It wasn't a Commandore 64, it was a COMMODORE 64!

[FrustratedPoet]

Yes, Bruce Lee was awesome too.

Ah, so many memories...

[Flandrien]

Indeed so many memories.

Remember poke 53281 ?

Remember <-L ?
(The turbo loader that loaded games in a fraction of the time it would normally take, and allowed you to save heaps of games on a single tape ?)

Remember searching for the right poke statements to get unlimited lives in a game ?

[Harovan]

When I was a child, computers were the size of a room at least, or even a whole etage. Of course I wanted one, but my mom said we don't have enough space in our 3 room apartment.

Later in the 80s, as mid-twen, I had an Atari 800XL, which had cost me a fortune, because I lived in East Germany and didn't have any relatives in the west and so I had to buy it second hand for a horrendous price. It helped much, though. I learned a lot of programming with it. I had disassembled the whole operating system (~16k) and the basic interpreter (8k) and made my own patches. At one point, I was able to put machine code subroutines in basic strings without using an assembler.

As slow and crappy as it was, but I loved that little machine. It broke in the early 90s, although it was only the power supply, but nobody would fix a hopelessly outdated game computer for a reasonable price. This incident was the reason to buy my 1st PC, a 286/16 with a whopping MB RAM (as opposed to 64k) and 40 MB HDD (as opposed to iirc ~300k per disk). I kept the Atari though, in the hope I could fix it some day, but I couldn't. Finally, I threw it away on my last move, in January 2001, with tears in my eyes.

I played a lot of games. My all time favorite was the Jump and Run game "Pitfall".

[Arrian]

BRUCE LEE!!! I'd totally forgotten about that one!

Pitfall was a great one too, but I don't think I had that on my commodore.

-Arrian

[MrFun]

Double Dragon on Atari 2600

[Arrian]

I'd forgotten about Double Dragon too!



-Arrian

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Arrian


I'd forgotten about Double Dragon too!



-Arrian

Wasn't it fun to walk around as this blob of pixels with legs, beating other people up with a stick?

[Proteus_MST]

I´ve never heard anyone calling it Commandore here in Germany.

But it always had the nickname "Brotkasten" (Bread-Bin) because of his shape

I also began with the Atari 200

got my C-64 with maybe 10 years
and then migrated to the Amiga 500
and much later to my first PC (486 DX2-66)

Does anyone remember those Sport Games like Decathlon,
where you wasted one Joystick after the ofter, because you had to rapidly move the Stick from right to left just to gain Speed in the Running Events?

[Harovan]

I played Decathlon on the Atari. It was a good game, although I every time almost caught a tendosynovitis doing the final 1500m with the joystick. That was worse than masturbating.

Other good games I remember (for now) were Bruce Lee (of course), Zorro, International Karate, The Last Frontier (not sure about the name), Mercenary (although with a primitive vector graphic) and a board game named Archon, similar to Chess, but with phantasy pieces.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
Does anyone remember those Sport Games like Decathlon,
where you wasted one Joystick after the ofter, because you had to rapidly move the Stick from right to left just to gain Speed in the Running Events?

I don't know that game, but I sure have spent a lot of my time playing Winter Games, Summer Games, etc...

Needless to say: We changed Joysticks several times during the "C64 ages"

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
Does anyone remember those Sport Games like Decathlon,
where you wasted one Joystick after the ofter, because you had to rapidly move the Stick from right to left just to gain Speed in the Running Events?

yep

also Bruce Lee and Pool of Radiance: keep chaning 8 floppy disks!

C64 and its floppy disks was a major improvement over my Dragon 32 and its tape recoder. Then Amiga 500 (bliss) then the 386.

[Dinner]

The C64 was way ahead of it's time and I loved growing up playing on it. Sure, it didn't have a hard drive but it had full color video outs, a built in sound card, and a tape back up when your average PC was monocrome, couldn't make any sound other then the odd beep, and was the size of a medium suitcase.

What's more all the cool games came out on C64 first and then on PC only afterwards (around 1990 this changed and more games came out on PC). I loved playing Spy Hunter, Blue Max, Santa Pavara, all the Atari golden oldies, the AD&D gold box games (I remember thinking it was so cool that I could build a character and play him in 3 different games), Zork, and a bunch of other ones.

[Dinner]

I also had an Atari 2600 game council and the cool thing is I could use the joystick from the Atari on the C64. There was also a cartrage bay (Two of them) on the C64 where the programing language was compatable with the Atari's but Commandore made their cartrages a different size so you had to buy the same game twice if you wanted to play it both on the C64 and on the Atari. As I recall eventually someone came out with an adapter so you could plug Atari 2600 games into your C64.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by paiktis22


yep

also Bruce Lee and Pool of Radiance: keep chaning 8 floppy disks!

C64 and its floppy disks was a major improvement over my Dragon 32 and its tape recoder. Then Amiga 500 (bliss) then the 386.

Ah yes, my C-64 at first also had a tape recorder.
We always traded games in School, each cassette had Turbotape at the Beginning (Program to compress Files) and then you could load the Games via using <- L (an arrow pointing eft, a key which modern PCs don´t possess and an L) and of course by using the Rewind and Fast Forward Kerys on the Recorder.
I remember the dynamic Linepattern (red and black Lines) that appeared while Loading via Turbotape, with the pattern being chaotic if you were in the midsts of Loading and consisting of horizontal lines moving downwards, if Turbotape had found the Beginning of a new File.
It was a very sad event, when I one time used a Cassette for Musicrecordings and forgot that I already had used it to record Games like Agent USA and the like.

Later of course I used a C 1541 Floppy.

As for Pool of Radiance:
Yep, it was a great game, despite always having to change Discs if you came to another Part of the City.
For some strange Reason I still remember the Codes, you got on the Isle with these many Sceletons movin around.
Lux, Samosud, Shestni



Later with the Amiga 500 I bought my first Harddisk.
200 MB for a Price of 2400 DM (which is 1200 Euro at the momentary Exchange Rate (not considering thingslike Inflation)
Despite only being 200 MB I never managed to completely fill the Harddisk

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST

Lux, Samosud, Shestni

That's so funny. I also remember finding those outside the main gate of Sokul Keep which is on the island in New Phlan Harbor.

13 years later and I still remember the secret code words.