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Jun 26 2024

REPAIR GUIDE: Commodore 64 with a common problem

vkirov

Recently a friend of the museum sent us his breadbin Commodore 64 that he acquired online with complains that there is garbage on the screen and there is no cursor. As much as we like restoring vintage computers and dealing with newer problems that enrich our knowledge base, we have never actually...

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Feb 17 2020

Three days to mandelbrot

Fly, Crash, Raise Exception

I recently recovered the code I wrote on the commodore 64 when I was 10 or so. Among it was a mandelbrot generator, in basic. 5 poke 53265,59:poke 53272,29 6 for i=8192 to 8192+7999:poke i,0:next 10 print"{clr}" 20 for i=200 to 999 30 for j=0 to 7 40 for k=7 to 0 step -1 50...

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