In February, I stumbled upon the BASIC 10Liner Contest, an extreme challenge of creating an entire video game in 10 lines of BASIC code. BASIC was the de-facto language of the home computing revolution in the late 1970s through the 1980s. The first Apple, Atari, and Commodore (and other) computers shipped with BASIC as the…
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Commodore in the Cloud : Part 1
For many years, the cloud was a realm I mostly explored at work during the day. When it came time to climb back down the beanstalk and hang up my plumber overalls and pipe wrench, I was perfectly happy to exist on traditional Linux virtual private servers or physical machines at home like my MacBook…
Simple BBS in a Commodore Emulator
If you roamed the Earth in the time when every household had a personal computer but only a few had ever heard of something called the Internet, then you probably remember using a modem to dial into a Bulletin Board System or BBS. At that time, unless you were among the lucky few with access…