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I remember my grandfather coming home and giving me my first computer....a VIC-20. There was a promotion at a car lot about 2 hours away he had heard of somehow that would give you a VIC-20 for test driving a car (while supplies lasted). He went, test drove the car he had no intention of buying, and brought me home the VIC-20.
I remember my favorite games were the text adventures like Adventureland, The Count, Pirates Cove, etc. You had to type in a direction to go (and could abbreviate N, S, E, W). When you arrived in your new location you would see a description of your surroundings in text on the screen. Other commands included look, use, and get. If there was a tree around, for example, you could input "look tree" and it would describe the tree and tell you if there was anything on it you could pick up, or "get", LoL. You would have to make these huge, elaborate maps to remember where everything was so you could do the little fetch quests and stuff. It was almost like an interactive novel. I remember playing with my father and him getting frustrated (they were VERY difficult for the time) and typing "eat shit and die". The game responded "I don't think that would taste very good!". We laughed so hard and were so amazed that the makers of the game anticipated someone typing that and coded a response. There were responses to other curse words and such too, many of which had us rolling with laughter.
Another of my favorite games was Gorf if anyone remembers that.
I remember being, well, between 6-10 years old during those VIC-20 years and trying to learn programming in the 10, 20, 30 line fashion. I remember being so proud of myself when I got a ball to bounce around the screen or a paintbrush to go line by line painting different colors! Hours upon hours upon days just to do simple things like that. And the worst thing is that you needed special characters for some things as the keys each had like 3 functions, but neither the keys or the instructions telling you what keys produced what characters. It all became an exercise in frustration trying by process of elimination, then trying to remember what did what.
Then I remember my father coming to my grandparents house where I was staying at the time and giving me a Commodore 64 for my birthday. I was SO excited. A FLOPPY drive! Before then games came on enormous cartridges. He proceeded to tell me, however, I couldn't unpack it and play it until he came back several days later. Needless to say, at around 10 years old, the thing came out of the box and was hooked up to the black and white TV only minutes after he had left. Oh the fury I endured when he returned! He was certain I had "broken" the glorious but fragile piece of futuristic technology!
I remember staring in wonder as I started up my first graphical adventure. It had the same text commands, but showed you a photo of your surroundings rather than just text. Transylvania, I think it was called.
Law of the West, Knight Games, Wizards, Age of Adventure, I loved them all. Age of Adventure was probably my favorite. It received quite a bit of hype at the time. It was two games in one. One was Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the other was Return of Heracles. Oh the hours I spent with that. Don't ever think I beat the darned thing, however!
And the sports games! 4th and Inches football, Superstar Soccer! Superstar Soccer was the first game ever I believe to have a franchise mode. I spent hours building my team. 4th and Inches was a simple football game, but later an expansion floppy was released allowing you to create your own players. Like current games, you only had so many points to distribute between speed, strength, etc. My father and I had wars in that game until the expansion was released and I would create players with all 100's in speed. He could never catch me, LoL. He would get so angry!
And Fight Night! My first boxing game. Something similar happened with that game. My father and I would play for hours until I discovered if I created a boxer with 100% defense in the body and blocked my head constantly, he couldn't damage me, LoL! Many a joystick was broken as he tried in futility to even land one punch! Great vengeance and furious anger was rained down upon the joysticks as he became more and more angry. Finally he refused to play any longer when my win streak reached 100.
And Knight Games. The horrid joysticks would give us all blisters all over our hands as we furiously hammered on them trying to defeat each other, LoL.
I remember going to the local "mom and pop" software stores that seemed to be in every strip mall back then. The excitement and anticipation of my father or grandparents bringing me to get a new game! The smell of the boxes and cartirdges.....they had a unique odor similar to new shoes. It was glorious. Racks and racks of C-64 games. In the latter days, the disappointment of seeing a game that I just MUST HAVE only to realize it was C-128 or Amiga only.
