Josip Retro Bits @josipretrobits@qoto.org

Being on #Mastodon has made me realize how much time and emotional effort is wasted on Twitter from people trying to debate over every little thing to "drive engagement".

GRay Defender has done a first look/review of #VisionBASIC

#c64 #commodore64 #retrocomputing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUMS_Ea2pQ

Retro podcast for your commute?
https://youtu.be/0k6jJ-NHTy8 This week we talk about Ocean Software, the end of the iPod era and more! Watch on #YouTube or search for This Week in #Retro on your #podcast app 👍

Typed in a little #BASIC program I found on the internet to generate some artwork on my #Atari. This took way longer than it should have but scroll through to see what it produced.

Sweet dreams of rhythm and dancing
Sweet dreams of passion through the night
Sweet dreams are taking over
Sweet dreams of dancing through the night

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

This weekend's agenda:
- play Call of Cthulhu
- find my solder
- start on my RC2014
- read enough of the VisionBASIC manual to be dangerous
- be dangerous

#RIP #Vangelis

Good morning Fediverse! Here is your #vintagecomputer picture for today: my Issue Two 48k ZX Spectrum, kindly sent to me by @GedgeHead (we actually did a trade and I sent him some floppy drives in exchange -- that was fun!)

The machine included a large number of tapes, so I dug out my wife's old Panasonic tape player to load some games. Took a few tries, but I got it going. It was fun loading from tape again after 30 years (on my Atari 400, back then). Gedge did a composite mod on it before he sent it to me so I can run it easily on my PAL monitors here in the States.

Later, I sent some photos of the innards to "ZX Wife" (hmm...wonder if she's on Fedi...) who said it was probably originally a 16k Speccy that had been upgraded to 48k.

Hope everyone has a great day. Keep it retro 😎

HEART OF NEON: Jeff Minter's Life in Video Games

https://vimeo.com/706774433

@1HommeAzerty :
The #Python program on the left generates the picture on the right.

I made Bo. Bo is a Digital pet fly on Commodore 64 and in this video, I put Bo in several different situations and adventures.

The idea behind this video is to show how small tweaks of the same #code result in a different output.

#c64 #basic #programming #retrocomputing #commodore64

https://youtu.be/0P_IyFNwIkk

Guess I better jump on this bandwagon while it's still Friday here...

Some of my fine feathered #retrocomputing friends:

@dddaaannn
@josipretrobits
@thezerobit
@jonnypencils
@Wintermute_BBS
@multitink
@vwbusguy
@comchia
@CommodoreSpence

#ff #followfriday

I have used up all my data plan for this month, so my speed is capped at 64 Kbps.

This is a friendly reminder to all web developers: Keep your bundle sizes small, only ship what you need, compress your images, YOU DON'T NEED REACT IN YOUR F-ING BLOG, test your sites on slow connections and slow phones.

You using a Galaxy S22 Ultra with an unlimited 5G plan doesn't mean everyone else does too.