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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sometimes you get lucky. Got an Apple IIe, came with drives, a BUNCH of cards and 100+ disks. It was in GREAT condition, paid $300. Going through the disks/software I find an original Wizardry in great condition AND the scenario disk "Knight of Diamonds" IN SHRINK!! #retrogaming #retrocomputing

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I got a couple of #commodore64 things in the mail today! Hopefully my 2 Commodore 64 Ultimates will arrive this week or early next week!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Herein lies a PDP-1 rack kit from Oscar Vermeulen. Based on my current track record of assembling kits I'll get to it in 2030. I still need to assemble the PDP-10 kit. Actually, I will probably do this one first. Time to play some Spacewar! #RetroComputing obsolescence.dev/pdp1.html

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

One of my biggest pastimes of the 80's was calling BBS's. Today, February 16th is the 47th anniversary of the first BBS, CBBS, by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess in Chicago going online. I HIGHLY recommend the BBS Documentary by @textfiles.com to learn more about it! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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BBS: The Documentary - YouTube

Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer...there was a brave and pioneering band of ...

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My favorite day of the month is when the new issue of Compute!'s Gazette from @computesgazette.com.web.brid.gy arrives in my mailbox! It's like going back in time to the 80's! I read it cover to cover! #Commodore64 forever!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

One of the things I wanted to do with my Commodore 64 Ultimate was use the Swiftlink MODEM emulation layer to write some games/BBS that used it. I put together a video about programming it in BASIC. Its a long at an hour :( Hope it helps someone though! #Commodore64 youtu.be/ORFUkjvXaMk?...

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

After some delays due to the snow and ice, this finally arrived at my door this afternoon. I've got a little project for my #Commodore #Amiga 1200! #retrocomputing

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

In the middle 80s I spent a lot of time programming my own BBS on the #commodore64. On the Ultimate I'm doing that again. It took me a bit to get the concept going in BASIC but it is coming. Once I hammer out issues I'll start in assembly. The snow has given me a four-day weekend to play! .

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I picked up this book for the #Commodore64 on adventure game programming. I collect books like this and I've been after this one for awhile. Somebody listed this one on eBay at a great price. I'm pretty sure it was only published in the UK. Can't wait to read it! #RetroComputing #retrogaming

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It's time for some surgery, time to put the new #Commodore Ultimate Elite II board into the Ultimate Elite system I built a few years ago. #commodore64 #retrocomputing

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My #commodore Ultimate arrived!!! Ok, I know it's not the new Ultimate 64 m, it's and Ultimate Elite II board but I bought this to drop into an Ultimate Elite system I built a few years ago.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Trying to organize my modern retro systems. From left to right - the #mega65, #zxspectrum Next, Foenix F256K and Amiga 1200. Still have to find places for the Commander X16 and a few others. Maybe clean off the top shelf! I wish I had a huge room that I could keep them all hooked up at once.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Whenever one of my middle school students calls me over to look at their code that isn't working I always get a bit nervous because you never know what kind of non-Euclidian, Cthulhuian, spaghetti mess you are walking into. #stem #coding #stemeducation

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Finally, got my video on a Hunt the Wumpus on the #Mega65 @mega65.bsky.social uploaded! Lots of issues caused me to have to shoot it about 547 times....the D81 is now uploaded. Have fun, improve it, it has been a long time since I did anything in BASIC so I was rusty!! youtu.be/Pip6d3JzjLk?...

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Hunt the Wumpus on the Mega65!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

IT WORKS!!! I saw this #TRS-80 on eBay, new seller w/ 0 feedback, asking too much for starting bid, dropped it to $150, I went for it. I was expecting it to arrive in pieces. It's covered in grunge. The screen is bright with no burn in, drives work!!!! I'm looking forward to this restore job.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Commodore and their mice in the 80's - they all looked alike! I thought this was a broken 1351 mouse as it would not work. Turns out it's a 1350 which is not a mouse as it reports directions like a joystick. I wrote a short program on my Mega65, and it showed it was reporting joystick dir.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My Hunt the Wumpus on the @mega65.bsky.social #mega65 is coming along! It should be 100% playable tomorrow evening, I'm not saying it will be done, just saying it will be playable. It would be done tonight, but I have a football game to watch. #retrocomputing www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i6yh0...