How about in later days when Toys R Us was THE PLACE to go for Commodore games? They would have these plastic flaps with the boxes flattened and placed inside. You could flip them up to see the back of the box, and if you wanted the game you would take one of the paper slips that hung below up to a window. The employee would then leave to navigate a maze of shelves and disappear for several minutes. Often, there would be more slips than there were games in stock, so you would always worry until you saw him or her return with box in hand. It would be crushing disappointment if you saw him emerge from behind the maze of racks without anything in hand! I think Toys R Us killed off most of the wonderful local software stores. Later came Babbages and Electronics Botique.
And how about game errors. I swear, over the years I must've bought 5 copies of Law of the West, and not a darn one worked right. It would freeze and experience all manner of bugs mid-game, but boy was it fun. Many floppies were the same way, but that game was by far the worst.
And I remember when all my friends had gotten the NES console and I was still playing the C-64. They would come over and make fun of the "breadbox" in the living room, LoL. It took me awhile to finally abandon the C-64, as my father said the NES was just a fad and a piece of junk and that computers were far better. I used to go up to Video Tyme (Blockbuster bought them out later) or Believe In Music and would rent a NES and games for the weekend when I was bored with my C-64, as everyone had stopped selling games for it by then.
Those were the days......
I still have both computers in my closet and have been meaning to haul them out for the fiance to see. I still have all my C-64 games as well, LoL. Maybe this weekend......
Thanks for the article and the memories!
I remember my favorite games were the text adventures like Adventureland, The Count, Pirates Cove, etc. You had to type in a direction to go (and could abbreviate N, S, E, W). When you arrived in your new location you would see a description of your surroundings in text on the screen. Other commands included look, use, and get. If there was a tree around, for example, you could input "look tree" and it would describe the tree and tell you if there was anything on it you could pick up, or "get", LoL. You would have to make these huge, elaborate maps to remember where everything was so you could do the little fetch quests and stuff. It was almost like an interactive novel. I remember playing with my father and him getting frustrated (they were VERY difficult for the time) and typing "eat shit and die". The game responded "I don't think that would taste very good!". We laughed so hard and were so amazed that the makers of the game anticipated someone typing that and coded a response. There were responses to other curse words and such too, many of which had us rolling with laughter.
Another of my favorite games was Gorf if anyone remembers that.
I remember being, well, between 6-10 years old during those VIC-20 years and trying to learn programming in the 10, 20, 30 line fashion. I remember being so proud of myself when I got a ball to bounce around the screen or a paintbrush to go line by line painting different colors! Hours upon hours upon days just to do simple things like that. And the worst thing is that you needed special characters for some things as the keys each had like 3 functions, but neither the keys or the instructions telling you what keys produced what characters. It all became an exercise in frustration trying by process of elimination, then trying to remember what did what.
Then I remember my father coming to my grandparents house where I was staying at the time and giving me a Commodore 64 for my birthday. I was SO excited. A FLOPPY drive! Before then games came on enormous cartridges. He proceeded to tell me, however, I couldn't unpack it and play it until he came back several days later. Needless to say, at around 10 years old, the thing came out of the box and was hooked up to the black and white TV only minutes after he had left. Oh the fury I endured when he returned! He was certain I had "broken" the glorious but fragile piece of futuristic technology!
I remember staring in wonder as I started up my first graphical adventure. It had the same text commands, but showed you a photo of your surroundings rather than just text. Transylvania, I think it was called.
Law of the West, Knight Games, Wizards, Age of Adventure, I loved them all. Age of Adventure was probably my favorite. It received quite a bit of hype at the time. It was two games in one. One was Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the other was Return of Heracles. Oh the hours I spent with that. Don't ever think I beat the darned thing, however!
