Commodore 64 Still Loved After All These Years
December 8th, 2007 Tags: c64
Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people’s hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever.
- CNN.com
The C64 was also my first computer. I had it for years. Played games on it, programmed it and used it to do my homework. Twenty-five years on, I’m glad to see the legacy has lived on with www.c64.com.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Man, remember this game? http://www.c64.com/?type=1&id=157
Click through the images. I’m pretty sure it was one of the cartridge games you plugged into the keyboard.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Whoops, wrong link. I meant this game: http://www.c64.com/?type=1&id=587
December 8th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I totally forgot about international soccer. That was unreal. PaperBoy was my all time favourite though. I think those were on disk.
We had Lemans on cartridge though. You used to play it with the paddles.
Infact, Lemans was the first game or thing I did with my C64. Mum & Dad had it set up on the sunroom table ready to go.
December 8th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Okay, now I’m going crazy looking up stuff! GEOS was a graphical operating environment for the C64.
I remember getting this - it was the best this ever. It had a painting program and everything.
Here’s a YouTube clip of GEOS.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Hahahaha @ the load times. Man, how did you get anything done on that thing?
I remember that LeMans game. Those paddles were super-sensitive! Was it all set up the first time you had a go? Did you just plug the cart in and play?
I’m assuming you just taught yourself all the ins and outs of the machine, but did you have manuals to help out?
December 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
It was actually pretty fast given what it did for the day (except the tape drive which was goddamn awful).
I think it was Christmas day. When I woke up, I ran into the Sunroom and it was already set up, turned on, ready to go with the cartridge in and paddles plugged in. I had never seen anything like it before. It was the most incredible thing I had ever imagined actually.
Learnt mainly from C64 magazines and books. Did one little programming course (on the Olivetti) and the rest I just picked up myself.
You’ll have to see if the computer is still there in the toyroom cupboard. I hope it is - would love to see it again.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I remember upgrading to the 64 from my Vic 20, I think it and that lovely tape drive are still in my brothers attic.