Category Archives: Projects

In the past 20 years I worked on a huge set of projects.
Here the one I think are useful

Commodore 16: the misundestood

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Giovanni Giorgi
Nel 1984, dopo il successo del C/64, la Commodore lanciò sul mercato il Plus4 ed il Commdore16, due macchine quasi identiche che si differenziavano per il quantitativo di RAM a bordo e per la dotazione del software in ROM. Il … Continue reading →
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C/64 Ads from 80s still have some to say on 2021?….

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Giovanni Giorgi
The Commodore 64 is a fascinating machine. It is the single best selling computer model in human history. The fact that the C64 still holds that title in 2021 — close to three decades after being discontinued — is nothing short of … Continue reading →
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K8s done right Part 1: start from helm charts

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Giovanni Giorgi
K8s is a very complex beast. But it give you a very good set of security defaults, and it is also a very well done implementation of a microservice application. After installing Docker Swarm on some Customer, we are giving … Continue reading →
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Nice Vic20 Articles

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Giovanni Giorgi
VIC20 Roooocks! Some nice article I found on this site, and done by Lawrence Woodman, a very smart guy in our humble opinion… 40-Columns on Vic20 Adding Basic STUBS to Machine Language Code SUBLEQ on VIC20
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Turbo Rascal rulez!

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Giovanni Giorgi
Turbo Rascal is a development environment for the Commodore computers but also for others like NES and so on. It is a bit different from other IDE because it is based on a Pascal-like language. It is not easy to … Continue reading →
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Smart Sync

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Giovanni Giorgi
On 2002, I was forced to build a small java class to “sync” two databases (sorry for Italian): SmartSync used the Metadata offered by JDBC API to be able to copy data between two tables. In the last years I … Continue reading →
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