Commodore 64 - 25 years old today - Polyloop

-ash- · 12th December 2007, 20:40

This was my first computer - I remember the excitement of this new technology. No internet, no hard drive, no floppy disk, no monitor, just a TV. Thirty minutes to load a 32K game from a cassette tape!

Ahh those were the days

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2231499,00.asp

micaelito · 12th December 2007, 21:36

A tear just came out of my eyes while seing those photographs...I remember those days...I had one...One C64...

laughingnome · 12th December 2007, 21:57

oh yes those were the days

chronos was my favorite game, one of the joystick buttons was fused to permanant fire
and we had a solid stream of fire rather than the five shot burst.
i hated those ying yang labyrinth sections though.

stu

-ash- · 12th December 2007, 22:26

My favourites were the text adventures, the first one I really loved was Snowball by Level 9. I just found a review online

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/06/snowbal.htm

But I especially liked the Zork series from Infocom. They called their games 'interactive fiction' and they had a great parser that let you type proper sentences (or nearly anyway

). I bought a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive just to play them! You can still get them for PC (and for free too) on the web.

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

laughingnome · 12th December 2007, 22:30

god we are old

-ash- · 12th December 2007, 22:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by laughingnome

god we are old

I know

.

Where did all that time go?

Pete Exxtreme · 12th December 2007, 23:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by -ash-

Where did all that time go?

....in our memories, where they are brighter than they've ever been in reality

juanmanuel · 13th December 2007, 07:06

Wow, it has been that long...

bwtr · 13th December 2007, 08:40

Maybe we now have computers that would enable us to send a man to the moon (again!).

crazy wabbit · 27th December 2007, 13:35

I designed a few games that was in Ahoy and Commodore magazine.
"turtle rescue", "flight of condors"

keenart · 3rd February 2008, 23:29

I just gave away my old Commodore 64 a couple of months back. Still have my Packard Bell Legend 125 486sx, 4 megs of ram, 1 meg of video ram, with Windows 3.1 installed, working, and sitting on the shelf. Gosh I feel old!

Wayne45 · 14th February 2008, 17:53

I still have a 128 D sitting on a shelf somewhere in my house, I gave away my SX-64 to my brother a couple of years ago. They both still work, I doubt my newer computers will still work when thet are that old.

3webjam · 15th February 2008, 09:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by laughingnome

god we are old

Think we should forbid these messages that makes us feel so old!

Can remember when my brother splashed out on one of the first Apples - connected to the TV and taping software from the radio.
We were so excited when the soft floppy arived - good heavons, that was progress!

Several years later I got a Commodore too - but did not that much with it. My own first PC was a 286 if I remember correctly with a 16 Mb harddisk. Wow - those were the times!

Jacqueline

12th December 2007, 20:40	#1 (permalink)
-ash- I'm Batman (in 3D) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Over the road, round the corner, out of the noise. (Scotland) Posts: 749	Commodore 64 - 25 years old today This was my first computer - I remember the excitement of this new technology. No internet, no hard drive, no floppy disk, no monitor, just a TV. Thirty minutes to load a 32K game from a cassette tape! Ahh those were the days http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2231499,00.asp __________________ Regards Tony (aka HamSoles)

12th December 2007, 21:36	#2 (permalink)
micaelito Expert en couscous Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Rigné (79) Posts: 915	A tear just came out of my eyes while seing those photographs...I remember those days...I had one...One C64... __________________ " Qui promène son chien est au bout de la laisse." Prof. André Sanfrapper - 1817

12th December 2007, 21:57	#3 (permalink)
laughingnome stu Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 905	oh yes those were the days chronos was my favorite game, one of the joystick buttons was fused to permanant fire and we had a solid stream of fire rather than the five shot burst. i hated those ying yang labyrinth sections though. stu __________________ just trying to cut down the pain threshold P4 3Gig, 1 Gig DDr ram, GeForce 5900 Ultra ,WinXP Home

12th December 2007, 22:26	#4 (permalink)
-ash- I'm Batman (in 3D) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Over the road, round the corner, out of the noise. (Scotland) Posts: 749	My favourites were the text adventures, the first one I really loved was Snowball by Level 9. I just found a review online http://www.crashonline.org.uk/06/snowbal.htm But I especially liked the Zork series from Infocom. They called their games 'interactive fiction' and they had a great parser that let you type proper sentences (or nearly anyway ). I bought a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive just to play them! You can still get them for PC (and for free too) on the web. http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html __________________ Regards Tony (aka HamSoles)

12th December 2007, 22:30	#5 (permalink)
laughingnome stu Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 905	god we are old __________________ just trying to cut down the pain threshold P4 3Gig, 1 Gig DDr ram, GeForce 5900 Ultra ,WinXP Home

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juanmanuel Madly in love Join Date: May 2006 Location: Puebla, Mexico Posts: 241	Wow, it has been that long... __________________ passionately alive This is my blog This is my portfolio

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bwtr Brian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Australia Posts: 2,089	Maybe we now have computers that would enable us to send a man to the moon (again!).

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crazy wabbit Now, I learn animation Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,376	I designed a few games that was in Ahoy and Commodore magazine. "turtle rescue", "flight of condors"

3rd February 2008, 23:29	#11 (permalink)
keenart Vertex Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1	I just gave away my old Commodore 64 a couple of months back. Still have my Packard Bell Legend 125 486sx, 4 megs of ram, 1 meg of video ram, with Windows 3.1 installed, working, and sitting on the shelf. Gosh I feel old!

14th February 2008, 17:53	#12 (permalink)
Wayne45 Vertex Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5	I still have a 128 D sitting on a shelf somewhere in my house, I gave away my SX-64 to my brother a couple of years ago. They both still work, I doubt my newer computers will still work when thet are that old.

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