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Posted on 04/07/2011 6:57:43 PM PDT by OL Hickory
Oh God...Commodore owners are worse than Apple owners in their smugness.
I have one of those. The sound it makes is so cool.
You wouldn’t believe what they sell for on eBay.
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I'll bet these USB sticks would work great with Commodore emulators too!
My club will appreciate it. We've been doing some C-64 retro things recently, including playing stereo sids, downloading from 1581s using JiffyDos. Man! That blazes!
We're also interested in the outboard equipment which has been modernized. Anyone hear about "the Ultimate 1541"?
>You forgot to light the torch, You have been devoured by the slavering fangs of a lurking Gru.
Ah...the cassete tape storage medium. I learned my BASIC on a Wang 2500 in the Math department of my high school. We saved our work on a cassette tape. My first program was a game called ‘Gunfight’. Essentially it tested your reflexes at the keyboard. My fellow geeks and I were lucky enough to have a telephone connection to the Boston College computer system where we could run programs that could not print to screen but sent output to a 80 column teletype. There was a game called ‘Horserace’. It would print a page with the latest position of 8 horses....then another...then another, ,,etc. A waste of paper, yes. But what fun for a 16 year old in 1975. It was...cutting edge. Then.
Nope. We were nerds before nerds were cool. Those times are long gone.
My prized possession is my "No. I will not fix your computer" T-shirt.
“Where did those old text games go? Kids today have no idea the fun they are missing!”
There are a few collections around. I have these Infocom ones from several years back, which are now apparently quite valuable:
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adventure-Masterpieces-Infocom-PC/dp/B0006ZH9R6
You can find “Adventure” here:
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html
(I would not have known that Infocom collections were valuable, if not for this thread. Now I’ll put them where the kids can’t get to them.)
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I saw a great T shirt in New Hampshire last month:
“I did go ‘outside’, once. But I didn’t like the graphics.”
Kinda reminds me of one of the ad slogans from the old Infocom company, who created the Zork series of text computer games;
"The best graphics generator is between your ears."
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