Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by Cockbrand on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:39AM
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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.
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Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by anonzzzies on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:35AM
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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.
Your comment made me buy a whopping 512kB GeoRAM expansion on eBay, just to be sure :)
Re:Commodore 64 Web server [video]
by reaperducer on Monday May 29, 2023 @08:56AM
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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.