- This is the first part of a personal story of the game author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faery_Tale_Adventure
- Update on Commodore 64 Ultimate (C64U) manufacturing status with a lot of "Hollywood style" marketing.
From the video description: "Travel to Commodore's new C64U factories for a detailed behind-the-scenes look at how the brand new official Commodore 64 is made!"
- Thanks for posting this! It was one of the most fun to write of all the articles I’ve done.
- Doesn't look like it _yet_. Seems to require a connected computer to provide most of the devices over a high-speed serial link. But that could be handled by an RPi nowadays.
- Nice share. My friends using modern Mac’s will like.
- This would be something to see. Certainly having a cycle accurate machine would be amazing as the amount of bulky hardware dies off each year. I guess the fPU is not available. I can’t imagine it’s the complexity.
I did mostly a cursory read so it may be the dumbest question. I couldn’t really see if there is an all up system built. Anyone know ?
- Dunno if this would work in the program, but you could try using the VICE monitor to disable key repeat (set location 650 to 64). Made using warp mode a lot more liveable when I was playing with Roadsearch Plus.
- Actually, I can say the same: My apologies. English is not my first language either. ;-)
- Great, thanks for the link!
I still use a recreation of the Flying Toasters After Dark module on my current Mac - https://github.com/robertventurini/FlyingToasters
- My apologies. English is not my first language. I am meaning to praise the quality of the site and is worth a view for any retro fan.
- Hi, I'm not tricking anyone. The '2025' manual, if you care to scroll down through it, gives you a lot of quick-start information on how to program in assembly, Lisp and even C.
That's not in the 1963 manual...
BTW - no need to buy the replica hardware. The project runs just fine under any Linux, using a virtual panel!
- It'd be interesting to see comparisons to contemporary compilers. IIRC, GCC's output was notably not very good back in the day compared to any commercial 68k compiler, although I assume this is a more recent version of GCC.
- In casual conversation, yeah. I'll forgive it in classified ads and such; better to be precise with money on the line to prevent misunderstandings.
- Looks look Pascal with some arbitrary changes.
https://github.com/mauno-j-ronkko/sharkC64/blob/main/docs/in...
- Model M and Model F - shipped with lots of IBM gear. Searching for docs on specific models is probably more effective than names. Another example is "Thinkpad", that covers a generation of models and documenation and features. some with Big Blue some with Lenovo.
- Amazing in the 80s. Upgrade that would give you a scanner on the expensive Imagewriter you already bought.
- Fixed. Alas. Siri wants to be a helpful elf but is in fact quite drunk. Seriously. Thanks for pointing this out. Sometimes I my haste to get content on the site mistakes happen. Especially if I post From my mobile.
- Oops. Both the title and the tag have a typo.
Thunderscan.
- The connector and number make it sound like it's compatible with a DEC VT-100 (or, better, 102) terminal. You might have better luck with DEC parts.
- Not sure we are allowed, but, if we do, I've been looking for a graphics-capable VT-200 (or later, compatible, etc) for quite some time.
- I used to write software 3D renderers in the 90s and I think of all the time I spent optimizing the assembler, but now I look at stuff that we thought was optimized at the time and people are discovering all sorts of new speed-ups. There are a bunch of videos on YouTube about optimizing N64 games where they found tons of stuff the developers missed, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
- Is there a language reference. I assume this is like action! In Atari for the idea. At first I thought this was a shark c compiler like. Wetaware or geeen hills C.
- perhaps it was a system that different names in different countries/markets? would you have a pic of the system or the keyboard?
- Noting that I recognize this is an extremely unimportant thing to be even a tiny bit annoyed about: am I the only one annoyed that people refer to IBM PCs by model number now more than they do their “official” names?
For example, I never heard anybody back in the day refer to the “5160”, it was always “PC XT” or just “XT”. (The 8514[/A] being the big exception!) But I think newcomers to the scene these days would think the opposite. It seems like to me that this is a quite recent trend, too. I wonder how that happened!
Anyway, this was a really odd little machine. Such a glimpse of the PS/2 design language that was soon to come. Doubly-so if you had the CRT for it: https://www.globalgaragesale.net/item/156173/vtg-ibm-5140-pc...
Playing King’s Quest on its squat little internal screen was … an experience. I imagine it was better at running 1-2-3 but I can’t say I did much of that back in those days!
- The version 1.0 was realeased on 24th Aug 2025.
The project's README has all the pointers but here's the link to a video of the breakout-clone game (for some reasons called as pingpong): https://youtu.be/UVkhCBdWOBw?si=m-ferv2Zs3DaKSD1
- This is basically just a fancy manual for the PiDP-1 emulator.
The actual PDP-1 manuals are available here: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp1/
- Yeah, this is by the PiDP folks — their most polished effort yet, and they’d already set a high standard. Love to see it.
- Don’t be tricked into thinking this is just a scanned pdf. Lots of pictures and resources like how to use OG paper tape and how to use a 2025 paper tape. If you are pdp curious this is the mouth of the rabbit hole.
- It’s basically candian eBay. Weird stuff shows up their from time to time.its just another silo to search like Facebook market place. And the like.
- I think it is rare. I had that keyboard in my hands too. Did not know what it was. Then I got the terminal, and saw the keyboard port is just a 1/4 audio jack.
Doh! Wrong order error.
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