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ggrobot
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 Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:11 am Post subject: Gaming on a PC from 1983! [57134] |
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ing a unique flavor to their games. Anyway, imagine the slide from programmable calculators and 8-bit computers to the current smartphones and OpenAI. It's just brutal!!
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Penetreitor
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 2:29 pm Post subject: So many memories |
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I remember watching games binaries with a memory monitor, and cracking the games to give 255 or infinite lives, HAHAHA!!!.
BTW all these exes were smaller than a tiny picture file nowadays (64K) |
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Csimbi
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We did not type load - there was a sign for that.
But yeah, that's what gaming looked like and it was way more fun than a lot of these AAA titles these days. |
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redkiller
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 5:00 pm Post subject: eternal youth memories |
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lorcro2000
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I once owned a Commodore SX 64, and that thing was the coolest. It was a portable 64, complete with a 5-inch cathode ray tube monitor. This was pre-LCD. So it had a literal tiny old school TV in it, and a detachable keyboard, as well as a floppy drive.
So many regrets now letting that go. |
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gx-x
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He's not using the tape recorder that came with C64. Diskette unit (5.25" Floppy) came later with C128...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swd2qFZz98U
^^ This. The most notable C64 experience for kids. You needed a screwdriver to occasionally align the head on the tape recorder so it would properly read the tape. |
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Csimbi
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I had a tape recorder with an Enterprise 128.
With the C64, it's always been a floppy. |
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gx-x
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| Csimbi wrote: | I had a tape recorder with an Enterprise 128.
With the C64, it's always been a floppy. |
Obviously not, since I had the tape recorder, all my friends had a tape recorder and one friend bought C128 and got a floppy 5.25" . What now Csimbi? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_peripherals
maybe you got the US version, idk. In 1988, here, in Europe, C64 used a tape drive. |
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th4t1guy
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| Here in the US, you could get the c64 with a tape drive as well. Whatever you had was most likely due to how much you were willing to spend, since the floppy drive had its own ram/cpu/etc. built in, making it expensive. |
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heretic
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| th4t1guy wrote: | | Here in the US, you could get the c64 with a tape drive as well. Whatever you had was most likely due to how much you were willing to spend, since the floppy drive had its own ram/cpu/etc. built in, making it expensive. |
Here in Europe, especially in the then communist Czechoslovakia, it was all late. Especially for me from a small town. The Atari 800XL didn't come to me until 1986. I had to buy special vouchers called "Bony" from illegal street dealers. You could buy an Atari 800XL in Tuzex*, I remember it cost 1040 "Bons", which was 3 months of my dad's salary at that time. Nobody here had a floppy disk drive, at least nobody we knew!. We all had cassette tapes and cassettes. Atari floppy drives were imported in very limited numbers and were very expensive: one floppy drive cost about 15,000 CZK, which was about three times the price of the computer itself!
Because I was in high school, where low-voltage electronics was taught, which was also my hobby, I soon got my own Turbo 2000 addon in a cassette deck (speeding up the transfer from 600bd to about 2270bd). The author of this ingenious idea was Mr. Jiri Richter from Prague. But for us boys from school, all we needed was an electronic schematic, a few components and of course a loader Later we put this loader into a memory cartridge (ATARI has a slot for it) which was a great luxury for that time.
later I even bought a single-needle printer BT-100 I used it to make labels on cassettes for example...before it printed something, one could even have lunch lol
*FYI, Tuzex was in the times of Czechoslovak socialism and temporarily still after the Velvet Revolution a network of shops where foreign, especially western, goods could be bought for foreign currency or Tuzex vouchers (called bony), which were not available in the normal network of shops. |
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| I'm glad that you were able to find creative ways to make the most of your Atari 800XL. What kind of games did you play on your Atari 800XL? Check information about a partial match: Bitcoin ggmania Australia to find options to earn money quickly. I like games where I can get the best Bitcoin no deposit bonuses. |
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| gx-x wrote: | | Csimbi wrote: | I had a tape recorder with an Enterprise 128.
With the C64, it's always been a floppy. eggy car |
Obviously not, since I had the tape recorder, all my friends had a tape recorder and one friend bought C128 and got a floppy 5.25" . What now Csimbi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_peripherals
maybe you got the US version, idk. In 1988, here, in Europe, C64 used a tape drive. |
I also owned a C64 and it was absolutely amazing!  |
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