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BREADBOX64: Twitter client for the Commodore 64 - Video
No, seriously.
The results aren't pretty. In fact, they're kind of ugly. But BREADBOX64 let's you view your friends timeline and post status updates. The timeline is updated every two minutes. Setup is a bit more complicated than most Twitter clients. You'll need to compile the source yourself. But if you're still using a C64 machine, something tells me that's not going to be a problem for you.
You can check out a video of BREADBOX64 in action after the break.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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markworden7 said 9:18AM on 6-16-2009
Ah, the good ol' C64...one of my first computers. I still like to bring up an emulator once in a while just to have some fun and relive those days. I never thought of the C64 even connecting to the Net, though, and I'm surprised someone would go through the trouble to create a Twitter client. Perhaps they just wanted to prove it could be done...
I wonder if they'll make one for the VIC-20...my first computer =)
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Sir Loin said 1:21PM on 6-16-2009
That's awesome! Just need one for the Atari 800XL, and I'll be ready to rock :D
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