/dev/null Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 http://news.techworld.com/personal-tech/32...ake-a-comeback/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 http://news.techworld.com/personal-tech/32...ake-a-comeback/ Will they have Lionel Richie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Commodore, however, preferred to develop the Commodore 64 as a simpler, lower cost, black-and-white-only machine. Did the author ever actually use a C-64...? The graphics were great for the time - and definitely in color. It also had the best audio on the market (in computer form). It just plain rocked. Commodore's downfall was that the Amiga 500 didn't do so well... http//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D442 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linksfiend Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 I fondly remember playing Blades of Steel for hours with my brother. To this day, I occasionally mimic the computer generated voice when a penalty is called in a hockey game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornerville Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 I fondly remember playing Blades of Steel for hours with my brother. To this day, I occasionally mimic the computer generated voice when a penalty is called in a hockey game. Wasn't Blades Of Steel for the Nintendo? I didn't realize they had it for the C64...I remember playing a game called Superstar Ice Hockey for the C-64...and of course Dr J vs Larry Bird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 I dont know why I saved it, but I still have my C-64, floppy drive and documentation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomcat Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Lode Runner! Greatest Commodore 64 games ever!! Loved Barbarians as well (basic fighting game with swords that you could cut off someones head!) Had a great baseball game but can't remember the name.......good times.... I up'd to the Commodore 128!!! Still have them in my basement (along with some IIe and IIc apple computers) I used a 300 baud modem! couldn't believe the speed of the 1200 baud!!! Also had to take my phone and set in on the modem. How awesome was that! I have programs saved to cassette drive as well. Yes thats right....cassette drive!! Wow when the 3 1/2" disks came out I was amazed!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Lode Runner! Greatest Commodore 64 games ever!! Loved Barbarians as well (basic fighting game with swords that you could cut off someones head!) Had a great baseball game but can't remember the name.......good times.... I up'd to the Commodore 128!!! Still have them in my basement (along with some IIe and IIc apple computers) I used a 300 baud modem! couldn't believe the speed of the 1200 baud!!! Also had to take my phone and set in on the modem. How awesome was that! I have programs saved to cassette drive as well. Yes thats right....cassette drive!! Wow when the 3 1/2" disks came out I was amazed!!! I had an "elegant" Migent 300bps portable modem early on. Good gosh, I bet I've owned ten modems, ext and int through the years. Most recently, a little UBS device from a company called Rosewill that I bought cheap through Newegg. It's for my wife's Asus eee netbook (her Mom and my SIL don't have computers so no cable internet) so she can connect when she travels to each. It's not bad... I bought a TI99A as my first computer - same thing - cassette storage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Did the author ever actually use a C-64...? The graphics were great for the time - and definitely in color. It also had the best audio on the market (in computer form). It just plain rocked. Commodore's downfall was that the Amiga 500 didn't do so well... http//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D442 POKE53280,0 POKE53281,0 Did your screen/background just change to black? Sold my cassette drive when I bought the 1541, but count me as another one who still owns a C64. Used to kill John Elway's Quarterback on that thing ... playing as the Bills, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Still have a Vic-20 (precursor to the 64) in the closet. That was in color too. Pulled it out about 5 years ago and it still worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JinVA Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 load "*",8,1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 My first computer was a Hyundai computer... PC clone with monochrome Goldstar monitor and hard drive. Man were we a well off family! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coloradobillsfan Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Had a great baseball game but can't remember the name....... Probably Hardball. I found a bittorrent with all the Commodore emulators and every game ever made. It was a lot of fun taking the trip(s) down memory lane. Still highly playable is Elite and MULE. I like Sword of Fargoal too, but damn that is a hard game to solve. When I first got my Commodore, I had to type in all of my games manually (from Compute Gazette magazine) line by line, either in BASIC or machine language. When I was done and turned the computer off, POOF - games were gone. After dinner, had to type them in again, line by line. Eventually I upgraded to a datasette, and the wonderful world of load errors... Interestingly my career ended up in computer data storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted March 24, 2010 Author Share Posted March 24, 2010 I fondly remember playing Blades of Steel for hours with my brother. To this day, I occasionally mimic the computer generated voice when a penalty is called in a hockey game. Don't forget Double Dribble, or as the voice sounded like...vovel vivel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 My first roommate in college had a Commodore he brought to school (which was quite a novelty back in that day - his was the only personal computer I ever saw there). A buddy of mine who lived next door was addicted to a game called Munch Man which essentially was Pac Man - he would often come over and play the thing for hours esp when he was wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Elite and MULE both ROCK! I don't know why they haven't remade them. Well, there was a remake of Elite years ago but it sucked... Archon and Archon II were both awesome games, as was Mail Order Monsters. And of course, Alternate Reality Probably Hardball. I found a bittorrent with all the Commodore emulators and every game ever made. It was a lot of fun taking the trip(s) down memory lane. Still highly playable is Elite and MULE. I like Sword of Fargoal too, but damn that is a hard game to solve. When I first got my Commodore, I had to type in all of my games manually (from Compute Gazette magazine) line by line, either in BASIC or machine language. When I was done and turned the computer off, POOF - games were gone. After dinner, had to type them in again, line by line. Eventually I upgraded to a datasette, and the wonderful world of load errors... Interestingly my career ended up in computer data storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickleyjones Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Elite and MULE both ROCK! I don't know why they haven't remade them. Well, there was a remake of Elite years ago but it sucked... Archon and Archon II were both awesome games, as was Mail Order Monsters. And of course, Alternate Reality May I add Defender of the Crown and Bruce Lee to that list of awesome games? And of course, summer games...a game which required actual physical activity. A precursor to the Wii maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullpen Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I remember getting snowed in at a friends house one weekend and we must have played hundreds of rounds of Summer and Winter Games on the 64. Loading those games upon the floppy disks and going through what seemed like dozens of bags of Swanson Chips (mostly a Jimmytown thing) and countless "longneck return for deposit bottles" of Pepsi and Mountain Dew. Wasted youth? After 25 years... no freakin way! Memories made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Elite and MULE both ROCK! I don't know why they haven't remade them. Well, there was a remake of Elite years ago but it sucked... Archon and Archon II were both awesome games, as was Mail Order Monsters. And of course, Alternate Reality I loved Archon. Does that game even exist today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomcat Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Probably Hardball. I found a bittorrent with all the Commodore emulators and every game ever made. It was a lot of fun taking the trip(s) down memory lane. Still highly playable is Elite and MULE. I like Sword of Fargoal too, but damn that is a hard game to solve. When I first got my Commodore, I had to type in all of my games manually (from Compute Gazette magazine) line by line, either in BASIC or machine language. When I was done and turned the computer off, POOF - games were gone. After dinner, had to type them in again, line by line. Eventually I upgraded to a datasette, and the wonderful world of load errors... Interestingly my career ended up in computer data storage. Hardball!!! That was it. Nice.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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