Commodore 64 Revival

[Andrew Turner]

Commodore 64...2011 update

I'm crying rivers of nostalgia. I wonder if I have $900 in couch change...

[Valegrim]

I have a Commodore 64; drive and lots of games for it; works fine; havent used it in years

pretty wild how they put all that modern stuff in it; I have seen a lot of mods and upgrades for commodore 64's over the years; some quite impressive.

[Fergie]

Oh wow! I grew up playing a commodore 128 (whoa!)

Ultima 4-5
Bards Tale 1-2
not to mention a million weird games like mail order monsters and quixx.

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[Geistlinger]

Is saving his pennies. :D

[Jason Nelson]

Wow. No school like the old school indeed. I had one, though I was never really much of a computer user, sad to say.

[KaeYoss]

I'm not so sure. I did have a C128D, ages ago. These diskettes were a real step-up from the tapes the C16 had.

But that was ages and ages ago. Nostalgia's all nice and well, but paying that kind of money for a look-alike/emulator is taking it too far for me.

[Stereofm]

Amstrad FOREVAAARRR !

DEATH to the HERETICS !!!!

Seriously, I might be tempted if they did that for the Amstrad, though, I'm afraid, the EYES ... They might BLEED !

Played recently Starcraft 01 again ... Wow, just wow. I wonder how much is technical progress, and how much is just your old script is not compatible with my current high tech screen.

Action was still fun though.

[KaeYoss]

Stereofm wrote:

Played recently Starcraft 01 again ... Wow, just wow. I wonder how much is technical progress

That game is old enough to have sex in some countries now. And it wasn't eye-candy back in its day.

I'm still hoping someone will go and recreate the old campaign for SC2.

...and someone has. Or several someones. Yay!

http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/sc1-episode-1-rebel-yell/pages/main/

[The black raven]

Okay. I am now convinced. Animating Dead Computers is an act of pure unadulterated Evil.

[Morgen]

Jeez, this thing has better stats then my current desktop almost. Grrr...

[Shifty]

I liked the 64, but it was the Amiga that made me sit up and go 'WOW!'

[Laurefindel]

Shifty wrote:

I liked the 64, but it was the Amiga that made me sit up and go 'WOW!'

Yes indeed! Built-in quadraphonic speakers FTW!

[KaeYoss]

Morgen wrote:

Jeez, this thing has better stats then my current desktop almost. Grrr...

Well, that's more due to the fact that you have an old and/or weak desktop ;-P

Now that you mention the stats, I had to go and have a look (mainly to assure myself that my rig is much better than this, so I can sleep tonight ;-)).

This thing starts at 600 dollars and sports kit they usually put in netbooks. And unlike those netbooks, it doesn't have a screen. For that price, I'd actually expect a touch screen.

As I said, nostalgia carries quite the price tag.