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Help My c64 caught on fire

Help My c64 caught on fire

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·December 23, 2025

syncsynchalt

Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to full-color photos when clicked.

altairprime

(And, once, also HDR.)

stronglikedan

only most do

Aldipower

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