Comments on: A Vic-20 Love Story

By: theproducer

theproducer — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:18:39 +0000

I never had the chance to see what the Amiga 500 was all about. when my parents got the commodore 64c they kids next door had Atari – sadly game on the commodore was better so we would read gaming magazines finding programs to write to make the types of games we wanted to play.. the good old days lol. what happen to that .. Nintendo came right after .. i still think the Mario on Commodore 64 was better then the 8bit Nintendo version lol

By: zitev

zitev — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:47:34 +0000

sys64802
that’s my favourite computer from the 80′s.

By: Chantell Holle

Chantell Holle — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:25:09 +0000

Life’s real failure is whenever people do not realize how close you were to good results when you quit

By: En güzel oyunlar

En güzel oyunlar — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:37:22 +0000

I need to get back to work, I am only three tracks away from that damn Titanic song.

By: Bruce Bourne

Bruce Bourne — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:17:53 +0000

My wife, Lori, forwarded this to me. She’s the brains behind Montessori for Everyone. Back in the day my family ‘splurged’ and got me the C64 over the Vic20. It lasted until 1991 when I met the Amiga 500.

BTW, if curious Ars Technica did an exhaustive story on the rise and fall of Commodore. http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/07/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-1.ars

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:55:45 +0000

After years of TRS-80 first love, I dated a girl whose dad had a Commodore 64. So I bought one and traded software with him for years. Good times.

By: Charles Waters

Charles Waters — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:33:21 +0000

Wow, cool article. Even now, I have MESS loaded on my home computer so that I can load up a Vic-20 or C=64 emulator. You can download MESS, which means Multiple Emulator Super System, for free, from here:
http://www.mess.org/
Then you have to find the machine ROMs which you can find here:
http://darkside.rommanager.com/misc.html
or many other places on the web. I think the latest version of the ROMS is .031. Anyway, it’s not quite as good as the old Vic20, but it’s still fine.

Oh, Remember L shift O

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:30:38 +0000

In those days, I also went up to a girl’s bedroom so I could use her… Plus/4. It was exciting because I had different equipment than her. Mine was a C64. Hers had built-in applications. I don’t think she got as much out of it as me and I wasn’t invited back.

By: KC8ZKF

KC8ZKF — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:27:44 +0000

Meh. No flash and no camera. It’ll never sell.

By: pat

pat — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:03:22 +0000

@Dave C oops. you are right. It has indeed been awhile. I just wanted to illustrate that you used to have t order “print” to make text show up on a screen