Here is my latest video. It's a personal documentary on the Commodore 64. It's 8+ mins long... I hope you enjoy it.



Subtitles: Starting at 2:15...

Steve Jobs associated the computer with art. Bill Gates associated the computer with money. I, however, saw the computer as a musical instrument.

During the video game console market crash between 1983 and 1984, my brother had a friend who brought over a computer that caught my attention. It was the Commodore 64. I was so amazed by this computer that I knew that I had to have one.

At such a young age, I learned to play the guitar and had this romance with music. As far as machines went, the local arcades were the only source of truly combining both until the day I got a C64.

A special sound interface chip in the Commodore 64 was capable of 3 voices, 9 octaves, 4 waveforms and was out putted to the television. Very remarkable at the time. I remember using some music programs and composing on that machine every change I got.

My brother got his Commodore 64 nine months before I got mine. I use to bug the hell out of him to let me in his room and watch him play games on it. I wasn’t allowed to touch his computer but it didn’t matter for me because I just wanted to learn about it.

He had a 1530 datasette which amazed me because never before had I ever heard of storing data on a cassette tape. I was very young at the time and I was really easily amazed by technology.

A few months before I got my Commodore he then got a 1541 disk drive. The 1541 was a marvel in itself. It used Group Code Recording and contained a MOS 6502 micro processor. It had it’s very own disk operating system making it pretty much a complete independent computer on it’s own. Very impressive back in those days. The architecture was very complex but also very hackable if you knew how.

The library of games for the Commodore 64 is known to be the largest of any system in history. Among them I discovered many that I feel in love with.

Bruce Lee
Impossible Mission
Master Of The Lamps
Archon
Rambo
Test Drive
Ultima 3
The Rats

… and many more.

However, the one that amazed me the most was a game called Karataka. It was the first game I seen that introduced itself in the style of a movie with music and credits appearing before the main title. Ever since I played it I knew that I wanted to direct.

A common thing to do when I was allowed on a high score list was to fit my name along with my girlfriend’s name. If anyone ever ended up any copy of my games, they could pretty much find my love life history.

I don’t know what happened to my Commodore 64. It went MIA sometime back in the mid 90’s.


In the late 90’s, I discovered Commodore emulation. I can’t remember the first emulator that I used but I have been using Vice. It emulates almost every Commodore computer except the Amiga models. I’m trying to remember all the games that I use to love playing. Right now, I’ve found close to 75% of them. The ones I can’t find are ones that I can’t remember the names.

Although emulation and disk images are wonderful, nothing beats having a Commodore 64 at your fingertips. It’s such an amazing experience. Every time I see a 5 1/4 inch floppy, I am overwhelmed by nostalgia.

The Commodore 64 is what guided me into the realm of computers. It taught me, entertained me, told me stories, and helped expand my musical traits. I have a hundred thousand stories to tell, but I can’t tell them all.

Good bye old friend. You will always be in our hearts.

That video was excellent. Really enjoyed it!

Makes me wish I'd owned a C-64. I feel like I missed out on a big part of computing history. Oh well, at least this video helped me to see what it might have been like to own one.

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Thanks guys..

How I see it, our computers that we had back then (weather it be a C64, Sinclair, Tandy, Apple, etc...) had somewhat of a spirit about them as compared to today's computers. I mean, it truly was a personal experience for us. Today, computers are more like a common electronic device like our TV and DVD players. It's so hard to explain, but I think you understand.

However, I'm not knocking the PC by any means. I'm just saying that the computer experience isn't anything like what we had back then.

Although I was lucky to have a C64, I did miss out on other great 8-bit computers. Now today, I'm looking to see if I can collect as many as I can.

Got to love attics filled with old stuff..

Compucore Wrote:Reminds me all so often this site that I go to for the sake of remember these great machines in the past. http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp Some really great machine in their respective places. Looking back from the good old days and comparing it to todays computers a lot has changed since then. Man the blast from the past is always a cool thing to look at.

That is a good site. I found it back in early 2006 (I think). It is a really good site. I did find some tech information there that I needed for my video (but I revised it of course)..

Comp is right... It really is a great place to find information on old computers. They have everything.

Compucore Wrote:I think Kiapurity had mentioned it to me a long time ago about that site if memory serves me correctly. And I am really surprised about this site that there is a lot of information on some of the older machines including mt old Nextstationthe colour turb one that I have over here. Another nice antique to have. Mind you the monitor is a big lug to get it up to the dresk top for a 17 inch where you can connect your mouse and keyboard to.

Speaking of Kia... Is she still around? If so, I'll post a script for her on what I talked about in my video... She was always great to talk to about the C64. I've not been online much and less here so I haven't see us originals in a long time...
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Great walk down the C64 memory-chip lane, Qix77!

The C64 was my first home computer, too. Unfortunately, mine never worked quite right. I didn't understand at the time, but it was in fact defective. It wasn't until many years later that I learned that 1 in 3 of the early C64's were defective.

Mine worked... mostly. I programmed on it all the time, loved drawing with "Doodle" (the PhotoShop of its time if you ask me), and played many arcade-like games, as in as close to arcade quality as one could bring in to their home in 1984.

But like I said - mine was defective. The keyboard needed to be pounded on to register keystrokes (which I corrected with custom made under-key inserts in 1989). Programs that would run just fine on other C64's, didn't run on mine sometimes. They just caused strange errors. The sound would often cut-out and not play properly. Games would frequently freeze/lock up during play. Sometimes the whole computer would just lock up for no apparent reason. Even rebooting (power-down, power-up) would not correct it all the time. Thinking back, the machine may have overheated and needed to cool down. I learned that many C64's had trouble with overheating.

So like I said, mine never quire worked right and so I spent a lot of time being upset with it even though I enjoyed my time on it (when it worked) too. I wish I knew at the time that it was defective and could have exchanged it or something. But like I said - its defects were more subtle and not clear out of the box. If memory serves, my C64 was the last one in stock at a local department store.

I appreciate the C64 a lot more in retrospect - I have for several years now. I'm bummed that mine never shined as brightly as it should have. In recent years, I've discovered a lot more about the true power of that little computer. I had no idea back in the day, that it was capable of doing so many cool things. It was hard to come by good software for it (for me). There wasn't exactly an internet where I could read up on everything back then. I used to frequent a couple of BBS services though. One of them was called "The Commodore Candle". I used to enjoy chatting with the sysop... and probably annoy the hell out of him. He commented on my very, very slow typing skills frequently and always seemed to "have to run".

Qix77 Wrote:Speaking of Kia... Is she still around? If so, I'll post a script for her on what I talked about in my video... She was always great to talk to about the C64. I've not been online much and less here so I haven't see us originals in a long time...

I think KiaPurity might appreciate it if you could PM her the full spoken text of your video. She may be more inclined to share her thoughts on your video if you did.


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Did someone say my name? >_>

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?

...I think she's been super busy or something. I miss her! DX

Can't wait to see the script for your clip. :X

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