So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned.
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
50MHz is a lot more than the (roughly) 1MHz that C64 came with.
Have to google the C64U...
(FWIW my Beeb model B had 2 MHz on (basically) the same CPU).
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross That sounds AWESOME
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@rollbear You *can* use an NTSC TV set if you have one, but it apparently has an HDMI port that puts out 1080p, because why not.
@cstross Wow, NTSC, even harder to get. HDMI seems a lot easier.
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross I grew up with a C64C and was very tempted by the C64U. I'll be interested to hear what you think of it once you really get cracking on it.
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross Just don't try stuff punched paper tape into the USB slot.
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross Great mini-documentary about the C64 from The 8-Bit Guy!
Commodore History Part 3 - The Commodore 64 (complete) -
@mwl I will, but first I've got a novel to redraft!
yeah, I know the feeling.
(looks longingly at Soekris net4801destined for Minimum Viable NAS project)
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Yet! I'm sure that an hour of vibe coding on one or another LLM will have something that will work
@simonzerafa @cstross @mwl @scrivenerapp 13-year-old me did try to write a word processor in C64 Basic. I may still have the code in manuscript on yellowing graph paper at the bottom of a chest somewhere if you’re interested.
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@simonzerafa @cstross @mwl @scrivenerapp 13-year-old me did try to write a word processor in C64 Basic. I may still have the code in manuscript on yellowing graph paper at the bottom of a chest somewhere if you’re interested.
@noctuaminervae @simonzerafa @mwl @scrivenerapp No, but if there's a C64 implementation of vi I'd be very interested! (IIRC Stevie, the vi clone that later evolved into vim, was started on the Atari ST, but I don't know of any 8-bit vi editors.)
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
Have fun, good luck figuring out how to get its keyboard at a height that won't ruin your wrists! Mine ache just *thinking* about typing on top of that thing again.
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@noctuaminervae @simonzerafa @mwl @scrivenerapp No, but if there's a C64 implementation of vi I'd be very interested! (IIRC Stevie, the vi clone that later evolved into vim, was started on the Atari ST, but I don't know of any 8-bit vi editors.)
@cstross @noctuaminervae @simonzerafa @mwl @scrivenerapp
be careful what you wish for...
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Have fun, good luck figuring out how to get its keyboard at a height that won't ruin your wrists! Mine ache just *thinking* about typing on top of that thing again.
@anthracite After I'd ordered mine they released a version with a case that used the tooling for the original Commodore 128, i.e. a lot slimmer/sleeker. Dammit.
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross Sounds fun, I keep looking at the retro recreations of the computers I had in the 80s and pondering buying one, just for fun, but suspect after playing a little while it would just be gathering dust as I get busy with other things. But still, that tug of nostalgia is damned strong and I do keep looking at them from time to time.. Enjoy!
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@noctuaminervae @simonzerafa @mwl @scrivenerapp No, but if there's a C64 implementation of vi I'd be very interested! (IIRC Stevie, the vi clone that later evolved into vim, was started on the Atari ST, but I don't know of any 8-bit vi editors.)
Read to the fringes section at the bottom.
https://jdebp.uk/FGA/vi-family.html
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Read to the fringes section at the bottom.
https://jdebp.uk/FGA/vi-family.html
@JdeBP @noctuaminervae @simonzerafa @mwl
Bingo! svicc is what I was looking for.
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@JdeBP @noctuaminervae @simonzerafa @mwl
Bingo! svicc is what I was looking for.
@cstross @JdeBP @simonzerafa @mwl
Psst, mister, can I interest you in a v editor included with the C64 Forth enticingly named … drumroll …https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross Gigabit? That's an illegal unit, sir!
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@simonzerafa @mwl I don't think there's a @scrivenerapp port to the C64 …
@cstross @simonzerafa @mwl @scrivenerapp It's a C64, we use geoWrite around these parts
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@anthracite After I'd ordered mine they released a version with a case that used the tooling for the original Commodore 128, i.e. a lot slimmer/sleeker. Dammit.
@cstross @anthracite I have the slimline C64 I bought in 1986 for the money I earned from my first summer job (hydropower village gardener) sitting in a box in the basement, retrieved from a barn on my parents' farm last summer.
Haven't had time or space to see if it works yet. Much be to terrified to try...
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.
@cstross They really nailed the keyboard.
