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A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64

Posted by kdawson on from the welcome-aboard-commodore dept.

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."

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  1. Trying to change history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Re:FW by friendofthenite · · Score: 5, Funny

    To enable you to Tweet in between games of Attack of the Mutant Camels.

  3. Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware by FranTaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    The old quote: "Every time Andy gives me more horsepower, Bill takes it away."

  4. Re:i can feel a tv series comming by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Nerds that never get laid"

    At least we know there'll never be a Nerds that Never get Laid TNG.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  5. Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware by harry666t · · Score: 4, Funny

    42.

  6. Not good enough by Prototerm · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want to know where the twitter client is for my VIC-20.

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    "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
  7. Re:Before anyone asks... by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you talking about the C64 project or Twitter?

  8. Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware by Penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?"

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    - Peter Brodersen; professional nerd