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October 1, 2023July 4, 2024

Commodore 64 As A Service

Commodore 64 as a Service was a fun way to learn Flask for Python using Connexion to support an “API first” implementation.

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March 24, 2023February 11, 2024

Yum Yum Donut

In February, I stumbled upon the BASIC 10Liner Contest, an extreme challenge of creating an entire retro 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…

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January 22, 2023May 22, 2025

Back to BASIC : Part 1

Explore! When you learn something new, it is essential to let your curiosity take the lead. As children, we are born with the spirit of an explorer. Even before we can speak or crawl, our minds are fixed upon exploring every aspect of the world that surrounds us. Looking every which way, vocalizing, grasping, observing,…

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August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

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…

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February 24, 2022February 3, 2023

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…

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January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

8-Bit Computing in the 21st Century : Part 2

Let the fun begin! Now that I had a working Commodore 64, I was extremely excited to explore the programs and games from a earlier time in personal computing. I didn’t have a floppy disk drive for this Commodore, but I did have the original data cassette (or datasette) tape drive and using that I…

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January 15, 2022January 15, 2022

8-Bit Computing in the 21st Century : Part 1

One of my earliest memories of using a personal computer was hanging out at my friend Mike Wolter’s house in 1986 and playing the text adventure game Zork on his Commodore 64. I vividly remember the ritual of taking the floppy disk out of its paper envelope and inserting it carefully into the disk drive….

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