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There used to be a quite persistent website hosted from a C64 running Contiki. The pages were probably cached in RAM, but I still like to imagine that a beige 1

• nkozyra 12y ago
  Or one of those weird cassette systems that I vaguely remember struggling with.
  • vidarh 12y ago
    The thing preventing that is that the C64 "Datasette" couldn't trigger play/rewind/fast forward from software, so it'd require it to show a prompt to the operator for each file it needed to load... Someone should hack together an interface - the C64 has usable extra IO pins on the cartridge port that surely should be possible to hook up to them. From a very cursory look at a diagram, it might actually be possible (don't know about safe) to hook the input that normally comes from the play/rewind etc. switch straight to suitable pins on the user port (or you may fry something, but the C64 is remarkably resilient to crazy people like me soldering stuff straight onto the PCB without knowing quite what we're doing, or replacing IC's with "mostly the same but not 100% compatible chips" just to see what would happen... it's a wonder I never broken my C64's)
    • LeoPanthera 12y ago
      Perhaps you could use a continuous loop of tape and just wait for the page you want to come around. A bit like how teletext broadcasts work.
      • vidarh 12y ago
        Serve up a "Please wait, your page will load in 10 minutes" interstitial...