I’m sick of losing these, so I’ll paste them here for safe keeping:
- c64 codebase
- Commodore Programming Wikispace
- All About Your 64 (including BASIC and Kernal disassemblies)
- The Transactor Online Archive
I’m sick of losing these, so I’ll paste them here for safe keeping:
1 – take a document marked up with Textile
2 – paste that document into the web form at http://basicpoint.jamtronix.com
3 – save the resulting prg file, and load it in your choice of emulator or a real c64
4 – ???
5 – profit!
I recently acquired an IDE64. This is a cartridge for the C64 that lets you connect any sort of storage device with an IDE interface (typically a Compact Flash drive, but can also be an IDE hard drive or a CD-ROM). It also allows files to be transferred to/from a PC via USB.
Unfortunately the software that needs to run on the PC side (ideservd) only seems to be compiled for Windows, although the source code is available from the IDEDOS homepage. The source needed a bit of tweaking to compile on my macbook (OSX 10.6.4), specifically
Once it compiles, there’s some tricks to getting it to run.
First, it needs to be run under sudo, otherwise you will get a message saying “Failed changing root dir”.
Second, you need to disable the FTDIUSBSerialDriver that OSX has loaded automatically, otherwise you will get an error saying “unable to claim usb device. Make sure ftdi_sio is unloaded!”
Here’s a zip file containing the compiled binary and a wrapper script to load/unload FTDIUSBSerialDriver before/after running ideservd. – ideservd-0.24-osx.zip
RoShamBo is another name for ‘paper scissors rock’.
RetroShamBo will be a retro network coding tournament. The date is still TBA, probably linked in with the next Retro-Challenge.
So I’m organising a retroputing talkfest – TiNKeRCoN. We’ve done the hard part – picked a date. All that’s left now is to organise a venue, speakers, accommodation, yadda yadda yadda. What could possibly go wrong?
I’ve added a feature to peekbot (and the ripxplore library that peekbot uses) to export font files to BDF format. You can use FontForge to convert a BDF file to whatever font format your OS of choice uses.
To see it in action, check out same of the fonts on this GEOS font sample disk from ShadowM’s Commodore GEOS archive
In a canonical yak shaving incident, I ended up adding geos support to peekbot so I could look at the source for geoLink and have now extended that support to allow previewing of font files and viewing of geoPaint files – for example, here’s a klingon ship.
If I ever decide to cross over to the dark side, the Spectranet project looks like fun. In any case, the “Tiny Network File System” (TNFS) looks like an idea I started dabbling with last year but got too distracted to complete. So I’ll add implementing TNFS in ip65 to my ever expanding “to do” list.
What happened was, I got the telnet client in KipperTerm working pretty good, so I decided there needed to be something interesting to telnet to from a c64.

So I’ve set up the ‘petsciimation’ server, for indulging in video piracy the old-fashioned way. What you do is, use a telnet client that understands PETSCII, like KipperTerm (for a C64) or CGTerm (on anything built this millenium), and connect to port 6464 on jamtronix.com.
Then sit back, and relax, as the movie of your choice scrolls by, character after character, byte after byte, 80s BBS culture reference after 80s BBS culture reference.
Or not.
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