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Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?
It is 30 years since the Commodore 64 went on sale to the public.
The machine was hugely successful for its time, helping to encourage personal computing, popularise video games and pioneer homemade computer-created music.
The $595 (£399) device took its name from its US maker, Commodore International, and the fact it had 64 kilobytes of RAM memory.
The firm noted that made it substantially cheaper than other personal computers on the market offered by IBM, Apple and Atari.
Commodore highlighted the fact that since it had designed and manufactured its own chips it had been able keep costs down - and the advantage helped it become the best-selling model in North America.
In Europe it faced competition from two cheaper eight-bit rivals released over the previous year: the BBC Micro and Sinclair Spectrum.
The Commodore's ability to display 16 colours, smoothly scroll graphics and play back music through its superior SID (sound interface device) chip - even while loading programs off tape - helped win over fans, but it did not become the market leader until the late 1980s.
Debates continue to this day about which was the superior system - but what would today's youth make of the C64?
BBC News invited Commodore enthusiast Mat Allen to show schoolchildren his carefully preserved computer, at a primary school and secondary school in London.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19055707
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Oh, sweet memories...
You probably wanted to have the link in here too...
Ah the days when one could double their disk space with a paper punch.
Thanks piirka, sadly i was not born during that period.Originally Posted by Piirka
Ah, my very first computer. Brings back a lot of memories!
Pirates!, Die Dunkle Dimension (some kind of RPG), Conquestador, Panzer Strike, the various sportsgames (some kind of Summer and Winter Games if I remember correctly)
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Hell yeah Winter Games! Those were the days! Today's kids wouldn't even know what they are to make of that.
Heh, I had a ZX Spectrum.
Winter Games was cool.Hell yeah Winter Games! Those were the days! Today's kids wouldn't even know what they are to make of that.
Even though some events were boring like figure skating
And it was extremely difficult to get the ski jumper to properly jump.
Strike Fleet, Blue Max, F-15 Strike Eagle, Pirates etc etc...
Giana sisters was a great game.
Haha, so true. Those were the days.
Defender of the Crown, Silent Service, Rambo, Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble.
I think I need to "install" my C64 back to working order.
I'm not sure, but wasn't Defender of the Crown an Amiga game like Centurion - Defender of Rome?
But damn, that fencing was damn hard for a 10 years old (or was I even younger?! Damn, can't remember)
Why is this in the military tactics section?
Because a C64 has the same computing power as a M1 Abrams fire control unit?
I remember my first computer experience was in the late-80s with a Macintosh IIcx, playing "number munchers".
Those were the days
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