[D-EJ915]

You guys hear about that company buying up the Commodore name and stuff? I just read it in my PC Magazine...those are some SICK people.

 

[Cyclone]

you mean the old video game console commodore???

 

[gsferrari]

heh I still have one of those

LOL

 

[Hasselhoffia]

What do you mean 'video game console commodore'? These guys were one of the pioneers of home computers sonny! The only game consoles they did were the C64GS and later the CD32. It just breaks my heart to see the Commodore name being thrown around amongst manufacturers these days. Man I feel old.

 

[Blainethepain]

I had a Commodore 64 & a Commodore Amiga. Both excellent home computers in their time. I can remember day I upgraded the Amiga RAM to 1mb so that I could play Dragons Lair. Ah those were the days............

 

[gsferrari]

I just pulled mine out and tested it...works just fine

I loaded spy hunter (TAPE DRIVE

) LOLLERS

Played for a few minutes and it was just as enjoyable as the first time...this will keep me away from GT4 for approximately 15 seconds more

 

[Oliver :)]

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Originally Posted by Hasselhoffia What do you mean 'video game console commodore'? These guys were one of the pioneers of home computers sonny! The only game consoles they did were the C64GS and later the CD32. It just breaks my heart to see the Commodore name being thrown around amongst manufacturers these days. Man I feel old.

Amen. Go Team 16 Bit Childhood. BTW, both the CDTV and CD32 consoles could be turned into fully-fledged Amigas, quite neat. But those were the days when limitations were pushed away by increasing coding skills, not clock speed like today.

 

[Oliver :)]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blainethepain I had a Commodore 64 & a Commodore Amiga. Both excellent home computers in their time. I can remember day I upgraded the Amiga RAM to 1mb so that I could play Dragons Lair. Ah those were the days............

And dang, that half meg was expensive! ... Monkey Island II, shipping on twelve 3,5" floppies, but very playable even with just one drive.

 

[Blainethepain]

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Originally Posted by Oliver And dang, that half meg was expensive! ... Monkey Island II, shipping on twelve 3,5" floppies, but very playable even with just one drive.

Yep. I Think I paid £150.00 for it.

Monkey Island II was a top game though. The joys of constant disc swapping.

Does anyone remember a game on the C64 called Alter Ego? I believe it was an activision game & you needed a disc drive to play it.

 

[lini]

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Originally Posted by Blainethepain The joys of constant disc swapping.

"Jo, Joe! Turn the disk over!" G.I. Joe

Yup, Commodore once ruled - and I still have quite a bit of that stuff. 2 1/2 C64s, a C128, an SX64, several floppy drives, tape drive, joysticks et cetera - and my heavily tuned A2000B with turbo board, AT board, SCSI card, genlock interface or flicker fixer card and lots of switches for Kickstart selection, floppy configuration, memory configuration, audio filter bypass... I don't think I could ever sell that stuff.

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini

 

[titaniumx3]

Hehe, I can remember playing terminator 2 judgement day on my C64. It was actually one of only two cartridge games I had for the C64, the other was flimbo's quest, lol. All other games were run through the tape drive. I can remember making my little nephew kiss the tape drive for good luck, it was even fun betting with my brother on whether or not the copy of silkworm would load up! Good old days, man I miss them!

 

[Oliver :)]

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Originally Posted by Blainethepain Monkey Island II was a top game though. The joys of constant disc swapping.

Oh, MI II was tame in that regard. I once saw somebody play Wing Commander on an A500 (two drives), and he had to swap disks five times before he even go out of the hangar. *That* was nasty.

 

[breez]

http://www.commodore.net/site/Deskto...s=1&#stopspecs

Featuring Ogg Vorbis playback and that nice retro look!

But I wonder if this is iRiver H120 (or ~same hardware) in disguise as the specs look similar (Vorbis, same EQ presets by the name).

 

[Oliver :)]

http://www.commodore.net/site/images...m_EVic_web.jpg

This is really as geeky as it gets.

 

[ghart999]

Do you remember the C64 game Archon? It was a chess game where you actually have to battle the piece you are trying to take to win the spot. That was the greatest game ever me thinks.