Time for a little experiment!

I thought it might be fun to trawl a retro gaming net through Twitter and see what ended up inside. For this first foray into the retro gaming niche of the twitterverse, I decided to search for any mention of the Commodore 64. Here’s a few of the more interesting gems I uncovered:

• @christopherbahn discovered The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk, a presentation delivered by Michael Steil at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress. It’s not for the faint of heart, being a pretty hardcore overview of the C64’s architecture and the various assembly code tricks used by programmers to exploit it. Worth a look if you’re a more technically minded C64 gamer interested in learning how the various game developers coaxed so much out the machine.
• While we’re on a C64 tip, @adamgetsawesome drew my attention to a rather awesome YouTube video showing a custom built MIDIbox SID V2 being put through its paces. The hardware comprises eight of the C64’s SID chips (the chip responsible for generating the C64’s sound) wired together and manipulated via MIDI controllers.
• @DontPanicJasz twittered a recommendation for LoadingReadyRun, providing geeks with web-based sketch comedy and C64 aesthetics. Yeah, sounds bizarre — but there’s some pretty good stuff there.

Don’t forget to follow Retroblique on Twitter. I regularly tweet about games, with a little bit of music, film and literature thrown in for good measure.