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    25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

    Christiaan008

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2011–2025

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    1:01:15 · 160K views · Dec 11, 2010

    Michael Steil's 25C3 talk covers the Commodore 64's architecture, quirks and demoscene tricks in about an hour. It aims to convey everything about the machine in a compact, nostalgic tour.

    HN people treat it as the canonical C64 talk and rewatch Steil's 'Ultimate' series regularly.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @msarnoffApr 2025· in “How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes Work (2008)”

      Michael’s blog is one of my favorites. His “Ultimate Guide” talks are great and I rewatch them at least once a year. Ultimate Guide to the C64: this video Ultimate Guide to the Game Boy: [LINK] Ultimate Guide to the Apollo Guidance Computer: [LINK]

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    2. @psykoticJul 2011· in “The story of FCopy for the C-64”

      > Back in the 80s, the Commodore C-64 had an intelligent floppy drive, the 1541, i.e. an external unit that had its own CPU and everything. I remember by the time I got a floppy drive for my C64 it was twice the price of a new C64, $400 vs $200. It was a real luxury item in those days. Obligatory link to Michael Steil's The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk: this video

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    3. @anyfooSep 2021· in “The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video]”

      Not exactly what you're asking for, but this video while being 480p and rather noisy, was very sufficient for me to watch and enjoy the talk back in the day. The presented material does not suffer much on the relatively low resolution.

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