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Have you tried BasicLinux? http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/ it's really easy to find ditros that run on such hardware, just don't expect to be using 2.6.x kernel.

The Apple ][ had "high" res black & white (320x200?), low res 6-colour (black, white, orange, blue, purple, green, 160x200?) and a really low res mode at like 40x50 and 16 colours. If you only had a monochrome screen, the 6-colour mode looked just like the monochrome mode but with dithering.

Here's a screenshot: http://www.volny.cz/havlikjosef/galery/AppleIIFSII_1.PNG

Pretty horrible, I agree. But the Apple's strengths were the option of an 80-column card and a decently fast disk drive. You could actually do work on them. Games and the SID is what really made the C64 shine.

I've often wondered why Python, Ruby, and other popular scripting languages can't be used the same way.

They can. KDE apps support something called DCOP, which is a lot like an ARexx port. Install the dcoppython package, and now Python is ready to do the stuff you used to do with ARexx.

For example, here is a list of how Amarok (a KDE music player) can be manipulated, queried, etc through DCOP. If you have that stuff installed, then go ahead and start up Amarok, load up a playlist, then start a python interpreter and type these lines:

import pydcop
amarok=pydcop.anyAppCalled('amarok')
amar ok.player.play() # don't know why slashdot is adding that extra space
print amarok.player.nowPlaying()

When I first heard about Links (thank you, Steven Darnold, for your BasicLinux project!), I was impressed by how much more functional and user-friendly it was than Lynx. So I tried to find out more about it, install it on my other Linux systems, etc.

I found that I was completely unable to Google for it. Have you any idea how often the word "links" appears on web pages that aren't referring to this particular web browser? Trying the term "links web browser" doesn't work, either --it's still completely obscured by noise.

Finally, I heard about elinks, and a bit of what can be described as rivalry between links and elinks. So I switched over to elinks completely.

I know we complain about dorky-sounding names for OSS projects, but I wish a bit of forethought had been given to the name of the "links" software. On the other hand, the next time I come up with a DRM ubercracking software, I'll name it "the" and let the MAFIAA Google for it.

Note: that was years ago when I was still using Mandrake 8.1. For those of you who are interested, you can now find Links via Wikipedia and you can also Google for "Links2" to find it.

An anon user already mentioned CMD drives. Another option is IDE64 with which you can use disks or CF cards as big as 8 gigs, and CD-ROMs of course.

Me? This would be cool, but right now, I'm kind of attached to my 1541 + The Final Cartidge III. Who cares about hard drives if I can turboload the Mini Office II word processor in a couple of seconds from a floppy, anyway... =)

Oh yeah. I liked Dictator on the ZX Spectrum too! Here's a PC port I just found!

no trolling, I mean it. Given that now there is a 16-Bit-20-MHz CPU and several hard disks for it, it should at least be possible. Ok, they have their Unix based OS already but NetBSD would definitly be a different class.

• Peanut Linux sounds pretty good
• Damn Small Linux
  This is a live linux distribution which means that it runs off the CD. It's supposed to be a little difficult to install try following these directions:

  To install Damn Small Linux to the HD...
  From the damn small desktop (no pun intended) ...
  Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to SU root outside X.
  Type "dsl-hdinstall" (a mod off Knoppix's knx-hdinstall)...
  Follow the prompts... (cfdisk, etc.......)
  I've done it & tested it -- works. --bosspacman

• Basic Linux might work but it might be difficult if you don't know linux very well.
• I hear RedHat's 6.0 distro is light weight too if you can find it.

Actually, IIRC the 1541 was single-sided, single-density, around 160kb of storage.

But yes, there are various different expansions available, including hard drives and more memory. There were various 3rd-party options, and now someone has developed a way to hook up an IDE drive to a C64. It also can be used to access CF cards.

I believe that apps had to support the memory upgrade peripherals. I seem to recall them being fairly popular with GEOS users.

