Robin @ 8-Bit Show And Tell

New video about shiru8bit's fantastic "Back to the PET" demo, and how to make it endlessly loop for display at the upcoming Indy Classic computer and video game show. youtu.be/IXoZoogMsXA

@gillham As they say, "why not both?"

@8BitShowAndTell I need either a “NOT KNOWN” or “NOT APPLY” key on my keyboard. It would help a lot with responding to emails or issues. I’m just not sure which one would be better.

Now THAT'S a calculator!

@jennings7634 @DanielM68134970 @MuseumCommodore @ColonelFalcon Yeah, it's a neat hack but all "emulators" running on 8-bits have their limits. Still fun to play with.

@DanielM68134970 @MuseumCommodore @ColonelFalcon Oh I was it was possible - it’s only the c64 kernel that’s emulated… drive support isn’t possible :( Video by @8BitShowAndTell does a full dive into it youtu.be/mxi5_VhxkJQ?si…

This is commonly known as sacrilege... a #commodore64 running on the #Atari800 @MuseumCommodore @ColonelFalcon

@Lezzmeister Thanks, I didn't have that one in my collection.

@8BitShowAndTell In case you never found it: americanhistory.si.edu/collections/ar… There you go.

Stanley Kubrick called the one-letter shift between IBM and HAL "an almost inconceivable coincidence." Here's another coincidence. And there are more! By the way, if anyone can find a really good photo of an IBM 7090 or 7094 badge, I'd love to see it.

@metro_ch Very interesting, can you still reproduce any of these? Sometimes I've investigated reports like this, but it ends up just being a bug introduced in the pirated copy of a game someone had, or partially faulty hardware, etc.

Merry/Happy Christmas! Here's some C64 holiday cheer in the form of a new video about fixing iffy raster splits in a Christmas Carol program by John Henry Software from 1984: youtu.be/SXxi3o3vihw

My latest video is about Cory Doctorow's novel "Picks & Shovels" and examines the 8-bit aspects of the book, with a special focus on the Altair 8800. Is it accurate? Often, no! Bonus 80386 nitpick near the end, too. youtu.be/-sbxTuCQIFQ

Just in case you didn't see it. Monsieur @8BitShowAndTell did a cracking video on the Penultimate+3dcr. And if you are intrigued by a 280k #VIC20 with 'DOS' Wedge, it's deffo worth a watch 😎 youtube.com/watch?v=AEQuuD… #LikeAndSubscribe #Commodore @tynemouthsw @8BitShowAndTell

The top-billed feature of the AtariWriter word processor is that it "Displays all words".

@BackwoodsEnginr @DisplacedGamers It was actually Rodnay Zaks' book with the bug: youtu.be/dG_oZV6s0Zg Overall I think Leventhal's is the superior book, for what it's worth, not just because of this bug.

@DisplacedGamers That's a later edition than I have, but I think the bug in the block move exercise is still in that edition. Ask @8BitShowAndTell . He had a great video on it.

Finally got a hard copy of this one.

Anyone else finish it? (it was really easy)

@KSmack69 Jump to the "Cassette Software Series:" section and scroll down from there.

@KSmack69 I'm not aware of a list focused only on those things, but this "Canonical List of Commodore Products" has almost everything Commodore ever made: zimmers.net/commie/docs/cb…

Pretty excited to finally have a complete Atarisoft VIC-20 cartridge collection. Amazingly, the last two cartridges I needed were here in Thunder Bay, bought from a new Commodore friend I just met last month at ThunderCon. Online isn't always easiest or best!

One last Roaming ZX Spectrum video from me! This time we're looking at the AY-3-8910 sound card and software as published in Your Computer magazine in 1983, and built by Matthew Desmond in 2025: youtu.be/XaY5Ca7vKt8

While The Roaming ZX Spectrum was here with me in Canada, I did some gaming on it: Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, and from the original tape I've owned for years but never used: Tranz Am. Also a quick look at #FreezeZX and #BreakSpace. youtu.be/6KyNZZQIW4E

@MonstersGo @BackwoodsEnginr @TonimanGalvez Yeah, I'm careful to never say the C64 has a 6502 CPU, but it does run software using the 6502's instruction set.

@BackwoodsEnginr @TonimanGalvez @8BitShowAndTell Yeah the difference between the two CPUs is negligible to cause this "distinction" we all used 6502 books when doing C64 stuff ;)

The 6502 is 50 years old, so in celebration I made a top 50 list of the instructions used in the Commodore 64 ROMs. youtu.be/2lIcQ_tAwP0

@Catnip_Frier Interesting, I don't think I knew the PC Engine's CPU was a 6502 descendent.

@8BitShowAndTell One of the best uses for the 6502 was seen in the PC Engine console