Take a trip back to 1984 with Swinth, a classic Commodore 64 chiptune SID music and graphics demo created by Georg Feil while attending the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Originally written as a demonstration for his Synth music editor, Swinth was uploaded to CompuServe on July 24, 1984 before spreading across bulletin board systems and Quantum Link during the early days of the Commodore 64 demo scene.
This video features footage captured directly from a real Commodore 64 using the legendary 6581 SID sound chip to preserve the authentic audio and visuals exactly as experienced during the 1980s home computer era. I also still own my original floppy disk copy downloaded from a BBS using a 300 baud modem, making this demo a personal favorite memory from the early days of retro computing and Commodore 64 culture.
Swinth is available for download from CSDb: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=34529