And the sports games! 4th and Inches football, Superstar Soccer! Superstar Soccer was the first game ever I believe to have a franchise mode. I spent hours building my team. 4th and Inches was a simple football game, but later an expansion floppy was released allowing you to create your own players. Like current games, you only had so many points to distribute between speed, strength, etc. My father and I had wars in that game until the expansion was released and I would create players with all 100's in speed. He could never catch me, LoL. He would get so angry!
And Fight Night! My first boxing game. Something similar happened with that game. My father and I would play for hours until I discovered if I created a boxer with 100% defense in the body and blocked my head constantly, he couldn't damage me, LoL! Many a joystick was broken as he tried in futility to even land one punch! Great vengeance and furious anger was rained down upon the joysticks as he became more and more angry. Finally he refused to play any longer when my win streak reached 100.
And Knight Games. The horrid joysticks would give us all blisters all over our hands as we furiously hammered on them trying to defeat each other, LoL.
I remember going to the local "mom and pop" software stores that seemed to be in every strip mall back then. The excitement and anticipation of my father or grandparents bringing me to get a new game! The smell of the boxes and cartirdges.....they had a unique odor similar to new shoes. It was glorious. Racks and racks of C-64 games. In the latter days, the disappointment of seeing a game that I just MUST HAVE only to realize it was C-128 or Amiga only.
How about in later days when Toys R Us was THE PLACE to go for Commodore games? They would have these plastic flaps with the boxes flattened and placed inside. You could flip them up to see the back of the box, and if you wanted the game you would take one of the paper slips that hung below up to a window. The employee would then leave to navigate a maze of shelves and disappear for several minutes. Often, there would be more slips than there were games in stock, so you would always worry until you saw him or her return with box in hand. It would be crushing disappointment if you saw him emerge from behind the maze of racks without anything in hand! I think Toys R Us killed off most of the wonderful local software stores. Later came Babbages and Electronics Botique.
And how about game errors. I swear, over the years I must've bought 5 copies of Law of the West, and not a darn one worked right. It would freeze and experience all manner of bugs mid-game, but boy was it fun. Many floppies were the same way, but that game was by far the worst.
And I remember when all my friends had gotten the NES console and I was still playing the C-64. They would come over and make fun of the "breadbox" in the living room, LoL. It took me awhile to finally abandon the C-64, as my father said the NES was just a fad and a piece of junk and that computers were far better. I used to go up to Video Tyme (Blockbuster bought them out later) or Believe In Music and would rent a NES and games for the weekend when I was bored with my C-64, as everyone had stopped selling games for it by then.
Those were the days......
I still have both computers in my closet and have been meaning to haul them out for the fiance to see. I still have all my C-64 games as well, LoL. Maybe this weekend......
Thanks for the article and the memories!
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All I have to say is I remember long nights trying to figure out how to put the voice synthesizer to good use. That was definitely a blast from the past. Now that the review is finished can I have the components???
I was hoping to see the classic C-64, not its C-64C offspring, designed visually after its borther, C-128. Was C-64 so hard to find? It's as if you were presenting a story of Atari 8-bit computeres starting with Atari 65XE, while everyone knows it was Atari 600XL, and more importantly Atari 800XL.
This brought back many fond memories... Space Taxi, Summer Games. I remember using a hand hole puncher to make the double sided disks.
And to ebuyc64, never had the fast hack'em cartridge but used the software many a times, and when those failed... which was rare I would break out the Ice Pick Cartridge to crack the real pesky copy protection. Nothing like copying with two or four drives.
let's not forget the 300bps modem that could be connected to dial up a few BBS's
For the next blast into old computer past how about the Atari 800/400 or the Amiga 500 (still have one somewhere in a box along with it's massive 20meg scsi drive)
And to ebuyc64, never had the fast hack'em cartridge but used the software many a times, and when those failed... which was rare I would break out the Ice Pick Cartridge to crack the real pesky copy protection. Nothing like copying with two or four drives.
let's not forget the 300bps modem that could be connected to dial up a few BBS's
For the next blast into old computer past how about the Atari 800/400 or the Amiga 500 (still have one somewhere in a box along with it's massive 20meg scsi drive)
Disk Nibbler was the best.
