Demos for c128/c64 machines is still a highly sought after talent and a very rewarding coding challenge. If your not lucky enough to have been in the scene back when these devices where popular well never fret the guys over on /r/c64coding have put together an instruction series.
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I did my first programming on a Commodore VIC-20, and then moved to a Commodore 64, and a Commodore 128. Very fond memories of all of those systems.
This may be a long shot, but we’ve been working with textfiles and archive.org to gather up as much of the code from then as possible to preserve unique apps, (and bugs ) from being lost to the sands of time.
So, do you by any chance still have copies of your programs from back then?
I doubt it, but I can did through the boxes in my garage and see if anything is still around.