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@MuseumCommodore @testerlabor Yet the C64 is more fun 😊

This post by @testerlabor comparing the performance of the Grok Supercomputer "Colossus 2" with the Commodore 64. Ever wonder how tall a stack of 14 quintillion Commodore 64s would be? 😱 That's 14,000,000,000,000,000,000 breadbins (each ~76 mm tall when flat). Total height: ~1.064 × 10¹⁸ meters ≈ 112.5 light-years! In other words: the number of Commodore 64 computers stacked on each other would make a tower that is so tall it would reach 13 full out-and-back journeys to Alpha Centauri system and still have a bit left over. Grok Supercomputer "Colossus 2" is a beast! (I think the math is correct)

@benljbrooks @IndieLauraSDG The games will follow. But I first had to build the hardware, the OS, the language and the toolchain 😅 micro-8.com

Who all's out there making games the old fashioned way--just slinging code without big box engines?

@DJSnM They figured cross product is not commutative 😕

According to a NASA report Lunar Trailblazer failed because the software pointed the solar panels *away* from the Sun. The NASA panel says Lockheed did not properly test the solar panel pointing software before launch. npr.org/2026/02/26/nx-…

@TimSweeneyEpic @MarkRein A cap can also store a charge for a small fee. Sorry 😊

A store can charge a fee for selling a product. What the court found is: after you’ve bought a game, the store can’t force all in-game commerce between you and the developer to go through them with 30% junk fees. It’s like a car dealership demanding 30% of gas purchases.

Steam’s rules do explicitly prohibit games from steering players to competing purchase methods, forcing everyone to pay 30% to Valve. Apple and Google did the same until the court explicitly found this practice to be unlawful. Now they don’t!

@david_e_lang @DJSnM Stage two sounds like OOP to me 😅

from Robert Heinlein Every technology goes through three stages: first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget; second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original and achieving thereby somewhat satisfactory performance through extremely complex compromise; third, a final stage of smooth simplicity and efficient performance based on correct understanding of natural laws and proper design therefrom. I won't say the Raptor 3 is that third stage yet (it's still internally a very complex device) but it's a step in that direction.

Raptor 3 may have clean simple lines but look the LR-101 was this clean and simple in the 50's..... Maybe there's more to design than clean lines.

@Der_Baldur @MuseumCommodore Ok now I want the same mug 😁

@MuseumCommodore For this ;)

What is this mysterious device? WARNING: This will show your age, 😂😂

Psychology of People Who Grew Up in the 1970s youtu.be/Sbi0UNdCxB4?si… via @YouTube

Gotta love #unity3dgamedevelopment

@pureMetatron Yes

Rate my set up in my computer room!

@pikuma The nice thing about getting old is your eyes just become bad enough that the pixel art looks good.

🎉 Pour les 40 ans de l’#Amiga, le NAM-IP et MadeInPixels vous invitent à une expo ce 4 octobre ! 👉 matériel, jeux, applications et art emblématiques, avec la présence de @FranckSauer dev et artiste pionnier sur cette plateforme ! 📍 Namur ⬇️+ infos ⬇️ facebook.com/events/1486021…

@MuseumCommodore It's a conversion from the Atari ST original. But did you know that the C64 version came out before the original that was plagued by bugs mostly because it was written in GFA Basic leaking memory but the C64 version (that I worked on as a graphic artist) was all assembly language

Iron Lord is an adventure-strategy game with action elements, released in 1989 for the Commodore Amiga by Ubisoft. Set in the Middle Ages, Iron Lord combines strategy, adventure, and mini-games. Players control a prince returning from the Crusades to find his uncle has usurped the throne. The goal is to travel the kingdom, complete tasks, win competitions, and raise an army to reclaim the throne.

@pudikov_denis @nickfloats The thing is when everything looks professional, professional looking is no longer a thing. Then the price gets to zero and nobody except the AI companies make any profit 😌

@nickfloats Once I can say to some agent go and change all the mock-ups to look more professional, publish to every product short professional video of product and play with the prices to maximize sales, I will know that we are at the beginning of the new AI Era 😉

We’re moving from tools that do what we say, to tools that help us figure out what we even want to say. And that shift is everything

@hqqns Talk about a rabbit hole 🕳️ 😁

Waiting for a raster .... Oh, I guess i better start implementing the vic II in systemverilog then 😂

It's gotten further ... Fixed a lot instructions (making my first cpu emulator - 6510 &PLA etc in systemverilog)

@robin7331 Ask the guy who named the Xboxes, he must know 😁

Why is OpenAI's naming scheme all over the place? 😵‍💫

@pikuma One more than what's required for C

@MuseumCommodore Back in the days, no. But I do now.

