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Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Flaser on September 10, 2005, 02:56:18 pm: For a while I thought of myself as an old computer user, with so quirks for the good 'ol text based interface.

Look's like I'm very, very old in a sense...

(http://sexylosers.com/comics/returnwo.jpg)

Anyone still using a Commodore Emulator?
...or into DOS classics?
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: karajorma on September 10, 2005, 03:10:42 pm: Only for emulating the Amiga. When I feel like playing something 8-bit I emulate something good like the spectrum. :p

*Reignites the old Spectrum Vs Commodore flamefests of his youth*
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Roanoke on September 10, 2005, 03:13:23 pm: Amstrad CPC464 pissed on both of 'em :nervous:
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Descenterace on September 10, 2005, 03:25:08 pm: Trash-80. I mean TRS-80.

4KB of RAM! More than enough!

Because by the time you've filled 3KB of it with code, you're bored out of your mind...
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: achtung on September 10, 2005, 03:28:04 pm: Iv'e never even seen a C64
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Roanoke on September 10, 2005, 03:42:21 pm: You haven't lived.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Geezer on September 10, 2005, 03:43:05 pm: Hmmm. Got rid of my Atari-400 years ago, soon after I bought a brand-new IBM PC-XT. On the other hand, while the systems I maintain at work run on the latest mainframe, the core programs were written in the '70s and early '80s. And, they finally upgraded our PCs to XP from Win 95. :yes:
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Flaser on September 10, 2005, 03:45:27 pm: Ask and thy shall recieve....

(http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Commodore_64_System_s3.jpg)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=98

....though you really should learn how to use Google.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: vyper on September 10, 2005, 03:48:39 pm: Me had a Spectrum:

(http://www.hobby.nl/~sinclair-gg/prototypes/128kplus2.jpg)
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 10, 2005, 04:02:56 pm: I've actually used a C64...which most people my age find shocking...
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: pyro-manic on September 10, 2005, 04:13:57 pm: First thing I had was a Playstation. I was deprived... :(
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: BlackDove on September 10, 2005, 04:16:25 pm: Ah I remember Commodore. Man, those were some high quality graphic games...

What? They were.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Singh on September 10, 2005, 04:17:59 pm: First thing I had was one of the really, really old nintendo thingys...the one before the SNES I think. Then, I got hte SNES....

boy those were the days. My parents had nothing but pong - but when they did, my dad and his brother were addicted to it signifcantly :p
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: IceFire on September 10, 2005, 04:18:25 pm: C64 Emulator? I still have one that works!!!
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: TrashMan on September 10, 2005, 04:28:52 pm: Spectrum, C64, Amiga 600....ahh..all those oldies passed trough my hands

*memories*
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: achtung on September 10, 2005, 04:41:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Flaser
....though you really should learn how to use Google.

Well I meant I've never seen one in real life I know what they look like though.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: aldo_14 on September 10, 2005, 04:45:11 pm: I had an Acorn Electron (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/electron/)
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: CP5670 on September 10, 2005, 04:51:29 pm: The first computer I used was a Mac in 1990, when I was 4, and I spent the next five years with that. Lots of awesome games on there. It still works perfectly.

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Anyone still using a Commodore Emulator?
...or into DOS classics?

I play old DOS games quite a bit. Dosbox and VDMSound cover many games, and for the rest I have an older computer with an SBLive card that can emulate an SB16 in hardware, so the sound works fully in everything on there.

I'm currently trying to get Prince of Persia 2 working, but have been unsuccessful. I'm getting some kind of problem with everything I try. I downloaded the Mac version but it has two files that are too big to fit on floppies and it would run like crap on that computer anyway.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: pyro-manic on September 10, 2005, 05:03:58 pm: Damn, now you said it, I had (have, in fact) a Mac as well. Macintosh LC, 1989 vintage (I remember we went to a huge Apple Expo where we bought it), and it still works today. Also have an ancient bubblejet printer to go with it. Works fine, but you can't get the cartridges for it any more....
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: phatosealpha on September 10, 2005, 09:57:33 pm: I remember all those. Didn't own a C-64, but a friend had one so I got to play all the old school games for it. Lots of fun stuff from way back when, when EA was making decent (well, for the time anyway) games and wasn't a soul-sucking megacorp.

I also had an atari 800XL, which was kind of cool since many games came with C64 on one side and atari 800 on the other.

