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GeoTrail Valued Contributor
Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 572 Location: Bergen, Norway
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that might be right. But as I said, can't remember
Whish I had that machine again. I had an old Karate game on it too. Well,, karate and karate, there were bick square blocks but they were supposed to look like Karate people I think
But my favorite is the C64 with a tape deck. Think I had about 400 games on a single music tape
That was soo cool. My favorite game on that was Rambo and Save New York. _________________
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GeoTrail Valued Contributor
Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 572 Location: Bergen, Norway
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Serge wrote: | i started my programming on a vz200 - these existed around the same time as the commodore 64
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I made som demos on my C64. lol
I also had a Commodore PC II I think it was called. It had a monochrome screen and when turning it on you had a simple menu made in batch I think. _________________
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Sanjuro Contributor
Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 59 Location: Norfolk-United Kingdom
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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My first job at 16 was in a local shop called 'CBs and Micros'. They sold the computers as a sideline to the booming CB industry. (My boss once said " A CB in every bedroom..." )
Anyway they sold them all, from the ZX81 and VIC 20 to the C64 the BBC Micro and The Oracle (Great names back then too).
I remember (with some shame ) copying games in the stockroom for my own use by using a tape > tape recorder.....I thought i was NEO...
One day the CB market fell through about the time that ABBA split i think and he shut the shop thinking that computers were a novelty!! I was out of a job. Had some great times there, and of course the games WERE better then...
Now I'm gonna get my slippers and pipe and have a nap. Thinkin about the olden days makes a man mighty tired. Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzzz
Sanjuro _________________ "Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. |
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GeoTrail Valued Contributor
Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 572 Location: Bergen, Norway
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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He he he he
good one.
Slippers and pipe...
It's not that many years ago when I used tape streamers too. They were abit slow compared to todays gadgets, but still very usefull when I only had a 20 MB HD _________________
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Sanjuro Contributor
Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 59 Location: Norfolk-United Kingdom
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Geo,
I saw an old episode of 'Friends' recently where Chander was boasting about his new laptop...
Chandler: Check out this bad boy.. 12Mb of RAM and 512Mb of Hard disk and built in spreadsheet capabilities...
Shows how quickly these programs can date when the show equipment like this...
Sanjuro _________________ "Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. |
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Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 2166 Location: The Netherlands
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GeoTrail Valued Contributor
Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 572 Location: Bergen, Norway
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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He he he I haven't seen that episode. But they will probably send it in a re-run. Again...
BTW, I just upgraded my ADSL line from 704 kb/s to 4 mb/s. Now I'm just waiting for the line to be upgraded and I'm gonna start downloading big time All legal offcourse.
And the users on the MMB Resource site will benifit from it too, cause I'm hosting all the MMB related resource files on my network.
Skit3000, I remember a friend of mine who bought a harddrive for his C64. I think it was a 50 mb HD and that was amazing back then. I must admit that I kinda miss my old A500 where I made alot of cool demos and intros using Amiga Demo Maker (if I remember correctly). _________________
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Skit3000 Admin Team
Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 2166 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't had an Commodore 64 until last year. I had some bad luck, as it crashed immediately. Maybe because I was looping it trying to show all possible colors at the same time? Or was it because I was also letting the background blink from white to black at the same time? I think I'll just never know the truth... _________________ [ Add autocomplete functionality to your VDS IDE windows! ]
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GeoTrail Valued Contributor
Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 572 Location: Bergen, Norway
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Uhm, think I'll answer YES to both questions
Whish I had an old C64 here now.
One of the coolest things was that you can have about 50-100 games on a single tape. But it took along time to find the game you wanted. I had a good system where I wrote down minute and second where each game was so I could find them easier
Just remembered my favorite game, it was "Save New York". Has anyone played that? You had to save the city from alien spiders or something and you could fly araound in jet planes and go under the city to the underground train... Very fun game. _________________
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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GeoTrail Valued Contributor
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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He he he he yeah, it was too. Atleast till things changed like it is today.
Ordinary PC users have 1GB of ram and three hardrives with 200GB in each. Things change... _________________
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