WARNING: QR codes are not suitable for upgrading your C64’s RAM.
Well not with that attitude.
This is how YouTube videos are born
Now this is a shower thought. I love it.
And the Commodore 64 can’t decode them. Even if you fed it an algorithm that could decode them, you’d be out the memory of the algorithm.
All sounds fun on paper, but I enjoy storing terabytes of data on the Internet Archive, and sticking that to a QR code, just for fun.
Of course. But a fun (actual) showerthought nonetheless. As I remembered it earlier today, a qr-code (version 40) can hold about 3000 bytes.
Version 40: 177x177 modules, can hold up to 7,089 numeric characters, 4,296 alphanumeric characters, 2,953 bytes of data, or 1,817 kanji characters.
Indeed!
I actually encoded a 256 byte DOS assembly demo (not written by me) into a self decoding plain text batch file, and then for the hell of it encoded that into a QR code.
Again, disclaimer, I didn’t write the original code, but it was fun to convert into a QR code.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=LSAJTQiQ0DA
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
MattKC totally made a version of snake that fits in a QR code, his website covers it too
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
totally made a version of snake that fits in a QR code
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Finally, I can download more RAM
Tiny nitpick, 23 qr-codes are needed as one can contain 2,953 bytes and c64 has 65,536 bytes of ram. 65536/2953=22.19
RAM manufacturers hate this one weird trick
What sized QR code?
Billboard sized or business card?
