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  • Ersin Acar April 8, 2011 at 9:21pm
    i had that! it was kick ass :)
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    Gary Mortimer April 8, 2011 at 5:46pm
    ZX81-VIC20-8088-386-486 new stuff that does not seem so cool,but is much faster. PEEK and POKE all before the Facebook poke
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    John Arne Birkeland April 8, 2011 at 5:34pm
    This is making me feel old. :)
    C64 -> A500 -> 386SX-20 -> 486DX2-66 -> P90 -> Dual PPro-200 and so on.
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    Roberto Navoni April 8, 2011 at 4:09pm

    My path was :

    VIC20 -> C64 -> C128 -> Amiga 1000 -> Amstrad -> PC 486 33 -> 66 -> 100 DX2 Mhz Pentiunm ecc ecc .

    Two years ago Mac Book Pro ;)

     

  • Ante Vukorepa April 8, 2011 at 3:55pm

    My computing path went like this:

    ZX Spectrum -> A500 -> A1200 -> PC -> Mac -> Mac+PC ;)

     

    Still can't forgive myself for selling the A1200.

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    Sandro Benigno April 8, 2011 at 3:46pm

    Hey... I have an Amiga 1200 with a Viper Accelerator inside here. The first personal computer of my life. I bought it in 1993. I just need to find a monitor 1084S to get back in time to my first experience.

    My second one was the Amiga 4000 with the incredible Video Toaster 4000 and the fantastic PAR (Personal Animation Recorder). And... my old and best friend, Lightwave3D. Aaahhh... all started right there.

    Somebody remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU&feature=mfu_in_order...

  • Ante Vukorepa April 8, 2011 at 2:12pm

    @ Jack Crossfire: Agreed.

     

    When i've first heard about the "new C64", i thought someone packed an FPGA soft core emulating the real thing into a remake of the old case. This seems like nothing more than a regular ole PC packed in an imitation case.

  • Jack Crossfire April 8, 2011 at 2:09pm

    The C64 remake is lame.  The keyboard was the glue with the original.  It should have had the original connectors connected to GPIO's.  They could have had adapters for logic signals or original peripherals.

     

    There's going to be a market for very accurately recreating the original experience.  The original paddles & Koala pad, with their jittery output.  The original joystick, with its 8 binary directions.  The original RF modulated video, with its 60Hz refresh rate & size that would change, depending on the ratio of white & black.  The humming sound of the CRT interfering with the audio.

     

    Unfortunately, a truly stock C64 system would be super expensive to manufacture.

     

     

  • ockhams barber April 8, 2011 at 2:07pm

    C64 is a bit of overkill I think. BTW does anyone know how to increase the tale load tape load speed on a ZX80?

     

     

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    Roberto Navoni April 8, 2011 at 1:58pm
    When I going on CommodoreUSA website my devil told me push buy , push buy ... then my wife stop me :( 
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