Tag: Modem

After three parts dealing with CoCo cross development, I thought I’d change direction for a bit and discuss something completely different. We’ll get back to cross development once we have something to develop. Before WWW was BBS The story so far… My first exposure to computer bulletin board systems (BBSes) was in Houston, Texas around 1981. I had become friends…

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment has released the sources for Habitat. Possibly the world’s first MMO game / virtual world, LucasFilm Games and Quantum Link launched Habitat in 1986 on the Commodore 64. Amazingly, a strong following actually emerged, willing to pay by the hour to dial in via modem to participate in this first virtual online community….

[vimeo 131396863 nolink] A two-part video published on Vimeo shows how to connect a Commodore 64 to the internet, using a Raspberry PI and a RS-232->USB adapter. [vimeo 131396865 nolink] Don’t expect colourful webpages showing up in your 1701, but at the end he shows the C64 accessing the internet using the character interface, which opens a myriad of possibilities…

I saw this link on Google+ today and I was happily surprised about what I read. There is an Amiga 2000 running day and night for 30 years with the responsibility to control nineteen schools’ air conditioning system in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The system, written by a high school student back then, controls the start/stop of boilers, the start/stop of…