Josip Retro Bits @josipretrobits@social.cleverlibre.org

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.

Adam is a pixel artist who creates images within the technical constraints of the ZX Spectrum computer of the 1980s. You can follow at:

➡️ @helpcomputer0

The Spectrum hardware couldn't cope with more than two colours next to each other, so the art based on it has a very distinctive look.

#Adam #PixelArt #Pixel #Art #PixelArtist #PixelArtists #Computing #ZXSpectrum #DigitalArt #8bit #Computers #1980s #Retro #RetroComputing #ComputingHistory

OK, I've finally finished version 1.3 of Wordle for the #c64.

Maybe it should be called v2.0 compared to my last release because this one loads instantly and doesn't crash with a full gosub stack after 3 games.

It's on my github now and video coming after dinner.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #commodore64

Best computing company of the early 1980s