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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. Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware by peppepz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    True, but... if we can reach such achievements on a C64, it’s also because we can use nice development tools, running on much beefier machines, programmed using cycles-eating high level languages, with the comforts of a contemporary operating system. I don’t think Contiki was programmed on a C64 monitor cartridge, in 6510 assembly.

  2. Re:Software really has yet to catch up to hardware by houghi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrong, you decide to give it to Bill. I decide to give it to Linus and he asks for a lot less.

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

    I decide to give it to Linus and he asks for a lot less.

    Care to count how many layers of abstraction there are between a typical GUI application and the bare metal on a modern *nix?