A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64 177
An anonymous reader writes "Johan Van den Brande has developed a Twitter client for the Commodore 64, allowing 140-character messages to be posted directly from this TV-connected 1982 home computer. This YouTube video shows how the Twitter client is — slowly! — loaded from a 5.25" floppy disk, how the latest Twitter messages are downloaded and shown on the TV screen, and how this tweet is posted. All that is needed is a C64, a TV, and a C64 Ethernet card. The Twitter client is implemented with the Contiki operating system, which otherwise is used for connecting tiny embedded systems to the Internet."
Trying to change history (Score:5, Funny)
Contiki? (Score:3, Funny)
Wait wait wait... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:i can feel a tv series comming (Score:2, Funny)
"Nerds that never get laid"
You mean like "Desert that never gets wet" or "Rock that never gets hungry"
Re:FW (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware (Score:5, Funny)
The old quote: "Every time Andy gives me more horsepower, Bill takes it away."
I call "cheating" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:i can feel a tv series comming (Score:5, Funny)
"Nerds that never get laid"
At least we know there'll never be a Nerds that Never get Laid TNG.
Re:FW (Score:2, Funny)
You are on Slashdot and you need explanation to see that implementing a Twitter client on a C64 is totally cool?
Sir, you are requested to leave this room please.
Speccy vs. C64 slugfest - start here! (Score:3, Funny)
The first, and obvious, salvo into the Speccy camp: your rubbery toy didn't have a decent keyboard, a decent GPU, sound processor or disk drive, and now... you guys miss out on the 21st century, too ;o)
Slug away, have at it!
(P.S. this is all tongue-in-cheek. I actually wish I had a Speccy - there was a ton of great software for that little beast)
A new target market for Dell! (Score:0, Funny)
This is great news for Dell, who have moved into the Twitter marketing area [slashdot.org]. Hordes of upgrade-hungry Commodore 64 users now have access to all the Dell special offers!
Camel what? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware (Score:5, Funny)
Not good enough (Score:5, Funny)
I want to know where the twitter client is for my VIC-20.
You. (Score:1, Funny)
Will.
Never.
Get.
Laid.
Re:Twitter isn't exactly an intensive application (Score:4, Funny)
What sort of caveman could possible have a use for it?
Og tweet about playing Ultima III:
Og swallowed by whirlpool.
Og now mad and smash phone.
Wrong why? (Score:3, Funny)
I think the question isn't "Why are they implementing a Twitter client on a C64?". I think it's the same question I had: Why are they loading this from 5.25" floppies?
Re:Before anyone asks... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you talking about the C64 project or Twitter?
Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware (Score:5, Funny)
Care to count how many layers of abstraction there are between a typical GUI application and the bare metal on a modern *nix?
I look forward to reading /. in fifteen years.
"Windows FOX is bloated. Why does it require 2 TB of ram just to boot when I can browse the intercloud without problems on Gnubun*x running with only 512 GB ram?"
Re:FW (Score:3, Funny)