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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: Pentad on January 03, 2012, 03:22:17 PM
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I am not sure about the rest of you but I started out with the Commodore 64 as my first computer. It led me to the Commodore 128 and finally the Amiga. I have very fond memories of the Commodore 64 and it is hard to believe that it is now 30 years old. Where has the time gone?
I thought people could share some of their memories of the Commodore 64.
For me, I remember standing in a Target department store playing with the Commodore 64. Some of the models had the Kickman cartridge plugged in and the store also gave away popcorn. I can distinctly remember the music from Kickman playing over and over again with the heavy smell of popcorn in the air. It was quite magical.
I did received a Commodore 64 and a 1530 Tape Drive for Christmas (I had to save for half) which launched my life into the technology world.
Good times!
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Update:
I forgot I was going to add this:
Jim Butterfield's Guide to the C64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDEwjJAVE8
I believe there are 16 chapters to this guide (all on YouTube) with the legend himself.
I don't know if it was made for everyone at the time or Commodore Sales Folks.
Anyway, it is pretty good.
Enjoy!
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There is a nice article on the Register (with a comment from Dave Haynie (I think)).
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/02/commodore_64_30_birthday/
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Happy birthday to the real C64 ;) A fine machine indeed.
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Although I started off on the VIC-20, my main computer during my school days was the C64. Shame I only had a black&white portable TV for a monitor unless I lugged it into the living room.
I've got a C64C running on the desk beside me with a Chameleon64 cartridge plugged into the back of it.
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Mine is still living a happy and useful life :)
Happy Birthday C64!!!
real one that is ;)
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Cheers to the original C64 :)
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Damn, time flies. Lots of great C64 memories. My second computer (1st was a tandy trs-80 coco1), but my second favorite machine ever (Amiga being no.1).
As a child I shared a large bungalow with my older brother and we often had multiple friends stay over. There's only 20 or so months between us so we both got along with each others friends for the most part. As such there were many, many marathon c64 sessions. Just what is it about pitstop2 that makes a person feel the need to press the button so heavily that you end up with blisters? :)
I also rememer the 1st time I managed to climb down the wall at the start of level2 in Last Ninja1.
As many of you probably recall it was quite common to find someone had done a simple loop on the c64 in shops that'd simply show the persons name, proclaiming "I rule" or something to that effect:
10 ?"fishy fish rocks!!!!"
20 goto 10
Or similar.
I remember being elated one time doing something like this, but also adding POKE 808,239 at the top of the listing, which disables runstop. The local stores "computer expert" smuggly, and for my benefit went up to the machine to get rid of it, and I saw him put on a bit of a show as to how easy it is to stop the program, only to end up with a baffled look on his face when he couldnt stop the program.
Being that I was only about 10 at the time I felt very clever and felt I'd just had a victory and smuggly smiled at him. His response to this was something I (being10) hadnt anticipated,...... he simply turned the machine off and back on, then returned the smile :)
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Think i have shown this before but here is a vid of me unboxing a second c64 not so long back.
http://youtu.be/Nl5ecU_1az8
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I am not sure about the rest of you but I started out with the Commodore 64 as my first computer. It led me to the Commodore 128 and finally the Amiga. I have very fond memories of the Commodore 64 and it is hard to believe that it is now 30 years old. Where has the time gone?
I thought people could share some of their memories of the Commodore 64.
For me, I remember standing in a Target department store playing with the Commodore 64. Some of the models had the Kickman cartridge plugged in and the store also gave away popcorn. I can distinctly remember the music from Kickman playing over and over again with the heavy smell of popcorn in the air. It was quite magical.
I did received a Commodore 64 and a 1530 Tape Drive for Christmas (I had to save for half) which launched my life into the technology world.
Good times!
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heh! Almost the same path I took. I first got my C64.. then the first game I had was KICKMAN... kinda funny game.. lol! Then mom bought me a 1530 Datassette...awesome, now I could save my basic programs LOL..
Then I sold the C64/Datassette combo and got a used Commodore 128 with its 1571 drive... truly awesome! but... I mostly used it in C64 mode.. but it was like a dream to have the games loaded from disc, waaay "faster" hehe.. then sold the c128 and bought a C64c with its 1541c drive brand new... just because vorpal did not work with the 1571 haha!
and then I sold the C64c to get an Amiga 500... sad times, I had to sell my prev. computer just to get funds for the new one.. wish I could have kept all my original computers... so, I have a very special feeling about the C64 since it was my first computer ever...
Happy birthday Commodore 64!!
Cheers,
Dragster.
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One would think CNN can get the picture right... :furious:
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Happy birthday honey! :-*
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My first computer was the Commodore 64, having received it as a Christmas gift in 1985. It was $499 and I had to contribute $200 towards the price of it.
