Still got my C64 and it is alive and kicking as well as my Amiga 500. The hard part is getting Joysticks replaced nowadays.

I had a 128k but I had a couple friends with the 64. Even had the tape drive lol for amazing speeds :1orglaugh

I always see those style of joysticks in second hard stores. Sega Genesis game pads also work well (I even remember there being a trick to get all 3 buttons to work on the Amiga).

I had a C64 back in '83. We couldn't connect it directly to our old tv, so we ran it thru the video player to the tv. The night my dad sat up with me all night while I clocked the machine on Space Invaders...he video'd it! ;)

I had a vic 20, casette tape drive, a 300 baud modem that ya plop the handset into and absolutely nowhere to dial into.

i remember the 64 and the 128. My grandfather worked at rockwell space section and they slowed down so he would play on the computer all day and bring home new games almost everyday. i loved it and i think that is my favorite computer...the great old 64, that is how i got into computers, i was playing with the 64 when I was four which was 1986! yes i know i'm a youngin, but i don't know may 21 yr olds that remember the 64 quite like i do!

jDoG

Evil I still have a modem for the 64 in storage, i got it from my grandfather, else he was gonna throw it away....it's history to the internet world, would you agree?

jDoG

I had one....:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Lol, and used rubbers are history to your sexual past, you dont save them do ya?:1orglaugh You wont live long enough for it to have any value, but it'd be kinda cool to show your grandkids when they're bitching about they're oc48 connection not being fast enuff.... "Back when i was a kid I used to have to use a 2400 baud modem and walk 14 miles back and forth to school, uphill both ways"

anybody know where to find a vic-20 emulator that works? iv'e tried a couple and they just lock my pentium solid.

50 Commodores

C64 was my introduction to computers back in the day. I spent hours and hours every day on that thing. We had so many games that I could play for 12 hours straight and never get bored. Fantastic machine. I think my parents still have it in the basement somewhere. It works but the diskdrive is getting a bit flaky - and besides, most of the games were on 5 1/2" floppys that have all gone to shit too. Shame - it was a kickass machine to have as a kid.


I've tried the emulators too but they never really work.

cool to see how many ppl got a c64, i started with a ti99/4a as well got it for xmas from my folks, took it along on holiday to germany and wrote the first slotmachine prg there was here in holland, sold it made an xray version even, i got a playmate poster and draw the outlines and "digitised" it, that is i took a piece of maths paper 8x8 and colored each block black and made the strings in the machines then put it all together my friends were amazed and all bought the prg hehe...

got a c64 after that went to berlin on schooltrip bought a viddigitiser there for $300 (a lot then) and got a friend with a HUGE vidcam from his dad, took all my playboys and digitised the pics sold them on disks to germany austria holland anywhere i got like $500 a month so i started a BBS as well hehe... half duplex 1 tel line my dad went insane when the phone rang at 3am hahaha cool to see how many ppl did the same :)))

those were the days...

I bought a c64 when it first came out, or a few months after, $595 plus $70 for the tape drive. I loved that fucker. Over time, bought two of those big clunky 51/2" floppy drives, 300 and 1200 modems, mouse, printers and other accessories. I was pretty computerized, for the time.

Then I got given a 286 with a ten meg hard drive, and thought I was in heaven.

Later I became sysop for a two line BBS with waffle and usenet, kinda rare for it's time.

But I started with the c64, and it will always have a place in my memory.

i had a commodore pet, then a 64 then a 128 2 computers in 1 i thought it was the best :)

Had a C64 until I upgraded to a mighty Amiga500 :thumbsup

I still have a working commodore 64 in the garage somewhere. Prolly about 50 games or so. Goddamn i had some fun on that.

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I have a picture of me at 9yrs old sound asleep with my hands on the keyboard of my C64.
I remember when we got a floppy drive - WHOA that was fast! Loaded up Frogger twice as fast as my tape drive did, I was in heaven! :)

Note - this was back when floppies were *really* floppy, you could bend 'em in half and they'd still work - on both sides, even.

Yeah, i remember...

http://ms10.virtualave.net/gfy/c64.jpg

if you want some working c64 just get one at ebay for about 10 bucks...

I had the Commodore 64, I used to love to play on that thing.

I remember my brother phoning me because he had just got a 10 MEGABYTE HARD DRIVE ... lol

The "tape drive" for those not old enough was a "cassette tape" just like the one with your radio. ; )

I started with the 64 and upgraded to the 128 with tape storage....

Those were the days!

