Boingo_Buzzard Wrote: TheReelTodd Wrote:After several popping noises and a particularly strong odor, it was time to let it go. My first commodore 64 did that. *POP*..... (hot smell of burning electronics)... {fizzle}

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I still have my old Commodore 64. In fact, I came across it last weekend when I was frantically looking for my missing Atari carts. It's in a box, stored away. Even though in a box, it's actually kind of dusty too. I wanted so much to hook it up and try it out again, but there wasn't time.

My keyboard went bad on that thing many years ago. Back in 1989, I remember taking it apart, and putting teeny-tiny folded pieces of paper, behind the little rubber pressure things on the back of the keys so that they'd register on the keyboard sensor things better. It was time consuming but it worked. I haven't had my C64 hooked up since around that time though. I have no idea if it still works. I hope it does!order abortion pill morning after pill price where to buy abortion pill

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You know - I thought I might get bored of this thing kind of quickly. After all, it is fun and nastalgic to play, but the games are simple and not very deep... and I only find myself playing the same 5 or 6 games on it.

But after having it for about a month now, I still enjoy firing it up whenever I have some time and playing with POWER!

I know what you're thinking - Atari 2600 games hardly have any power to them, nor did the console itself, right?

But consider this, most Atari VCS/2600 games were ONLY 4kb in size. Some of them were 8kb and some were a whopping 12kb!

Whoa! 12kb!

Come on - it takes more kilobytes than what most Atari 2600 game games are made of, JUST to send a simple modern e-mail!

So you see what I mean? These old-school games are basic, but very fun AND they did it all within the constraints of a 4kb ROM cart!

What can YOU do with 4kb?

Heck, that probably wouldn't even be enough space to hold some of my long-winded posts!

Anyway, I'm still digging my Flashback 2 quite a bit.

It's even drawn my wife in. We regularly play Atari Centipede together (takin turns). This is huge, because my wife is not in to gaming at all. But she'll sit and play Centipede with me for several games back to back - AND she's tons of fun to watch play too! She kind of gets excited when she plays. She even trash-talks the game too! She often yells at the spider calling it a b-tch and a few other terms. It's really very entertaining just watching her play. Man - I LOVE that woman!

But she's not home right now.

Hmm... I think I'll go play some Atari Battlezone.

Does it look like the arcade game?

No, not really. Not many of the Atari games do.

It's actually more colorful, but plays much the same. All you do is blast the tanks and annoying flying saucers... and flying bomber things. But for some reason, it's rather addicting.

Traahn Wrote:Heck, Instead of writing that post there, you could've written a new Atari 2600 game! You slacker

10 PRINT "Atari 2600 Rules! ",
20 GOTO 10

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I wish I had someone to play Maze Craze with!

The wife only played it about twice with me. She didn't care for it.

But we just finished a good gaming session of Centipede. Yes, she really loves that game. If I didn't fear her evil wrath for doing so - I'd video tape her playing and share it with everyone. I swear - she's more fun to watch playing than the game itself!

It is cool that she digs the game though. After so many years of her not wanting to even touch a game - who knew - all she needed was some Centipede?

I was talking to my father today and he mentioned that he heard that "some games you liked as a kid are popular today".

I asked him if it was the Atari games and he said yes. Everything old is new again.

Oh yeah, I remember the C64 didn't allow 'cls' to work. That command "clears screen" on a TRS-80. I remember figuring out what the C64's equivalent was, but can't remember for sure now. I'd have to experiment. I think it was maybe just "clear". You know:

5 clear
10 print "hi"
20 goto 10

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Boingo_Buzzard Wrote:My experience is with commodore BASIC. I tried putting your code into a C-64 emulator just for fun but it syntax errored on line 5 There are many forms of BASIC

I learned basic on an Apple ][ computer.

My first home computer was a Commodore 64 though - much more affordable than an Apple ][. But Commodore basic was close enough to Apple's so it was an easy conversion with only a handful of commands that differed (in simplest terms anyway).

Graphics were another story though. They were cake on an Apple, but not so simple on a C64. But I got Simon's Basic for my C64 and that proved to be an awesome programming language for the Commodore. Graphics were a snap with Simon's basic and I spent many hours and days, etc. programming in Simon's Basic for my C64. About a year or two later, I blew my college savings on an Apple //c computer - it ROCKED! Commodore had better graphics and sound capabilities, but I was always more of an Apple lover at the time. It was a faster computer and the first system I learned programming on. Plus I had a bunch of friends who had Apple's, so we could swap software and share programs. We were all big computer nerds back in the early 80's! Not much has changed!

Man - the first (and only real) game I ever programmed was an Atari Super Breakout knock-off. In 1985, I programmed a game called "Blockade". It was basically Breakout, on it's side, with the wall on the right side, and the paddle on the left. If memory serves, there were 4 variations of the game, each with the option to play with a paddle, or the keyboard (8 variations in all). I even programmed an opening sequence to the game before the selection screen popped up. Back then - it was some undertaking for me to animate the intro sequence, complete with the word "Blockade" being drawn-in and then a little ball bouncing around in the lower area of the screen. The opening sequence required more code than any single game variation!

Man - I'll have to dig my Apple //c out again sometime and turn that in to a video file to share sometime. The game was programmed in Applesoft Basic and played pretty well, if a little on the slow and predictable side. I wasn't very good programming the physics of the ball, so it always just followed the same diagonal pattern no matter where you hit it with the paddle. But for a 14 year old me (or was I 15?) - that was pretty good, or so I thought at the time.