There was a great little game on the Sinclair Spectrum called Dictator that was set in the "Ritimban Republic". On the domestic front you had to balance the Military, Landowners and Peasants, but you also had to worry about an aggressive neighbouring country ("Leftoto"), the Soviets and the Americans. There's an online version here and a Q-BASIC port here, and I'm sure the original tape image can be found somewhere...

I wouldn't mind that C64 with a built in hard drive for storing games and music and recording live video off the dish. Hell, why dont we combine all the tecnology in the world to a C64.. I bet we will make more money off that!

While I'll have to get back to you about the recording video part, this guy has the IDE hard drive part covered. Although it seems that this may be more of a homebrew project. Beware the power of a souped up C64!!! =-O

I can't think of a browser released in the past couple of years that *crashes* on bad HTML, except for this particular issue. Misrenders, yes, but crashes, no.

Bad HTML has been known to crash or freeze browsers for a long time. To me a freeze is just as bad as a crash because it leaves your browser unusable. A great example of this is Cyberarmys old crash page, which was designed to crash any browser. When i went today i noticed it was gone, I dont know how long ago they took it down, but I found a copy on google here (WARNING - It may crash of freeze your browser - it froze my Mozilla 1.3).

I think the problems existed, but they werent as publicized because a crash and an exploit that gave an attacker control of your machine are very different. A crash is just inconvienent, but getting owned sucks.

I still don't know where the K6 has a slow FPU idea is coming from.

Here's some MFLOPS benchmarks. Notice how the K6 FPU actually competes with similarly clocked PII cores, even though the K6 was never meant to be a competitor with such an advanced processor.

The bad CPU was the Cyrix for FPU, and also the K5. But the K6? No way, hozay.

Actually, the Mayan civilization was quite advanced when it came to astronomy. In some aspects, they were as advanced as we are today. Not only did they predict numerous solar and lunar eclipses but they also knew a lot about astronomy.

I generally agree with your comments about not believing in old civilizations knew more than we do now though.

It's about time Apples caught up to the Commodore 64 ;).

IDE64 has given them that ability for a while, since all you need is a CF to IDE adapter, and you can have up to two 8 GB harddrives on a c64, or a few CF cards, or a couple of IBM Microdrives :).

16GB on that machine is completely nuts. You could quite possibly store every c64 game ever made (which I estimate at over 30,000 .d64 images total) and still have room left over for the applications.

Of course, you can go for the 8GB HD and a CD-ROM :). Some of those screenshots are pretty nuts. I can't imagine loading the Windows 95 CD-ROM using LOAD"$",8

Meanwhile, Nate has nearly hacked together an MP3 player for the c64 based on the MAS chip. That, and a quickcam, and a few other things. Look at the C= projects page. That's some wicked stuff.

Now that's a hacker's machine. Give them enough time and they even get a workalike UNIX with a GUI and IRC client, as well as a 20Mhz CPU, 16MB RAM, and many other cool things. From what I hear, XGA video and PCI are next.

I always did like these hackers of older systems. I would enjoy seeing those optimization techniques applied to modern code and compilers, especially gcc :).

Have you ever checked out the IDE64 project or the CMD product portfolio? I'd love to have those for my C64, but I'll save the money for a G4 turboboard for my Amiga 3000. :-) Retro is cool!

I've seen a card that lets you add IDE to a C-64, is that good enough?

Sounds like cvsq might solve your problem. cvsq was mentioned in a previous ask /. where a user was connected intermittently.

Now, cvsq does not use 2 repositories. It seems you have preconcluded that you need 2 cvs respositories. Rather than forcing a solution to have 2 repositories I suggest analyzing the problem a little more at a higher to determine the requirements.

http://www.volny.cz/v.slavik/lt/cvsq.html

my 2 cents.

here

Instead of "cvs commit" you use "cvsq commit". Later, when you are online, you type "cvsq upload" to cause the queued commits to get pushed to the CVS server.