  • Scroll text - variable speed and direction, by Groepaz/Hitmen

• Zoom chars 8x:
  • Char zoom - by Conrad.
  • Char zoom - by Raf/Vulture Design

• Sprite scroller:
  • Scrolltext using Sprites - by Testicle

• TechTech (or “wave”) - by Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (from “Demo corner” in C= Hacking 7).
• Logo swing - By Richard Bayliss

• DYCP - Pasi 'Albert' Ojala (from “Demo Corner” in C= Hacking 6).

• ColorCyclePlasma - By Cruzer
• AFLI-Plasma - by Testicle
• Proportional-Charset-Noter with Plasma-Effect - by Testicle
• Copper Style FLI Plasma - By Cruzer

• FLI-FPP-Scroller - by Testicle

• FLI Floffy - By Cruzer
• 2nd Pixel FLI Distorter - By Cruzer

• Julia Fractal Morpher - By dW

• Blend Charsets by Chico /CIVITAS

• 8 Sprite starfield - by Richard Bayliss

• Colour flashing (notewriter style) - (Extended colour mode) by Richard Bayliss
• just Animation - explains the concept of how the animations in reanim8ed work. originally published in Driven #31

• 16×16:
  • 16x16 char matrix by Monte Carlos
  • 16x16 Matrix Scroll by Chico /CIVITAS

• Speedcode by Cruzer/CML