Commodore Computer Club

[Rochard]

Who remembers a time when you had to program your own computer before you could do anything practical with it?

These chicks are hot!

[wehateporn]

I had to type something, put a cassette in, press Play, then either watch a blank screen for 30 minutes or go away for 30 minutes until a game would appear

[LouiseLloyd]

I had to type something, put a cassette in, press Play, then either watch a blank screen for 30 minutes or go away for 30 minutes until a game would appear

LOAD ""

[wehateporn]

LOAD ""

That was it!

[j3rkules]

Commodore rocks.

[Maqua]

Hotties the old cassette player hehe

[2MuchMark]

I still have 2 x TRS-80 Model 1's, and 1 TRS-80 Model 4, with 2 cassette drives, an Expansion Interface, a couple of floppy drives and a 300 baud modem. Nothing works well anymore sadly, but I'll never give this up.

And yes you're right - the computers of this era did nothing at all unless you typed in the programs, which was freaking awesome. I loved it.

Best game ever: "Trek 79", or any of its variations. You "flew" the Starship Enterprise to coordinates like 7,5, sector 5,5, hoping to not hit a sun on the way. All the "graphics" were ascii characters like E for Enterprise, K for Klingon, etc, and that was it. Fucking LOVED it.

[Paul&John]

atari user here :

[Ribbet Hog]

My uncle had a huge filing cabnet full of comadore games... Few thousands of games.. He bought it as a big package from someone.. Some dident work but we played all day and night when I went to there house..

[Rochard]

I still have 2 x TRS-80 Model 1's, and 1 TRS-80 Model 4, with 2 cassette drives, an Expansion Interface, a couple of floppy drives and a 300 baud modem. Nothing works well anymore sadly, but I'll never give this up.

And yes you're right - the computers of this era did nothing at all unless you typed in the programs, which was freaking awesome. I loved it.

Best game ever: "Trek 79", or any of its variations. You "flew" the Starship Enterprise to coordinates like 7,5, sector 5,5, hoping to not hit a sun on the way. All the "graphics" were ascii characters like E for Enterprise, K for Klingon, etc, and that was it. Fucking LOVED it.

Those were the days.....

[DVTimes]

I had a bbc

[MK Ultra]

I had a Vic20

I wish I still had a Vic20

[Paul&John]

I had a bbc

big black cock?

[F-U-Jimmy]

I had a Vic20

I wish I still had a Vic20

I started with a Vic 20 then on to an Apricot, then the first Apple. Stayed with Apple ever since..

[michael.kickass]

I remember having great games in my Commodore.

[DraX]

My uncle had a huge filing cabnet full of comadore games... Few thousands of games.. He bought it as a big package from someone.. Some dident work but we played all day and night when I went to there house..

As a kid those memories were somehow the best ones.

[just a punk]

Made my first money by selling self-written applications (mostly games) for ZX-Spectrum. They are still available at worldofspectrum.org

[wehateporn]

Made my first money by selling self-written applications (mostly games) for ZX-Spectrum. They are still available at worldofspectrum.org

Any examples?

[rogueteens]

I had to type something, put a cassette in, press Play, then either watch a blank screen for 30 minutes or go away for 30 minutes until a game would appear

A +2 eh? Posh bastard! I had a Spectum + once, loved that machine and it's QL type keyboard.

[wehateporn]

A +2 eh? Posh bastard! I had a Spectum + once, loved that machine and it's QL type keyboard.

I imagine the + was pretty similar. The +2 was just out when I put in my request for a Speccy, my nextdoor neighbour had a C64 which I thought was far superior, but I loved the Speccy too. Eventually after a number of years went down the Amiga route, said to my father "If Liverpool beat Swansea 8-0 tonight will you buy me an Amiga?", he said "Of course son!" and laughed...

He reluctantly went through with his promise

[Colmike9]

When I was 9 I wrote a 1200 line blackjack game with a computer player and card back pattern and color selection. It's in this box of tapes somewhere..

So much fat code..

[Elli]

LOAD * , 8 , 1

if my memory serves correctly...

they're really skinny, wow.

[NaughtyVisions]

[James - Mr. Skin]

I still have my Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and 2000.

We used to be crak game testers when we were kids. We even built a Digitizer, in 1987 with a Video Camera, color wheel and the Amiga 2000.

We were taking Digital pictures in 1987!!! Crazy to think we do that with our cell phones now!

[Colmike9]

I still have my Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and 2000.

We used to be crak game testers when we were kids. We even built a Digitizer, in 1987 with a Video Camera, color wheel and the Amiga 2000.

We were taking Digital pictures in 1987!!! Crazy to think we do that with our cell phones now!

This was my first digital camera

[stoka]

I had to type something, put a cassette in, press Play, then either watch a blank screen for 30 minutes or go away for 30 minutes until a game would appear

The screen was rarely blank and most of the games had a loading screen, like this one below


Also an average loading time was 5 minutes, so you could put 12-14 pirated games on a C-60 cassette tape

Or 20 for CPC 464-6128 or 40 for CBM 64 with Turbo Tape. Pirated. No loading screens. For CBM

[2MuchMark]

I miss the good old days of 8 bit computers... When I got started it was with a TRS-80 Model 1. It came with no software at all. I had to learn how to program in BASIC, and type programs in from books. Once it took me 2 x 10 hour days to type in a program for a game (Trek 79 or some variant). It was awesome.

[CurrentlySober]

I had a Vic20

I wish I still had a Vic20

http://www.mdawson.net/vic20chrome/vic20.php

Knock yourself out

[just a punk]

Any examples?

There are many of 'em I'd say

[stoka]

There are quite busy retro computer groups on FB, they're collecting hw/se, attaching ZXs and CBMs to large LCDs and even code new games. There are brand new Spectrums to purchase too.

[Black All Through]

I had the VIC 20, 18 floppy dicks to play F1

[MrMaxwell]

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[PornDiscounts-V]

Those chicks were hot.

Once you get past the 3 inches of hair pie.

[symtab]

I had a commodore 64. I remember how happy i was when i coded my first sprite with colors and moving dots )))

[romeo22]

I remember playing super mario

[James - Mr. Skin]

I enjoyed only a few games on the Commodore.

Maniac Mansion
Leisure Suit Larry
Lemmings
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego

I still have Thousands upon thousands of disks full of games though....We used to get boxes every week to test.

[j3rkules]

I still have my Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and 2000.

We used to be crak game testers when we were kids. We even built a Digitizer, in 1987 with a Video Camera, color wheel and the Amiga 2000.

We were taking Digital pictures in 1987!!! Crazy to think we do that with our cell phones now!

I still have my Amiga 500 as well. It brings some really fantastic memories.

[just a punk]

I still have my Amiga 500 as well. It brings some really fantastic memories.

Does it still work? I wanted to have one when I was young

[2MuchMark]

Does it still work? I wanted to have one when I was young

My TRS-80 model 1's still work, but my beloved Model 4 just died a few months ago. I have a friend with a Vic 20 that he says still works, and another with a Comodore Amiga of all things that is banged up but still works. They made computers pretty tough in those days I guess.

[astronaut x]

100 print "i'd hit it"
200 goto 100
run

[LizardKing]

My C64 still works, as my Apple II (clone) does.
Love both of them.

Unfortunately I killed all my Commodore controllers. I mean I loved my Competition Pro, but even this little bastard wasnt strong enough for a world games marathon :D