The Commodore 64 turns 30 years old today.....So was computing more fun back then or now???

 

It was definitely a less controversial time back then without the internet and just a few friends having fun in the basement playing Castle Wolfenstein......I miss my C64

My Amiga had a meg of ram. What a prize.

Jim

CYWG

Loved the C64!!!

Had tons of games for it and lots of fond memories

 

Happy birthday C64!

 

Rob

C-64 was my first desktop pc as well. Went from an Atari gamming console to the Commodore and though it was the coolest thing at the time. Eventually I moved onto the Amiga and had one or two sims for it and it seemed like a hugh leap from the C-64.

 

I still remember flying sims on both those computers and thinking how I wish the FPS were better, even though I didnt know at the time they were referred to as FPS. I used to wonder if and when sims would look more like they do today. I never would have imagined at that time that in 30 years we would be where we are today. Make me excited to see what the next 30 years will bring in desk top simming.

Vic 20 was my first-great times!

Vic 20 was my first-great times!

 

Same here except for a heathkit one I built in 77.

All those pokes and peeks.

Gunship, Project Stealth Fighter, Spitfire 40, Solo Pilot, Dambusters... Not bad for 64k (yes... kilobytes!) of RAM. Those were the days...

Fellow Vic 20 alum. :)

I was quite partial to "Infiltrator", which was a mix between a flightsim (sorta) and a ground based game.

 

Anyone remember "Jet" by Sublogic? The F18/F16 simulator. Got about 3 frames per second, but it was still very fun.

Anyone remember "Jet" by Sublogic? The F18/F16 simulator. Got about 3 frames per second, but it was still very fun.

 

That one was great....I had that one as well as SubLogic's ATP: Flight Assignment, Many hours lost in the basement with those ones.

The BBC's look at how kids today see the C64 30 years on is worth a look -- 'like a PS2' sums it up well.

 

The one thing which they couldn't really begin to grasp, though, is just how scalable this was -- yes, you could think of it as an early games machine, but a lot of people were introduced to computing usingthese machines.

 

I remember finding a C64 mouse(!) in a computer store when I visited a new city back in the early 80s. Although it came with drawing software, it didn't come with 'drivers' as we know them today, so I bought a book on C64 programming to learn how to make my own driver, for GEOS. Took a lot of work, and the mouse never ever got much use in the end, but it taught me a lot about computers.

 

I began my 'career' in design using GeoPublish on the C64, a dreadful desktop publishing program which I left running overnight to paginate a 4-page newsletter. Good times....

Wow, ok......now I feel really old. My first "PC" turns 30, I guess that makes me, uhm OLD!! That was a great time back then, I loved when they added the 5 1/4 floppy drive, what a revolution that was compared to the tape.

 

Fort Apocalypse all the way, my favorite C64 game ever. I do believe there was a flightsim for it but I can't remember the game. I do remember how frustrating it was to learn about navigation back then without the internet and google....

 

Thanks for posting, I'm now gonna have to find me a C64 emulator for Win7 :P

 

Cheers,

Pete

SubLogic's ATP: Flight Assignment was one of my favs also.

 

Sid Myer or something like that. He was a great programmer.

Jim

CYWG

I had a Commodore 64 (actually 2) but my first computer was a Commodore PET 2001(Stood for "Personal Electronic Translator"). It was an all in one computer with an attached B&W monitor, had a cassette deck for it's IO device, with a Chicklet Keyboard and PAD. It had a whooping 8KB memory, but I did upgrade to 32KB. It's processor was a 6502 with a speed of 1Mhz :lol:

I remember the C64 well--my first "real" computer after my Timex Sinclair. I had ALL the flight sims and combat sims--all of those already mentioned earlier in this thread ... and many more. :-)

 

subLOGIC's Flight Assignment: ATP was one of my favourites, too, but as far as I know, Sid Maier of Civilization fame wasn't behind it, and by 1990, Bruce Artwick has already left. As much as I love simming in its modern form, I wish that something similar to FA: ATP existed today.