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On 21.10.2026 (18:00) I will speak about the history and technology of #Apple 's #BASIC dialects for #8Bit and #16bit computers at the @ocm ...
The talk will be in German and will be streamed on YouTube.
This is really cool.
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#C64 #chiptunes #basic #freestyle
In this video, I make 8-bit SID music on a Commodore 64 without any software apart from the built-in BASIC interpreter. This involves poking numbers into mem...lftkryo (YouTube)
All #Smalltalk systems have that feature, I think. All #LOGO systems, similarly. Back in the day most #Lisp systems did, but that's largely gone out of fashion over the past 40 years. Interpreted language (e.g. #BASIC, #JavaScript, #Lua, #Python) programs necessarily come with user-editable source code, although this is sometimes deliberately obfuscated.
Even in pure compiled languages, most academic (and all #OpenSoirce and #Libre) programs come with user editable source.
Stumbled upon it one day in #Ubuntu's app store's “New and Updated” section. 'Twas actually the #Flatpak version, which doesn't really have the best #images and #description, as it's #unofficial, so I wasn't drawn to it at first, but just kept in my #mind. A few days later, #BraveBrowser started having a lot of #issues (it was my bad, actually, but anyway) and I switched to #MicrosoftEdge for a while. A little time after, I found out about some ugly things M$ does through its #browser, and looked for an #alternative. #Browsers like #Brave were already too #basic for me, after using #Edge, and thus, when I saw #Vivaldi as a powerful alternative, I didn't hesitate a moment and tried it.
That's the most #important part of the story, but… there's a second #volume: At first, I was like a #crazy #chicken in front of a pot full of #earthworms, so… I obviously broke the browser in just one, two days. In the meanwhile, I also managed to repair Brave, and I was thinking of leaving V, considering it too #buggy. But luckily, I decided to give it one more chance, this time being more #cautious about #messing up with #settings… and here I am!
You might call me a very #wise person, since I didn't #giveUp immediately, but the #truth is… I was simply #mesmerized by it… 
