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For all those cases, we haven’t covered yet. There are several ways to bring your key presses to the PET 2001 emulator, and, let’s face it, neither is perfect for all occasions. So, there’s another one, “Games: Remapped”, featuring user-definable key mappings, especially for use with games. And it wasn’t as easy as first thought… Continue reading…
A curious Easter egg found in the mass:werk vaults. Last Sunday, something quite astonishing happened at the mass:werk office: I found a tiny app, named “img2atascci”, or more verbosely, “Image to ATASCII Parser”, on my server, dating from 2020. What makes this a curious case, or in any way remarkable, or a find, at all, is that I had no recollection of doing it, while it was, no question about it, indeed written by me. It’s a tiny app that accepts images of Atari 8-bit screens and parses the…
A quite literal look into a curious duplication. Continuing on a theme form a previous post, we risk a closer look into two cartridges of the same game, running both on the C64. Continue reading…
The PET 2001 online emulator enjoyed some TLC. Some news on the PET 2001 online emulator: Loding hex-dump filesYou may now load a hex-dum (a text-file with extension ".hex", ".hd" or ".dump") in place of any binary files (in prg-format). As these files require a start address, this is either extracted from the first address label (if your hex-dump has this) or the first two bytes are used for this (low-byte, high-byte). Whatever comes first takes precedence. Otherwise any address labels,…
Maybe, if the bubble doesn’t burst, can we have a new round of RLHF training for basic phrasing every year or so? /s
The sad story of an adorable little program and its looming demise. Lately, we’ve seen a number of disturbing variants of the famous “10 PRINT” program for Commodore BASIC (and, with a slight modification, for any machine running BASIC). These are all about “speed”, i.e. runtime performance, but, as we’re going to argue, they are all missing the point. Even worse, they are apt to ruin it. Entirely. Continue reading…
A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download. We’re back with some classic Commodore 8-bit content, but this time, it’s about the C64 and some of its diagnostic cartridges. But do not despair, there are also downloads, not just for the C64, but also for the VIC-20 and the PET/CBM. Continue reading…
A little tool to test and explore the keyboard matrix of any Commodore PET.