:1orglaugh

Yep had a Commodore 16, then I got a 64, then a 64 with harddrive, then an amiga 500, then a dx2x66 PC, p200, p300, p450, 1000ghz, 2.5ghz

Ohh those commordores were great at the time.

I had that on the Amiga 600... my father NEVER plays games and has no interest in computers, but he was really good at that game. :1orglaugh

had a 64 then 128

Then got an Amiga 500, then Bodega bay and a 33mhz accelerator card, more memory and eventually ended up running a 6 line BBS on it (Cnet Amiga software) that made the Boardwatch top 100 back in '93

Graduated to a 486 machine and the rest is history :)

This thread is bringing back serious memories.

Wow. Port Royal BBS was my home on the modem lines.

I ran a bbs called SplitInfinity, which is obviously still the name I use
today for my hosting company. :-) Lots of history behind that name
with me.

I started with a Commodore PET CBM machine, tape drive and dot matrix printer.
My school (Pine Valley in San Ramon, CA area) allowed students to rent the computers to take home for the weekend. I did that and ended up never leaving
the house on the weekends, just sat around programming.

poke this peek that. Lots of fun!

Tape Drives suck. Those are a bad memory.

Then I had these computers...

TRS80
Timex Sinclair (hahahah)
Apple II
Applie IIe
Commodore Vic-20
Commodore C-64
Commodore C-64 Portable OH MY GOD WAS THIS HUGE AND HEAVY
Apple IIgs
Apple III
Applie Mac
Ibm 8086 style....
Ibm 286, 386, 486, and up.....

Ran a BBS on Apple IIgs using GBBS software (Rocks!)
Used to program it with "ACOS" the All Communications Operating System
that Greg programed. Very cool. It was like a perl language to make BBS's.

My computer of choice ended up being Macintosh,
however my unix background keeps me tied to unix (linux) because
I love programming on that platform.

I use a dual G5 mac today with 4 monitors (20" each) and mac osx,
which is a developers dream OS because it is based on unix.

Woohoo!

Hey you need a web host? Ring me up.
ICQ me. I would love to host ALL old-school hacks on this board.
If you know what loderunner is, I would be honored to host ya!.

Oh, and how about those modems where you placed the handset in the
rubber cradle? HAHAHAHHAAH 300BPS slow as hell.

AppleCat modems rock.

Boulderdash rocks!

http://members.chello.nl/~s.storms/bould.gif

I had a TI994A total of 16k

same here

http://www.c64gg.com/Images/M/Mail_O...ters_intro.gif

It's all about MOM.

But actually this was one of my C=64 favorites...

http://apple2history.org/museum/images/bards_tale.jpg

> Nothing like playing River Raid or Boulder Dash on a
> C64 connected to a wall projector.

I had a C64 in 1985 when everyone else had the crummy Vic 20 - I always used to cuss them for it. Ohhh man some of those games beat modern PC games hands down....

Boulderdash
Spy Vs Spy I & II (probably my all time favourites)
Booty
The Last V8
Bruce Lee (the green sumo guy in that game was hilarious)
Forbidden Forest
F-15 Strike Eagle (the best c64 flight simulator)
Hardball
Jupiter Lander (everyone hated this game but I loved it)


I can barely remember some of the best ones..... but in those days the gameplay was really enhanced by having a good tape cover. If the tape cover was good you somehow enjoyed the game even more.... haha

man those were the days!

anyone play exodus games?

com 64 master of the Jumpman game

Oh hell yeah. The Bards Tale series was great. Same with Ultima IV.

Man those were the good ole days. I use to do my homework on my lunch at school so I could come home play outside till it got dark and then come in and bust a move on the computer till I had to hit the sack!

Oh if we could only get off work at 2:30 and have the afternoon to ourselves! ahhaha

I remember the commorde's very well those machines changed my life. I learn all of the crap needed to make games and do sounds on them.

peek/poke
a few assmebly language routines to speed things up.

Timex Sinclair 1000
C64
C128
IBM XT compatible

When I first opened Computer Corner, I sold Vic 20s, Commodore 64s, as well as software for the Ti & Radio Shack Color Computer.

What memories!

Does anyone remember any Commodore Programming ?

I remember something like..

if A$ = "blahblah" then....

I cannot remember much more then that..lol

I use to make my stupid computers ask me
questions that I can only answer what I programmed it
to say..:1orglaugh

After a great upgrade from zx80, I guess my first game for C64 was Impossible Mission.. :thumbsup

I even had a "light pen" for it at some point..