It had a music maker keyboard attachment, 1531 datacassette, International Soccer cartridge, six tape games and the 4 programming books.
I remember being so eager for it, before receiving it, I was writing BASIC programs before I got it.
I got a 1084S monitor and 1541-2 disk drive in 1989 and was amazed by some of the disk based games I had missed out.
I find the C64 even more amazing than the Amiga, given what you could do with it given the original hardware didn't really change for over 10 years!
Favourite games include Wizball, Head over Heels, Power Drift, Turbo Outrun, Project Stealth Fighter and Red Storm Rising.
I still have a fondness for it, though for learning to program it had an awful basic with no sound or graphics commands.
Happy Birthday C64, it was you that led me to the Amiga....
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I forgot I was going to add this:
Jim Butterfield's Guide to the C64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDEwjJAVE8
I believe there are 16 chapters to this guide (all on YouTube) with the legend himself.
I don't know if it was made for everyone at the time or Commodore Sales Folks.
Anyway, it is pretty good.
Enjoy!
-P
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Kinda confused, the Wiki page says in the first sentence....
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by the now defunct manufacturer Commodore International in January 1982.
But later on it says on the fact panel
Release date August 1982.
WTF?
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Wow, 30 years already? I started serious computing on a 32K Commodore Pet. Then moved to the 64 where I dove in deep. I still remember the many nights typing in every program I could from the magazines of the time, etc... Peeking, Poking, and some ML towards the end. Damn I feel old now... I still have that C64 and it still works like a charm.
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Kinda confused, the Wiki page says in the first sentence....
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by the now defunct manufacturer Commodore International in January 1982.
But later on it says on the fact panel
Release date August 1982.
WTF?
CES was in January ;) x
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I got mine somewhat late- in '86 after starting on the ZX81, Ti99, and then the 800XL before then. Besides, I nuked the 6520 in the 'XL trying to build a ring-detect.
The world that existed on the other side of a 300 baud modem really made me wish I had a 64 until I found one with a 1541 and a spare Vic20 at a garage sale for $35.
Then I worked that summer for a 1670, a printer and another 1541.
Happy Birthday
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TI 99/4A (sold) to C128 (sold) to Amiga (still have my mint A500 from 1988). Of course, I had to buy a used C128D too, but I have not gotten back into the TI.
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I still remember when they celebrated the first 10 years :rolleyes:
Now 30 Years!!!
Anyway, it not been for us, the users keeping it alive, the C=64 would have died many years ago :angel::angel:
Keep alive your C=Commodore Computer!. I still have a several models, C=64/SX64/128/.
And you know, now you can get your C=64 (C=Amiga too!)in your Mobile - Smartphone and keeping alive in your pocket! :afro:
Long life to the C=64!! -- For me its like VW Aircooled Computer! (yeah!, i am VW/ Posrche Fan too!:cool:)
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There is a nice article on the Register (with a comment from Dave Haynie (I think)).
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/02/commodore_64_30_birthday/
Oops, the author has the wrong year of the end of C64 production.
Happy New Year!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
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Man, such news makes me feel old, lol.
Seems like just yesterday I saw a computer for the first time, a buddy had a brand new VIC 20 with the Datasette and I figured it was the best thing since sliced bread. Up until then I'd only really played with the Pong box my folks had and the Atari 2600 I got for a Christmas gift as a kid. I never did get a VIC or C64 when they were new, I got an Atari 800 XL as my first system and hated every moment of it until I got my A3000 and the computing world drastically changed for me.
Happy Birthday, old girl!
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One would think CNN can get the picture right... :furious:
I can't see a CNN link in this thread, why, what did they show instead?!
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The singing floppy drive is probably the coolest thing i ever saw the c64 do. I don't know much about c64s though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o&feature=related
PS why can't i post youtube content any more? It's not working. I had to use a stupid link instead :confused:
[youtube]5gnMgmlKi[/youtube]
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I've always said this but the C64 was the right machine at the right time and on balance it had the best of all worlds given the technology that was available in 1980-82 during development. May only have had 16 colours but you could get them all on screen at the same time etc etc. And SID was just revolutionary, a true analogue synth on a chip.
And it's great to see that for a change the best machine trounced everything in sales. The Amiga should have repeated the success of the C64 but by then people started buying NES or PC (both puke ridden rubbish in the 80s).
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CES was in January ;) x
Right OK so I didn't really miss the party then haha
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The C64 was the iPad of it's day!
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The C64 was the iPad of it's day!
That's a load of crap, the C64 was a completely open and uncontrolled environment where you could do anything at all with any part of the machine, not some locked-down toy system designed to prevent users from installing anything not accepted as part of The Apple Experience.
Also, it had a real keyboard.