Comments on: Twitter comes to the Commodore 64 http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 18:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519428 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519428 Can I port this to TI BASIC? (And <i>no</i>, not the calculator language, thank you very much.) Can I port this to TI BASIC? (And no, not the calculator language, thank you very much.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519176 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519176 Hi, In one of the articles, it says that Twitter Will Be Obsolete In A Year. Here is the link to it - http://www.webguild.org/2009/06/twitter-will-be-obsolete-in-a-year.php?p=p2 Hi,

In one of the articles, it says that Twitter Will Be Obsolete In A Year.

Here is the link to it -
http://www.webguild.org/2009/06/twitter-will-be-obsolete-in-a-year.php?p=p2

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519191 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519191 xdmag, druranium - doesn't seem to have been done for the speccy yet. It's certainly possible though via similar expansion projects e.g. Spectranet or ZXMMC+. The network card is doing quite a lot of the work in this sort of setup, the micro "just" needs to be a simple terminal and run a NIC device driver. Contiki is an amazing OS though. xdmag, druranium – doesn’t seem to have been done for the speccy yet. It’s certainly possible though via similar expansion projects e.g. Spectranet or ZXMMC+. The network card is doing quite a lot of the work in this sort of setup, the micro “just” needs to be a simple terminal and run a NIC device driver.

Contiki is an amazing OS though.

]]> By: laderoda http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519209 laderoda Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519209 Now where the heck was this when I was writing my M.Sc. thesis on my C64? I had absolutely NO access to Twitter, so I was COMPLETELY out of the loop in 1986. Now where the heck was this when I was writing my M.Sc. thesis on my C64? I had absolutely NO access to Twitter, so I was COMPLETELY out of the loop in 1986.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519525 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519525 So what. I've been watching Blu-rays on my 2600 for years now. So what. I’ve been watching Blu-rays on my 2600 for years now.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519792 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519792 Wonder why standard of comments here so much better here than under same article on BBG? Wonder why standard of comments here so much better here than under same article on BBG?

]]> By: Laroquod http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-522901 Laroquod Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-522901 Stuff like this really begs the question of why Twitter didn't happen sooner, since the interface itself is indeed so simple. Obviously not really on the C64 due to connectivity issues that are easily solved today by emulators, but why wasn't there a Twitter say, a year or two after ICQ? Stuff like this really begs the question of why Twitter didn’t happen sooner, since the interface itself is indeed so simple. Obviously not really on the C64 due to connectivity issues that are easily solved today by emulators, but why wasn’t there a Twitter say, a year or two after ICQ?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519080 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519080 FINALLY! FINALLY!

]]> By: hohum http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519601 hohum Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519601 Well, I wanted to try this, but it seems my Quantum Link account has been terminated… Well, I wanted to try this, but it seems my Quantum Link account has been terminated…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519100 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519100 I have been waiting for this since 1984! I have been waiting for this since 1984!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519105 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519105 It's taken this long for the Internet to catch up to the C64 It’s taken this long for the Internet to catch up to the C64

]]> By: sinisterscrawl http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519107 sinisterscrawl Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519107 Wow. Great. Once again us ColecoVision owners get frozen out. What happened to you, BB? I thought this was supposed to be a directory of "wonderful" things, not Jack Tramiel's personal whore. Wow. Great. Once again us ColecoVision owners get frozen out. What happened to you, BB? I thought this was supposed to be a directory of “wonderful” things, not Jack Tramiel’s personal whore.

]]> By: legion http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519115 legion Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519115 The vilest part of that article is that I actually know what a 1541 is. Thanks for making me feel just that much older, Cory. Butthead. The vilest part of that article is that I actually know what a 1541 is. Thanks for making me feel just that much older, Cory.

Butthead.

]]> By: NotACat http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519129 NotACat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519129 I'm shocked and saddened at the lack of camels in this post. @Legion: to some of us, the 1541 is a new-fangled gadget, much improved on the rackety old thing we had to hang off our 3032. How old do you think that makes <b>us</b> feel, huh? Cue Peter Jurasik intoning: "I was there at the dawn of the new age of intelligent peripherals". Andreas Katsulas, we miss you… I’m shocked and saddened at the lack of camels in this post.

@Legion: to some of us, the 1541 is a new-fangled gadget, much improved on the rackety old thing we had to hang off our 3032. How old do you think that makes us feel, huh?

Cue Peter Jurasik intoning: “I was there at the dawn of the new age of intelligent peripherals”. Andreas Katsulas, we miss you…

]]> By: xdmag http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519132 xdmag Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519132 Where's my ZX Spectrum client? Where’s my ZX Spectrum client?

]]> By: druranium http://boingboing.net/2009/06/15/twitter-comes-to-the.html#comment-519156 druranium Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-519156 how can I get this to run on my timex sinclair? how can I get this to run on my timex sinclair?

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