Commodore 64 30 years this week

My dad got me into computers with our VIC-20 and our C64. I remember the days of loading software from the tape drive and then eventually the ole 1541 disk drive. Commands like, Load x ,8,1.

i vaguely remember the c64, computers were just emerging in our school as i left Scotland to move to England.
it took until four years ago for me to get around to purchasing a computer for the first time. so embarrassingly my first system was vista,

Yepperz, I remember getting to play with one at a friends house. My Dad wouldn't get me one, too expensive and as he put it, "A waste of time & money."

I remember playing games on the C64 years ago. I liked one where you piloted a spaceship, going through mazes and such. I can't remember the name of the game though does anyone here know?

The first computer I used was in June of 1983. It was a KPro with two 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. The guy that demonstrated it said that one day it will become obsolete. I thought that he must be kidding. How could such a thing become obsolete.

w1dpc said:

i still have my commadore vic-20 which i played ultima 1 on it. learning peeks and pokes and sprites was alot of fun.

Heh yeah, the C64 was the lazy man's computer! WAY too many commercial games and software for it.

I started out on a Commodore PET 2008. If you wanted a game, you had to write it yourself! And I did, I wrote DOZENS of games for that computer. Then I moved onto a VIC 20 which was truly mine (The PET was my fathers). The VIC had a small number of games but again, if you wanted anything else you wrote it yourself (Till towards the end when commercial games on tape became more widespread)

Sometimes to get a new game you had to type in 10 pages of code from a magazine!

Then came the C64 and commercial software was in full swing and you didn't have to lift a finger to peek or poke again if you didn't want too... tsk tsk.