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And there we go again! Laary 3 is on. Never played this one either! From the get go it already seems a bit more polished and seems to have more of a musical score, which is nice
In 1994, our puzzle game Clockwiser was released for Amiga (OCS and AGA), CD32 console, MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.
This is the title sequence tune by our composer Ramon Braumuller, created with our own Digital Mugician Amiga music editor, published by the British Thalamus in 1990.
The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock's maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp's parent company, RealPage, Inc., is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.
It's depressing. When I was young and got my #TS1000 and #Commodore#C64, I had such joy and high hopes for computing. I majored in CS, focused on AI (real AI, not the current incarnation of bullsh**), and thought the future could be bright for humanity.
Now, I yearn for a car w/no electronic, Intellectual Property-based computer crap telling me how to drive, physical locks, and a TV that shows you TV shows and nothing else.
@clairely_undaunted@foone Except the #Commodore Datasette doesn’t work anything like that.
It has a lot more error protection and uses multiple square waves and a parity bit instead of alternating analog tones like other systems. It even has a DAC and filters—no audio conversion on the computer necessary. (1/3)
But it’s stupid slow! 50bps, not 300bps! So prerecorded #Commodore 8-bit software bootstraps “turbotape” code to use a faster and compressed, but still digital, format.
Using turbotape, you could hypothetically fit roughly 3 megabytes on your 120-minute #C64 cassette! So #Cyberpunk2077’s #AprilFools 97,619 1.44MB floppies could theoretically span only 43,885 datasettes, plus any code needed to stitch the split code together. (2/3)
My new Franken-1541 is running just fine on a real C64. However it is NOT detected on the ZoomFloppy. Any ideas why...? #commodore#commodore64#zoomfloppy
I frequently listen to 4-channel Commodore Amiga music modules from the 1980s and 1990s, with instruments consisting of short 8-bit sound samples.
One of my favorite Amiga composers from that era is Sami Järvinen, better known as Groo. I love his daring experiments, such as this Free Jazz style track called "Banana and Heaven".
I frequently listen to Commodore Amiga music modules from the 1980s and 1990s, with instruments consisting of short 8-bit sound samples.
One of my favorite Amiga composers from that era is Sami Järvinen, better known as Groo. He made this Industrial-style track for CNCD's Closer demo-scene production in 1995.
See the previous post in this thread for another Groo track.
My prebuilt BMC64 arrived today and I’m really pleased with it. It’s built with the BMC64 Raspberry Pi 3A+ board and is switchable between the C64, C128, VIC20, Plus/4 and PET. Lovely retro gorgeousness. #c64#commodore64
I just remembered that forty years ago I wrote a "type it in" book of adventure games for the Commodore 64. Looking at it now, it was absolutely terrible and rather embarrassing... but it's given me an idea for a project. Time to see if I can redeem myself with some original coding and writing. #C64#Commodore64#Commodore#RetroComputing