Commodore 64 hardware relaunch

[UtwigMU]

Yep, sometimes I want to get black LCD TV and Discman instead of tape drive for the Speccy.

[Duty]

My C64 from '84 is being used at a pre-school. I donated it after I got out of the ARMY in '94. I like knowing that it is still in use after all these years. They did make a greate product.


Jeff

[UtwigMU]

You could connect EAR and MIC ports to your Hi-Fi's MIC in and play games louder on Spectrum.

There were also games with digitized speach and even a sound capture program.


See!

LOL.

We had tricked out C64s with external Floppies and Monitors at school.

Me and friend helped teacher at Logo courses for lower grades so we could come early and play BlueMax, Frogman and the like on C64's.

[mutz]

Ha! My first computer was a C64, then a 128, then an Amiga 1000, etc. I use to take that C64 with monitor up in the mountains, carry it and backpacks 2km through snow above my waist (6'2") just so I could type in programs out of some nut mag so I could play some dink game when I could have been skiing.

[Nowhere]

I still have C64 somewhere, with datasette and small, red, russian b&w only TV I was using with it (I'm sure those of you from this side of iron curtain know what I'm talking about). Too bad it's dead
And I know about the place some tens meters from here where there are retired spectrums with original monitors (probably, they should be there still I think...)

Utwig, Logo reminded me about some other sweet machines - Macs Classic and LC475 that I was using in highschool (for Logo of course! But not only...). But the whole world is going the pc way I guess, so they've been since then replaced (and ended in...prison, seriously)

[Umfriend]

Ahhhh, Blue Max... the game that got my dad into computing at the time....on a C64 of course.

I am not sure what it is Tulip actually has, I think the trademark is all, no technology, patents, copyrights or whatever. They were with Gateway first (who AFAIK did buy thet Amiga stuff including trademark from Vobis (?!?)) Note sure though. At least they are Dutch...

[Elie]

One of the differences between the Spectrum and C64 was that the spectrum's basic was so simple!!

Try to run a simple program to display a dot on the screen on C64 would take a few lines of basic with nothing but Poke this and poke that LOL

Oh and then there was the Sinclair QL (Quantum Leap), remember that one? what a concept

Cheers,
Elie

[Elie]

And my favorite Speccy Games were...

Raid Over Moscow
Green Berret
Commando
Rally
Beach Head

[Dr Mordrid]

To load a program on the C-64:

Load "filename", (device number)

Device number: 1=tape ; 8 to 11 = disk drives

To put a dot on the screen;

10 PRINT "."

Wow....so hard

Dr. Mordrid

[UtwigMU]

Spectrum had BASIC commands on keys and you didn't have to type them all.

"J"and "Symbol Shift"+"P" twice would produce

LOAD ""

I also have a B&W TV that was used with the spectrum.

[Umfriend]

10 PRINT "."

Wow....so hard

LOL! But I don;t think that was what he meant and wonder whether a dot on a C-64 was actually made up out of _one_ dot?

At least on the C64, we also had "Beach Head II"

[albatorsk]

What a lot of people don't know (and don't care about ) is that a lot of the commands in the C64 BASIC had shortcommands, where you used the first letter, and the pressed shift for the next letter. Like "lO" for load, "dA" for data and "pO" for poke.

[mutz]

POKE always amused me...

[Nowhere]

btw, this is something I'd call relaunch. And with new os for it in the works...

Eventually, you have already completely new one for c64...Contiki


edit: oh, look...three sevens
So I guess it's something to be happy about right now...

[Evildead666]

Heh, i started with a Dragon32, then an Amstrad CPC 6128, Amiga 500+, and then the first PC, a Cyrix 120+ O'C to 150+...
Good old days, Arkanoid was very popular here, and Gryzor...