Michael Doornbos – Page 4 – Is it time to fly yet?

A little lunchtime fun. Here’s a little program to examine characters from the character rom by location. #commodore

It’s apparently Global Encryption Day. I’ve done quite a few ciphers on old computers, including SHA-256 in assembly (5 whole hashes per second). I really prefer encryption that can be done by hand. One time pads and the VIC cipher for example. Happy Saturday! #commodore

My PET it always in the background on video calls, so I started using @8BitShowAndTell ‘s scroller to send subliminal messages. Happy Friday! #commodore

This crap is why I started using Linux almost 30 years ago. Ads in my terminal window are my new least favorite thing. Poor form @Canonical, be better.

I often intentionally spend a week with a particular 8-Bit machine at a time. This week is my nicely yellowed 128, a computer I desperately wanted to replace my beloved C64 when it came out. Still, a delight to use. #commodore

A post over the weekend by @8BitShowAndTell has me thinking about how to do 10 PRINT on a PC-4. No backslash, hmm

MiniPet works pretty well on my 9 inch PET CRT. Now I’m working on a way to have both the original board and the MiniPET in the case at the same time. Everyone dual boots their PET these days right? Happy Friday! #commodore #10print

Stuck in the weeds on a couple things right now so I broke out a project from last year that I left hanging. Progress on Enigma in ML on the #c64 got my brain unstuck. #commodore

My submission to David Amos’ Code challenge yesterday

The challenge was:

and my submission is:

I don’t know who at Commodore in 1979 thought that riveting voltage regulators on was a good idea, but I’m grateful for all of the rivet work I’ve done on airplanes. Could be really intimidating if you’ve never drilled rivets before. Repairing a Twitter friends PET this evening.