[HN Gopher] Help My c64 caught on fire
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       Help My c64 caught on fire
        
       Author : ibobev
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2025-12-23 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (c0de517e.com)
        
       | syncsynchalt wrote:
       | Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to
       | full-color photos when clicked.
        
         | altairprime wrote:
         | (And, once, also HDR.)
        
         | stronglikedan wrote:
         | only most do
        
         | 0x1ch wrote:
         | Why is it dithered like this? To save bandwidth? I wasn't on
         | the internet much before 2010, so maybe this is an old
         | technique you don't see anymore.
        
       | Aldipower wrote:
       | Just in time I received my brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate
       | directly before Christmas. What a lovely made piece of retro
       | hardware.
        
       | TacticalCoder wrote:
       | > https://c0de517e.com/026_c64fire/cozy.jpg
       | 
       | That should have been a real CRT monitor to give this picture a
       | true feeling of the 80s!
        
         | andyjohnson0 wrote:
         | Simulated 14" portable TV fascia with tuning knob* and mono
         | speaker grille.
         | 
         | *set to channel 36, natch
        
       | rolph wrote:
       | i thought this was going to involve capacitor plague. rather a
       | retro dive into coding an 8bit digital fireplace.
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | Definitely a clickbait title. I thought it'd be about those
         | infamous Rifa caps.
        
       | arbol wrote:
       | This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone
       | thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the
       | c64 era.
        
       | andyjohnson0 wrote:
       | This is very nice, enjoyment-driven, seasonal hacking. Cool.
       | 
       | Brought back happy memories of the much simpler, much less
       | impressive falling snowflakes animation, complete with _Silent
       | Night_ soundtrack, that I laboriously wrote in Basic on my Vic-20
       | one Christmas back in the 80s.
        
       | erickhill wrote:
       | Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless
       | (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the
       | non-programmers. Fun read!
        
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