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no9999

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Posted: Wed, 1st Aug 2012 16:10 Post subject: [OTHER] Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of

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It is 30 years since the Commodore 64 went on sale to the public.

The machine was hugely successful for its time, helping to encourage personal computing, popularise video games and pioneer homemade computer-created music.

The $595 (£399) device took its name from its US maker, Commodore International, and the fact it had 64 kilobytes of RAM memory.

The firm noted that made it substantially cheaper than other personal computers on the market offered by IBM, Apple and Atari.

Commodore highlighted the fact that since it had designed and manufactured its own chips it had been able keep costs down - and the advantage helped it become the best-selling model in North America.

In Europe it faced competition from two cheaper eight-bit rivals released over the previous year: the BBC Micro and Sinclair Spectrum.

The Commodore's ability to display 16 colours, smoothly scroll graphics and play back music through its superior SID (sound interface device) chip - even while loading programs off tape - helped win over fans, but it did not become the market leader until the late 1980s.

Debates continue to this day about which was the superior system - but what would today's youth make of the C64?

BBC News invited Commodore enthusiast Mat Allen to show schoolchildren his carefully preserved computer, at a primary school and secondary school in London.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19055707

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Posted: Wed, 1st Aug 2012 17:22 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Wouldn't know I had a Schneider my friend had C64 though, it was better though loading was a bitch. "I like playing as the mushroom." \| My Imdb ratings \| My Best Games \| Best actors \| Best directors \| Best musicians \| Best women \| Best Shows \| Freak the Hump!

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sabin1981
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Posted: Wed, 1st Aug 2012 17:24 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Commodore 64 and Amiga... my two favourite home computers. I simply couldn't tell you the hours I put into both, they'll live on in my heart and memory forever! <3

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asucahayashi

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 00:27 Post subject:

sabin1981 wrote:

Commodore 64 and Amiga... my two favourite home computers. I simply couldn't tell you the hours I put into both, they'll live on in my heart and memory forever! <3

you and me both though i've put way more hours into the amiga since i was just a wee kid when the c64 was around.

i sincerely miss the old huge ass tape recorder for games though lol

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 00:33 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Are you kidding? I was a nipper when I got my 64! We didn't even have a colour TV .... damn. Now I really feel old

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 03:17 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Still have my A500 with 512k expansion hard wired switchable. Two external 5.25 drives DF1: switchable to DF0: 1084 RGB Display. One of the first hardware mods I did as a kid, even replaced the drive controller IC when it blew one. Good times! Had to physically meet people to share warez! Our user group was even raided once LOL

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LuftBrada

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 03:27 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I had a Sinclair, good times, loading games with a K7 tape.

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 05:13 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Vic Series and Commodore were what I grew up with. Shit didn't even have a nintendo - had a 64. Although I eventually acquired a Sega Master System. PC: i7-4790k @ 4.4, 32GB @ 2400, Nvidia 1080TI FE, 2 TB Crucial MX500 SSD Nintendo Switch SX OS Pro / PS4 Pro 5.05 Hen/Mira / PS3 Modded / Wii Modded / 360 Pre-Wave4 mod

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 06:05 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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mace999

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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 08:52 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Spectrum 48k .... Amiga 600 were my weapons of destruction ..... tho my Dad did buy me a ZX81, second hand but could never get it to run a game, so that's why he bought me a Spectrum 48k with Daley Thompsons decathlon and Horace Goes Skiing Early piracy measures I can remember, being the Jet Set Willy grid you had to look at everytime you started the game, easily copied on a photocopier but they were rare back then

sabin1981
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Posted: Thu, 2nd Aug 2012 11:17 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Or how about LensLok? That little plastic device that you had to hold up to the TV screen to decode a message

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Posted: Fri, 3rd Aug 2012 15:56 Post subject:

so many hours playing treasure island dizzy , target renegade, kung fu master, Barbarians.

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gibman70

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Posted: Fri, 3rd Aug 2012 19:38 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

played my c64 games sooooo much more than todays, despite the graphics and the loading times. fantastic times.

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sabin1981
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Posted: Sat, 4th Aug 2012 00:36 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

hell, event he grouphics were awesom back int he day! the speccy had more distinctibnve visual, but was plagude by vile colour bleedcingh.

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