I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Finding the Prodigal Easter Egg inside the Easter Egg on a Commodore 64 · imapenguin
- Quick post: Determining length in Commodore Assembly · imapenguin
- Recording a video response to the @8BitShowAndTell Easter egg(s) on the vinyl album video. I think I need a bigger desk. Let’s sell the house! #commodore #c64
- And the answer is:
- Okay, how long do you think this rig will run on an old 20 amp hour battery with the screen at full brightness? I want the 4 hour square. I gave it some work to do to keep it from sitting idle.
- Cannibalizing an Easy Flash case for @adrianglz64 Snappy cart. The wifi module even fits. Time to get to work on this thing.
- 128 jiffy dos time. Maybe it’ll start playing nicer now. #commodore
- Wyze watch came today. On the left: $20, on the right: $420. One of them will make it almost 24 hours on a charge. The other one will make it more than a week.
- Still waffling on which machine to use in this. If I go with "TheC64" from @THEC64_RGL it's 5V like the monitor I'm using so an off the shelf phone battery makes this completely wireless. To use the Ultimate 64 I do have these voltage converters that would work.
- Okay, I got both @8BitShowAndTell Easter eggs on the prodigal album. Finally. Yes, it’s what I did on a Friday evening (also my birthday). My wife helped. Took… a while and a whole legal pad page of notes to get. Well played Sir Robin. Video on it coming soon.
- If you REALLY want to get into the weeds on how I figured out the @8BitShowAndTell Easter Egg(s) inside the Easter Egg on a 35 Year old album on a 35 year old computer then you're in luck, this video is for you!
- Stillll working on this @8BitShowAndTell easter egg. I got one of the two...
- Still iterating on the portable C64 design. I’ve got a list of changes to make, but field testing today has been successful. #commodore #c64
- Very cool delivery from @gregnacu, Commodore compatible controller with switchable fire button function and Chicken logo patches. Nice!
- Well it arrived. Time to work on figuring out the easter egg @8BitShowAndTell put INSIDE the easter egg on this album. I don't have a direct input to a C64, so step one is getting this program on tape. Where IS my tape recorder anyway?
- Huh, weekend todo list is done. That’s… strange. Stretch goal is to get my pack base weight under 13 pounds.
- Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. The problem child 128 is better every day
- Considering ditching TheC64 for this and going with the Ultimate64. I have these two cases for it. Both will fit. A real C64 isn’t practical for power and fitting a cartridge in the back.
- New to me 64C keyboard. Moving my Ultimate into a 64C case and want the keyboard to match.
- What? 36 degrees F IIISSS above freezing. Time to power wash the boat