Of course! It was a fun article.

I'm always amused by this demo, but I always wondered what it was doing to my drive's heads (and the 1541 is so easy to throw out of alignment).

There was the BHP virus, but that was more of a proof of concept, and I don't remember hearing much (if anything) of it being in the wild. That said, it could stamp itself on disks even by simply listing the directory. 64'er was indirectly its source (by claiming it couldn't be done), and they were also the ones to issue a cleaner to remove it from disks.

See also groepaz's list: https://hitmen.c02.at/files/docs/c64/C64_Virus_List.txt

Except it's unlikely to be exclusively for Commodore systems - they seem to be making it retro-general. Which is fine, but that's not Gazette, either.

Glad to hear it - the tags were getting pretty unwieldy.

Bought from them relatively recently myself. Old school way of doing business but the items were precisely as advertised.

I contest the verisimilitude of this simulation. Mine started over from 1% a lot more often than this one does!

Lots of great tricks here, some that any C64 demo coder will recognize, and some really involved gags like the nine sprites seemingly in the border. As he says, it's intentionally and deceptively not fancy, but it's more technically impressive than many of the showboat trackmos.

If you really want a modern workstation that's still in the spirit of the old RISC war horses, go buy a Raptor Talos II (or a Raptor Blackbird if you want something smaller). Lots of OS support, generally runs most software you can compile for it, and way more powerful than your Power Mac.

Nice work - I just use one of Bob Applegate (rip)'s RS-232 cards. They work great with the KIM and probably other KIM-like devices.

For uploading, I wrote this (plain C). It converts raw binaries to the KIM papertape format transparently and uploads (and executes) in one step, or you can hand it preprocessed papertape text files. https://github.com/classilla/kimup/