Michael Doornbos – Page 8 – Is it time to fly yet?

Six month check on my Vicky-20 build: I’m going to either have to remove and replace most of the precision sockets or figure out a way to hold the chips in. Every few days the ICs work their way out. Maybe zip ties? Double wipe sockets for me from now on. Sigh. #commodore #vic20

This HP32SII has been in my bag every day for about 25 years. Simple, rugged and powerful. But this HP Prime is really growing on me… hmmm.

Working on “cracking” simple ciphers on old computers next. Letter frequency, then word frequency. Step one works well enough #commodore

Coincidence that this person shares my name. But I’ve found my 2022 overall theme.

Permutations of 1 to 9 in Assembly/Machine Language, BASIC, and Python. It only took 30 hours in BASIC ;-) (Python was 2 seconds without optimizing) You know, for science https://imapenguin.com/permutations-of-1-to-9-in-6502-assembly/ #commodore #python

Sonic for the C64 is out today. I happen to have a 64C in my collection that’s PAL. So combined with the UltimateII+, its 1581 drive, and 16MB REU, this game runs very very well. #commodore

Some people watch TV, I sort out graph theory concepts in a machine code monitor with my “laptop”. Like what you like and don’t apologize for it. #commodore

I was just thinking that this morning instead of being productive or doing holiday stuff I’d count how many times I can unintentionally hit the CAPS and break keys. #atari

A twin with actual head room. Now there’s a crazy idea.

What, that program only took… 29 hours. Don’t ask questions ;-) #commodore