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Post by richardburton on Jul 28, 2010 13:53:40 GMT 1
lol Rus! I was a speccy too for a few years till upgrading to a C64 and then onto the Amigas before the leap into 'proper' PCs.
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jul 28, 2010 21:36:24 GMT 1
A computer that's older than me. And judging by how much I know about it - which is nothing, I think I fall into that category to. I believe, from what I've read and heard that when you went to start it up it had to be done by a winding a hand crank.  How dare you!!  It was machines like the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum that lead the way for the home computer market, they were the pioneers of PC. The programs came on ordinary audio cassettes (no such thing as CDs back then) and were installed from your Granny's portable cassette player through the earphone jack. And you plugged the whole thing into your TV if you couldn't afford a separate monitor. And you try telling the kids of today that and they just won't believe you.  |
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Post by Relyt on Jul 29, 2010 0:17:42 GMT 1
And judging by how much I know about it - which is nothing, I think I fall into that category to. I believe, from what I've read and heard that when you went to start it up it had to be done by a winding a hand crank. How dare you!! It was machines like the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum that lead the way for the home computer market, they were the pioneers of PC. The programs came on ordinary audio cassettes (no such thing as CDs back then) and were installed from your Granny's portable cassette player through the earphone jack. And you plugged the whole thing into your TV if you couldn't afford a separate monitor. And you try telling the kids of today that and they just won't believe you. Yes, talking down to the Commodore 64 to someone who has used it in its heyday is like someone telling me that the USS Holland was a poor excuse of a submarine that had to surface every 5 minutes. This is my post #666. All tremble! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2010 13:22:43 GMT 1
So, what could the C64 do?
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Post by Ashe Raven on Jul 29, 2010 13:41:17 GMT 1
It could wash the dishes, make toast and flip you the bird when the 60 inch disk drive burned out |
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Post by stevesudz on Jul 29, 2010 17:10:38 GMT 1
Hang on a cotton picking minute...we're supposed to be angry on this thread!...RARARARARARRARARAR!!!..ahem. yup the c64 was a beast! It could do anything! It was leagues ahead of the competition and sold units up to 1993!! ( see here www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1982 ) Anyone here play the version of The Hobbit where the graphics were amazing for the time but took 3/4 hour to draw?!  |
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jul 30, 2010 1:40:33 GMT 1
Hang on a cotton picking minute...we're supposed to be angry on this thread!...RARARARARARRARARAR!!!..ahem. yup the c64 was a beast! It could do anything! It was leagues ahead of the competition and sold units up to 1993!! ( see here www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1982 ) Anyone here play the version of The Hobbit where the graphics were amazing for the time but took 3/4 hour to draw?! I played the Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum, no graphics, it was a role-playing type of game and there was a point in the game where you had to get Thorin into a barrel and push him through a hatch into the river and then do the same for yourself (Bilbo) but there was a time limit and it never worked and Thorin would sit down and start singing about gold and eventually you would loose your rag and cleave Thorin's skull with your trusty sword sting and the game would end because you couldn't continue without Thorin and..................... God I hated it!!!!!! |
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Post by stevesudz on Aug 1, 2010 14:59:37 GMT 1
Yay! thats more like it! Vent yonder spleen!!! If we get some real vitriol on here it might start looking like youtube! erk!!! Actually LC, I didn't know the speccy version didn't have graphics?! Same game though and yes the Barrel puzzle was a killer! I think thorin was a member of AAA ( Ancients Alcoholics Anonymous) Any other games that drove peeps to distraction? There dont seem to be any games around these days that drove you mental like say Donky Kong or Manic Miner ; the kind of game that made you break the joystick..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2010 15:04:31 GMT 1
Well, I've played a few modern games that drove me insane - usually I get stuck trying to break the high score on some impossible game or beating an unspeakably difficult boss or level.
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Aug 1, 2010 21:37:53 GMT 1
This is why I no longer play computer games. ;D Steve' if the Speccy version had graphics I can't remember them.  |
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