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Commodore PET Web Server

45 points by rocky1138 13y ago

sambeau 13y ago
POKE 59458,62 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
- goldenkey 13y ago
  I'm surprised there are no mention of techniques to create enough heat to cause a fire. I suppose that's a bit more than a killer poke. Got any links for a 'flaming' poke?
  - sambeau 13y ago
    I'm pretty sure this would cause the PET's monitor to catch fire. My friends and I (as kids) would dare each other to type this into any SuperPet we saw in a computer shop but thankfully we were all too sensible to give it a go. Mostly we'd say we were going to and instead type POKE 32768, 115 which (if I remember correctly) would put a love heart in the top left corner instead.
- mirano 13y ago
  This just brought me back to HS and doing this on all the computer lab C64's (usually contained 3/4 of the way into some Basic program...) After a few weeks of this, there was a nice note posted to each monitor to kindly refrain from killing the machines...
- thangalin 13y ago
  More details: http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/ http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/
boomlinde 13y ago
Not quite the cool hack it might seem from the title. The TCP/IP stack is running on external hardware, exposing connections as file streams over the PET IEC interface.
- DanBC 13y ago
  There are some really small TCP/IP stacks. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg10705.html https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg10705.... http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200905/embedded-tcp-ip-stack.shtml http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200905/embedded-tcp-ip-st...
geoffroy 13y ago
thanks boomlinde, because I wa really wondering how the tcp/ip stack could be implemented on a pet !!
- walshemj 13y ago
  one way that springs to mind is 6502 machine code talking to a GPIB to ethernet adapter like this one. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8841 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8841 maybe
- LarryMade2 13y ago
  Heh A lot of the modern commodore peripherals have more computing power than the computers they are plugged into. But then again they aren't usually as fun as the Commodore. :-D
joshuaellinger 13y ago
First computer I ever wrote a program for...
garysweaver 13y ago
Another good one was the Tandy Model 100 Webserver: http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php source: http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt

45 points by rocky1138 13y ago

sambeau 13y ago

POKE 59458,62 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke

goldenkey 13y ago
I'm surprised there are no mention of techniques to create enough heat to cause a fire. I suppose that's a bit more than a killer poke. Got any links for a 'flaming' poke?
- sambeau 13y ago
  I'm pretty sure this would cause the PET's monitor to catch fire. My friends and I (as kids) would dare each other to type this into any SuperPet we saw in a computer shop but thankfully we were all too sensible to give it a go. Mostly we'd say we were going to and instead type POKE 32768, 115 which (if I remember correctly) would put a love heart in the top left corner instead.
mirano 13y ago
This just brought me back to HS and doing this on all the computer lab C64's (usually contained 3/4 of the way into some Basic program...) After a few weeks of this, there was a nice note posted to each monitor to kindly refrain from killing the machines...
thangalin 13y ago
More details: http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/ http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/

boomlinde 13y ago

Not quite the cool hack it might seem from the title. The TCP/IP stack is running on external hardware, exposing connections as file streams over the PET IEC interface.

DanBC 13y ago
There are some really small TCP/IP stacks. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg10705.html https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg10705.... http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200905/embedded-tcp-ip-stack.shtml http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200905/embedded-tcp-ip-st...

geoffroy 13y ago

thanks boomlinde, because I wa really wondering how the tcp/ip stack could be implemented on a pet !!

walshemj 13y ago
one way that springs to mind is 6502 machine code talking to a GPIB to ethernet adapter like this one. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8841 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8841 maybe
LarryMade2 13y ago
Heh A lot of the modern commodore peripherals have more computing power than the computers they are plugged into. But then again they aren't usually as fun as the Commodore. :-D

joshuaellinger 13y ago

First computer I ever wrote a program for...

garysweaver 13y ago

Another good one was the Tandy Model 100 Webserver: http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php source: http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt