8-Bit Week -- Day 1 & 2 Roundup

The first 48 hours of “8-Bit Week” here at The Lunduke Journal has been an absolute blast!

Apple II. Commodore 64. Tandy Color Computer 3. Atari 800. These first two days of 8-Bit Week were filled to the brim with fun, fascinating posts by members of The Lunduke Journal Community.

Below is a, roughly chronological, list of 8-Bit Week posts in our community. Read through them all… or simply check out the ones that interest you. There’s something here for everyone. (Then scroll to the end of this post for a short selection of some of the fun pictures and screenshots posted so far. So much fun stuff in there.)ii6

1. 8-Bit Week kickoff podcast!

2. An 8-Bit breadboard, DIY computer kit

3. Darius, an 8 bit shooter

4. An 8 bit bug

5. 6502 programming this week!

6. Commodore 64 on The Computer Chronicles

7. Big stack of Atari 2600 games!

8. Reminiscing about C64 days

9. Apple IIe restoration project

10. C64 emulation via VICE on Linux

11. Commodore 64 ads from the 1980s

12. Keymap for VICE

13. Disassembled Apple IIe

14. Running GEOS on actual C64 hardware

15. Assembler programming on an 8 Bit Atari

16. The 10 Best Commodore 64 games… ever

17. A much cleaner Apple IIe! So purdy!

18. Playing Ballblazer on the Atari 800

19. Are you keeping up with Commodore?

20. Doing word processing on a Vic 20

21. “Hello World!” in assembly on an Atari 800

22. BASIC computer games book!

23. Web based emulators

24. More BASIC computer games books!

25. Fixing the start button on a Gameboy Color

26. Vic 20 syntax errors! Huzzah!

27. AND and OR!

28. Turbo Rascal : Pascal Compiler & IDE for tons of classic systems

29. Reading and writing files, in code, on multiple 8 bit systems

30. Computer Chronicles - Apple II Forever

31. Keycaps back on the restored and cleaned Apple IIe

32. Removing rust from the metal in 8 bit computers

33. Coding to make 8 bit computers useful today

34. Tandy Color Computer 3 emulator!

35. Bruce Lee on Atari 800 is brutal

36. 8 bit text adventure by one of our own!

37. Using a laptop touchpad as an emulated KoalaPad on an emulated Atari

38. Apple IIe restored! … Now what?

39. “Duplicate this Diskette!”

40. VICE working great on BSD… not on Linux! Grrrr

41. Using a C compiler on an Atari 130XE

And, behold, a sampling of photos and screenshots from the first two days of 8-Bit Week!