Ah, the Commodore 64. A pc from a extra harmless time when video games have been video games and typing in a 1,000-line itemizing from {a magazine} wouldn’t be seen as absolute madness.
Let’s begin off with a historical past lesson. The C64 was launched in August 1982. Google Maps was first launched in February 2005, virtually 1 / 4 of a century later. Now think about you have been someone who thought – ‘I ponder if I can get Google Maps to work on my Commodore 64’
Properly worry not as a result of that’s what some intrepid C64 followers got down to do, and as you’ll be able to see in the video, you too might technically do it when you have a working C64 mendacity round (I do because it occurs however that speaks volumes about me maybe.
Utilizing a WiC64 module which, utilizing some trendy–day magic, can get your Commodore 64 hooked as much as the web by way of wifi after which making a C64 kernel with the WiC64 software program on it, your ageing breadbin can then entry a bunch of on-line providers by way of the included software program that acts as a portal to a number of on-line web providers together with Google Maps and Google Road View.
Now I come from a pre-internet period of BBSs and modems as properly so that is all acquainted stuff to me besides, connecting {hardware} that pre-dates the web to the web is just not an easy process.
Now clearly, with the graphics capabilities of previous 8-bit computer systems being a fraction much less succesful than the 4090 you could be presently rocking, there’s solely a lot the machine can do. You received’t be utilizing this to plan any routes however as a mission, it’s a fairly enjoyable one.
You may see the video of every part in motion and skip by way of to across the 24-minute mark for Google Maps with Road View quickly after.
The flexibility of those previous machines to carry out trendy duties (albeit to an historic normal) by no means ceases to amaze and the fellows who have been growing the code and the chips again within the late Seventies might by no means have dreamed what they’d finally be able to.