Nostalgic Lights and Classic Bytes

It was quite amazing what you could get into 64KB of memory on an 8-bit computer. The Commodore 64 is a really remarkable machine, a favourite of mine, and my first introduction to “proper” programming using assembly language to get the most out of it.

It’s not dead yet, either. There’s a vibrant community of developers creating stunning demos on it, ever pushing boundaries in their efforts to impress each other.

Do you recognise the blurred box in the background? It’s a game compilation by a very famous UK software publisher, who had ties to one of the top C64 mags of the time. Come on, should be an easy one. 🙂


Apertureƒ/1.8
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Focal length75mm
ISO200
Shutter speed1/160s

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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon.

One thought on “Nostalgic Lights and Classic Bytes

  1. @donncha Is it fair to say that we’ve become more inefficient with space as we’ve built more “advanced” machines?

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