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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. FW by chip_s_ahoy · · Score: 0, Troll

    First "Why"

    1. Re:FW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You have earned: One asshole Goatse'ed off the Grand Dragon. Now bend the fuck over.

  2. Re:Not necessarily so funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah that Petrus guy is a grade A skitzo, his ranting makes no sense and he goes off on something about the end of the world in that all electricity will be lost so we will not be able to run our overpowered WIndows machines. It makes no fucking sense.

    What a looney, thankfully he doesn't represent the market place.

    But yeah, scary that there are people like that hanging around Slashot.

  3. Re:Much Faster Floppy Drive for the C64 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Still the one I saw demo'd

    ur retard'd.