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Originally posted by: Koing
I had a C64. I mainly played games on it 😛

Took about 25-30mins to load games on it. I remember when Toys 'R' Us sold them for £2.99 or £3.99.

I remember playing Henry's House and California games.

Koing
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Damn dude! You didn't have a Turbo loader?! :Q Turbo II was the shiznit!
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: episodic
LOAD "*",8,1
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That was the way to show the directory on a disk drive using the C64 & 1541 IIRC!
😀
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Nonono, the command to list the directory was:
load "$" ,8

which would give you another ready prompt from which you could type list to view the directory.
* executes the first program in the directory.

For what it's worth, the ,8 signifies drive 8 which was the "first" I/O device (you would have used 9 if you had two drives) and could have been a 1541, 1571, or even a 1581 3.5" drive...

I never could figure out what the ,1 actually signified....
 
that's from a Commodore, right? I can remember playing Defender by using load defender,8,1 or something like that. Ahh, those were the good old days.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: episodic
LOAD "*",8,1
Click to expand...

That was the way to show the directory on a disk drive using the C64 & 1541 IIRC!
😀
Click to expand...

Nonono, the command to list the directory was:
load "$" ,8

which would give you another ready prompt from which you could type list to view the directory.
* executes the first program in the directory.

For what it's worth, the ,8 signifies drive 8 which was the "first" I/O device (you would have used 9 if you had two drives) and could have been a 1541, 1571, or even a 1581 3.5" drive...

I never could figure out what the ,1 actually signified....
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Ahhh yeah, that's right. It was a long time ago.
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
You're not old-school unless you've loaded from punchcards and cassette tape. 😀

- M4H
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I had a cassette drive for my C64 for the longest time before I finally saved enough money for my disk drive.

I would spend hours typing in the games from the back pages of Compute's Gazette, then storing them on tape, then spending hours loading them from tape so I could play them.
 
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
I think 1 stood for machine language or basic. One of those 2.
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If I had to guess, I'd say machine language, since I recall that using just ,8 was only useful for some simpler games and homemade programs and it took you to the basic ready prompt from which you would use list to display the program or run to execute....
 
Originally posted by: episodic
LOAD "*",8,1
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i miss the good old days....... wait, no i don't.

i do pull out the old c64 once in a while just to play some of those old games. pony express riders rock!!!
 
Didn't magazines have games in them? The code was written and you'd have to type it in.

First computer I used was the Apple IIe. Then the Atari 800 with a tape drive. We were high speed once we got the floppy drive. My parents bought a $3000 IBM PS/2 when I was in highschool. The first PC I bought was a P2 300mhz.
 
ZX81......tape loading, flat keyboard (like a plastic sheet covering it)....one mean sun of a gun.....
a whole 8k!!!!!! AND we had the 8k extension cartridge at the back...

man that was one fast sunofabitch, had made Alan Turings machine look like an abacus ;-)

 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: episodic
LOAD "*",8,1
Click to expand...

That was the way to show the directory on a disk drive using the C64 & 1541 IIRC!
😀
Click to expand...

Nonono, the command to list the directory was:
load "$" ,8

which would give you another ready prompt from which you could type list to view the directory.
* executes the first program in the directory.

For what it's worth, the ,8 signifies drive 8 which was the "first" I/O device (you would have used 9 if you had two drives) and could have been a 1541, 1571, or even a 1581 3.5" drive...

I never could figure out what the ,1 actually signified....
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With the ,1, the computer
will load the program to the same area of memory it was recorded from, which is
necessary for graphics, subroutines, special loaders, etc.
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I used to play games on my Atari 800 by loading them from cassette, similarly our TRS-80 had a cassette, but I never used it because well... it didnt have any good games. So I just programmed in Basic.
 
Originally posted by: flamingelephant
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
You're not old-school unless you've loaded from punchcards and cassette tape. 😀

- M4H
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I've done the cassette tape, but not punch cards
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Haha, let's play the "old school" game. You're not old-school unless you've stood there fanning the rows of vaccuum tubes so that the darned thing will run long enough to get an answer out . . .

(not me, but my older brother says he did that)

And yes, I had an atari myself - my first computer.
 
Fast Break, Hardball, and Classic Concentration were some of my favorite games. Impossible Mission was good too.
 
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