How many remember the speed routines like L (shift)O (shift)2 (shift)4 (shift)2 ,8 or better yet how many times did you type it?
I got the 1581 drive and it ate my disks. I took it in several times and finally someone knew that the rom in mine was faulty and replaced it. But that was long after I moved on to other platforms.
I fried out GEOS the first night I had it because of that disk drive. I found disk nibbler and made copies of everything I had before "playing" them.
Another nice thing about that program, I never finished Ultima 4, but I read through every sector on that disk and wrote down the location codes for the places to find items.
I remember hearing about the release of a game called Legends. I thought the idea of multiplpe people being able to interact with each other on line in a game was amazing. But I never got to play it.
Ah, those were the days.
How many remember the speed routines like L (shift)O (shift)2 (shift)4 (shift)2 ,8 or better yet how many times did you type it?
I got the 1581 drive and it ate my disks. I took it in several times and finally someone knew that the rom in mine was faulty and replaced it. But that was long after I moved on to other platforms.
I fried out GEOS the first night I had it because of that disk drive. I found disk nibbler and made copies of everything I had before "playing" them.
Another nice thing about that program, I never finished Ultima 4, but I read through every sector on that disk and wrote down the location codes for the places to find items.
I remember hearing about the release of a game called Legends. I thought the idea of multiplpe people being able to interact with each other on line in a game was amazing. But I never got to play it.
Ah, those were the days.
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aaah! memories, I remember having an AMIGA, don't really remember the version numbers like 64 or etc, but remember I had an AMIGA...
remember playing some cool games on it, like flashback [ i think it was the name ], and some platform baby games because I was like 4 years old.
loved it.
remember playing some cool games on it, like flashback [ i think it was the name ], and some platform baby games because I was like 4 years old.
loved it.
i missed the c64 era, my early days started with the amiga 500 playing monkey island 2 on 11 floppy disks :O on my offical commodore monitor, fun times.
Pi_1. I worked at Toys R Us from 1985 to 1994. A lot of folks would take those tickets home and come back days later to purchase the game. LOL It was my job to match the number of tickets to what we had in stock on a daily basis, usually in the morning. If there was a difference in tickets vs. stock, I would either remove or add additional tickets to the pouches. We would fall short on popular titles since customers that held their tickets for a few days would come in on the weekends to buy the games. I was really good at keeping this to a minimum and had very few over-sells.
I was a huge C=64 fan and had a couple of heavily-modified breadbox C-64's with the SID piggybacks, cartridge addons, expanded memory, reset and power switches up front. I had no less than 4 old-style Alps and Neutronics 1541 drives with the track displays, device and power switches, and the "no burp" modifications. I remember the days of regular weekend gatherings to swap software and trade modification ideas. I could easily fill 100 new floppies with all sorts of warez during a big gathering. I used to "package" lots of different games on a single floppy disk using custom-written menu-driven bootloaders. The games weren't very complex, so about 10 or so would fit on a floppy and you could select them from a list in the bootloader and hit enter to load the game.
I kept my C=64 stuff for several years after moving on to the Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, and 4000. I sold all my Amiga stuff ( but still have some disks ) back in 1999 and bought a WinTel box.
I was a huge C=64 fan and had a couple of heavily-modified breadbox C-64's with the SID piggybacks, cartridge addons, expanded memory, reset and power switches up front. I had no less than 4 old-style Alps and Neutronics 1541 drives with the track displays, device and power switches, and the "no burp" modifications. I remember the days of regular weekend gatherings to swap software and trade modification ideas. I could easily fill 100 new floppies with all sorts of warez during a big gathering. I used to "package" lots of different games on a single floppy disk using custom-written menu-driven bootloaders. The games weren't very complex, so about 10 or so would fit on a floppy and you could select them from a list in the bootloader and hit enter to load the game.
