Unnecessary Computer Things

04/11/2024

This is why I miss my Commodore 128

From the transcription herehttps://www.ninsheetmusic.org/download/pdf/2200

30/01/2023

Trying to get ChatGPT to do Commodore 128 BASIC Commodore 128 BASIC with ChatGPT [Episode 2023.001]

It's been a while but I decided to see if could do BASIC after seeing it kind of fail at Commodore 64 BASIC.

13/07/2022

So close to a working type in on the FIRST TRY

28/04/2022

It’s been a while, but one of the things I’ve been waiting on was the ZXUNO+ and it got stuck in customs for a month. Also have had video capture challenges I’ve been trying to figure out:

27/02/2022

Jupiter ACE Forth makes "10 PRINT" a little more complicated

Warning: This is not your Commodore's one-liner "10 PRINT"Code:https://github.com/stringsn88keys/unnecessary-computer-things/blob/main/episodes/2022/009/jupi...

17/02/2022

I figured I’d post this just for the novelty. The type-in took about 2-3 hours (maybe another 30-60 minutes of debugging, too). Pretty neat what fit in under 4K

Space Fight type-in program from VIC Innovative Computing

Space Fight program from "VIC Innovative Computing"... took about 2-3 hours to type in, mostly due to the graphics characters and figuring out which ones the...

07/02/2022

Expanding on 8-Bit Show and Tell's benchmarking from a while back... What about X1 vs X%? What if we start near the top of the Integer range? I was a little surprised at the results.

8-Bit Show and Tell video inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo14rDnGUbYComparing X,X1,X% being incremented by Y,Y1,Y%,1 and starting at 0 vs. 30000...

06/02/2022

Found a Wordle clone for VIC-20 on GitHub (you'll need pretty much maxed out expanded memory for it... or to use VICE)

You'll need to have all the RAM banks on VICE active so that you start with 28159 bytes free (there are 2x as many words in the source word list than the sto...

05/02/2022

Now I remember one of the reasons I didn’t do many type-ins. There’s a bug in one of ~100 lines of code and I have a 23x22 screen and the VIC 20 emulator to edit it with

01/02/2022

A quick look at my progress after 10 minutes. Of course, I’m having to look at a keyboard mapping, but typing the graphics characters on the original Commodore keyboard would only slightly improve things.

from “VIC Innovative Computing”

01/02/2022

I decided to try the 10 PRINT optimization on a TRS-80 Model I emulator and then had to figure out what the "maze" looked like there (not a maze... more like a QR code)

You may have seen the "10 PRINT" maze on . "0 PRINT"https://github.com/stringsn88keys/unnecessary-computer-things/blob/main/episodes/2022/005/trs-8...

31/01/2022

Jupiter Ace Tetris found on a Jupiter Ace archive