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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2010-12-18 07:31 am

Reboot, indeed!

Rising from the murky depths of computer history, the Commodore 64 rides again!

[livejournal.com profile] kshandra and I had a C64 back in the day (which meant we ended up with boxes and boxes of other peoples' Commodore junk) and enjoyed it. Owning a C64 was like owning a VW Microbus. It was cranky, didn't use any standard parts, required constant care and fine-tuning, but owning one made you part of the cult.

I still remember running the SSI Gold Box AD&D games on that machine. Several times I would have a combat encounter start, order a pizza, and the pizza would arrive before the combat had finished loading. Good times.

Tip of the floppy disk to [livejournal.com profile] filkertom for the link.

[identity profile] fragbert.livejournal.com 2010-12-18 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Impossible Mission, Leaderboard Golf, Secret Of The Silver Blades....oh MAN. Loved my Commie.

LOAD "*" 8,1

Stay a while....... STAAAAYYYYYYYY FOREVERRRRRR!!!!

[identity profile] suzilem.livejournal.com 2010-12-18 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, the good old days.... Remember "Deadline" ??? Great little text-based murder mystery game.

The 64 was my second computer. My first was the Timex Sinclair. They say we always remember our first.... :-)

[identity profile] caraig.livejournal.com 2010-12-18 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember the raging, seething wars between the Commodore and Atari users at school. Despite that, they were functionally identical computers. That being said, I'm not seeing many Atari 800/130XE emulators out there compared to Commodores!
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[personal profile] claidheamhmor 2010-12-19 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I got started in computers because of Pool of Radiance...though on PC, not C64.