8-Bit Show And Tell | Viewing the 2024 Solar Eclipse with Commodore 64's 1984 Sky Travel @8_Bit | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
A Commodore 64 can be used to view the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse with the help of some software from 1984 called "Sky Travel: A Window To Our Galaxy". We take a quick look at the original boxed program, complete with floppy disk, manual, and diskette replacement card! Then with the help of a 1541 disk drive and some vigorous head knocks, we get the software booted, configured (with some advice from Commodore friend Bruce Thomas), and finally view the eclipse from the safety of my basement.

I made a follow-up video: youtu.be/ygDzpVMkDrw titled "SuperCPU "Sky Travel" Easter Egg Hunt for Commodore 64"

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Sky Travel manual (MicroIllusions edition): archive.org/details/sky-travel-c-64-manual

Index:
0:00 Sky Travel: 1984 Commodore, 1987 MicroIllusions
2:19 Inside the box: Floppy, Manual, Diskette Replacement
4:16 Booting the 5.25" Floppy Disk
7:20 Configuring location, date, and time
11:42 Configuring and viewing the sky
15:06 The eclipse: wear your ISO 12312-2 glasses
20:55 Thanks!