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First Commodore 64 LAN Party
Leif_Bloomquist writes "The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."
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Judging from the pics, there was at least one.
At least one, probably. Maybe two. :-P
FWIW, I have met Ms. Ellsworth at a Commodore Convention before. Her photo on Wikipedia does not do her justice. And besides that, she really knows her stuff when it comes to the Commodore.
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sadly, commodore of today is a shadow of its former self...
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I think since the C64 event is in the USA that it blocks out foreign IP addresses. Try using a Web proxy from the USA and see if that works, or Use Tor to connect to a USA Tor server.
I'll mirror the location of the event if you want information on it:
"05/26/2008: To pre-pay admission and table fee(s) for the C4 Expo, please Paypal your payments to cmdreclub@iglou.com.
When making payment, please ensure you put what you are paying for
in the comments field of the Paypal transaction.
The receipt for the Paypal transaction MUST be presented at the
admission desk in order to gain entrance to the Expo!!
Door Charges: $10/person or $15/family
Selling tables: $15/table or 3 for $35 (The hotel charges $10/table in addition for power usage.)
T-shirts: TBD
The Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club is proud to present the 3rd annual C4 Expo.
June 28-29 at the Drawbridge Inn
located at:
2477 Royal Drive
Fort Mitchell, KY 41017"
I think you can use that email address to ask them why they blocked your IP. Possible some IIS administration script that locks down security also blocked foreign IPs.
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Have you tried using proxify to get in? I find that often works to give me a US IP address...
Yeah, a fully loaded 6510 puts out an awesome amount of heat. Not.
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There's always the C64 DTV...
That's based on a C64-on-a-chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth... and has solder pads ready to go to add floppy drives and a keyboard.
It's amazing how things change in 10 years. Back in the mid 1990's, getting access to the university from home required a 14K baud modem with PPP, with a university modem pool of two modems.
10 to 15 years later, and every student can just sftp or ssh to their university account through broadband internet. Some even have their own PC security cameras set up so they can watch their own room from anywhere on campus.
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It completely depends on if it is stock or not.
There is an add-on board for the Commodore 64 called the SuperCPU that features a 20 MHz WDC 65816 processor. It also supports up to 16MB of direct memory (w/o bank switching). Recall that the 65816 uses hard-wired 1-byte ops as opposed to the microcoded 2-byte ops that the 68000 uses, so for many instructions, the 65816 is much faster cycle-for-cycle.
That said, I've heard of rumors of somebody making a prototype add-on board using a MC 68EC020, hanging the original C64 chipset and a small bit of memory (for 8-bit DMA) off of the 6800 synchronous bus and the rest of main memory off of the 68K asynchronous bus.
Heck, bump it up to a full 68030 or 68040 and you could run BSD with Apache on your C64.
Hopefully we can do the same with the Sinclair Spectrum soon - I've almost completed the prototype ethernet card for the Spectrum. The prototype is working - I've had it connect to IRC, but there are some things to finish on the library and the board's CPLD.
Picture is here: http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Image:Itlives.jpg
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