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People's Permacomputer Project

@permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy
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The People's Permacomputer is a project dedicated to resourcing the specification, and then construction of a 'permacomputer'. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ retro.social/@permacomputer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
work is proceeding on Dandelion BASIC in earnest. this is the first serious code laid down since this new attempt. for updates please follow: codeberg.org/vidak/dandelion #retrocomputing #basic #tinybasic #arduino #asm #assembly #permacomputing
two emacs windows. left and right. on the left is dandelion.S, and on the right is the Whippleway ATmega1280 Tiny BASIC, a direct interpreter.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
...it turns out there are many Tiny BASICs. the project has been exploring writing its own Tiny BASIC for some time now, explicitly targeting the Arduino platform. our research was fruitful, and we found that Dick Whipple, one of the authors of the original […] [Original post on retro.social]
Sunflower BASIC for uxn.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
full assembly listing here. #retrocomputing #6502 #asm
the type in hex dump of microchess for the kim-1 computer.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
thoughts on the people's permacomputer project. the project has been preparing, and has had some success at making discrete transistor logic circuits. a related but as-yet not discussed element of the permacomputer project is the creation of a discrete […] [Original post on retro.social]
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwb…
1000  REM * STAR PILOT GAME *
1010  REM * WRITTEN BY GEORGE BLANK, LEECHBURG, PA. *
1020  REM * FOR  PUBLIC DOMAIN UNLESS MOVIEMAKERS OBJECT *
1030  REM * VERSION 4.0    SEPTEMBER 25,1978 *
1040  REM * MODIFIED TO RUN ON THE IBM PC BY ERNEST *
1050  REM * SMITH AND RAYMOND ROGERS, HOUSTON, TEXAS *
1060  REM * DECEMBER 82 *
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
⚠️ PLEASE BOOST⚠️ --- TLDR: the project is looking to 3D print some cases for the SBC it supports. willing to pay. also looking to design a better case. --- as you may already know, the people's permacomputer project mainly targets Stefan's BASIC for its […] [Original post on retro.social]
3D printed case for the LILYGO TTGO VGA32.Assembled and disassembled. Another 3D printed case.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
@dirtycommo #retrocomputing #basic
screenshot of LED running in the PET CBM BASIC emulator VICE.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
A wild ATmega1284 appeared! The project plans to make a small BASIC terminal with keyboard and LCD display with this little unit. a.aliexpress.com/_mt7KJYV #retrocomputing
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
please enjoy the new Dandelion BASIC logo! #permacomputing #retrocomputing #basic
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
Happy to inaugurate version 1 of "The People's Text Editor", a type-in text editor that comes in at around 2.9 KB, and only around 100 lines of BASIC code. Designed to run on an arduino […] [Original post on retro.social]
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%9…
A demonstration of a Nassi-Schneiderman diagram.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
From the BASIC Programming Language Facebook page. ...so you don't need to go on Facebook. It's a BASIC listing of an animal guessing game.
A BASIC listing for an animal guessing game.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025
Please find attached a video of the 1977 8K BASIC text editor EDIT running on modern hardware. This has been the result of a few months' work, patient waiting for the post, and quite a bit of frustration. Porting the code to a modern BASIC is trivial once you […] [Original post on retro.social]
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
please find the archive updated @ archive.basiclang.solarpunk.au/basi… (several hundred megabytes of reference manuals for different flavours of BASIC) and archive.basiclang.solarpunk.au/basi… (three […] [Original post on retro.social]
an nginx autoindex listing of a directory of some PDFs.an nginx autoindex directory listing of some directories of different reference manuals for different flavours of BASIC.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
github.com/ibm2030/EDUC8 a faithful 8-bit reproduction of the PDP-8 in TTL chips
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
please find the archive updated @ archive.basiclang.solarpunk.au/basi… five different text editors in text file format, arranged in directories by BASIC flavour.
nginx autoindex directory listing of some text editors.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
the project is due for an update. 1. the cheap PS2 keyboard from aliexpress arrived some time ago. this means the project can finally 'get into' the ESP32 single board computer to test its network functionality. from there, the project should move into […] [Original post on retro.social]
A grubby beige NEC CRT displaying the HELP command in green text from Stefan's Tiny BASIC.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025
perhaps the project lives! found this cheap, new wired PS2 keyboard on aliexpress. www.aliexpress.com/item/10050082443…
a fairly crunchy image of a PS2-plug wired keyboard from aliexpress.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
Stefan's Tiny BASIC was loaded onto the LILYGO TTGO VGA32 microcontroller board. Just need to figure out where to get a PS2 keyboard...
the LILYGO TTGO VGA32 board itself, with a blue LED, a VGA cable plugged in, and a USB to PS2 adaptor plugged in also.A green phosphorescent CRT monitor reads the Stefan's Tiny BASIC prompt.A green phosphorescent CRT monitor also reads the Stefan's Tiny BASIC prompt. Glows a bit more.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025
@xChaos then i think this will be a bit more up your alley-- it's a word processor, not just a text editor git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacompu… the process of transcribing is […] [Original post on retro.social]
the first page of the scriptor.bas BASIC listing
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025
okay! the text editor is beginning to croak back into life! this is a 100-ish line text editor written in Altair BASIC i have corrected and adapted the program to run on this Tiny BASIC, which runs on virtually every micro-controller board available in the […] [Original post on retro.social]
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025
the people's permacomputer project is crowdfunding AUD$500 for some prototypes, which backers will receive. igg.me/at/HTkxQoJqy6U/x/35340446# please boost and share around. #crowdfunding #mutualaid #permacomputing #retrocomputing #retro #esp32 #tinybasic #basic
the text editors written in BASIC we found in old 70s and 80s magazines.

