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Commodore 64 is BACK!

Anomaly1964

Anomaly1964

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http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt

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I preserved my SX64 in cosmoline. At the end of its life cycle there were some spectacular (genius level) games developed for C64 systems. These include:
- Silent Service
- Gun Ship
- The Train (Accolade)

I wrote many a mighty program for C64 such as Complete Sweep Frequency Audio Generator (and Guitar Tuner), Commodities Strategy Trading Analysis (use monte-carlo to find optimized algorithm parametrics versus market conditions), Lottery Number Selection and Analysis (uses random access file capability).

Probably the most useful and important thing that I learned (which helps me to this day) is string formulation & manipulation.
 
I still have about ten working C-64s down the basement, along with three 1702s, a 1701, and about a dozen different disk drives (1541 variants, 1541-IIs, 1571s). And I think about 800 or so 5-1/4" floppies. When they converted to 3-1/2" at my place of employment back in the early '90s, I spent a few weeks snagging the DS/DDs headed for the dumpster.

Every once in a great while I fire one up for a game of Impossible Mission or Bruce Lee. I just hope the SID chips continue to hold up.
 
Wasn't there a magazine that had programs you could type in? I used to keep my computer on for days without turning it off so I wouldn't lose all that. I first upgraded to the cassette recorder, which was soooo fricken unreliable, then finally saved for the floppy drive.
 
eflat123 said:
Wasn't there a magazine that had programs you could type in? I used to keep my computer on for days without turning it off so I wouldn't lose all that. I first upgraded to the cassette recorder, which was soooo fricken unreliable, then finally saved for the floppy drive.
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Compute Magazine; I subscribed from '83 to '90. They had games for IBM, Apple, C64/VIC/PET, Atari...etc. Compute was great.

Daimon
 
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