Commodore 64

[LAURENU2]

Who remembers the old Commodore 64 This was my first love :slap: Well except for my wife
And I sill Have both of them:rock:

Is it still worth anything ? :umm: the Commodore not my wife

[Bok]

Although I was an Atari 800 boy, prior to that I had the Commodore Vic 20 :)

Sure, some of the games are worth playing still, but no need to fire it up, just use an emulator like http://www.ccs64.com :) Everything you need to know at www.c64.com

Easy enough to find the games too :thumbs:

Bok

[Paratima]

Never got Commodore fever. My first PC was an Altair 8800, built from a kit (yes, with these very hands right here), sold for parts when the IBM PC hit the market about five years later! Took FOREVER to do anything, but I loved it. I seem to remember the MTBF being about 30 minutes.

I worked in programming language development on mainframes back then and almost every programmer I knew would have killed for a real computer at home. :eek:

[Bok]

:Pokes:

I still work on mainframes today, well , along with just about every other environment too...

[PCZ]

I remember the C64, although like Bok during the 8 bit days i was an Atari user.
Still have a couple of 800XL's with tape drives although they have trouble loading up programs now.
The disc drives packed up ages ago and i'm having trouble finding replacements.

Is yours one of the original beige ones or the redesign styled like the Amiga ?
Most memorable thing was the long loading times.
So long in fact that you could play a game whilst they loaded.
Quite liked the loader games actually.

[Bok]

I've got a working drive for the 800xl...

easy enough to find on Ebay :thumbs:

[IronBits]

Cut my teeth on a C64, then went to C=128. Ran a BBS from it in fact.
I remember playing with the Pets, Ataris, and Amigas my friends had.
I liked the C=128 because of the CPM OS, where I could do some dbase coding then take it into work and load it up on a Dec Rainbow :)

I watched all the IBM XT clones go by and jumped in when the IBM AT clones hit 12Mhz, with a TURBO button. :D

[Digital Parasite]

What good memories. I started with an Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. It used a cartridge system and we eventually got a tape drive for it.

I really started to excel when we got our C64, and I learned to program. Anyone have a Super Snapshot cartridge for that? I loved those, let you break into programs during executing, modify the machine code and do fun things. While I didn't really run my own BBS, I actually wrote some BBS software on the C64. I would have run one but we only had 1 phone line in the house and since I was in grade 9 or 10 at the time, I couldn't really afford a second one.

[Bok]

I had the equivalent on the atari, the Translator I think it was called or something like that. Used to take snapshots of games once loaded then do whatever with them, like 'backing them up' :)

Bok

[LAURENU2]

What good memories. I started with an Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. It used a cartridge system and we eventually got a tape drive for it.
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hahah I still have the data tape drive to it's like a cassette tape recorder

ya the good old days back when Gas was .25 a Gal:cry:

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Yeah well cut my teeth on ZX Spec 48 - the newer one with the better keys, upgraded to a 128K which might still work no idea I think the modulator on it erm DIED, I got a C-64 with a few carts and the tape drive on it, remember BBC Micros as well - gosh programming on them... and the inevitable when you'd done a long program and go to save the last little bit - disc error!
I didn't have any of the snapshot things, a mate did have one for his spectrum Interface 1 and the microdrive WOW, another mate had a uber fast 8086, it could play battle chess in 3d (okay it took 3minutes to move but it worked).
I remember the 486's with the "turbo" button, I also remember you could wire them backwards so when the button was "ON" it was slower - was really fun to do that...25mhz or turbo 33mhz..

[LAURENU2]

You know the PC that they used to land on th Moon was a FAST 8 MHz :lmao:
Just think how far we could go with todays PC:lmao:

[Jeff]

I had a Commodore C16 with amber screen and tape drive. :woot:

Then I upgraded to an IBM PCjr with a color monitor and 5 1/4" floppy. :woot: :woot:

Oh the memories of listening to a Yankee game keeping stats on my C16. ;) I absolutely loved typing in pages and pages of games from the magazines.

Thanks for the memories.. :cheers:

[LAURENU2]

Ya I found it still workks to
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1138&stc=1&d=1205028601

[Paratima]

Wow! :thumbs:

[Digital Parasite]

I remember you could copy programs on tape by just dubbing them in a regular cassette deck. Or "listen" to you program as "music".

[paleseptember]

Well, I think I'm a bit younger than you all, but!

My parents purchased an Apple IIe when I was five or six? 5.25' fdd, no hdd, 25kHz processor? So much fun! Wrote little programs in BASIC and LOGO on it. Stood me in good stead when for a year 10 computing project we had to program a short film in LOGO. I got a little carried away -- mine went for twenty minutes :D

Oh, there was a silly part-work magazine in the early 90s, Quest, I think it was called. Had the BASIC code to write a database program, and each partwork came with some data for you to input. Never finished it :P

Ah, memories....