INTRODUCTION

Hi, nice to meet you.

My name is Fritigern, or Friti for short.

I have a bit of experience editing wiki pages. I have run and owned 2 wikis in the past, been a sysop at another, and an occasional editor at Wikipedia.

I have been a CBM nut since 1983, got my first C64 in 1990, took a break around 2003 and a C64U owner since May 2026, and using it every day.

When I stumbled upon this wiki, I realized that a lot of info was missing and also that quite a bit can be done to make the place easier to read and navigate, and since this is a wiki, instead of waiting for someone else to do it for me, I waltzed in and got to work.

If you are reading this and you feel that certain info is missing, or you feel that things can be improved, then make yourself an account (if you don't have one yet) and get cracking. Don't be shy. If you make a mistake, it can be fixed. We do not bite.

“Programmers don't byte, they nybble a bit”

The owner of this website assumes no responsibility for the unhinged ramblings of this user.

FRITI'S PLAYGROUND

Pics and text.

What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since 1966, when designers at Letraset and James Mosley, the librarian at St Bride Printing Library in London, took a 1914 Cicero translation and scrambled it to make dummy text for Letraset's Body Type sheets. It has survived not only many decades, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised thanks to these sheets and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker and Microsoft Word including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it? It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Where does it come from? Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.