25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people treat it as the canonical C64 talk and rewatch Steil's 'Ultimate' series regularly.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Christiaan008

Topic

commodore 64 architecture

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Michael’s blog is one of my favorites. His “Ultimate Guide” talks are great and I rewatch them at least once a year. Ultimate Guide to the C64: [VIDEO] Ultimate Guide to the Game Boy: [LINK] Ultimate Guide to the Apollo Guidance Computer: [LINK]

• > Back in the 80s, the Commodore C-64 had an intelligent floppy drive, the 1541, i.e. an external unit that had its own CPU and everything. I remember by the time I got a floppy drive for my C64 it was twice the price of …

• Not exactly what you're asking for, but [VIDEO] while being 480p and rather noisy, was very sufficient for me to watch and enjoy the talk back in the day. The presented material does not suffer much on the relatively low resolution.