C64 Runs EXE files?

[UKRetrogamer]

...According to the researchers for Season 2 of Halt & Catch fire, they do!

S02E03: Gordon unwittingly uploads a C64 WORM onto Cameron's network.

 

[Rybags]

C64 doesn't use file extensions, they're just part of the name. Fairly sure you can even have multiple full-stops so a filename like "ABCD.EXE.OLD" would be valid.

 

Nice trick is using Shift + Space, that creates a delimiter where the remainder of the filename is ignored for purpose of accessing the file but still displayed in the directory.

Edited June 16, 2015 by Rybags

[UKRetrogamer]

C64 doesn't use file extensions, they're just part of the name. Fairly sure you can even have multiple full-stops so a filename like "ABCD.EXE.OLD" would be valid.

 

Nice trick is using Shift + Space, that creates a delimiter where the remainder of the filename is ignored for purpose of accessing the file but still displayed in the directory.

Forgetting the fact Gordon inserted a disk into the drive, the program still loaded (though you never actually see the 1541 drive activity LEDs illuminate). No tape deck involved and no ,8,1 (or ,9,1 as there are stacked 1541s on his desk) following the filename, either.

 

We must be their target audience. Surely they'd know we'd be watching for stuff like this and hire researchers who know where to locate a bona-fide retro-enthusiast for guidance.

 

No face-projecting CRTs yet. (Only a matter of time?)

[Rybags]

They have to make it plausible to the modern day audience, most of which have probably never actually seen or used a command prompt.

 

Surprising they didn't put an A:> prompt in there as well. Then again, practically every TV show or movie that's had computers depicted has glaring technical errors surrounding entire scenes.

[+OLD CS1]

Well, duh you do not see the 1541s light up... that command loads from tape!

[+OLD CS1]

They have to make it plausible to the modern day audience, most of which have probably never actually seen or used a command prompt.

 

Surprising they didn't put an A:> prompt in there as well. Then again, practically every TV show or movie that's had computers depicted has glaring technical errors surrounding entire scenes.

 

Like how that modem was never matched with a Commodore 64 without using an RS-232 interface... the only people whom I knew who owned one were BBS operators and a few guys who called into universities.

 

And, for FFS, what is so bad about being accurate?!

[7800fan]

And, for FFS, what is so bad about being accurate?!

 

We are allowed to nitpick or websites like moviemistakes.com wouldn't exist.

 

A movie I saw not too long ago "the boy who can fly" had one glaring error. In one scene a child is seen playing with Atari joystick (the 2600 standard) but the screen shows CGI video from the Last Starfighter, something that is not possible on any home game or computer system of the day. Not to mention one fire button would suck on Starfighter game

[carlsson]

I suppose a modified Kernal ROM would be possible, so LOAD without argument loads from device 8 instead of 1.

[+OLD CS1]

Bah, humbug