I don’t know where to post this thread, but did anyone (particularly in England cause I myself lived in England at the time) get a Commodore 64 when it was the cool thing to have during the mid-80s??
I still have it!! In fact, (how sad is this) I used to play on it until the early 90s here in Canada!
I had wicked games like James Bond’s View to a Kill, the Summer and Winter Olympics and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I guess compared to computer games nowadays, the Commodore was complete crap…but it was such an innovation for the period and so much fun to play.
The one we had didn’t have a diskette system. It came with a cassette player and would take maybe 20 minutes to load each game.
I first got a commodore 64 back in 1983, but returned it for the Apple IIe almost immediately, since that's what we were using in elementary school. I still have my Apple along with the hundred or so video games and other software, and it still works. Those old games are so much fun.
I never had Commodore 64, but I did had ZX Spectrum Plus and I still remember the careful process of loading software using cassette-players, and to carefully monitor the volume controls, and keep an eye on bars appearing on the screen, and to be excited when the whole darn thing successfully loaded.
And oh what a shame it would be, when some guest is nudged along to come to the "computer room" to watch the latest marvel of science, and then all of us will be waiting for the game to load so we can show to the guest the fastest way to crash a motor-bike into a tree, but the game will not load, again and again, and it would seem its all our fault.
I don’t remember having apple computers in elementary school. In fact, I don’t remember having any type of computer in primary school. Perhaps it was just Forest Gate where we lived.
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Nope. What was that?
I don't remember having apple computers in elementary school. In fact, I don't remember having any type of computer in primary school. Perhaps it was just Forest Gate where we lived.
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Logo was graphics software, very prehistoric software :) You had to type in coordinates to make the turtle (triangle cursor) move around the screen creating lines or circles, etc :)
Now that I think of it, I remember that we had Commodore 64 in our school's computer lab... Yes "logo" and "mosaic" were proly the only two software they had... I remember someone once made a Porsche on it. Mosaic was mostly good only for making flags. :)
Who---me might remember some more, as he went to the same school in Lahore as I did.
wow i am so envious of all of you who still have their Commodore 64’s. Masha’Allah that’s great. :k: gosh it brings back some memories… watching the numbers on the cassette player as it was being forwarded (or rewound)… the joystick… the large floppy disks… the different games. i remember Summer Olympics - it had some great music in that. Anyone remember “Miner”, or “Chopper”? Or that awesome samurai one - “Bushido”?
Wish we still had ours though. This thread brings back some great memories.
Commodore is my all time favourite computer. My father brought a commodore 128from USA in 1987 for my elder bro when i was four. But i used it more than my bro did. I believe that Commodore 64's game had more fun than games of these days. Chuckie Egg, Donkey Kong, International Karate, Silk worm, Who Dares Wins, Street Soccer, Moon Patrol and my all time favourite BOULDER DASH; man! I miss that time. And how much fun there was in sprites programming.
Not only my commodore 128 is still lying in my computer table as a decoration piece but still I play my favourite commodore games on commodore's emulator. These games are endless fun.
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i remember Summer Olympics - it had some great music in that. Anyone remember "Miner", or "Chopper"? Or that awesome samurai one - "Bushido"?
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Oh yes, Miner and Chopper, and Summer (and Winter) Olympics were greate games. I had them all for my Apple IIe though. They were really fun to play.
Fret, They were. i found these screenshot images (off the net) of a few of my fav games. This is the one for Choplifter:
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Sharjeel, wow You still have your C128, Masha’Allah. :k: Take some advice from someone who’s paying the price for it - NEVER give it away or sell it. Save it for your kids It looks awesome. Thanks a mil for that picture. Who can forget Boulderdash and Donkey Kong? Boulderdash was another of my favs.
What memories..I had a Commodore 128 when it first came out...
Wowsers Fret I remember that "Logo" and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world I used to stand real close to the screen and count the rows and columns to get the co-ordinates rite...heheheh
Ohh my fav game was Jack Attack..primitive but fun :D
In fact, (how sad is this) I used to play on it until the early 90s here in Canada!
Anyone remember “Logo”?
It looks awesome. Thanks a mil for that picture. Who can forget Boulderdash and Donkey Kong? Boulderdash was another of my favs.