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Commodore 64 reincarnated on a chip
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| December 20, 2004
| John Markoff
Posted on 12/20/2004 8:22:38 AM PST by holymoly
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To: Elvis van Foster
And software for a GUI.
Wasn't it called "GeOS" or something like that?
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:44:39 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: Texas_Jarhead
Yes, and the Funeral March Tune playing when you lost a life.... ahh... memories......
Come to think of it, I think the C=64 was why I had such pasty skin as a teenager.
If you can't hack raster interrupts, you aren't a real programmer.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:46:22 AM PST
by
HamiltonJay
("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
To: holymoly
Below The Root is one of my favorite games of all time.
To: Elvis van Foster
LOTS AND LOTS OF DISK SWAPPING!
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:46:51 AM PST
by
HamiltonJay
("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
To: Shellback Chuck
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:47:59 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Hines Ward is my son! OK, not really, but it'd be nice.)
To: holymoly
They had this great game for the C64 where you were basically a virus in a space station occupied by robots and you had to infect/ conquer your way through the station. My girlfriend had it and her friend Dave was amazing at it, I totally sucked but I could watch Dave play for hours.
Games just don't have the replayability today.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:49:35 AM PST
by
discostu
(mime is money)
To: HamiltonJay
Yea Zaxxon was a port, but it was still cool. Between that and Choplifter I never got any work done.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:49:39 AM PST
by
Shellback Chuck
(Hey John, whose your daddy?)
To: holymoly
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:51:48 AM PST
by
Shellback Chuck
(Hey John, whose your daddy?)
To: discostu
That's because games today take MONTHS to play the first time through... by the time you've won... the last thing you want to do is play again.
Anyone remember the ZORK series?
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:51:56 AM PST
by
HamiltonJay
("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes it was called "Geos" and then it turned into "Geoworks" for the PC. It was better than Windows 3.1 but didn't catch on. You could run all your DOS programs from Geoworks without shutting it down first, something you couldn't do with windows 3.1.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:00:17 AM PST
by
Shellback Chuck
(Hey John, whose your daddy?)
To: holymoly
Thanks. Bookmarking.
I think the thing that made it so good on the c=64 was that the level of animation was so good (even thought it was stick figures). I got a kick out of the theme song too.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:04:44 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Elvis van Foster
Was the GUI GEOS? I thought that was pretty impressive too. They had a whole object oriented programing kit too.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:10:06 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: holymoly
The favorites that I can remember were Mule, Loadrunner, Archon, and Ultima.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:13:33 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: avg_freeper
And Geoworks still lives on in some cellphones and PDA's.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:18:23 AM PST
by
Shellback Chuck
(Hey John, whose your daddy?)
To: holymoly
I still remember: Load *.*, 8, 1 haha...
I remember our first Vic 20, too. Tape drives owned!
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:19:21 AM PST
by
Se7eN
To: HamiltonJay
Everbody's disk drives have a CPU and RAM, that's why they're IDE drives.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:19:24 AM PST
by
biggerten
(Love you, Mom.)
To: HamiltonJay
Haha..
Wasn't that what Donkey Kong was originally?
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:19:57 AM PST
by
Se7eN
To: Shellback Chuck
Zaxon was an awesome game. Cool 3-D graphics as well.
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:21:16 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
To: Se7eN
Vic 20 and tape drives, you're really dating yourself there!!
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posted on
12/20/2004 9:23:38 AM PST
by
Shellback Chuck
(Hey John, whose your daddy?)
To: Se7eN
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