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I've been enjoying Once Upon a Win lately (the cousin to FAIL Blog) and the one thing that's lacking so far is the Commodore 64. Tonight, though, I came across something even more epic: the Commodore Christmas Demo. Dave writes:

Commodore wrote their famous Christmas Demo in 1982 to demonstrate the capabilities of their new Commodore 64 computer and the upcoming Executive 64 (SX-64) portable. It was included with the test/demo disk that shipped with every SX-64 so dealers could introduce customers to the machines' advanced (for the time) sound and graphics. Though its character graphics and SID sound seem quaint by today's standards, the Christmas Demo reminds many Commodore fans of the morning they woke to find a computer under their tree.

1982. I never knew of this before. Click through and watch it.

Best thing I've seen online all week. Hands down.

This article is all kinds of awesome. I never thought I'd see the day.

The Commodore 64 is 25 years old this year. Kind of shocking, really.

Okay, geek levels are off the charts on this one: FC64, a Commodore C64 emulator for Flash. And it's open source. This is just mind boggling...

...because, among other things, what this means is that I could embed a Commodore 64 emulator, games and all, right here on my blog. Because it's in Flash. And Flash in installed on nearly every browser these days.

So not only could you play C-64 games here... if you know BASIC, you could write and run your own programs for it. So then I wonder if those are saveable? I bet that would be easy to hack... Talk about a community project: everybody writing programs for everybody else to run without having to install software or trade files at all. Hmmmmmmmmmm...

Okay, this will permanently brand me as the geekiest dork ever (I fully expect a "geek" comment from Shannon), but perusing WinAmp's SHOUTcast Radio list today, I found the ultimate station:

...wait for it...

Commodore 64 remixes. From SLAY Radio.

Yes, you read that correctly. Commodore 64 remixes.

I've been letting it play in the background. It totally kicks ass.

This strikes me as being a real Long Tail kind of thing.

This is indescribably cool if you're an old-time geek who cut his/her teeth on the Commodore 64: Quantum Link Reloaded. Basically, someone has reverse-engineered the original Quantum Link online system that was for the Commodore 64, and made it available online (for free), and you can actually connect to it via a Commodore 64 computer—or an emulator.

Read this Wikipedia article on Quantum Link. What many people don't know is that it became... America Online.

Via Slashdot.