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Streaming RealAudio From a Commodore 64

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you'll-be-stone-dead-in-a-moment dept.

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."

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  1. Re:So these guys did essentially nothing by glwtta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well what the fuck did you do? Sat on your ass and read /.? Yeah, that's much more impressive.

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  2. Re:Ingenuity by tomlouie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who's to say that their ingenuity wasn't spent doing something worthwhile? They had a blast, I bet, they overcame technical problems, and they learned a lot. And, they furthered the knowledge and realm of possiblility. (Who would have thought that a C=64 could handle a /. load?!?)

    Now, if you were talking about the millions of dollars that goes into sports every year that could have been going to something worthwhile, I would agree with you.

    Tom