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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 [...]
Twittjr is a system that allows an IBM PCjr to search the public timeline on Twitter. In case you weren’t aware, Twitter is a social micro-blogging service introduced in 2006 and has over five million active users. The IBM PCjr is a personal computer introduced in 1984 and has a 4.77MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, and uses 360KB floppy disks [...]
After an exhausting 7-to-5 day preceded by less than two hours of sleep, the second annual RIT innovation fair-stival is done. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see most of the exciting stuff because I spent the day hanging around Twittjr with a bunch of other CSHers (and occasionally taking joyrides in our new motorized shopping cart). The downside [...]
Recently I’ve been getting my new project, “Twittjr” (a mashup of Twitter and an IBM PCjr), ready to attract people to the CSH booth at GCCIS for ImagineRIT. Coding in Cartridge BASIC on a PCjr is simultaneously a fascinating and frustrating experience. On the one hand, it’s kind of annoying to not have any modern conveniences like, say, functions. But [...]
Click here to play Vectrocity, or read on for more information. Vectrocity is a vector-styled Flash game I created as a final project for a digital media course in my freshman year at RIT. It follows the standard “shoot-em-up” formula: Blast the waves of enemies coming at you, collect powerups, and try not to die. What more could you [...]