19 thoughts on “The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk [video]”
Are the slides available anywhere, yet? Can you provide your Keynote bundle for us?!
Marcus
Great Talk! Some interesting things in there which I didn’t know about (and I have a long history with the C64), and finally a detailled introduction to the FLI mode.
I, too, hope to see some similar in-depth introductions to other systems like the Amiga, Atari or even the IBM PC next year. Although I do think that I know a lot about the PC at least, your talk showed me that there’s always many new things to learn.
-Michael
in the section on geos you mentioned a “damage” buffer, what is this? and how/when/why is it used?
@sa: If an application draws a dialog box over the main application screen, GEOS saves the original rectangle onto the second screen and restores it when the dialog is closed. This way, the application doesn’t have to handle “window damage”. More info here: http://www.zimmers.net/geos/docs/geotech.txt
Neat, thanks for the explanation! Really enjoyed the talk.
Are the slides available anywhere, yet? Can you provide your Keynote bundle for us?!
Marcus
Great Talk! Some interesting things in there which I didn’t know about (and I have a long history with the C64), and finally a detailled introduction to the FLI mode.
I, too, hope to see some similar in-depth introductions to other systems like the Amiga, Atari or even the IBM PC next year. Although I do think that I know a lot about the PC at least, your talk showed me that there’s always many new things to learn.
-Michael
in the section on geos you mentioned a “damage” buffer, what is this? and how/when/why is it used?
@sa: If an application draws a dialog box over the main application screen, GEOS saves the original rectangle onto the second screen and restores it when the dialog is closed. This way, the application doesn’t have to handle “window damage”. More info here: http://www.zimmers.net/geos/docs/geotech.txt
Neat, thanks for the explanation! Really enjoyed the talk.
Well done! I really enjoyed the video.
I find it still amazing what can be done in only 64K.
POKE 1,0 😉
I have uploaded a mp4 converted from the ogm with ffmpeg. Download links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/180548841/25C3_The_Ultimate_Commodore_64_Talk.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/180736780/25C3_The_Ultimate_Commodore_64_Talk.part2.rar
You are more than welcome to add them to the main post as a mirror in mp4.
Very interesting speech, brings back alot of memories of both my childhood and what got me started with computers.
here is the real mp4 version:
http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/25C3/video_h264_720x576/25c3-2874-en-the_ultimate_commodore_64_talk.mp4
and torrent:
http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/25C3/video_h264_720x576/25c3-2874-en-the_ultimate_commodore_64_talk.mp4.torrent
more mirrors:
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Conference_Recordings
Just tried to watch the video – says that it’s not available. Link dead? Or limited access (I’m trying from Germany)?