It's Back!

[Willy]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/07/commodore-64-computer-lives-vintage/?test=faces

I've got my old original with 3 disc drives, a couple of joysticks and a color printer for it in working order.

[stuartcox]

That was a great machine!
My second computer after the VIC20. What a revolution. We even used it in our band with an external midi interface connected to a Korg Poly 800 and Yamaha DX7.
I wish I still had the stuff...!

[wiltzei]

What was the air combat game, which was projected in vertical dimension, and where you could (attempt to) land on carriers?

[kilo delta]

This one? http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/html/harrier_attack.html

My favourite C64 game

[wiltzei]

This one? http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/html/harrier_attack.html
Negative, perhaps I didn´t express myself properly. I meant the players watched the battlefield directly downwards.

[Kiwikat]

Guess I'm a bit younger than you guys... I grew up with this:

http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/genesis/F-22%20Interceptor.gif

Then I got into FS95 once we got a "decent" computer. :monkies:

[kilo delta]

You're 22??...hmmm....just a little bit younger than me :)










by almost a couple of decades! :d

[Willy]

My favorite game on the Commodore was Pirates. I wore out about 4 of the floppy discs.

[Allen]

Did you violated the old "don't copy that floppy" than?

[Willy]

Nope, replacement discs from Microprose at about $10 a pop. When they went out of business and I couldn't get a replacement, I put the ol' Commodore up.

[Allen]

Nope, replacement discs from Microprose at about $10 a pop. When they went out of business and I couldn't get a replacement, I put the ol' Commodore up.

*Hit Willy on head* "Well thats stupid! You could could have saved that money!" *Shakes Willy hand* "Your a honest man Willy. I don't know if I would have done the same."

[jhefner]

I flew Microprose Flight Simulator on my Commodore, and was introduced to my first GUI operating system - GEOS. We talk about 64-bit operating systems now; but GEOS was pretty amazing for what it could as an 8-bit operating system

Even after I bought a 286, I had the two networked in my apartment so they could share files and a printer. I finally dumped it when Windows 95 and Y2K came along; by that time, Windows was finally stable, and the Commodore was hopelessly obsolete.

I have a Commodore 64 emulator on my computer, just for old times sake. My favorite games were Zaxxon (not sure if that was the 3-D flying game you were trying to think of), Battlezone, Zepplin Rescue, The Train, a power plant and a space shuttle sumulator. And, I thought I was a budding artist with the Kolapad.

http://inlinethumb09.webshots.com/6792/2831335580079522983S600x600Q85.jpg (http://family.webshots.com/photo/2831335580079522983jHXiWq)

-James

[Astoroth]

Ah, I loved my old C64. Spent many an hour with Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, Gunship and Silent Service 2.....

[stansdds]

The C64 was my first computer. Played Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, F-15 Strike Eagle, F-16 Combat Pilot, and Elite. Moved on to the Amiga 500, then the Amiga 2000, then to Intel and AMD computers.

[Willy]

Ah yes, Geos! That was why I was running 3 floppy drives, 2 1541s and a 1571. Always wanted a 1581, but never could find one.

[PRB]

I still have this. And it still works too, as you can see!

http://www.prbsystems.com/pics/TRS80M4_2

http://www.prbsystems.com/pics/TRS80M4_1

[Willy]

Nice looking old Radio Shack TRS-80 there. Is it the infamous "PRB's keyboard"? :d

Is that the Arizona or Pennsylvannia on the shelf back there?

[PRB]

Nice looking old Radio Shack TRS-80 there. Is it the infamous "PRB's keyboard"? :d

Is that the Arizona or Pennsylvannia on the shelf back there?

Rgr on the keyboard! One of them anyway! :icon_lol: That's Arizona, the old Revell kit I put together some years ago.

[rhumbaflappy]

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/sx64.jpg

I got in some tax trouble, and by printing out a spreadsheet, I totally baffled the auditors. They accepted my figures because they were a computer printout. (Don't try this in 2011). They let me go with a small fine. This Commodore paid for itself and with enough savings left over to justify an Amiga 500. :)

Ahh... the good old days.

Dick

[AussieMan]

I flew Microprose Flight Simulator on my Commodore,
http://inlinethumb09.webshots.com/6792/2831335580079522983S600x600Q85.jpg (http://family.webshots.com/photo/2831335580079522983jHXiWq)

-James

James I thought that Flight Simulator on the 64/Amiga was Sublogic by Bruce Artwick. They got gobbled up by Microsoft.

I also had Flight Simulator II and a programme called Apollo18.

Cheers
Pat

[jhefner]

James I thought that Flight Simulator on the 64/Amiga was Sublogic by Bruce Artwick. They got gobbled up by Microsoft.

I also had Flight Simulator II and a programme called Apollo18.

Cheers
Pat

You are right, now that I think about it. I even had scenery disks for my part of the country; what little 'scenery' there was.

The late 1980s to early 1990s was an interesting time for computers -- the IBM Mainframe was still dominant, and Unix was out there but few knew about it, since it didn't run on PCs yet.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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Apple still had the Apple II as well as the Macintosh, IBM had DOS and OS/2, Microsoft was the early days of Windows, and Commodore had the C-64, C-128, and Amiga.<o:p></o:p>

I worked in a computer store from about 1987 to 1988. We had software sections for DOS, Apple II, Commodore, Macintosh and Amiga; we sold strictly IBM clones (remember "Leading Edge"?) Love or hate Windows, from a software development and sales point of view, it has made things so much easier -- write one version for Windows, and at least 90% of the machines out there can run it. No more writing your own device drivers, either.
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The first version of Windows I tried out... 2.1. And I rented it; during a very short period when software rentals were tried and quickly outlawed, another 1990s thing.

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