This page is devoted specifically to demo effects and tutorials on how to make demos. More general graphics coding is instead covered in the General VIC programming page.

To provide 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). Therefore you would find that on the General VIC programming page instead.

• 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?

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
• Rasterbars 2 source - by Bitbreaker
• Rasterbars 3 source - by Graham
• Rasterbars 4 source - by Erhan
• Rasterbar Flasher source - Flash Screen effect by Wozza/CygnusOz
• Horizontal Raster Split - Monte Carlos
• Overlapping Raster Bars by Richard

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/TND
  • Scroll text - variable speed and direction, by Groepaz/Hitmen
  • 1x1 upscroll - the basics - by Richard/TND

• 2 char sized scrollers:
  • 2x2 upscroll with space linefeed by Richard/TND

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

• Sprite scroller:
  • Scrolltext using Sprites - a ROL-scroll, by Testicle
  • Waving sprite scroll - A letter per sprite with a sine move, by Mace

• Perspective Scroller
  • Discofloor scroller as being used in Ächzzeit - by Bitbreaker/Oxyron^Arsenic^Nuance

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

• 3D Dot Scroll - by wegi /Black Sun/Samar/Fatum

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

• DYSP using sprite stretching - by Compyx/Focus
• DYSP using a cycle table - by Compyx/Focus

• 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

• Drivecalc vectors - 3D realtime filled vectors with 3D calculations done in the drive, by wegi /Black Sun/Samar/Fatum
• Filling the vectors - by Bitbreaker
• Spritevectors - by Bitbreaker

• Blend Charsets by Chico /CIVITAS

• 8 Sprite starfield - by Richard Bayliss
• ROL Starfield using $d018 - by Richard Bayliss
• Starfield - by Fabrizio Stellato

• Twisters, x-rotators and waving carpets - Bitbreaker/Oxyron^Arsenic^Nuance

• 4x4 charset fire with lots of colors - Bitbreaker/Oxyron^Arsenic^Nuance

• 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
• Speeding up and optimising demo routines - by conrad
• Advanced optimizing - by Bitbreaker/Oxyron/Nuance