Ron Fortier

If you’d like to refill your heart meter, watch this video we made about our recent progress with voice. I promise it’s worth it ❤️

RIP: The legendary Chuck Norris passed away on March 19, 2026, at the age of 86. The greatest Chuck Norris Commodore 64 game would have to be...Bruce Lee II, an unofficial sequel to the classic 1984 Datasoft game Bruce Lee. Ported to real Commodore 64 hardware in 2015 by Jonas Hultén, and the result is as good or even better than the original! What an amazing game! This game reminds me of the first movie I ever watched as a kid with Chuck Norris, The Way of the Dragon. I was a mega Bruce Lee fan as a kid and I watched each of his movies a dozen times at least, and other than the Bruce Lee vs Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Game of Death, Chuck Norris's legendary Colosseum fight scene, in the movie blew me away. Norris played the unbeatable Colt—in the game the Chuck Norris-like enemy (it wasn't official... but we can all tell who it is) in the game dominates with devastating kicks if you get close. This game would be not only the best in the Commodore 64 series but also be far the hardest. The enemies include not only the legend that is Chuck but also Hakim (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Some of the screens are insanely hard and if it wasn't for infinite lives, I don't know how anyone could complete it. Have you completed the game without cheating?

@elonmusk @sdf_pubnix @testerlabor Did you ever play Bruce Lee on the C64?

@testerlabor There is special place I my heart for the C64 and especially VIC-20, my first ever computer. I stayed up for 3 days programming nonstop when I got it for the sheer love of coding.

Amazing Grok fact: Grok Supercomputer "Colossus 2 is equivalent in raw peak tensor performance to 14 quintillion Commodore C64 computers"

It wouldn’t be Saint Patrick’s Day without a black and tan Sláinte

1-1 going into the 2nd #GoHabsGo

What a tournament @KennyAlbert men’s and women’s. You are a machine calling so many games. Thanks for the amazing calls

@DennisTFP How likely is a trade for Patrik Laine?

Difficult times for LAK in light of Fiala injury, emotionally/on-ice impact. Too early q's to ask: - Kings project 15.7M deadline cap space, LTIR doesn't stack, no need. How or Does Holland add? - Kuzmenko elevates to LW2? - Does Foegele stay after Holland said he would move?

It was a very different time back then. Today you have long descriptive variable names - player_1_xpos for example. The assembler didn't work a line at a time, but loaded the whole source code into 48k of memory. Your source code and the object code produced both had to exist in that memory - no caching. That meant that my variable names were a1, a2, etc. The text of descriptive variable names simply ate up too much memory so the assembler would die.

@RonFortier Ok. Thanks. I'm demonstrating how software development was done contemporaneously, both from my own experience and by showing other workflows, because people genuinely do not know.

@RonFortier do you still have any source code disks? I am trying to get as much software as I can into a build able state.

@HabsOnReddit 7 talking to Marty and Slaf would be amazing

You have a 10 hour flight ✈️ Where are you sitting? 🤔

@SandyofCthulhu If memory serves, Commodore stored two copies of whatever you saved to the cassette drive. That ment that it took twice as long to load. They compared both loads, and if they didn't checksum out it would fail. There was no option for selecting version 1 or 2 - just fail.

When I worked at MicroProse in 1988-93, we sold significant numbers of our games to England. As the newest designer, I got assigned to work on the Commodore 64 and Spectrum computers. The C64 wasn’t all bad except for the ones with the cassette drives. Debugging a program that runs on a cassette tape is a hell modern coders can’t comprehend.

Hey @ProFootballHOF!!!! WHERE THE HELL was this when they violated these bylaws when it came to me in 2016 and 2017???!!!! 🤔🤔🤔

A picture is worth a thousand words. What petty little people the @NFL hall of fame voters are

@TheRetroSlayer Fun game. Wild that it all fit in 16k

Take to isometric space in Zaxxon on the Atari 5200: dodge walls, blast turrets, and master fuel pickups for a high-score rush. #Zaxxon #Atari5200 #RetroGaming

@exQUIZitely I am

Are you this old?

Datasoft and Epyx were in a league of their own

So many great games for the C64. A magical time of innovation

@MuseumCommodore I likely learned programming from debugging my typing mistakes

Remember manually typing Commodore 64 BASIC games? I found a printout in a haul of C64 goodies. Picture yourself sitting at your C64 painstakingly entering every line of this code...and then it doesn't work lol!

Perfect for a Thursday

@LombardiHimself The @terrellowens injury and return were magic. Almost as if it were slow motion playing out over weeks. All the speculation that he couldn’t do it. Doing everything possible like sleeping in the chamber you knew he’d do it despite everyone saying it was impossible

94 days after breaking/dislocating his ankle, Fred Warner is knocking on the door of a return that'd put him in company of 49ers Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Terrell Owens. In 1997, Rice tore his ACL Week 1 — in Tampa, like Warner. He returned just 3.5 months later and even caught a TD. Owens, with Philly, broke his leg in 2004 and beat a 10-week return prognosis in 7 weeks, catching 9 passes in the Super Bowl