@MuseumCommodore Was and still is Zzap64

What Commodore 64 magazine was your go-to for news and reviews?

@StirringDragon @RobertKennedyJr @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump Well I don't know how it goes in the US in terms of import rules but here in the canary islands, although they don't sell those anymore in physical stores, you can easily get them from AliExpress.

Make Incandescent Bulbs Great Again! Please get rid of the ban on incandescent bulbs @RobertKennedyJr @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump The light from LED bulbs damage people's eyes. Fluorescent bulbs are full of toxic mercury dust that gets released into peoples homes when someone drops and breaks one. Mercury is known to cause cancer and that mercury ends up in our environments, landfills, and water when they are thrown out.

I'll tell you this one right now. Most companies are breathtakingly inefficient. Because no one gets fired for doing what "we have always done". Because boomer middle managers hate engineers, and most their interactions with them are for the purpose of micromanaging them or emphasizing their own status. Because three hour meetings including everyone they can think of allow nonproductive people to look busy. Because boomer c-suite executives couldn't inspire an autistic nine year old boy to talk about trains. This results in companies that are process-oriented, rather than result-oriented. The purpose of a process-oriented culture is to dilute responsibility so no one can be held accountable for failure. The only way such companies succeed is by eventually, mechanistically running out of mistakes to make, and grinding their way across the finish line. This means that it's actually pretty easy, in principle, to make most companies far more competent and efficient . But you have to be willing to break social rules and offend people. In other words, you have to be a sperg. What you do is simple. Create a culture of accountability. Every single act, every single component, every single product, every single decision, must be connected to a single name, who owns it and is accountable for it. Cripple meeting culture by allowing anyone to not show up, or to walk out at any time, if they deem their presence unnecessary. Most meetings serve no purpose other than to dilute responsibility by artificially adding consensus to what should be an individual decision. Eliminate any role which doesn't directly and obviously contribute. Focus on results, and remove anyone who plays it safe instead of pushing forward. But never punish failure, if the failure resulted from a reasonable decision that turned out to be wrong. Failure is inevitable. Learning from failure is what brings success. Don't allow HR to have any power in hiring decisions. Their job is to handle payroll, benefits, sick leave, and paperwork, and that's it. They shouldn't even be allowed to talk to candidates before they are hired. Hiring, like any other decision, cannot be by consensus. No dilution of responsibility can be permitted. Team leaders hire their teams. Power in the company must rest firmly in the hands of its core function. If you are an engineering company, designing and building new technology, power must rest with the engineers. Not sales, not marketing, not accounting. Engineers. Above all, know how to inspire your people. This must be done with real, meaningful action, not pretty speeches. Engineers are some of the smartest people on Earth, and have high levels of integrity, but boomer middle managers despise them because they speak without subtlety, and don't care about professional appearance games... so they tend to treat engineers as irresponsible children. In reality, middle managers are the ones playing games. To earn an engineer's loyalty, you need do only three things: - Shield him from having to play, or even know about, office politics, and from unnecessary busywork. An engineer's time should not be spent doing unproductive things he is not good at. - Treat him fairly in pay, benefits and job expectations. Engineers expect not to have to argue for what they get. They create value, and their share of that value should not be gated behind the exercise of a set of skills that are not necessary for job performance. - Give him something important to do, something that he can be proud of. An engineer's profession is an important part of his identity and sense of self, and he needs to feel as if he is dedicating that part of himself to something that matters. What does this look like? Watch the video with the sound on. Hear the cheering. Watch the people's reactions in the left half of the screen. Listen to the announcer. She's crying. When people believe like this, they will work harder than they ever have. They will pull together and resolve problems. They will treat each other like trusted members of their tribe. They will set team goals above their own. So what is Elon Musk's secret sauce? Asperger's Syndrome, that's what.