Category Archives: Projects

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

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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HP 42s the BEST calculator and its FAST MODE

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Giovanni Giorgi
The HP 42S accompanied me throughout my university career, secretly designed for me some function graphs and with its 7KB alphanumeric also managed to make me keep some secret notes. I bought it on December 5, 1992, paying it 229,000 … Continue reading →
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Commodore 4194304 is here: Rasperry Pi 400

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Giovanni Giorgi
Rasperry Pi Trading announced the RasperryPi 400, a whoppy 1.8 Ghz x 4Gb RAM (about 4096Mb or 4.194.304 Kb) Rasperry in a plastic keyboard case. We just read a teardown, and only the lack of a good mechanical keyboard leave … Continue reading →
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Tic80

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Giovanni Giorgi
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80 328 forks. 3,541 stars. 226 open issues. Recent commits: Merge pull request #1998 from sakisakira/mainAdd DocumentsProvider for Android., GitHub Add DocumentsProvider for Android., SAkira a.k.a. Akira Suzuki … Continue reading →
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runif

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Giovanni Giorgi
Idempotent and minimal python 3 library for rapid scripting. Provide support for creating file, adding data to them, patching and so on. Why? (Ba)sh scripting is very easy to setup. So we end up using it all the time for … Continue reading →
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Commodore Retro Magic Dream: Pyc64 supports I/O on real emulation

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Giovanni Giorgi
I am happy to announce pyc64 now supports save and load programs on top of real emulation. Irmen point me to the right code to look, and I implemented the fix in the weekend; happy hacking!   Commodore-64 simulator in … Continue reading →
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