Commie 64

Heh. If only.

Naw, they shut down our whole department because of reasons completely unrelated to the talent and skill of its employees. It's really not a reflection on us at all.

Honestly, I've got no one to directly blame for the thing, other than the pointyheads at corporate who make these kinds of decisions. It'd make it easier if I could yell at someone, I suppose.

School's Commodore Pet, to my own VIC-20, C64, Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000, Pentium/Windows (in summer of 95 when it finally got close to an Amiga), a PPC Mac for about a month mixed in here, a load of Intel and Athlon systems since then and now my primary machine is an Apple PowerBook (I also keep two P4 Shuttle systems at home as desktops).

My bet is against this being *THE* David Whittaker mainly because of the way the first message was written referencing the name. But I'd be pleasantly surprised if it were.

http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/musician_info.php?id_ele=MTE5

Damn, I played a lot of those titles.

Bruno

hurray! commodore 64 was the best computer ever made. period.

I love the cart game : To Save New York. (which no-one remembers!)

Poke 1024, 24

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Commodore 64....well it was okay

What you really needed was a Dragon 32 (Tandy in the states) with those classic Microsoft games.



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In the collection I had before Intel took over the world (Jupiter Ace, Oric Atmos, ZX80, 81, Spectrum, Spectrum+, Vic20, C64, D32 (twice), Amiga and Osborne) the best two for writing games were the Dragon and the BBC. For playing games, the Amiga and the Spectrum probably edged ahead through number of titles, and the Ace and the Osborne were most challenging for real programming fun.

IMHO

(wasn't really wanting a flamewar)

p.s.I'm sure my first Dragon was the world's most travelled - over 20,000 miles in its 2nd year...I was travelling to the Falklands and back a fair bit...so when it finally died, Dragon replaced it for free even though it was out of warranty and the shipping to the south Atlantic must have been heinous

The most challenging was a kid trying to program a Sinclair Z with 1k memory (16k was for spoilt rich kids and cheating) and do anything that was remotely fun.

i loved it!

I learned programing on a TRS-80. It was not really that much fun. I liked Legos much more. I guess that explains why I'm a mechanical engineer instead of a software engineer.

-Zeke

I still have my commodore 128 complete with boxes and boxes of games. I still have the light pen (The only thing I used 128 mode for) and the koala pad. Have the EPYX sport controller, FastLoad cartrige, and dual 1571 high speed floppy drives. The only problem is that some time during my high school years, while all that stuff was safely stored in the attic, lightning struck out house and the resulting EMI was enough to completely wipe all my floppies. So the only thing I can do with it is play Choplifter and Jumpman Jr (they were the only 2 game cartridges) and play around with peek and poke.

Apparently I was a rich kid since I had the Timex Sinclair with 16k of memory, although I never got far past making those silly birds with special characters that appeared to fly.

After the Sinclair, I graduated to the VIC-20 with a -=GASP=- tape recorder to load and save games and stuff.

Jumped straight to the C-128 and spen quite a few years there.

Next was my 486-SX 25 with the kick-ass 80 Meg HDD.

Man, those were the days when computers were fun. Now all I get to see are broken ones, which isn't NEARLY as fun.

Come on, all.

load "*",8,1
run

poke 53281,1
poke 53280,1

Gawd, when I was typing the load command my fingers actually went to the shift-2 before I caught myself.

Memories.

Oh, and Paradroid and Iirridium were the coolest games ever.
Oh, and Racing Destruction Set , ooh, and Mail Order Monsters, too.

Impossible Mission WAS very cool, though I guess I was too young to ever actually figure out ANY of the freakin puzzles. Grrr... I need to did that out and play it again.
I really never could get into zork. The responses were WAY too limited. Hitchhikers was cool as long as you had a copy of the book in your hand while you were playing it!

But the fun of typing in 2 pages of hex codes from a magazine and watching Qix!! That was something. And the original Donkey Kong and Gridrunner were amazing on the D32. Once I built an interface card which allowed me to control relays and made my room much more secure (for a 12 year old - keypad entry was way cool!)

Ooh - and Space War

And Manic Miner

Yay!