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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 Skuld-Chan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not all companies back then developed directly on the C64 either.

    There were dev tools for the PC for the C64 for example.

    I don't think its cheating to use a bigger PC to develop a complex app for a smaller machine ;).