zeratul2099

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💻 Python engineer by day 🐍
🕹️ Collector of old computers by night 💾

My Pixelfed-account: @zeratul2099

I've not figured out yet, which account I use for what, but I consider this my main account and I'll boost my pixelfed post here too. So perhaps don't follow both ☺️

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Cartridge games are awesome and I love them. Even when I have ROMs I still prefer the feel of plugging that cart in.

It's sublime.

... overclocked Ultimate 64 with 48 MHz and sped up the video 50x times. The 60 generated tokens took nearly 12 minutes. On an ordinary C64 with 1 MHz that would be around 10 hours! For 60 tokens of nonsense. But still more energy efficient than every other LLM.

And it is fun :D

Sourcecode: https://github.com/ytmytm/llama2.c64
Music: Chris Hülsbeck - Massive Xperiment - https://patreon.com/chris_huelsbeck

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GitHub - ytmytm/llama2.c64: Inference Llama 2 in several files of pure C but on a C64

Inference Llama 2 in several files of pure C but on a C64 - ytmytm/llama2.c64

GitHub

I heard you like local hosted LLMs? And 8-bit computers from the 80ies?

Someone got you covered and ported LLama2 to the C64.
With some very striped down weights and a 2MB-REU this actually works. On a 1MHz-computer from 1982.

But it is not a chatbot. It just continues your input with english words and forms sentences that *may* gramatically correct, but are still nonsense.

Like every LLM :D

And it is slow. Very slow. I used an ...

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#c64 #llm #ai #retrocomputing #commodore

how it feels to come back to a programming project after a few months
I can't believe we're still having to say this in 2025, but would people *please* scroll back to the top of a website when they're finished reading, so it's ready for the next person. We've even got buttons at the bottom to do it all in one go, it's not 1994 any more.

Playing Soul Calibur today with the Dreamcast (motion-controlled) fishing controller.
Get out of my way, casuals! 😎

#retrogaming #sega #dreamcast