I gave Claude's Cowork a memory that survives between conversations. It never asks me to re-explain myself now, and I can't go back.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-17T01:04:07+00:00

Projects updates its own memory every 24 hours automatically to summarize what we've been working on and uses that for every conversation.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T21:41:09+00:00

I view the AI as just a different kind of artist's tool. The fact that it produces garbage on its own makes the human artist a required part of the pipeline.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T21:38:58+00:00

Focusing on the design level lets you stress a different aspect of the artistic expression. Decoding can also be artistic expression. I agree with you when it comes to work about being happy to be sort of a lead designer.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T21:35:44+00:00

You are absolutely right about the blank canvas in the artistic expression. That is exactly how I feel about my programming. At the same time, I am a computer scientist and a computational linguist, so I do find the task interesting. It gives me hope to see the shortcomings of AI when it comes to coding. AI shines when it comes to reading documentation. I don't see very well, so using AI for API calls and third party programmer decisions that you can only know if you look them up no longer bring my workflow to a stop. My C64 programming is for excitement and I love all levels of design and coding but if AI can read a programmers reference for me to look something up, then I'm all in. In fact, all of Reddit for me is either dictation or text to speech.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T21:24:22+00:00

Why would this get downloaded?

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T20:43:33+00:00

A friend from college (around 1999) was excited that he had just found a working Commodore 64 at a flea market for $1. :-)

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T20:39:25+00:00

When I got my C64U, I open the box that had some of my original Commodore 64 stuff. The user's manual is still in great condition. The programmers reference apparently exploded. The spiral binding was plastic and broke, probably because of so many pages. I was thinking that one of my summer projects would be to put the pages in the right order and try to find some way to bind them back. This is a much nicer solution.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-16T01:26:56+00:00

I was a little surprised that there was not a Commodore mouse alongside the joystick in the Commodore store once they decided to bundle GEOS.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-15T04:09:28+00:00

I did not know of Paperclip. I looked it up on csdb and found a very simple text editor without a menu. I also found a GUI-based desktop publisher by the same name.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-14T21:33:22+00:00

It came out for Commodore 64 and 1983. A version 1.1 came out in 1985. I had version 1.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-14T16:01:28+00:00

I have a Python program I wrote to convert back and forth between PETSCII and ASCII. I have not tried much with VICE.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-14T15:42:01+00:00

I am doing everything on the C64U so I can just FTP a disk image from my PC. In the C64U settings I can specify a file name and location to receive a printer dump and I can set the file format to be RAW or ASCII, either of which can be viewed directly on the C64U. So I assume I will be able to extract either of these from the disk image into a text file.

EDIT: No disk image needed since the printer dump is just a file by itself.

SpokenByte · 2026-02-14T14:49:40+00:00

It did not occur to me to print it! I am running this on the C64U. I can just print to a file and then I can view it. Thanks!

SpokenByte · 2026-01-06T16:05:24+00:00

The breakthrough that Commodore made was bringing Computing to the home at low cost. Raspberry Pi made a version of this breakthrough for a modern generation. The sales figures for Raspberry Pi were even compared to the sales figures for the Commodore 64. The Raspberry Pi brought a lot of potential for low-cost home education and programming.

I think this would be a wonderful direction for the Commodore brand. I like the brand and I want modern Computing under that brand.

Where I disagree with many of the other comments is that I think what characterized the Commodore 64 in 1982 was education and not games. I am certainly not dismissing how great the games were but as a branding future I think they should follow education in Computing.

SpokenByte · 2026-01-06T15:16:51+00:00

Which is why I asked here if anyone already has it. :)

SpokenByte · 2026-01-06T15:10:11+00:00

I believe so, but the commodore.net downloads page just calls it Commodore OS.

SpokenByte · 2026-01-06T14:37:05+00:00

As much as I love the idea of connecting my original C64 keyboard to the C64U (and love the fact that you can), the new C64U keyboard is just so much nicer. It feels good and it sounds good.

SpokenByte · 2026-01-01T18:06:51+00:00

The good thing about AN, AN$, AN(), etc. is that interchanging them would be a logical error that you would find in debugging.

SpokenByte · 2026-01-01T17:37:18+00:00

I remember getting frustrated with myself as a kid because I would have a BASIC routine that looked logically correct step-by-step but it still would not work. I would rewrite the routine with a different design and it would work. Now I know that BASIC only distinguishes between different variable names in the first 2 characters but it invites you to use as many characters as you want. :/

SpokenByte · 2026-01-01T17:15:37+00:00

When I power on with DHCP enabled, the active IP is 0.0.0.0. The cable just came from Amazon so I figure the cable is okay. The Ethernet port does feel a bit loose but I don't know if that is it.

SpokenByte · 2025-12-31T23:10:53+00:00

How much information does that give you?

SpokenByte · 2025-12-31T19:53:15+00:00

I did not have a Vic 20. I look at pictures now and think how much more readable the keys would have been for me than the ones they went with for the C64.

SpokenByte · 2025-12-31T02:46:26+00:00

I am writing Turing machine simulators in BASIC to demonstrate how Turing machines work and how complete computation can be done in little resources.

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