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.
@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.
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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 Lucky!
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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 still have my original C64 for which I took out a loan under oppressive terms from my parents
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@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.
So if the CPU is really an FPGA, and the "field programmable" part is still accessible to you... you could write microcode.
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So if the CPU is really an FPGA, and the "field programmable" part is still accessible to you... you could write microcode.
@weekend_editor There's an equivalent Sinclair Spectrum FPGA machine, the Spectrum Next, which has FPGA cores to emulate the Sinclair QL, the BBC Master, and a couple of other computers (I think the C64 is one?)!
