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A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64
An anonymous reader writes "Johan Van den Brande has developed a Twitter client for the Commodore 64, allowing 140-character messages to be posted directly from this TV-connected 1982 home computer. This YouTube video shows how the Twitter client is — slowly! — loaded from a 5.25" floppy disk, how the latest Twitter messages are downloaded and shown on the TV screen, and how this tweet is posted. All that is needed is a C64, a TV, and a C64 Ethernet card. The Twitter client is implemented with the Contiki operating system, which otherwise is used for connecting tiny embedded systems to the Internet."
By releasing a client in the past Twitter will have become an integral part of our lives in the future. The only solution is to send a robot back in time to kill Jack Dorsey before he is born.
But will it run on LUnix
Are you telling me this works without an internet connection?!
"Nerds that never get laid"
You mean like "Desert that never gets wet" or "Rock that never gets hungry"
To enable you to Tweet in between games of Attack of the Mutant Camels.
The old quote: "Every time Andy gives me more horsepower, Bill takes it away."
The ethernet card is not original C64 equipment. He should be bit banging an rs232 link to a 300 baud modem in order to get a net connection.
"Nerds that never get laid"
At least we know there'll never be a Nerds that Never get Laid TNG.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
You are on Slashdot and you need explanation to see that implementing a Twitter client on a C64 is totally cool?
Sir, you are requested to leave this room please.
The first, and obvious, salvo into the Speccy camp: your rubbery toy didn't have a decent keyboard, a decent GPU, sound processor or disk drive, and now... you guys miss out on the 21st century, too ;o)
Slug away, have at it!
(P.S. this is all tongue-in-cheek. I actually wish I had a Speccy - there was a ton of great software for that little beast)
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
This is great news for Dell, who have moved into the Twitter marketing area. Hordes of upgrade-hungry Commodore 64 users now have access to all the Dell special offers!
Hey now, every COOL C64 user ran f-15 strike eagle or arctic fox. Now GEOS just made me scratch my head until we got an actual PC. I jsut wish I'd had a modem and used the BBSs back then.
42.
I want to know where the twitter client is for my VIC-20.
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
Will.
Never.
Get.
Laid.
What sort of caveman could possible have a use for it?
Og tweet about playing Ultima III:
Og swallowed by whirlpool.
Og now mad and smash phone.
You are on Slashdot and you need explanation to see that implementing a Twitter client on a C64 is totally cool?
I think the question isn't "Why are they implementing a Twitter client on a C64?". I think it's the same question I had: Why are they loading this from 5.25" floppies?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Are you talking about the C64 project or Twitter?
Care to count how many layers of abstraction there are between a typical GUI application and the bare metal on a modern *nix?
I look forward to reading /. in fifteen years.
"Windows FOX is bloated. Why does it require 2 TB of ram just to boot when I can browse the intercloud without problems on Gnubun*x running with only 512 GB ram?"
- Peter Brodersen; professional nerd
Why, so that kids in Afghanistan can use Twitter, of course! (Can't believe I'm the first to mention this. Has Jon Katz really been scrubbed from the collective-Slashdot memory?)
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.