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Surfing With Your Commodore 64

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-say-no dept.

Anonymous Squonk writes: "Computer Workshops Inc. has released a web browser for the Commodore 64! Sure, you have to have a UNIX shell account to use it, but this is the first time I've seen a C64 browse the web with full HTML 1.0 and GIF/JPEG support. I hear that Java and Javascript support is just around the corner..." And Flash! And VRML! Well, maybe not.

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  1. Re:My error in strategic judgement... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    I recommend Atari servers and Commodore clients to all my customers. Igonre the ideology and use the tool that works best, that's what I say.

  2. Computer Workshops INC?? by roystgnr · · Score: 3

    As in Incorporated? Didn't anybody tell them that the time to blow your venture capital releasing goofy products with no real revenue potential ended last year?

  3. OT: Posting and the Slashdot effect by tekan · · Score: 5

    One possible idea for curbing the slashdot effect, especially on bandwidth limited websites, would be to have some mechanism whereby when you post such a story about a website that the story submitter could check an option that would allow for "Google" style mirroring of the page(s) to be stored on slashdot for the time that the story is on the homepage. Once the story goes to the archives or just falls off the homepage, then the cached pages are dumped. Just an idea.

  4. Java is not available already? by color+of+static · · Score: 5

    What do you mean my java code isn't write once and run ANYWHERE? Geez, now I guess you're going to say it won't work on my Timex Sinclair either.

  5. The glory of the C64 by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 3

    If you're interested in doing bizzaro stuff with your C64, you might want to check out these links:

    LUnix (Fully functioning SLIP-TCP/IP stack for C64)

    GeckOS/A65 (Multitasking Unix-ish OS for C64s)

    Lemon for a good stockpile of C64 warez. :)

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  6. My error in strategic judgement... by Sun+Tzu · · Score: 5

    Here I sit staring at my unnetworked Atari 800. Finally, I understand why I should have bought a Commodore!

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  7. Re:How's this work? by jkonrath · · Score: 5

    Most people still hacking at C64's use a cable that goes from the printer port on a PC to the drive cable on the 64. It's called an x1541 cable. You run a small bit of software on your PC, and then your C64 thinks your PC is a disk drive. The PC program lets you load and save image files of 1541 disks. So you could pull down a bunch of disk images from the 'net to your PC's drive, and your C64 would treat them as floppy disks in the 8 drive or 9 drive or whatever. It's pretty cool, especially considering about a million of those tiny little SS/SD disk images could be downloaded in seconds on a 56K modem...

    -Jon

  8. All I need... by selectspec · · Score: 5

    is a store where I can buy a Cassette Tape with this program on it and I'm on my way!

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  9. Dammit... by chegosaurus · · Score: 3

    On hearing this news I have reluctantly decided to abandon my C64 port of Mozilla.

  10. Just submit the Google cached version by yerricde · · Score: 4

    story submitter could check an option that would allow for "Google" style mirroring of the page(s)

    A very frequent suggestion. Here's how to implement it: When you're submitting a story that links to a low-monthly-bandwidth web site, insert www.google.com/search?q=cache: right after the http:// in the URL. That way, viewers get a Google cached version with a link at the top to the most current version.

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  11. Suicide case. by tcc · · Score: 3

    That's pathetic, my Commodore 64 will end up having java support but not my classic amigas.... god damn it I knew I shouldn't have switched when the amiga 500 came out.

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  12. Re:Don't laugh by Pig+Bodine · · Score: 3

    The custom chip set for the Amiga was designed by Jay Miner who also did the graphics chip set for the Atari 8-bit machines. I don't think he had come over to Commodore when the C64 was being designed, but I'm not sure and can't turn up anything on a web search. I also don't know if he is still alive. The Atari 800 and the Amiga were great machines in their day. If he is dead, I'll belatedly mourn his passing.

  13. Re:C-64? by guinsu · · Score: 3

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

  14. Photoshop for the TRS-80 by tenzig_112 · · Score: 5
    Sure, it's a little hard to see what you're doing (what with the 128x48 screen on the Model I). But 6.0 rocks! I have to save all of my multi-layered graphics onto audio cassettes, which can be a bit of a pain. It's at least faster than that paper tape drive that came with it.

    Gotta go. I've got to make some hard copies with my snazzy thermal-transfer printer.

    I've gone nuts with Photoshoppery

  15. SuperCPU by sparcv9 · · Score: 5

    Here's a link for the SuperCPU the article mentions. For the hyperlink-wary, you can find it at http://www.cmdweb.de/scpu.htm. It plugs into your C64 or C128 and boosts it from 1MHz to a whopping 20 MHz, and lets your Commodore support up to 16MB of RAM.

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  16. They must be using one for their Web hosting too by localroger · · Score: 5

    Only 9 comments and the site is already slashdotted.

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