Found a Commodore 64 on the side of the road

'Avonelle Lovhaug' on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:34:11 GMT, sez:

Well, and these days, you can just use a Commodore 64 emulator like the one at www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/

My husband discovered this the other day, and also found he could download a copy of Galactic Conquest, which was our favorite game on the C-64. The last three or four nights he and my sons have been staying up half the night playing it.

So if you pine for the old C-64 days, just grab an emulator - it will take up less space in your house!

'Terry' on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:47:59 GMT, sez:

Very good! Now I have an answer for my sons!

My boys keep bothering me:
Dad, can we get a play station 3?
Dad, can we get a play station 3?
Dad, can we get a play station 3?
Dad, can we get a play station 3?

So now my answer is: Yes you can. Just wait 20 years and we'll pick one up for free off the side of the road.

That will shut them up.

;-)

'Eric D. Burdo' on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:24:22 GMT, sez:

You'd be surprised what folks are doing with C64's these days. A lot of home-based music studios are using them as mixers and such. Takes some hardware hacking, but they work well.

'Scott' on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:24:54 GMT, sez:

I guess that's it then. I'm finally an old fogey.

'Michael' on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:09:45 GMT, sez:

C64 games were so awesome!! The absolute best games of all time!

And I second the Commodore 64 emulator. It has been so nastalgic... Dr. J vs Larry Bird, Stealth, Spy Hunter, California Games .... the list goes on forever.

'rrosic' on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:58:31 GMT, sez:

ha ha ha, some 7 or 8 years ago I found ZX Spectrum by the road! And I mean literaly! It was in the grass beside pavement.

I still have it, I don't know if it works though. No power supply, no cables, just main unit.

'Carl' on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:56:09 GMT, sez:

I think you mean:

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10

Surely??

'lb' on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:22:35 GMT, sez:

@Carl:
yeh -- this was a kind of inside-joke... intended for no one to laugh at except me.

'MikeFitz' on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:54:51 GMT, sez:

Oh, the memories. I once spent about a year (part-time) writing C-64 games in assembler for a kid's TV show.

And I used my own sons as test data. I shouldn't be surprised that they have all grown up geek-like and are now in various aspects of the IT industry.

'pothago' on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:24:34 GMT, sez:

california games wow that brings back memories

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