Still, most games and demos do ot need serial, kernal or even timers so..

sprites, music, measuring cpu with bgcolor, opening the borders, crunching and a lot of concepts around how KickAssembler helps you with lots of tedious things that today would be a job for the linker I guess. After 7.5h worth of "code-along", the 10 attendees arrived at this:
#c64
#asm
#demoscene