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
