OK- who's getting a new Commodore C-64?

[Fritzo]

Buying games is for noobs. Real c64'ers buy the game books and write the code themselves.

Oh man, THAT was the day where you first had to type in the code the MLC Editor I got out of this book, THEN you had to code the game. I spent two weeks coding an airplane game on that damn thing

It was like manually typing in 1000 lines of code that looked like this:

4235: A123FF2 324404 B2345C3 4430001 A123FF2 324404 B2345C3

i can't believe I had that kind of patience as a 12 year old.

 

[RichUK]

ME!

 

[RichUK]

I was a Vic20 kid myself. Then Amiga500
Oh the Amiga.... the places we went!

Amiga 500 is the ultimate win!

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I was a Vic20 kid myself. Then Amiga500
Oh the Amiga.... the places we went!

Me: Vic 20-->C64-->C128-->Amiga 2000. I think I still have all of them in my garage. I need to find space and hook them up. The emulators just aren't the same.

 

[Fritzo]

Me: Vic 20-->C64-->C128-->Amiga 2000. I think I still have all of them in my garage. I need to find space and hook them up. The emulators just aren't the same.

Need to find an Atari joystick to go with it too

 

[KMFJD]

Racing Destruction Set

AND

Ultima IV

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Need to find an Atari joystick to go with it too

I believe I might have a couple still believe it or not. Whether they work is a different question.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Let's not forget Adventure Construction Set. The graphics sucked but the game and concept rocked.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I recently saw this either in my garage or at my brother's house:

 

[pmv]

TRS-80 for the win!

Seconded.

Finally threw out a Video Genie (TRS80 clone) a couple of months ago. Not that I'd so much as turned it on for nearly 30 years.

The actual TRS80 disappeared ages ago, but then the video genie was better anyway as it had...built in lower case characters! Who would have dreamed such an advanced feature would even be possible - displaying lower case text on screen! Can your i7 based machine do that? (OK, I guess it can, but still),.

And people think PhysX and hardware T&L are advanced features!

 

[Homerboy]

Me: Vic 20-->C64-->C128-->Amiga 2000. I think I still have all of them in my garage. I need to find space and hook them up. The emulators just aren't the same.

Still have my Vic20 and tape drive

Sorry about your Colts last night See ya in the Super Bowl.

 

[KMFJD]

I recently saw this either in my garage or at my brother's house:

Best joystick ever....went through about 5-6 of those, they worked great for Summer/Winter games etc...

 

[lurk3r]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_%28video_game)

 

[soulcougher73]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_(video_game)

Best video game OF ALL TIME.

"You explode a dessert rat into a blood sausage for 500dmg" Or something crazy like that. Memory is slipping in my old age LOL

 

[Homerboy]

Best joystick ever....went through about 5-6 of those, they worked great for Summer/Winter games etc...

5 or 6? Man me and my buddy went through that many a month playing ...ah helll... crap what was the name of that game.. dethball? Speedball? fracckkk I just saw its on XBL too.

 

[Fritzo]

Best video game OF ALL TIME.

"You explode a dessert rat into a blood sausage for 500dmg" Or something crazy like that. Memory is slipping in my old age LOL

I had it but could never play it all the way though because it would keep locking up

 

[Homerboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_oW6AOXkdE

There it is.
Oh glory.

 

[coloumb]

Oh man, THAT was the day where you first had to type in the code the MLC Editor I got out of this book, THEN you had to code the game. I spent two weeks coding an airplane game on that damn thing

It was like manually typing in 1000 lines of code that looked like this:

4235: A123FF2 324404 B2345C3 4430001 A123FF2 324404 B2345C3

i can't believe I had that kind of patience as a 12 year old.

I remember those days - however, one magazine finally smartened up and released the code in numeric form - made it soooo much easier.

Those were the days - numerous pages of code to enter, having to draw your own graphs to dungeon crawl, side scrolling games, making your own games [a hell of a lot easier back then] - but the LOOOOONG waits for the tape to load. Back then it wasn't too bad as everything was slow...

 

[Keeper]

I want to play Magic Candle again

FTW. So many lost hours. I can remember mt dwarf staying up whilst the rest of the party slept... Reparing weapons.


DAMN. I want to play Magic Candle.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Amiga 500 is the ultimate win!

It was sad watching the shelf space get smaller and smaller, as the IBM compatible stuff went crazy. :'(

 

[Fritzo]

A lot of the charm of those games was the great HAND DRAWN artwork on the cover and the manuals. Sometimes the manuals would actually be a story on their own.

Remember getting a CLOTH map, a metal ankh, a bound parchment manual with Ultima IV...and that was just the plain retail version. Something like that today would cost $150 for the "Ultra Super Collectors Edition." Software was a work of love back then, not money, and in most aspects it was better the old way.

 

[surfsatwerk]

A lot of the charm of those games was the great HAND DRAWN artwork on the cover and the manuals. Sometimes the manuals would actually be a story on their own.

Remember getting a CLOTH map, a metal ankh, a bound parchment manual with Ultima IV...and that was just the plain retail version. Something like that today would cost $150 for the "Ultra Super Collectors Edition." Software was a work of love back then, not money, and in most aspects it was better the old way.

I wish I could have my brain wiped of all my gaming experience and play those games like I did for the first time.

I remember the first time I played Dig Dug or Ultima better than the first time I got laid.

 

[lurk3r]

I had it but could never play it all the way though because it would keep locking up

It is absolutely my fav game of all time, I have loaded it onto so many different devices its not even funny, the best way to find the game is to look for and apple \\e emulator, then you can find the roms and you can finally finish

 

[Train]

If it can do Raid on Bungeling Bay, I'm in!

That game was Awesome, along with

Raid Over Moscow
Fort Apocalypse
Druid 2
Save New York
Archon

And like a million more I can't remember

 

[Iron Woode]

I will be bringing back to my apt my Commodore setup. I have loads of parts and programs.

Not sure whether to use my C128D or my c64.

I also own a Buscard II cartridge which allows me to attach parallel devices like my 8050 dual drive.

I can hardly wait to run that stuff again.