Posted on 12/20/2004 8:22:38 AM PST by holymoly
YAMHILL, Ore.--There is a story behind every electronic gadget sold on the QVC shopping channel. This one leads to a ramshackle farmhouse in rural Oregon, which is the home and circuit design lab of Jeri Ellsworth, a 30-year-old high school dropout and self-taught computer chip designer.
Ellsworth has squeezed the entire circuitry of a two-decade-old Commodore 64 home computer onto a single chip, which she has tucked neatly into a joystick that connects by a cable to a TV set. Called the Commodore 64--the same as the computer system--her device can run 30 video games, mostly sports, racing and puzzles games from the early 1980s, all without the hassle of changing game cartridges.
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Wasn't it called "GeOS" or something like that?
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.
Below The Root is one of my favorite games of all time.
LOTS AND LOTS OF DISK SWAPPING!
Aw hell yeah.
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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.
Yea Zaxxon was a port, but it was still cool. Between that and Choplifter I never got any work done.
load "Zaxxon",8
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?
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.
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.
And Geoworks still lives on in some cellphones and PDA's.
I still remember: Load *.*, 8, 1 haha...
I remember our first Vic 20, too. Tape drives owned!
Everbody's disk drives have a CPU and RAM, that's why they're IDE drives.
Haha..
Wasn't that what Donkey Kong was originally?
Zaxon was an awesome game. Cool 3-D graphics as well.
Vic 20 and tape drives, you're really dating yourself there!!
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