Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

[The TJT]

Happy birthday!

Ah, the loading times... sort of like playing MAME playchoice 10!

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19055707

[BeeJay]

My C=64 was the best purchase I made as a kid.... even if it took over a years worth of my after school job to pay for it and the dataset drive to load games from tape... it wasn't long after that that I bought myself a monitor instead of plugging it into Mum & Dad's TV...... which also meant I could use it in my bedroom as well.

Cheers,
BeeJay.

[CrazyKongFan]

Happy birthday!

Ah, the loading times... sort of like playing MAME playchoice 10!

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19055707

Heh, over at RU, there was a thread complaining about 5 or 10 second load times on games between screens...I said they had it easy, since we had to sometimes wait 10+ minutes to load games on the old C-64

[mahlemiut]

Ah, the C64 and the slowest floppy disk drives ever... not all that much faster than cassettes...

[kernzy]

yeah, but it gave you just enough time to have a fight with your bro to see who goes first!

[BeeJay]

Ah, the C64 and the slowest floppy disk drives ever... not all that much faster than cassettes...

Only because they wanted to "maintain compatibility" with the Vic 20 drives. They did have a much faster drive planned originally, but some boffin thought they'd get more people upgrading their Vic 20 if they could keep using the same drive..... which turned out to be a mistake anyway as they needed a new rom and made the 1541 instead of using the original 1540 drive. What a backwards thinking and terrible mistake that was as the C=64 was going to sell great regardless, even if it had used the much faster drives that weren't compatible with the old Vic 20!!

Cheers,
BeeJay.

[kernzy]

interesting stuff.
i suppose they were trying to save cash by keeping most of it the same, like the mould they used.
i really would love to get the new c64, looks spanking!
http://www.techhive.com/article/224722/ ... _real.html