yes they are type-ins.

yes some are over 350 lines long.

[sweating emoji]
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025
2 units (consumer amounts) from alibababulk units @ alibaba (~AUD$15 per unit)consumer purchase from LILYGO website
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025
after typing up-- git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacompu… --it seems appropriate to move on to some other aspect of construction. perhaps 3D printing cases, to allow distribution of the people's permacomputer platform […] [Original post on retro.social]
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025
? www.aliexpress.com/item/10050061144…
14 segment LED display module.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
PROJECT RESULTS UPDATE git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacompu… sample:
a table of the text editors sourced for the people's permacomputer project.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
the project is currently working on two things: - the adoption of a cheap pre-existing micro-controller platform to support - a very simple user environment to promote digital literacy practically, this has resulted in: - the adoption of the arduino […] [Original post on retro.social]
uxn Sunflower BASIC booting for the first time ( :
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
A photo of a BYTE magazine cover. The crew of the Star Trek enterprise watch a hologram of someone from the 1970s labouring over a BASIC program.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
debugging EDIT.BAS presently
the EDIT.BAS BASIC text editor listing
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025
...same
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025
currently inputting edit.bas into the raspberry pi pico i had been dreading this. debugging is a slow and laborious process.
a serial console running Stefan's Tiny BASIC.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025
an image of the construction of the official RC2014 VGA terminal
an image of the construction of the official RC2014 VGA terminal
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025
a demo of Stefan's BASIC over 9600 baud serial.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2025
first practical experiment of the project. stefan's tinybasic burned to an arduino mega. not much memory, but from here the user environment of the permacomputer can be developed. it will not be difficult to get BASIC running on the permacomputer.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2025
git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacompu… phase-3.md updated. changes: - UTILITY.BAS added. file operations - DUMBTERM.BAS added. dumb terminal program.
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025
[type-in text editor programs] git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacompu… something special. please find uploaded images of type-in BASIC listings of text editors. they come from Compute! magazine issues feb 1981 […] [Original post on retro.social]
LED - Line-Oriented Text EditorVIC EDITYPEScriptor - an Atari Word Processorspeed script 3.0
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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2024
# What is a permacomputer? A permacomputer is a computer which attempts to embody the virtues of permacomputing. Foundationally, permacomputing itself is set of community practices and traditions which shares a set of social and ecological values inspired by […] [Original post on retro.social]
hammer and s/sickle/mushroom/

DECOMPOSE THE EMPIRE cool 80s stylised person looking at a cool 80s stylised computera techno-monk

AI art that depicts a monk in a ~200AD painting using a weird laptop-looking computer
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