Ice Nine
DgarOh, FFS.
Photo credit: @tilton
synlogic@dgar Atari 2600 for security die-hards
John Ryan 👨🏻💻☸️🐾 🐘
Ryk ✌🏻🖖🏽🇨🇦
Crunchysteve@dgar One of the great things about computers like that was all you had to do when a system locked up was power down, remove the disk and startup from the backup. One of the bad things about that was all file data was usuallly lost in that process, and very often the disk. In this cae, that's not a bad thing, though 😆
Chupacabra 78704@dgar I have one.
Full Metal Archaeopteryx@dgar that is a very niche ransomware...
Pensive™️@PensiveTM
There were C64 modems.
There were C64 modems.
StarkRG@dgar @PensiveTM There are more modern Wifi modems too (from a technical perspective I think they're more like text-based wifi terminals).
@dgar
I don’t recall that. Maybe I just couldn’t afford one after buying the computer.
I don’t recall that. Maybe I just couldn’t afford one after buying the computer.
yakkoj 🦊@dgar at least that computer is immune to Spectre and Meltdown!
(I made this same hack as an ATINIT file for ProDOS for the Apple II. ;o)
Nick 'The Viking'Time to use
The Reaper
adingbatponder 
👾@dgar what was on there ??
@adingbatponder
A meme. 😁
A meme. 😁
Miles Goodhew@dgar Jeepers! crypto chaining on a single thread 1MHz sub-scalar 8/16-bit CPU... What a carnival!
John Francis@dgar don't worry, they didn't account for inflation so it will be easy to pay at mid 1980s price levels....as long as it isn't crypto
Epical@dgar This would have been a banger virus in the 80s
john spurling@dgar Make sure to put a piece of tape over the notch in your floppies to firewall them from the internet.
Ellie@dgar TWO 1541s AND a datasette?? Such opulence. You can afford to pay them. Or erase the media.
nicki xaphania mouse 🐁@dgar it's ok, i have a backup on cassette
Alan@dgar Why is that C64 an odd colour?
Count Regal InkwellI mean, UV-damaged yellow was its colour out of the factory... 😁
ÿ@Cougar @dgar
C64s had (!) different colours and different case designs (e.g. different heights).
At that time each factory might have produced a slightly different case.
If you see C64s that are brown or beige or dark grey - these were all normal C64 cases at that time.
Commodore Breadbin Case Variations: C64, VIC-20, C16
Huh. I had no idea, thanks for sharing.
Maybe this was a territorial difference? The guy in the video sounds almost surprised about the Canadian C64 with brown F-keys, but they were the norm here in the UK and I've never seen a 64 with grey ones. Maybe the grey/grey was US for the US market and beige/brown was Europe?
I strongly suspect that it is simply a matter of time. Injection moulding machines were certainly manufactured differently in those days than they are today. And there were certainly not always optimal supply chains for all raw materials. Also, slightly different materials may have been cheaper - and so quite different cases with different colours (and dimensions) were produced.
(My own guess).
Also: Colour matching is quite hard and expensive — compare to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF8UziDHqZo
Linus let me spend $10,000 on THIS!!! - Pantone Plus Plastic Standard Chips Collection
Pass. But even if the [grey | beige] case was a colour-match compromise, the F-keys are wildly different from what I'm familiar with.
Thomas Powell.🧻🐴💩@dgar I'm sitting here imagining someone coming up with a scheme "uncrackable" on the 6502 and someone from the present loading the data onto modern hardware and cracking it in the blink of an eye
Becca 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 🇵🇸@dgar Ah, use the backdoor!
poke 42069
Then run/stop until the screen goes green!
Just remember to take a pic if it works 😉
poke 42069
Then run/stop until the screen goes green!
Just remember to take a pic if it works 😉
Raymond Russell@dgar
Is that the 'brown down' ransomeware?
That is where C64 is disabled from displaying the colour brown so it is rendered pretty much useless......
#ZXSpectrumsRule ;-)
Alex, the Hearth Fire
Ted Spence@dgar I swear I’m trying to connect to my wallet but I’m using a 300 baud acoustic coupler
GUILTY! Confiscation! Death Penalty!@dgar what encryption algorithm could you use feasibly on a C64 without a modern computer being able to crack it in minutes
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@thememesniper @dgar Possibly nothing… but I can safely imagine any data on the removable media those computers support would be "safe" from most prying eyes.
My old desktop (AMD Phenom II X6) _does_ have a 5¼" floppy drive (that the floppy controller/BIOS/Linux kernel refuses to acknowledge), but it's literally the only machine I have that does.
NothingToSeeHere
Mrs Mouse at work@dgar which hospital is that?