allardjd 1,853 Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 The Commodore 64 Lives Again http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/07/commodore-64-computer-lives-vintage/ Dang! I got rid of all that old stuff too soon. John Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,497 Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 He he! The Amiga was pretty good too but not as iconic as the "64" Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 I have still got an 'All singing All dancing' C64 Boxed plus loads of games, printer, books, joysticks etc etc. I also have a still working and boxed Dragon 32. In the loft if anyone wants em'. Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Oh.. that brings back lots of memories.. a true icon in computer history... We used to run up to 8 person tournaments in "Summer Games" and "Winter games" on my C64 during family parties. None of us ever got the hang of the figure skating though.. everyone usually ended up on all four on the ice, and scoring really low points :th_smiles73: Link to post Share on other sites
SEATAC 400 Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 I never had a C64, but I still have my Apple IIGS and my Texas Instruments TI99/4A. Boxed and stored in the closet, but they still work. Link to post Share on other sites
simi_av8r 0 Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 never had a C64, but i did have its most tenacious rival at the time...theAtari ST 1204 (featuring an 8MHz CPU & 1MB RAM) and then i upgraded to the Atari Mega STE with a whopping 16MHz CPU - ah those were the days! Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,497 Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 I agree Simi, we were easily please and just to get the computer to print "Hello Joe" on the screen was such an accomplishment!! Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted April 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 If I recall the boot-up message on the C-64 correctly, you had about 28K of memory available once Commodore Basic was loaded, of the 64K that it was built with. If you wanted to use it all you had to use Assembler, which is a lot like building a skyscraper by stacking grains of sand. Commodore Basic was limited to 2 character variable names and lots of other limitations that we'd never tolerate today. My first modem was for the C-64 and was 300 baud. You could literally read the text faster than it could download and would have to wait at the end of each screen for the next screenful to be downloaded. Images - what images? There were none - everything was text and not often well formatted either. John Link to post Share on other sites
MarkJones 0 Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 I've still got an old Atari St in the loft. I wonder if a micro tax board will fit in it... Brings back memories, some classic games. Airbus a320, James pond, Sensible soccer, Elite, Carrier command, Hunter, Impossamole, Lotus turbo challenge... The list goes on! :icon_thumbup: Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 I remember sitting at the C64 keyboard for hours on end typing in machine code and basic, and was always amazed when a litlle car would crawl across the screen. Wifey and me sat for 3 hours once typing in a program out of one of the mag's at the time, which would/should have been a basic flight simulator. I pressed delete at the end instead of of compile. :th_smiles73: Wifey never typed code in again.......:icon_thumbup: Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted April 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 There was a Word Processor called, I think, Speedscript for it which wasn't half bad. I think that was a type-in program too, but once entered and saved to a floppy it was amazing for the times. John EDIT: I just looked at Wiki and was amazed that there's an article about Speedscript. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript Link to post Share on other sites
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