Classic Commodore 64 lives again

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Classic Commodore 64 lives again

Scary thing is I still have the original including tape deck and serial (yes serial) 5.25" floppy disk drive.

 

Hi Wildfire, I think my son had a Commodore as his first computer. I didn't think much of this new fangled technology in those days.
I recall he spent a lot of time playing games on it which didn't impress me much at the time.
My wife purchased the unit and now she can't remember anything about it. It would have been 1981 if my memory serves correctly and it came with a printer with a paper feed with holes down the paper which had to be carefully aligned for the feed to work.
Thank goodness we've moved on from that as my real introduction to computers was around 1988 - on. I was Service Trainer for General Motors (NZ) and you only got to use the computers on a need to know basis.
Boy, have we progressed from then.
Nostalgia can be disastrous - 2011 and my wife has forgotten buying our son his first computer! Cheers Neil.

 

Yes my first experience with computing was a Commodore Amiga 64 and I loved it I also bought the add on 1mb expansion Ram. Yes I also had a Printer the old dot matrix printers like you say Neil it was a pain to feed the paper in and they made a racket printing. It also had a external 3.5" Floppy drive I still have a number of Games on these Floppy's.
cheers
hawk22

 

No such beast as an Amiga 64 hawk

For home PC's commodore had the Vic 20, C64, C16, C+4, C128, C64C (64 in a 128 style case) various Amiga Models 500,500+,600,1200 and a few Amiga towers (1000etc).

I've owned them all (and still have a few) except for any of the Amiga tower systems.

My first computer though was the ZX Spectrum (owned a few models of them too). Not sure what they were called down under but I believe they were similar to the Timex Sinclair 2068's sold across the pond.

 

uuups.. you are so right, my brain must be slipping of course it was a
"Amiga 500"

 

Figured that, although the C64 had RAM and ROM switching technology 1Mb RAM would be overkill for an 8bit processor

 

On the Amiga 500 it had a lid on the bottom to unscrew and insert the Ram from memory that 1 mb cost me about $110.-
I just bought 4 GIG of OCZ DDR3 for AU $25.-

 

Yep, my A1200 came with 2Mb, the 8Mb expansion with 68030 processor I have would be extortionate (in £/MB) nowadays.

TBF The 1200 is still quite usable but my PCMCIA Ethernet and SCSI adapters went missing when moving house so Internet and CD Drives weren't possible.

I may just fire up the old girl tonight though for some retro gaming.

 

Those machines where quite good for the old games, I had stacks of them all on the 3.5" Floppy. My favorite used to be Golf.
And all of that on the little 14" Monitor.
I am sure you will enjoy your gaming session tonight. Don't forget that glass of good Aussie red with it.

 

Well, it looks familiar, but also kinda strange. Keyboard doesnt have those graphical characters, original C64 had. Article says about C64 " it became one of the best-selling computers ever." Commodore 64 IS the best selling computer ever, and there surely wont be another computer ever, that would stay on production for such a long time. More than 20 million C64´s were produced during 1982-94.

I still have a Commodore 64 (actually several) and with its tape deck, 5 1/4 " disk drive, and Commodore MPS802 dot matrix printer, it is the most valuable piece of machinery in my collection of old computers.
I do some retro gaming with it, but not very much. I have several Basic programs typed from old books, and Compute! magazines. For example I have a program that calculates my classic cars gasoline consumption in miles per gallon, and a program that keeps record of cars maintenance information.
I also have an wordprocessor program, Speedscript 3.1.
I typed those 6 kb´s of machine language code from a book, and I must say, those were the most monotonous 10-12 hours I have ever spent in front of a computer, but it was rewarding to see that the program really works.

About the new C64. It is not the only retro-product available nowadays, that has the same name and look, as the original famous product made years ago, but has technically nothing in common with the original real thing.