I kept my C=64 stuff for several years after moving on to the Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, and 4000. I sold all my Amiga stuff ( but still have some disks ) back in 1999 and bought a WinTel box.
I agree, it was a great walk down memory lane, but there was so much more that could have been talked about, but then again, that could be said about a lot of computers of that era. I, myself, started out on a Atari 400, then moved to a C64 and later to a C128 and that is where it ended. I moved on to Intel from there. What I can't believe is that no one mentioned "Quantum Link", that was the Commodore's fan AOL at the time. It was great, so many late nights chatting it up on that service.
Still, I enjoyed this article, as it brought back a lot of good times in my childhood. Thanks!
Still, I enjoyed this article, as it brought back a lot of good times in my childhood. Thanks!
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Wow...yeah, I remember it all. The one thing I noticed missing from the pics was the US version(?) of the 1541 FDD. It was a bit taller and deeper than the one's shown, and it had the original, darker color shell of the original C-64. It had vents of sorts on the top-backside and if you ran your fingers over 'em, it would make this crazy screeching sound. I can only figure it had something to do with a strange resonance.
And I'm surprised THG didn't mention the home-mod toggle switch that you could put on your 1541 FDD and then stack 'em so you'd have dual floppy drives. (,8) and (,9). I believe the ,8,1 referred to Device 8, start bit 1. Device 1 was internal, device 2 was cartridge or something like that, up until you got to device 8 which was the FDD.
The basic people used their TV sets. The cool people had the 1084 monitor and the super-cool people had the 1084S, where the "S" designated "Stereo"! Yeah, baby...a left AND right speaker!
My final dot matrix printer was the Panasonic KXP-something. It was color. My first one was a commodore brand dot matrix, but I don't recall the model. It wasn't the one shown in this article.
I remember the tape drive too. And it's lil' grounding strap that it had coming out of the connector. It was also my first foray into sampling. Anyone remember hearing digitized music and the generated screen fuzz that would accompany it? My first digitized sound from tape was the quick guitar solo from Billy Idol's "Flesh for Fantasy". The other was on "Push It" by Salt-n-Pepa.
As for the cartridges that let you cheat in the games, mine was called "The Infinity Machine" and I want to say that Virgin Mastertronic made it. Or maybe Epyx.
Anyone remember the ability to change the color of the cursor and make solid block characters? I would make an entire screen picture line by line. It was like a light bright almost. Just never figured out how to save it.
Yeah, I remember every game and app mentioned here. Anyone remember the cartridge 'productivity' app called Magic Desk? It was like MS-Works, only 10 years earlier.
How about the BBS/hacker/courier scene? A couple years ago I found a list of all my major sites from back in the day. I'm in Ohio and I used to have to call long distance to California. Fortunately, I had a commie 1200 baud modem. The Hayes Supra 9600 was just too far out of my price range at $400-$600 USD. I think the big sites were MegaBase, The Sandcastle, -something- Castle, The Incredible Abyss, The Titanic.
Anyone have the light pen? 🙂 There was the one program that was what I'd call the precursor the WinAmp plugins. It would play this really nice music and draw graphics on the screen like Windows Mystify screen saver, mirrored in a 4x4 grid. You could change the colors and patterns and all that jazz.
RENEGADE was the shiz for copying software. And the games...man, I had 'em all. (That was one benefit of being a courier.) Beachhead 2 with the talking, Jumpman & Jumpman Jr and the other Epyx games like Summer Games, California Games, World Games, etc. And all the Mastertronic games like Ninja and Action Biker. Capcom with Bionic Commando. And then some original cartridges like Moon Patrol and Pole Position. And then still others like Oil Rig, GI Joe, the Beachhead series, the Infocom text-based games, and so many others I can't recall now.
As for the C-128D, for some reason I recall mine having a 3.5DD FDD and not a 5.25".
Now I'm gonna have to go out to the emulator sites or torrents and download a C-64 emu and hundred of games! Hahahaha....
