Got a new toy today. :) www.youtube.com/shorts/71jwc...

I look at #Commodore64 demo "The Hat" by Fairlight and Genesis Project, specifically the part with the "14 balloon sprites" in a row and its "hires" scrolling border message. youtu.be/DyteWLEPKzE

Online #Zork I through III, but with an #LLM that replaces the normal input parser: infocom.tambo.co For instance, I just typed a prompt, and it translated it into two zork commands:

Remember having to swap disks all the time on 8-bit RPGs? Well, this 21-year-old beat the modern (2020) game Factorio, after converting the game to an unfathomable disk-swapping hell of over 1,000 floppies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPB...

Of course, someone has already AI- #MCP -wrapped the new #C64Ultimate: github.com/Martijn-DevR...

A new 8K PET RPG: youtu.be/dzSJlNHcFME

An early #Commdore #PET RPG worth exploring: Dragon’s Eye ( #EPYX, 1981) youtu.be/jJfGN4Zeb7M

Another Christmas Gift, a new version of VICE just dropped: vice-emu.sourceforge.io

New version of Retro Debugger just dropped today! #c64 #reversing github.com/slajerek/Ret...

Just arrived!

David Given uses #ghidra to explore a new 6502-based toy (bypassing some "security" in the process): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ0X...

If you'd like to msg Becky Heineman, now is the time

It's #CRX2025 (Commodore Retro eXpo) weekend! It's free to virtually attend. I'm unable to join this year, but they've got a great lineup: #c64 www.crxevent.com/presenters.htm

Michael Cranford's recent retrospective on developing The Bard's Tale (EA, 1985) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHc5...

VALE OF THE LOST GODDESS. Right that's all the location bitmaps done and first pass on all the sprites done too. Stu wrote me a quick editor so i could link up all the rooms and add little descriptions of what you see. #c64

Looked at that #BardsTale "IRKM DESMET DAEM" red herring again... Tried a running key cipher of two plain texts. C=(P1+P2)mod26 where "A"=0 to "Z"=25, so "Z"+"B"="A". Nothing plausible, but found fun nonsense: "IF GAZE PIECHART" + "A MEME A DEAR WANT" = "IRKM DESMET DAEM"

Did a #Halloween 3D-print last night (hollow-face #illusion) www.youtube.com/shorts/uKcgI...

Visited both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (in Oxford) today

Planning my pilgrimage to The Cave ( @visitthecave.bsky.social ) and the Arcade Archive ( @arcadearchive.co.uk ) on the 18th. :)

My laptop died prematurely. Time to say goodbye to all these awesome stickers:

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

My buddy Jim Happel's latest gadget, the #C64 #meshtastic : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDm...

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating." -- Simone Weil

Fun with my #3dprinter: www.youtube.com/shorts/pLhZk...

#LLMs that play #Infocom games: huggingface.co/blog/textque... arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23701 github.com/centerforais...

A new #willywonka DIY music box arrangement: www.youtube.com/shorts/veMXU...

Mail call:

Got a new piece of art, a slow motion frame: www.youtube.com/shorts/9m44t...

A coder at microsoft made an AI app that provides real-time sports announcer commentary on pong games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i21w...

kudos @burgerbecky.bsky.social www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...

apologies to #judyblume

This guy sat with me for a while in my backyard while I was doing remote laptop work. Cooper’s hawk? Peregrine falcon? ( #BirdIdentification in California East Bay area)

Cleaning the house and found #DisneyLand blueprints (copies) I haven't seen in >20 years: #HauntedMansion and #PiratesOfTheCaribbean

Mail call: #C64 #KungFuFlash #Barbie

Does anyone else get reviews left in their #LittleFreeLibrary ? :D @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Saffron's #mainecoon ears

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=.... In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and to the left.

Remember when the #Commodore #PET tried to hide code from you? Let's circumvent that PEEK restriction using only BASIC... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ufj4N...

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Coding in the redwoods <3

Episode 14 of "Explained in 64 Seconds" with special guest Clicky et al. from CityXen: youtu.be/wNBbAqBELaY April 1st, what could go wrong?

After being bombarded with gpt-4o Ghibli-style pics, I just gave it a try myself: told it the signature says "Jim Butterfield", and that the thing on the desk is an abacus:

Just published: An exclusive interview with Roy Glover, M.U.L.E. theme composer! The author of #MULEOnline talked with Roy (top right in photo) and drove down memory lane. Really something special after so many decades! 🤩 #c64 #atari #retrogaming www.carpeludum.com/2024-intervi...

Looks like ChatGPT is getting to know me...

My green #QuestLord t-shirt negates all Mar 17th pinching effects @erickinkead.bsky.social

I'm tempted...

One or two more backings and this project crosses the finish line. :)