@dgar One of the great things about computers like that was all you had to do when a system locked up was power down, remove the disk and startup from the backup. One of the bad things about that was all file data was usuallly lost in that process, and very often the disk. In this cae, that's not a bad thing, though 😆

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Lol

@dgar that is a very niche ransomware...

@dgar what a mess.

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A C64 on-line?
How do you even...
joking?

@dgar How? Is that real?

@dgar at least that computer is immune to Spectre and Meltdown!

(I made this same hack as an ATINIT file for ProDOS for the Apple II. ;o)

@dgar encrypting the ROM, that’s just next level

@dgar it's the "waiting for blockchain" part of the message, that worries me most, given the raw power of the 6502 ... 😅​

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Time to use
The Reaper

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What in the cyberpunk hell...?? 😳

@dgar what was on there ??

@dgar Jeepers! crypto chaining on a single thread 1MHz sub-scalar 8/16-bit CPU... What a carnival!

@dgar I remember when that happened to me way back when.

I lost my Space Invaders high score and everything.