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

SNOW DAY THE NEXT TWO DAYS! I have been threatening to write a graphical Hunt the Wumpus on the #Mega65 from @mega65.bsky.social! I get so little time with my retro machines, but I think tomorrow is the day for it! Cold, snowy days with a cup of hot cocoa really gets my creativity flowing!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

40 years ago today in #retrocomputing history the #Commodore 128 was released at the 1985 CES show in Las Vegas, Nevada. From then on, most C128 users just typed "GO 64" from the boot screen. C64 compatibility might have been the thing that held the C128 back.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I take a look at the new #Raspberrypi 500 and the new Raspberry Pi monitor and stress test and overclock the Pi 500 and look at its thermals. Can I get it to 3.1GHz on stock cooling? youtu.be/tnEbT9CnpkI?...

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Unboxing, Stress and Thermal Testing the Raspberry Pi 500

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I finally got to open my Christmas present from my mother-in-law today. The 2021 #Atari VCS. When it was released at $400, I said no way. But the recent Black Friday sale was $99 and that was good enough for me to buy or ask for it for Christmas. #RETROGAMING

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Apparently someone is still manufacturing new ribbons for the #commodore64 MPS-801 printer. I bought these from Ribbons Unlimited, hopefully I can try them out soon. May decorate my classroom with Print Shop prints..... Note - I assume they are new reproductions.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I accidentally came across this series of #retrocomputing books on eBay when one came up in my recommendations so I bought a few, now I need to collect the whole series..... I haven't done anything with FORTRAN since.....1988.... #vintagecomputing

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

About 2-3 days b4 Christmas I decided to make a Xmas themed space invaders game in #python and #pygame. I did not make the deadline of Christmas due to being super busy! I made a video, and you can find the GitHub link in the video description: #coding #programming youtu.be/MfiGlsJxUaw?...

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Lets make a Christmas Themed Game in Python and Pygame!!!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Picked up some reading material over the last couple of days. That's right, I've never actually read "Ready Player One". Looking forward to reading them all.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Going to be trying both of these out in the next couple of days A FujiNet for my #Atari800XL and TeensyRom for my #commodore64.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Santavaders is done!!! It's about 1,000 lines of poorly written #python code! I will clean it up and do a video on it and stick it on GitHub! I need to start next years Christmas game way earlier!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I'm about to put on my "back in my day" hat... We got Caroline a new laptop for XMas and I'm setting it up. I've been at this for almost an hr, setting up accounts, downloading updates, restoring from her PC, rebooting 18 times... I miss the "take it out of the box and use it immediately" days.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Two days ago I got a wild hair to write a #Christmas themed game called "Santavaders" in #Python essentially a space invaders clone and do a video. Dont think I'm gonna be done by XMas, 90% there, but I'm out of time, it's Christmas Eve, time to watch A Christmas Story and play Letters to Santa.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

ITS FINALLY HERE!!! My Roguecraft Zero Clucks Edition from @badgerpunch.com ! It went across the pond to the US, and then USPS immediately sent it back to GB then turned around and finally got to me on Christmas Eve! Roguecraft is the best game released for the #Amiga in 2024! Beware the Chickens.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Here is a Tom's Hardware article about that bakery that still uses Commodore 64's to run their point of sale cash registers. It makes me wonder how many of the old machines are still behind the scenes doing work. #commodore64 #retrocomputing www.tomshardware.com/desktops/ind...

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Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs

If it ain't broke...

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Let's learn us some Fortran 77. I thought this was my Fortran 77 textbook from college but it was published in 1990, I learned Fortran 77 in 1988.

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I have been grading my students text adventure games they made in Adventuron @adventuron.bsky.social I was blown away, they were really creative. They are middle school and many of them have never coded before, it was a struggle for them. No, they're not perfect, but I find them amazing! #STEM

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I gave not really done a "coding" video in a really long time, but if you are participating in the Vex robotics contest this year, I have made a short (20 min) video on how to get the Swish bot example code up and operational. youtu.be/srpVehTzHJM

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Configuring the Vex IQ Swish Bot for Competition

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Tonight's project! I've owned this kit for awhile, I actually have the PiDP-11 and the PiDP-10 figure I should complete the trio! #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just watched The Rubber Keyed Wonder about the ZX Spectrum, it was SO GOOD! Received the link to watch it a year ago but just got to it. I grew up in the US w/a Commodore 64 so I did not know much about the Spectrum. I had a 2068 + TS1000. You can pry my ZX Spectrum Next from my cold, dead hands!

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thanksgiving break you say? Nah, time for the DeWitt Perry robotics club to work on robots! While the kids work on robots I brought a couple projects to work on, a VT-100 terminal emulator, a pico 6502 computer to build and a terminal and VGA board for my Altair 8800 replica. #retrocomputing

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CodingWithCulp @codingwithculp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Happy #FibonacciDay ! Today's date 11/23 matches the first four digits of the Fibonacci sequence! Here's a poem in which the numbers of words on each line match the Fibonacci sequence.

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