Nuclear Demo - Commodore 64

Commodore 64 demonstration of a nuclear power plant.

For more Commodore videos see http://www.kmoser.com/commodore

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• commodore
• 64
• nuclear
• power
• plant
• demo

[polytechnickk]

Back in 1982, running on an 8-bit 6510 processor at 1MHz, on an American made motherboard, this exquisite piece probably took a whole 10K of RAM. Fast forward 26 years, it streams at 64KBps onto my Windows machine and probably sucks a good 2MBs of bandwidth at least. Progress.

[NoqturnePL]

not quite - Microsoft DID do BASIC, but for the C128, not C64 ;p

[kdc43]

I believe in one nuclear power plant, the one that is 93 million miles from us, all others are crap.

[pentad2k]

Microsoft did all the basic for Commodore machines. Basic 2.0 for the C64 was a hack from Basic 4.0 for the Pet series to fit into the memory requirements. It's one of the reasons why Basic 2.0 sucks so badly. I loved the C64 but Basic 4.0 and then Basic 7.0 were much better.

However, Microsoft licensed Basic to Commodore for a single lump sum. By the C128, though, Microsoft demanded that their name be displayed.

[raulrrojas]

I like the smiling neutron at 3:05. However, In Chernovyl nor Fukushima the neutrons were not that smiling. Also to be considered that this explains the "normal" or "predicted" working condition of an atomic plant, but in real life were cars crash, planes fall, and earthquakes damage structures, ie, things can go bad. And consecuences lasts 10000 years. Not an option, my dear scientist specialist...

[globalvelveta]

Wow

[BrownyTCat]

@NoqturnePL To find out if they did it with the PET, get any emulator or pet and type WAIT 6502, 1 *wink*

[radonas]

'and does not make people glow in the dark' nice

[Wochensau]

Do that again, this time with the Fuck-U-Shima reactors explained, hahahaha. All your base are belong to us. Make your time.

[Wochensau]

@polytechnickk Mine was assembled in Germany, with perhaps some parts being imported from Hong-Kong and the like.

[nrdesign1991]

@polytechnickk that's weird, my C64 says "made in Germany" on the case and "MADE IN HONG KONG" on the motherboard

[peterlinddk]

@NoqturnePL Microsoft did BASIC for the C64 as well as the Apple ][ - actually it is almost the same BASIC, with the same oddities and features. Microsoft also created BASIC for the Amiga, as well as for many many other home-computers in the early eighties. It was kind of their core-business at the time.