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April 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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How did you make music on a C64? That took not just understanding music theory, but understanding what exactly a note is. Granted, it doesn't help that Lftkyro makes typing in assembly in BASIC off the top of your head look simple.
Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt
lftkryo (YouTube)
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November 2, 2024 at 8:05 AM
How did you make music on a C64? That took not just understanding music theory, but understanding what exactly a note is. Granted, it doesn't help that Lftkyro makes typing in assembly in BASIC off the top of your head look simple.
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The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...
Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
Scary Beast Security
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November 2, 2024 at 12:05 AM
The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...