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The wonders of the modern world: accessing Wikipedia with Commodore 64 from 1982.
Of course, this is "cheating" in all manner of ways, today's web is simply beyond reach of a device this limited. Just the deceptively simple looking, plain html version of the English Mastodon page is some 650 kilobytes, over ten times the size of the entire memory in the C64. It would require two whole two-sided C64 floppies to store on uncompressed. And that's without any pictures.
The actual network handling is done by modern hardware hidden into an extension cartridge (Ultimate II+ in this case), the C64 only sees a fast modem.
The C64OS 1.07 added support for networking through such devices, and comes with a specialized Wikipedia application that talks a simple protocol to a special service on a modern server that turns the actual Wikepedia page into something somehow consumable and viewable by the C64 - in the full glory of 40x25 character display.
It's all rather silly of course, but also neat 
Can you imagine the device you're using to read this message still in use 40 years from now?
@metin@graphics.social
𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚟𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜
From a range of voxel art tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
As there were no voxel editors yet, I made them by extruding polygons in 3ds Max.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
Fan art of The Last Ninja 2 by Robert Ramsay. source: X.
@metin@graphics.social 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛
From a series of voxel art tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
As there were no voxel editors yet, I made them by extruding polygons in 3ds Max.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
Zauberschloß - im Land der Abenteuer | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/SH8502/zauberschlo%C3%9F.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Abenteuerspiele haben ihren ganz besonderen Reiz. Gefragt sind weniger die motorischen Reaktionsfähigkeiten, sondern vielmehr die logische Vorgehensweise und viel Fantasie. In einem streng bewachten Schloß mit seinen vielfältigen Gefahren gilt es, dem Zauberer die Krone und damit die Regentschaft über das Volk zu entreißen. Doch es ist ein steiniger Weg.
@metin@graphics.social 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚁𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚘𝚠 𝙸𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜
From a series of voxel art tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
Amazon – das besondere Adventure | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/8504/amazon.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Amazon ist das erste aus einer Reihe von Abenteuerspielen, die gemeinsam mit bekannten Romanautoren produziert wurden. Was dahinter steckt, ist beachtlich.
