The Commodore 64 Rises From the Ashes

CBS ^ | June 01, 2010

[nickcarraway]

Thanks. I was going to post this earlier, but I hadn’t gotten around to it.

[Jet Jaguar]

I saw your post from 2005 with keyword “commodore64” and figured I would ping you.

[mylife]

It was a break though chipset

[Dallas59]

My first game for 64...my “friends” at the time just stared at me and shook their heads. They thought playing games on a computer was nuts.

[Carolina_Thor]

I didn’t get a floppy drive until a couple of months later, so it was LOAD “*”,1,1 for me

[Dallas59]

[Richard Kimball]

It looks to me like they just picked up the Commodore name. There’s nothing on their site that indicates any affiliation with the previous Commodore guys, and the computer is a PC in a slightly different form factor.

[Jet Jaguar]

Yep. Interesting models though.

[dangus]

You might never appreciate the brilliance of the C-64 design, until you try to run a C-64 emulator on a Windows XP machine... and find the XP runs clunkily. Whoever heard of using a 3rd-level programming language to directly assign values to bits?

[redhead]

"my first computer if I recall (but CRS anymore)"

My first was the Commodore 128. Wish I knew then what I know now...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Oh geeeeez...!

[Publius6961]

...and the "advantages" of a Commodore-in-name-only would be?

Commodore Basic, maybe?

What?

[RepublicanMeansAmerican]

Great memory. My first computer, an IBM PC, had 640K RAM and a seperate, approx 4lb, 20mb hard drive. (but way more powerful than the computer onboard Apollo 11!)

[dfwgator]

[Jack Hydrazine]

Bring back the Amiga!!!!

[dfwgator]

Computers are like girlfriends, you never forget your first one.

[Cyber Liberty]

Ahhhhh...my first machine. I remember tearing a disk drive apart to permanently configure it to device 9. Man, I was stylin’ with two 5 1/4 drives, side by side....

I built my own interface to get it to work with a 1200 Baud Hayes modem. It hauled some serious a$$.

Good times. Wife left me because I was always playing with it.

[jeffc]

Project Stealth Fighter.

Brings back memories. Microprose made some great games for the C-64. My fave was Gunship. It took me almost 6 months of playing to get the CMOH (only played on weekends . . . )

[grey_whiskers]

Wow. The all-time favorite.

Here's my #2.

Cheers!

[swatbuznik]

Back in my backwater town, computers were a rarity, so when a kid moved from *California*, he brought his Commodore 64 here. It was almost like cavemen being introduced to fire. Good memories playing all those games. Thanks, Kirk!! Maybe you’re even on this board...