Heh. Wish I could find some of those old game. Remember one called "Run for the money", an econo sim where you sold synthetic bannana to monkeys to buy enough paint to protect your ship when you escape from their god-forsaken monkey world. Could buy new pumps, advertise, bait and switch. All sorts of cool stuff.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Sigma957 on September 10, 2005, 10:03:07 pm: C64 was the first computer I ever bought and had probably close to a thousand games for that machine, 5 1/4" floppies absolutely crammed full of games. Then I moved onto the amiga 500 which I still have stashed in a wardrobe.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Turnsky on September 10, 2005, 10:56:12 pm: the sega master system II, was my first piece of entertainment gear, but i've used an earlier amiga system
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Martinus on September 10, 2005, 11:06:12 pm: [color=66ff00]I had an Amstrad CPC-464.

It was a good machine but the tapes were infuriatingly flakey.

Speaking of retro, this caught my eye: oldschool? newschool? (www.playmessiah.com/onlinestore/gnex_faq.htm)
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Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Liquid Fire on September 10, 2005, 11:15:03 pm: First thing I had was a sega master system. Ah, those were the days, when we actually called up the company that made afterburner to ask how many levels the stupid game had. (They laughed and said it went on forever. I was dissapointed.)

Of course, when my dad bought a computer, the graphics of descent 1 completely blew my mind.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: mikhael on September 10, 2005, 11:58:15 pm: Heh. I have a C64 and a Vic20 in my closet right now. And a Timex-Sinclair 4k. My mother's got my old C64 lost in the attic somewhere, so rather than so I paid $10 for the lot at a yard sale, just so I could relive some of my childhood memories.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Night Hammer on September 11, 2005, 12:18:25 am: I was deprived of the older sytems too, my first was NES
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Sesquipedalian on September 11, 2005, 01:32:39 am: TRS-80. None of that new-fangled C64 stuff for me, you little whippersnappers! Who here ever played with a program called LOGO?
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: kasperl on September 11, 2005, 03:59:17 am: First computer I used was something really old with a colour screen, before I was 3. After that, the first thing I remember, was a 386 with a black and white screen. I used that machine for years, and after that, I got a Pentium 1 IBM horror. After that, it's all too modern for you old relics :p

Really, most of those machines were gone when I was born, never mind when I started using computers. (I'm 17, born in 1988 if you're wondering.)
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Martinus on September 11, 2005, 06:03:38 am: [color=66ff00]I used the alpha version of MS-paint when I was a nipper: Etch-a-sketch. ;)
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Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Roanoke on September 11, 2005, 07:27:13 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I had an Amstrad CPC-464.

It was a good machine but the tapes were infuriatingly flakey.
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Remember the old Amsoft games ?

And Super Swiv, 1942, Aliens (from the film),Ghostbusters (the first game I ever went out and bough). Back in the day when £4 was alot for a game. :D

Eventually replaced by a Master System 2 with Altered beast.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: vyper on September 11, 2005, 09:12:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
I had an Acorn Electron (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/electron/)

Funny you mention Acorn, a while after the speccy I also got...

http://www.heimcomputer.de/english/comp/acornmaster.html

(http://www.heimcomputer.de/pics/acornmaster1.jpg)
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: WMCoolmon on September 11, 2005, 01:16:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
TRS-80. None of that new-fangled C64 stuff for me, you little whippersnappers! Who here ever played with a program called LOGO?

Me. On an old mac with no hard drive, just two external 5.25" drives.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: bash on September 11, 2005, 01:27:53 pm: >>Who here ever played with a program called LOGO?

Me! Although that was WinLOGO. I had a realy neat robotics interface with that.

Started with a Commodore 16 by the way. That was about the age 3 or 4. I remember trying to play those tapes on my tape recorder, the output was quite crappy :D
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Mongoose on September 11, 2005, 03:09:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
TRS-80. None of that new-fangled C64 stuff for me, you little whippersnappers! Who here ever played with a program called LOGO?

We used to use that program in grade school on ancient Apple IIes. Good ol' turtle. :p
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Grey Wolf on September 11, 2005, 03:24:42 pm: The oldest things I've used were an old IBM and an old Tandy 8086.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Col. Fishguts on September 11, 2005, 04:42:12 pm: Me had a Commodore PC10-III (http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cpcs.html)

I still have its mainboard hanging on the wall as a piece of electronic art.
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: Gortef on September 12, 2005, 04:16:45 am: Ah C64, how wonderful it was to wait for the game to load from the tape (AND try to stay away from the desk so that the game would actually load up). Floppy drive was like a dream come true :lol:
Title: We're OLD? (Ever used a C64?)
Post by: IPAndrews on September 12, 2005, 04:22:18 am: Check out www.lemon64.com and www.lemonamiga.com . I loved the C64. The golden age of school yard computer piracy.