Help My c64 caught on fire
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·December 23, 2025Aldipower
Just in time I received my brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate directly before Christmas. What a lovely made piece of retro hardware.
andyjohnson0
This is very nice, enjoyment-driven, seasonal hacking. Cool.
Brought back happy memories of the much simpler, much less impressive falling snowflakes animation, complete with Silent Night soundtrack, that I laboriously wrote in Basic on my Vic-20 one Christmas back in the 80s.
arbol
This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.
rolph
i thought this was going to involve capacitor plague. rather a retro dive into coding an 8bit digital fireplace.
userbinator
Definitely a clickbait title. I thought it'd be about those infamous Rifa caps.
TacticalCoder
> https://c0de517e.com/026_c64fire/cozy.jpg
That should have been a real CRT monitor to give this picture a true feeling of the 80s!
andyjohnson0
Simulated 14" portable TV fascia with tuning knob* and mono speaker grille.
*set to channel 36, natch
Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to full-color photos when clicked.