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The Wallis Product for Pi on the C64

Enigma Ring Settings on the Commodore 64

Breaking Enigma on the Commodore 64

Enigma Emulator on the Commodore 64

10 PRINT on the Apple II

The Math Behind Enigma

Sorting Algorithms Visualized on the Commodore 64

First Principles: Why You Must Learn Before You Prompt

Dorothy Vaughan: Adapt or Become Obsolete

Three Maze Generators on the Commodore 64

16-bit Unsigned AND on Commodore 64

The Best Book Cover of All Time

10 PRINT for the KIM-1

10PRINT and 100 Doors on the PicoCalc from Clockwork Pi

PICO-8 100 Doors Problem

10 Print on PICO-8

Dragon Curves

10 PRINT in Rust vs C

wAx the VIC-20

10 PRINT on the HP-42s

The McNuggets Problem

Back to the basics with BASIC (and Python): Binary Search

Machine Language: Count Faster on 6502

Visualize and verify the reverse engineered Commodore 64 SID LFSR

A Gentle Introduction to LFSRs

Quick Post: Printing binary numbers in Commodore BASIC 2.0

10 Print on the TI-92

A gentle introduction to two's complement

N-Queens problem

Rail Fence Cipher on Commoodore 64 and TI 99/4A

A grid drawing rabbit hole

10 PRINT on the Rockwell AIM 65

Building a software serial bridge

Blinkenlights

40 years on, this is still the best maze algorithm

Validating Pilish

My mostly retro writing platform contenders in National Novel Writing Month for 2022 NaNoWriMo

Adding very large integers in 8 Bit BASIC

MOS paper tape format

A little more speed from the 6502

How fast can a 6502 transfer memory

Almost primes with TinyBASIC on the KIM-1 clone: PAL-1

VIC’s Revenge, the drop-in replacement for the VIC-20 VIC chip Part 1: Introduction, design goals, and FAQs

64 Bit Addition and Products on Commodore: The Wheat and Chessboard problem

Vicky-20 S Video Mod Results

Yet another version of the 100 door problem; this time, let's extend Commodore BASIC to add PRINT @, shall we?

Simple exponents on an HP-16c

Fibonacci 1-10 on the KIM-1 (and clones)

The terrible random number generation in the Commodore 64 (and 128)

Getting green and amber screens from a MiniPET 40/80

Simple splitting the screen with two colors on the Commodore 64

A visual 100 Door Problem solution in Python

Permutations of 1 to 9 in Python, BASIC, and 6502 Assembly

Making and breaking codes Part 14- VIC Cipher on the Commodore VIC-20

Can you do Advent of Code on 8-Bit Machines?

Quick Tower of Hanoi with Sound on the Commodore 64

Dice frequency

A week of diving a little deeper into my Atari 800XL

Two weeks with a Coco 2 in September

Slot Game On Tandy TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-4

Calculating Pi via the Gregory-Leibniz series in BASIC on the Tandy Color Computer 2

Just for fun, the 100 door problem on several different systems

Recreational Math Challenge: Border Crossings - but on 40 year old computers

Running Commodore 64 BASIC Programs on a PET

The CERBERUS 2080

Making and Breaking Ciphers with Commodore 64 - The Vigenère Cipher

Making and breaking Ciphers on the Commodore 64, er VIC-20 - Lagged Fibonacci Sequence and a little Monte Carlo while embracing contraints

Quick Post: XOR in Commodore BASIC 2

Running the 8 Bit Show and Tell VIC-20 Super Expander Programming Challenge on the Commodore 64

The retro pinout project

Quick Post: Modulus in BASIC 2 without a cartridge

Making and breaking Ciphers on the Commodore 64 Part 12 - Pontifex - Solitaire from Cryptonomicon

Making and breaking Ciphers on the Commodore 64 Part 11 - One time pads on a Commodore 64, probably a bad idea

Making and breaking Ciphers on the Commodore 64 Part 10 - Finding hash collisions with a type in game from 1984

Making and Breaking Ciphers with Commodore 64 Part 9 - Finding Smallish Primes

Quick Post: Slow text on the Commodore

The Commodore 64 N.O.O.C.U.L.A.R. futbal project

Making and breaking Ciphers on the Commodore 64 Part 8 - RC4

The Nostalgia Files: My all time favorite book

Repairing a Commodore 128 and DIY Chris's RAM tester review

Making and breaking Ciphers on the Commodore 64 Part 7 - Pseudo Random with Linear Congruential Generators

Making and Breaking Ciphers with a Commodore 64 - Part 6: XOR is Magical - Data recovery

Finding the Prodigal Easter Egg inside the Easter Egg on a Commodore 64

Quick post: Determining length in Commodore Assembly

Benchmarking Retro Computers (mostly Commodore) with marginal methods

Jiffies in Assembly

Making and Breaking Ciphers with a Commodore 64 - Part 5: Wargames

Calculating Pi via the Gregory-Leibniz series in BASIC on the VIC-20

Quick Post: Commodore 64 Simple Addition Efficiency

c0pperdragon verdict

Making and Breaking Ciphers with a Commodore 64 - Part 4: The PIN Program from Terminator 2

Making and Breaking Ciphers with a Commodore 64 - Part 3: The Caesar Cipher

Making and Breaking Ciphers with Python, er Commodore- Part 2: The Shift Cipher

Replacing an RF Modulator on a Commodore 64C

Making and Breaking Ciphers with Python, er, a Commodore- Part 1: The Reverse Cipher

Simple, 'unbreakable' encryption with a pencil

Getting started with Native Commodore 64 Assembly

Friday fun: Games I'm playing in Jan 2021

Switching to 64 bit Raspbian Linux is a snap

Did you do that on real hardware?

Merry Christmas

My DOScember pick for the best DOS Software

Why does there have to be a why?

Imapenguin, reborn

Vic6560

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