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Remember the Commodore 64

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Yes! That was my first computer, when I was like 9 years old or something. My Dad traded the pool table for it.

Loved those games:

Double Dragon
Hardball
Face Off
Leaderboard Golf
etc.

We even had the voice emulation module on it - you could type something like "say 'hello'" and the C64 would say it. wonderful. I think I sold it, though.
 
Definite memories, for sure. C64 was my "play" box. Had an 8086 for other stuff like DOS. Also picked up a C128 and Plus/4 cheap in the mid 80s. C128 was cool as it could run CP/M also.

Who can forget..............

Project Stealth Figher
Pirates
Lode Runner
Summer Games
Kennedy Approach
Ghostbusters
Beachhead I and II
Raid Over Moscow (did wonders for cold war diplomacy) 😉
Multiplan. Was cool noting the differences between the DOS and C64 versions.
Flight Simulator.

Someone mentioned Easy Script. Ran an ES cartridge in a Plus/4 for word processing at work. Had an old 9 pin dot matrix Star printer and a HUGE Juki/Commodore daisy wheel printer. After returning from overseas in 1989, I picked up a 300 baud modem and was logging onto Quantum Link via long distance back then.

Anyone remember Logo? Heh, used the language in a program for a project in a data processing class in 1987. DP250, Systems Analysis. C64 helped me earn an Associate degree during the 8/16 bit dark ages.

Ancient, no doubt. Those were the days. 5 megabyte, external hard drives were an engineering wonder for the consumer in 1987.

Simplistic 8 bit fun.
 
Anything from Epyx and Accolade (the original HardBall?)
COMPUTE!'s Gazette
Beach Head
Beach Head II

SYS 49152

peek and poke

-SUO, C64-for-lyf
 
I have about 600+ 5 1/4" disk full of Commodore 64 programs kept inside 6 typerware containers. My C64 and 1541 drives are kept in the garage. I remember the time when I wrote a 25 page program in BASIC, then compiled it to make it run faster. I used Vorpal Utility to make the programs load faster (after converting them). That was about 10 times faster than Fastload was. I had a friend who made a living copying the Fastload cartridge maded by Epyx. He had a Eprom programmer/copier w/ the IBM PC 286 to copy the 2764 EPROM. There where times we had to wait for the cracks to come out before we could make working copies for some games like Test Drive by Accolade. I had two 1541 drives to make disk to disk copies. I even had to align the drive head of the 1541 drive once in a while. I also used the other side of the 5 1/4"" DSDD disk and had to punch in a notch so I could write on it. The floppy disk cost a lot then. I had the Commodore MPS-803 printer and made some banners and signs with Printmaster Plus and the ArtGallery disks. Also used Printshop 64 by Broderbund. I later upgraded to the Star NSX1000 dox-matrix printer so that I could print in color. Darn those color ribbon cartridges were expensive. We reinked our B&W cartridges. I subscribed to Run, Compute! Gazette, and some other computer magazines like Byte.

Later on I upgraded to a Amiga 1000........ 🙂
 
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