My Amiga's are still sitting in my closet with hundreds of games.
And I'm surprised THG didn't mention the home-mod toggle switch that you could put on your 1541 FDD and then stack 'em so you'd have dual floppy drives. (,8) and (,9). I believe the ,8,1 referred to Device 8, start bit 1. Device 1 was internal, device 2 was cartridge or something like that, up until you got to device 8 which was the FDD.
The basic people used their TV sets. The cool people had the 1084 monitor and the super-cool people had the 1084S, where the "S" designated "Stereo"! Yeah, baby...a left AND right speaker!
My final dot matrix printer was the Panasonic KXP-something. It was color. My first one was a commodore brand dot matrix, but I don't recall the model. It wasn't the one shown in this article.
I remember the tape drive too. And it's lil' grounding strap that it had coming out of the connector. It was also my first foray into sampling. Anyone remember hearing digitized music and the generated screen fuzz that would accompany it? My first digitized sound from tape was the quick guitar solo from Billy Idol's "Flesh for Fantasy". The other was on "Push It" by Salt-n-Pepa.
As for the cartridges that let you cheat in the games, mine was called "The Infinity Machine" and I want to say that Virgin Mastertronic made it. Or maybe Epyx.
Anyone remember the ability to change the color of the cursor and make solid block characters? I would make an entire screen picture line by line. It was like a light bright almost. Just never figured out how to save it.
Yeah, I remember every game and app mentioned here. Anyone remember the cartridge 'productivity' app called Magic Desk? It was like MS-Works, only 10 years earlier.
How about the BBS/hacker/courier scene? A couple years ago I found a list of all my major sites from back in the day. I'm in Ohio and I used to have to call long distance to California. Fortunately, I had a commie 1200 baud modem. The Hayes Supra 9600 was just too far out of my price range at $400-$600 USD. I think the big sites were MegaBase, The Sandcastle, -something- Castle, The Incredible Abyss, The Titanic.
Anyone have the light pen? 🙂 There was the one program that was what I'd call the precursor the WinAmp plugins. It would play this really nice music and draw graphics on the screen like Windows Mystify screen saver, mirrored in a 4x4 grid. You could change the colors and patterns and all that jazz.
RENEGADE was the shiz for copying software. And the games...man, I had 'em all. (That was one benefit of being a courier.) Beachhead 2 with the talking, Jumpman & Jumpman Jr and the other Epyx games like Summer Games, California Games, World Games, etc. And all the Mastertronic games like Ninja and Action Biker. Capcom with Bionic Commando. And then some original cartridges like Moon Patrol and Pole Position. And then still others like Oil Rig, GI Joe, the Beachhead series, the Infocom text-based games, and so many others I can't recall now.
As for the C-128D, for some reason I recall mine having a 3.5DD FDD and not a 5.25".
Now I'm gonna have to go out to the emulator sites or torrents and download a C-64 emu and hundred of games! Hahahaha....
My Amiga's are still sitting in my closet with hundreds of games.
Looks more like a 'Commodore 128', but the box says 'Commodore 64'. Mine was light brown in color, and rounded at the top of the keyboard like a 'Commodore VIC 20'. But then again, maybe that was the Canadian version?
[citation][nom]PrangeWay[/nom]I have 2 C64's, 2 disk drives, and a commodre monitor (8 color!) in my parents basement, along with a ton of programs. I think next time I'm by it's time to break them out. Conflict in Vietnam, Impossible Mission. Yeah Baby![/citation]
OMG!!! IMPOSSIBLE MISSION!
"I'm Adolfus Hitler. Stay awhile. Stay...FOREVER!" lol
I loved that game too
OMG!!! IMPOSSIBLE MISSION!
