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Commodore 64 now has a web browser! (less than 64k) PLUS DSL!

*sigh*

The C64 is what it started it all for me... I learned how to program, I think was only 8 at the time...
it was both exhilirating and relaxing to program the C64, I would wake up early and go right to it, the entier day, and then go back to bed. I would make these elaborate labryinth games with enemy AI... but now, computers are complicated and frustrating. I'm so good at computer I choose to continue on, learning more, working harder. But now it's not fun, it's work. I completely understand why so many people are dropping out of IT...

C64 showed me my destiny, my fate, my curse... *sigh again*
 
Originally posted by: aircooled
I started on a C64 too. ahh, the memories, 300 baud modems, 1541 floppy drives...
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1702 monitors, datasets, 1581 drives.

"The old machines -- which are inching toward cult status among those obsessed with beating their top score in Samantha Fox Strip Poker -- can now surf the Web."

Wow! I didn't know about that game! Time to start searching.....
 
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: aircooled
I started on a C64 too. ahh, the memories, 300 baud modems, 1541 floppy drives...
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1702 monitors, datasets, 1581 drives.
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Monitors? Modems? Heck, I was hooked up to a television screen and used a tape cassete drive to store my programs. 😛
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: aircooled
I started on a C64 too. ahh, the memories, 300 baud modems, 1541 floppy drives...
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1702 monitors, datasettes, 1581 drives.
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Monitors? Modems? Heck, I was hooked up to a television screen and used a tape cassete drive to store my programs. 😛
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that is a datasette
 
Originally posted by: aircooled
remember the "fast load" cartridge? make your floppy drive load 5 times faster 🙂
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I got a BUSCARD II for mine so I could run parallel commodore drives like the 8050.
 
I always wanted an SX-64. If I see one cheap enough I'll pick it up.

I actually had a Spartan AppleII emulator. It was basically an AppleII that plugged into the back of a C64 and had a daughterboard that turned the 1541 into an Apple drive. It actually worked quite well. I sold them years ago. I heard that a Spartan went on ebay a year or so ago for something like $1500. If I would have had the foresight as a kid to know that, I would never have sold it!

I still have in my basement (all fully functioning, in boxes)

C64 with 1702 and 1541
Plus 4
C16
 
We got our first C64 on March 13th, 1985. I remember it because it was my older sisters B-day. We had it, a 300 baud modem (later upgraded to a 1200) a tape drive, a Comodore 9 pin dot matrix printer, a 1541 floppy drive.

We later on bought a new style C64 (white with external power brick) with floppy for 100 bucks at K-Mart. 🙂


Memories...Memories...a whole summer lost playing Pirates. Starting to load Winter Games prior to going to dinnner and flipping the disk over half way through so it would be ready to play by the time we were done. Playing Maniac Mansion and Ghostbusters (what a fun friggin game).


I could go on and on........
 
I learned to program on my Commodore 128 with dual monitors! peek and poke! lol... I loved those days... heck i was 6 or 7 at the time too when i wrote my first accounting program
 
The best games for the C64 were Test Drive and the one where you're driving the tank by accolade (can't remember the name). I remember playing them on an emulator a few years ago...,
 
😱

I started out with a TI machine in the mid 80s... used cartridges for programs and hooked up to the TV. It was fun, just sitting there trying to type when I was 5 or 6.

Hell, I think I've still got a couple of them out in the garage. 🙂
 
Eliasson and Dunkels are both long-time Commodore enthusiasts (Dunkels got his first one in 1988 when he was 10). One day while meeting for lunch, Eliasson said he thought it would be cool to stream audio using a C64.
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In '88 I was 23...
In '83 I had a Vic-20
😱

At that time I had an IBM z50 (server tower). It had that stupid proprietary PCI bus. A person with a regular PC could go out and pick up a joystick card for $8. I had to pay $45. :| But I had 16K colors and 16 meg RAM.
 
Originally posted by: Stealth1024
I learned to program on my Commodore 128 with dual monitors! peek and poke! lol... I loved those days... heck i was 6 or 7 at the time too when i wrote my first accounting program
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PEEK and POKE is so much better than how they're coding things these days... 😉
 
YIKES....
Had some color changers @ Nocturne Lighting that used those for commands. No one else wanted to deal with them so I dove into a pile of them......
90 days later we were waist deep in Power supplies, Motor Chassis, Terminal and CPU's, de-bugging code and modifiying them for a 9 Light fixture we fabricated for U-2 Joshua Tree Tour....
That's when I heard one of the guy's on the road using something called "EMail" and DOS in a computer he carried in his Briefcase!!.... <eric_burdon&animals> Life was so much Bolder then.... When I was young......</eric_burdon&animals>
 
I was a TI99 4/a man myself. 🙂 My friend had the C64 and I'd have preferred it over the not-that-bad TI99!
I'd have gotten started with PC music even sooner and might have been big in the SID (later MOD) scene much, much sooner.

History: I won some multi-tracker music contests right before trackers all but died. Was popular for a short time... Now trackers are only for the die-hards who don't want to move to MP3/OGG and "real" instruments. The name, BlueMax, lives on only as a username and a reminder of the great tracker days of old. [sigh]
 
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