Screw the Ipad and all dumb hip technology, retro computing is all I care about.
A bit expensive @ $499 for the barebones kit, but it's a fully fledged Socket 775 system. When it comes time to retire my Q6600, I wouldn't mind dropping it into this with an SSD if the prices go down a bit. It would totally be a great DOS or emulator machine. I'm only disappointed in the cheesy 2005 style Taiwanese design and finish. It doesn't look nearly 80s enough. Maybe a big Commodore logo plastered all over it would help. I wish it looked like a Sinclair QL.
Ohhh I dunno, it does sort of bear resemblance to the old TI-99/4A, which also occupies a part of my youth... Can you consider these "laptop" computers nowadays?
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M.U.L.E.
Summer Games
Impossible Mission
Pitstop II
Leaderboard Golf
Racing Destruction Set
Beachhead
Bard's Tale
Many, many hours lost to those.
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I still have my original commodore 64, and it works, with all the games and accessories.
I can never remember any of the load commands though... but google could help me, I should fire it up one of these days and play some Spelunker.
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Space Taxi
Gunship
Impossible Mission
Infidel (and all the other infocom text-based games) GEOS
The GEOS word processor was the one that taught me the tough lesson about backing up my work.
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Anyone remember the computer magazine that was out at the time where they gave you a program (game usually) but you had to enter it yourself? Sort of freeware, but you had to type it in yourself in basic?
Man, I spent many an hour hunched over a Vic 20 and C64 doing just that. God help you if there was a typo or printing error or something in the (at the time) many lines of code.
Hard to get store bought software in rural Ontario...
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
I remember borrowing Compute! and Run magazines from the local library. Pretty sure both of those had program listings in them.
I spent hours pounding in a silly game called "Ape Craze" from one of those magazines... it was in machine language so if I remember correctly it was just a bunch of 1's and 0's in sequences...
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