Who had a Commodore 64?

[mtgrares]

This doesn't have anything to do with Magic or Forge.

I remember playing the old Microprose Pirates games for hours until my Commodore 64 would overheat. I need to find the old or new version for PC. (For some reason I think I would prefer the old version but I don't really know.)

While I'm talking about the C64, I loved the tank programming game Omega. You actually had to program the logic for your tank and it had to defeat the computer's tank. You couldn't directly control your tank, you just hoped your programming was correct. It was awesome. I keep thinking about trying to re-write it for the PC.

[Huggybaby]

A friend of mine had one of these: http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html
It had a color screen and for playing games it was the bomb.

I can get any C64 game you want, jut let me know.

[Marek14]

Yeah, IIRC, there are perfect C64 emulators nowadays

[telengard]

I still own a few C64s (and many other vintage computers). It's something I enjoy still to this day.

My 'handle' is from my C64 days too.

~telengard

[Mr.Chaos]

Ah, the C64. It was my first computer. Still love it.
Pirates, The Sentinel, Impossible Mission, The Last Ninja, Creatures, Elite, Stellar Seven, Boulderdash, Defender of the Crown. Ah, those where the days.

There was a PC remake of Pirates a few years back, carried the official Sid Meier's seal of approval.
I have it and really liked it. Slightly different from the old C64 game, although all the elements of the old game are in the new one, plus a few extras. Good game.

If you have an emulator, you can get the C64 version of Pirates here: http://www.c64.com/?type=1&id=334 (and many other C64 games too)

[jim]

I had the Atari 800, but we spent many, many hours on my friend's C64. Boulderdash, Impossible Mission, MULE, and Raid over Bungeling Bay were some of our favorites.

[lm01]

Old memories... 1990...
I had a Commodore Amiga 500 with memory expansion, it's boxed now, but last time I checked was still working ;P
All those diskettes of around 1Mb, still have boxes and boxes of them lol.

A few months back I played some games on emulator, some old school classics of arcade and strategy
It's a pitty there aren't as many low-buget games like those anymore. They were entirely focused on gameplay and to have fun. Companies like The Bitmap Brothers and others.

Now you have a pen that can store everything (like 64Gb), and games that fail miserably trying to have proper graphics, with wacko gameplay.
Bring back Isometric! Isometric FTW!

[slyphidine]

Sorry to necro this, but I recently discovered that someone acquired the license to Commodore and is releasing updated C64's with modern computer specs.

www.commodoreusa.net

This looks so awesome to me. I don't care about iPads, but I'll drop $600 on a new C64!

[Zirbert]

I started out on a Vic-20, went to a C-64 in the mid-80s, and kept using it for word processing (Speedscript) until at least 1994. I had a dot matrix printer that cost $650, was absolutely massive and noisy enough to rattle windows when printing, and was rated more for minutes per page than pages per minute.

I still have a complete C-64 rig in the basement, and occasionally threaten to set it back up. I usually stick with emulators now, though. And thanks to the miracle of Bittorrent, I now have complete PDF collections of Compute's Gazette, Ahoy, and all the other mags that I collected back in the day. I still have the paper copies, too, pack-ratted away somewhere.

-Zirbert the Very, Very, So Very Old

[mtgrares]

Yeah the C64 was the first computer that I owned and I have some great memories with it. Loading Lemonade from the cassette drive. Playing Epox Summer Olympics. I even had Arkanoid 2 which was a great looking game. And Double Dragon, which had something like this in the instructions, "Do to the limitations of the hardware the top and bottom of each character is separated by a space."

Back in the day Pirates seemed like a HUGE game because the map was so vast and programming the tank for Omega began my long journey of programming.