"I'm Adolfus Hitler. Stay awhile. Stay...FOREVER!" lol
I loved that game too
[citation][nom]angelraiter[/nom]This was great! I'll never forget my C64.. My father gave it to me in '90... I was 11... Had the tape drive, then bought the floppy later on with allowance money I saved for months! LOLOne thing.. My C64 Didn't come with GEOS.. To tell you the truth, I barelly remember seing it at all, I think a boy in my neighbrhood had it and showed it to me, like ONCE.. I was living in Italy at the time, maybe it wasn't very popular there... Anyway, I just got confused when I read that EVERY C64 came with it... Are you sure EVERY single C64 had it?Well.. it was great remembering those days...[/citation]
Not everyone C-64 had it. I have an original C-64 and a C-64C. Neither came with it. I think GEOS came out toward the end for the C-64C, but it was awesome.
I also remember a tool called ISEPIC or something like that. It would speed up the loads for programs.
Yeah, it is great remembering those days.
Not everyone C-64 had it. I have an original C-64 and a C-64C. Neither came with it. I think GEOS came out toward the end for the C-64C, but it was awesome.
I also remember a tool called ISEPIC or something like that. It would speed up the loads for programs.
Yeah, it is great remembering those days.
Evolution,
Maybe a KXP-1092? I think that was color, at least. Been WAY too many years. lol
I was WAY into the BBS scene myself. In fact, I used to run up my parents long-distance bill doing 300 baud downloads. Places I remember were like...Swap Shop II and...not even the same place as the current one...The Pirates Bay. I even used to talk on the phone with the guys, and in later years (I was maybe 15 or 16? lol), I started mailing with them.
God, amazing. I miss those days. I think I'm gonna have to set the C-64s up tonight on the spare desk and see if I can get them to load software. I might even move PC over there and try to get it to save the software with that interface I bought. That would be sweet. Get all the C-64 stuff on CD!
Maybe a KXP-1092? I think that was color, at least. Been WAY too many years. lol
I was WAY into the BBS scene myself. In fact, I used to run up my parents long-distance bill doing 300 baud downloads. Places I remember were like...Swap Shop II and...not even the same place as the current one...The Pirates Bay. I even used to talk on the phone with the guys, and in later years (I was maybe 15 or 16? lol), I started mailing with them.
God, amazing. I miss those days. I think I'm gonna have to set the C-64s up tonight on the spare desk and see if I can get them to load software. I might even move PC over there and try to get it to save the software with that interface I bought. That would be sweet. Get all the C-64 stuff on CD!
Not one pic of the expansion-port modems. I had the 300bps then up'ed to the 1200. Anybody remember Q-Link, Club-Caribe? LOL! I remember MS-Flight Simulator and it sucking every last drop of system resources with it's 5-10 minute load times. I had the classic breadbox C64 w/ a tape drive and 1541, then a C128D. Both burned up in a fire, shame.
The original Commodore64 monitor in the USA was the 1702. The 1080 and 1084s were designed for the Commodore 128 (80charter mode) and the Amiga. I still have my 1084s (makes a good TV). The 1080 was nicer looking, unlike the 1084s which was a Maganovox generic monitor.
The C=128D always included a 5.25 Drive. The Euro version is awsome, compared the the severely price-reduced USA version... I never saw pics of the Euro version.. a handle!? I forgot about it, I read about it (back in the 80s - we didn't have the internet). In the USA, cheap metal cover.
Those were the good-ole days.
And yes - to some of those who posted, we were able to do work on those computers, especially with GEOS.
The C=128D always included a 5.25 Drive. The Euro version is awsome, compared the the severely price-reduced USA version... I never saw pics of the Euro version.. a handle!? I forgot about it, I read about it (back in the 80s - we didn't have the internet). In the USA, cheap metal cover.
Those were the good-ole days.
And yes - to some of those who posted, we were able to do work on those computers, especially with GEOS.
I bought my 64 in 1985 and have loved it ever since. I now use my 64 emulator now to play my favorite games from back in the day like Airborne Ranger and Silent Service from MicroProse.
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