Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by Cockbrand on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:39AM
(#36111351)
It’s been about 20+ years since I last saw a webpage served by a humble C64. Amazingly, this one did indeed load after a few seconds. If it weren’t for the noise from loading the page from disk, I’d be tempted to set up my own at home.
Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by anonzzzies on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:35AM
(#36111647)
I used to host a little site on an 8 bit homecomputer; it ran from a ramdisk so it would not load from floppy. I guess you will need to mod (mine was a Japanese machine with 256kb memory mapped memory which I controlled with a webserver (well… it could only do GET) written in Pascal & some z80 asm) by adding memory, but still, it would be fun. Let me dust off mine if I can find it and see if it still works.
Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by reaperducer on Monday May 29, 2023 @08:56AM
(#36113487)
If it weren’t for the noise from loading the page from disk, I’d be tempted to set up my own at home.
Running a BBS out of my bedroom with three 1541's and a 1571 taught me to sleep through anything.
It wasn't until much later that someone figured out a patch for the 1541 DOS that would keep it from dropping the head at each track between multiple track movements, making the drive almost silent. That would have been awesome.
Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by _the_inflator on Monday May 29, 2023 @01:40AM
(#36111029)
Yep, agree. At least there is room for improvement, like caching at least the most frequently/popular pages and storing only less frequently visited pages.
For context: remarks are made at around 17:00 in the video.
Hope it holds up!
http://c64-webserver.tplinkdns.com
Running a BBS out of my bedroom with three 1541's and a 1571 taught me to sleep through anything.
It wasn't until much later that someone figured out a patch for the 1541 DOS that would keep it from dropping the head at each track between multiple track movements, making the drive almost silent. That would have been awesome.
For context: remarks are made at around 17:00 in the video.
Scaling looks like fun with this machine. Maybe adding REU to it would definitely help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_REU