C64 Twitter Madness
My roommate recently alerted me to the handiwork of the lyrically-named Johan Van den Brande, who apparently has far more free time and Commodore 64 know-how on his hands than myself. His Twitter system, called BREADBOX64, is coded in C and takes advantage of an Ethernet add-on cartridge to allow a completely stand-alone system, unlike Twittjr. And the really impressive part is that it runs on just 64KB of RAM and a 985KHz CPU (yes, it’s so slow we have to use Kilohertz)!
Since the oldest computer I had growing up was a Windows 3.1 pizza box, the only ancient hardware I know how to run is IBM-compatible DOS machines, and I’m always fascinated by people doing crazy things with C64s or Apple IIs or Amigas. I especially envy the C64 for the amazing “retro-hacker” community it has built up, and it’s really nifty that someone thought of putting Twitter on one, just as I did with the lesser-known PCjr.