Getting To Know Your Nerd: Part I « Not All Bits
Posted on February 07, 2010 in Commodore computers
When I was ten years old, my parents got me a Commodore 64 home computer and it changed my life. See, to get a Commodore 64 to do what you wanted, you had to learn a little BASIC programming because the front end on the computer was a ...
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Posted on February 05, 2010 in Commodore disk drive
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Posted on February 02, 2010 in Commodore computers
By that time I had got a Commodore Amiga 500 computer which I used mainly to play games but I also had a called Pro Tracker. With that software I learned how music and time are related to each other. I didn't understand very ...
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Posted on January 24, 2010 in Commodore disk drive
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FlickFilosopher.com: watch it: retro 1980s Commodore 64 commercial
Posted on January 13, 2010 in Commodore computers
After that we used Commodore PET computers and TRS-80s. My Dad was the computer science teacher; he had been a math teacher, but learned to use computers while working on his Master's degree. The first computer we had at home was a ...
FlickFilosopher.com: watch it: retro 1980s Commodore 64 commercial
Posted on January 10, 2010 in Commodore 64
The C64 was the first computer I ever got. Remembering learning to do BASIC on it and using it to play a lot of the arcade games such as Donkey Kong, Centipede, PacMan and Froggy. Yup, it did have the separate tape drive for saving ...
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Posted on December 03, 2009 in Commodore disk drive
I sold all of my 8-bit Commodore gear and bought an Amiga 500. I tried to learn C using this new computer as that seemed to be the most popular development language available for it. I didn't have a hard- disk drive , so the compiler ...
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What Was Your First Computer? | EPL Talk
Posted on October 23, 2009 in Commodore software
Some of my earliest memories of using the Commodore Vic 20 were learning to program in BASIC, playing music with the impressive (at the time) built-in sound effects, and laboriously typing in tedious computer programs which were ... The BBC computer was where I experienced football gaming for the first time, purchasing Superior Soccer as part of a 4-game pack in Superior Software's 'Play It Again Sam' series; the other three games being Predator, Ballistix and Star Port. ...
Simprograms » Blast from the Past: SimCity for the Commodore 64
Posted on October 13, 2009 in Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 version of the game especially aimed for a non-threatening interface. Through experimentation, trial and error, and common sense, aspiring city planners learned that commercial zones do well next to residential zones, ...
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Posted on September 24, 2009 in Commodore disk drive
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iPhone Commodore 64 app removed from App Store
Posted on September 20, 2009 in Commodore software
When developer Manomio learned that the C64's BASIC interpreter was the problem the first time, it removed obvious access, but left the interpreter in the software so it could be re-enabled later if Apple changed its mind. ...
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Old Man and the C[++|#]: A Geek in Heaven
Posted on September 07, 2009 in Commodore software
With the help of the book Kids and the Commodore 128 (my favorite Christmas present from 1986) I learned how to program the computer using Commodore BASIC. Around two years later, home PCs from IBM and Compaq started to P1000276 appear in stores like Sears and Montgomery Ward. I had done just about all I ... Eric: I am a software engineer by day, philosopher by night, and one of those people who can never seem to "shut off" the voice in their head. View my complete profile.
Changing the C64 Text Color in C « Direct Threaded Daydreams
Posted on September 07, 2009 in Commodore disk drive
I had a couple of Pascal compilers and one C compiler, but they were all bound by the C64/ 1541 serial disk I/O. For the most part, my programming consisted primarily of BASIC and assembly-language ( or ML as it was referred to in the ... My drive to learn C ultimately led me to newer platforms of the day ( an Amiga and an MS-DOS machine. ) That time-frame marked the beginning of the end of my obsession with C64 coding. Several years ago, I'd heard about the the CC65 C ...
Commodore 64 programming - AtariAge Forums
Posted on August 29, 2009 in Commodore software
I want to program games for the Commodore 64, but have no idea how to. I know some BASIC, but what programming language do I need to learn, and what software do I need to do this? I want to start out with something simple, ...
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Posted on August 28, 2009 in Commodore disk drive
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Commodore 64 programming books - AtariAge Forums
Posted on August 26, 2009 in Commodore computers
The ones that always get mentioned are Jim Butterfield "Learning Machine Code Programming on the Commodore 64 (and other Commodore computers )" and "Programming the Commodore 64" Raeto Colin West; Americans more often than not list the ...
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Posted on August 25, 2009 in Commodore disk drive
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I've got 64K memory, how about you? | Geek Feminism Blog
Posted on August 24, 2009 in Commodore software
The Commodore 64 though, had books and sound and color, so along with the random poetry generators, I made 7 layers of sprites sail around the screen and learned a lot about waveforms. ... Science and engineering (2), SF fandom (9), Tech industry (11), Web2.0 (5), Enthusiasm (3), Events (1), Geek Feminism meta (1), Hardware (1), history (1), intersectionality (2), Linkspam (4), Mod post (5), Open thread (2), Tips and how-tos (1), Tools and software (2), Uncategorized (3) ...
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Posted on July 22, 2009 in Commodore disk drive
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