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Just in time I received my brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate directly before Christmas. What a lovely made piece of retro hardware.

> https://c0de517e.com/026_c64fire/cozy.jpg

That should have been a real CRT monitor to give this picture a true feeling of the 80s!

i thought this was going to involve capacitor plague. rather a retro dive into coding an 8bit digital fireplace.

This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.

This is very nice, enjoyment-driven, seasonal hacking. Cool.

Brought back happy memories of the much simpler, much less impressive falling snowflakes animation, complete with Silent Night soundtrack, that I laboriously wrote in Basic on my Vic-20 one Christmas back in the 80s.