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Streaming RealAudio From a Commodore 64
An anonymous reader submits: "This just came in on comp.sys.cbm and
I think it will be of general interest here at Slashdot as well. Two
Commodore hackers, Adam Dunkels and Peter Eliasson, have built an
Ethernet card for their C64 and have connected one to the
Internet. But they aren't 'just' running a TCP/IP stack and a web server on it - they are also
running a RealAudio server which streams audio from the C64's cassette
player and apparently, it sounds awful! They have the full source code
avaliable and pictures of the
C64 server."
Currently active TCP connections
A note for youngsters... The C64 is not a fancy new 64 bit machine, it is an 8 bit machine (vintage 1982) with 64Kbyte memory.
Heh, commie's always had enough juice to do something. Considering that the commie had only 1 mHz, and yet hackers then were able to get demo's with sine functions... i dont find this unbelivable :-) Craaaazy yes.
Anyways, how in the hell were they able to reverse real audio encoding? Isnt that a dmca violation. (This programmer has commited an illegal operation and will be shut down.... locked up).
Aww, darnit, I forgot! I have 3 of those with the tape deck. Too bad I cant send disk images to it, as it uses a different head technology.
Finally I have something I can do with all the cassettes I collected through the 80s, and judging by the colors of the wires and circuit board, somewhere I can use all my day-glo clothes!
and you might hear the crackle of a flaming C64...
Some people see things as they are and say why. I see things that never were and say why not.
Then again, some people say "why not," get drunk, and and hook a piece of crap up to the internet.
$50 bucks to the first person that builds a C64 emulator out of legos that streams video of a coffeepot and runs BSD.
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I am an expert in electricity. My father held the chair of applied electricity at the state prision.
This is definately going to be the first time a Commodore 64 has been /.ed, and will probably set the record for how long it takes to get /.ed.
Of course, rebooting a C64 is pretty fast.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
I bet that ethernet card probably has more CPU power then the rest of the machine.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Apple will soon be announcing its release of Quicktime Pro for the Apple IIe.
C'mon now, Real Audio(TM) always sounds awful. This isn't news!
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I don't even believe a Beuowolf cluster of these could survive serving streaming media to
Until they get slapped with a lawsuit from Real due to using their streaming format without permission? .. Sigh!
Maybe Jon Katz's friend, Junis can now send us live streaming audio from Afghanistan using his Commodore! That is, if he can spare the bandwidth and disk space that he uses to download all those DivX ;-) movies.
Hey cut it out with that Slashdot-ing, poor Junis is trying to look at some movies.
how about a C64 port of bnetd ?
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
For an even more extreme example of extra CPU's (though not necessarily much more powerful, and two of them not in use :-), I at one point had an Amiga 2000 with a 68000 CPU. I got a used 68020
accelerator board for it. In addition it had one of those PC cards that let you run DOS in a window, with an 8086, and an 286 accelerator for it. To top it off my SCSI card had a Z80 on it.
But one CPU is missing....
Guess what is used as a keyboard controller on many of the Amigas? An embedded version of the 6510, running at 2MHz and with onboard RAM and ROM..
So to sum it up, the CPUs in use: 68020, 286, Z-80 and some chip with an 6510 core. Now that's multiprocessing :-)
load "linux",8,1
Is it just me or does that little C64 perform better than a NT server running IIS?
I'm sure it will stay up for longer as well...
Let's count the security holes...
This is really funny!
Then again: The OS on my mobile phone is more reliable than NT.
Oh, ok, we are talking about the C64 right? Wow, it's smaller than a NT server! Oops, here I go again.
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
Couldn't they just chuck the audio-cassette and insert one with some cool new c64 gamez?
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If they brought that ingenuity to doing something worthwhile, who knows what they could do...
/.'ed to death. I'm sure someone would pick them up for their creativeness.
exactly, so they should put in their resumes that they had their hacked c64
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
I would have loved to see what Netcraft would report, unfortunately it can't find the server.
Why do people think they can link to things like Commodores, their Grandmother's computer, a Yugo, Paul Reubens himself, and think the webserving capability is going to hold up to hundreds of timewasting /.ers thinking "oh, this may actually be cool", despite the fact no one really honestly cares (ok I did enough to click on all the links, they didn't work, hence my bitterness).
These guys should cut a deal with Unisys to host www.wehavethewayout.com.
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Well if you want to cook a C64, there is a BASIC command that may do it:
WARNING: Use of this is at your own risk! May destroy hardware! Not recommended for any machine you'd like to keep! I WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER
POKE 53270, PEEK(53270) OR 32
I did it and I could feel heat coming up from the keyboard and a smell like thermal paste overheating or something.
I turned it off very quickly and it did survive.
It was responsive and with a normal display right until I cut the power.
Some C64 docs say bit 5 of register 53270 is the reset bit for the VIC controller.
Some just say, ominously:
"ALWAYS SET THIS BIT TO 0!"
Why a reset bit would cause an overheat is beyond me. Anyone have a clue? I'd really like to know what is so bad about setting that bit. I was hoping it would just be a reset bit.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
I tried the posted link but all I got back was "Press Play on Tape"