September 24th, 2007, 06:06 PM
I putzed around on Vic20's and Commodore 64's like a lot of people but my first machine that took me online was an old Compaq 486, win 3.1 and a 14.4 modem. I'm amazed that I was amazed by it all back in 1997.
Here's the progress of 1GB. I wonder where we'll be in another 20 years?
The above pic shows a 20 year old IBM hard drive which looks more like a car's radiator and weighs around 32kgs and next to it is a 1GB SD card.
I putzed around on Vic20's and Commodore 64's like a lot of people but my first machine that took me online was an old Compaq 486, win 3.1 and a 14.4 modem. I'm amazed that I was amazed by it all back in 1997.
Here's the progress of 1GB. I wonder where we'll be in another 20 years?
The above pic shows a 20 year old IBM hard drive which looks more like a car's radiator and weighs around 32kgs and next to it is a 1GB SD card.
Dark Overlord
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September 24th, 2007, 06:58 PM
I just wish I could find a working version of Might & Magic 1 and Might & Magic 2 for it.
Quoting Locutus
I really enjoyed playing games on the C64. There were a lot of good RPG and Adventure games out for it. Thank goodness for the C64 emulator!
I putzed around on Vic20's and Commodore 64's like a lot of people but my first machine that took me online was an old Compaq 486, win 3.1 and a 14.4 modem. I'm amazed that I was amazed by it all back in 1997.
Here's the progress of 1GB. I wonder where we'll be in another 20 years?
The above pic shows a 20 year old IBM hard drive which looks more like a car's radiator and weighs around 32kgs and next to it is a 1GB SD card.
Here's the progress of 1GB. I wonder where we'll be in another 20 years?
The above pic shows a 20 year old IBM hard drive which looks more like a car's radiator and weighs around 32kgs and next to it is a 1GB SD card.
I just wish I could find a working version of Might & Magic 1 and Might & Magic 2 for it. 
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September 24th, 2007, 10:25 PM
Quoting shadowshiv
I'll have to try one of those. I loaded one up once and got a warm and fuzzy seeing the familiar blue Commodore Basic screen, but all my C64 stuff is on 5.25 floppies and I didn't have one installed. I assume it can read the floppies.
Thank goodness for the C64 emulator!
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September 25th, 2007, 12:50 AM
I remember sometime around 1985 convincing my employer we needed a 400Mb disk drive for the computer system I was running. It was an HP removable cartridge drive, state of the art at the time. It cost $25,000 and was the size of a washing machine. The stepper motor in it was bigger than the one in my table saw, and the thing was on wheels and had legs that had to be screwed down onto the floor to lift it off the wheels. If you didn't do that, the vibrations from the stepper motor would make it hop across the floor. The original system I added that drive to had 256Mb of memory, a 65Mb disk drive, and a 24-slot card cage whose cards--one per terminal--were about the size of a sheet of letter paper. It had an operating system--HP's RTE-A--a Fortran compiler, a processor rated at 1 MIPS (million instructions per second, though HP's technical guys always maintained it meant Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed), a dot matrix printer, and a large drafting plotter, and the whole thing cost over $100,000.
I can buy about 1000 times as much computing power now for $500 in a machine I can carry in a briefcase.
I remember sometime around 1985 convincing my employer we needed a 400Mb disk drive for the computer system I was running. It was an HP removable cartridge drive, state of the art at the time. It cost $25,000 and was the size of a washing machine. The stepper motor in it was bigger than the one in my table saw, and the thing was on wheels and had legs that had to be screwed down onto the floor to lift it off the wheels. If you didn't do that, the vibrations from the stepper motor would make it hop across the floor. The original system I added that drive to had 256Mb of memory, a 65Mb disk drive, and a 24-slot card cage whose cards--one per terminal--were about the size of a sheet of letter paper. It had an operating system--HP's RTE-A--a Fortran compiler, a processor rated at 1 MIPS (million instructions per second, though HP's technical guys always maintained it meant Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed), a dot matrix printer, and a large drafting plotter, and the whole thing cost over $100,000.
I can buy about 1000 times as much computing power now for $500 in a machine I can carry in a briefcase.
Dark Overlord
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September 25th, 2007, 02:15 AM
Google C64 and check out the first and the third entries. However, I think those sites only have the games themselves. I do not know where to get the Emulators themselves, nor do I know which one is the best one(there are several different C64 Emulators out there).
I can't believe how many systems of old now have Emulators. I have ones for the old Nintendo, Turbografx, CollecoVision, Atari2600, and Emulator for actual Arcade games, the Intellivision, and one or two systems that I can't remember. My favourite is still the C64 Emulator as the C64 is the one that I played the most when I was a kid.
Quoting Just the Facts
Actually the C64 games are on various sites, and you do not need your floppies. They are tiny little files. They have ones for the regular games and ones for the tapedeck games. I believe the file extensions are .d64 and .t64.
I'll have to try one of those. I loaded one up once and got a warm and fuzzy seeing the familiar blue Commodore Basic screen, but all my C64 stuff is on 5.25 floppies and I didn't have one installed. I assume it can read the floppies.
Google C64 and check out the first and the third entries. However, I think those sites only have the games themselves. I do not know where to get the Emulators themselves, nor do I know which one is the best one(there are several different C64 Emulators out there).
I can't believe how many systems of old now have Emulators. I have ones for the old Nintendo, Turbografx, CollecoVision, Atari2600, and Emulator for actual Arcade games, the Intellivision, and one or two systems that I can't remember. My favourite is still the C64 Emulator as the C64 is the one that I played the most when I was a kid.
Dark Overlord
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September 25th, 2007, 02:16 AM
What would you say were your top 10 favourite games of the C64?
Quoting Tonington
That was a fun game but I never got very far in it.
Bugaboo!
What would you say were your top 10 favourite games of the C64?
September 27th, 2007, 11:58 AM
Howdy snowles! Long time no see it seems.
I have a question, because I went out and bought myself a couple jump drives today for school, and I figured the GB thread is as good a place as any to ask....
What's a 'good' price for a 2GB jump drive/flashdisk/whateveryouwanttocallit? I figured I'd ask you guys before I open the package. lol.
Howdy snowles! Long time no see it seems.
I have a question, because I went out and bought myself a couple jump drives today for school, and I figured the GB thread is as good a place as any to ask....
What's a 'good' price for a 2GB jump drive/flashdisk/whateveryouwanttocallit? I figured I'd ask you guys before I open the package. lol.
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September 27th, 2007, 12:10 PM
http://canadacomputers.com/index.php...=pl&id=990.190
Quoting karrie
$50 or so
Howdy snowles! Long time no see it seems.
I have a question, because I went out and bought myself a couple jump drives today for school, and I figured the GB thread is as good a place as any to ask....
What's a 'good' price for a 2GB jump drive/flashdisk/whateveryouwanttocallit? I figured I'd ask you guys before I open the package. lol.
I have a question, because I went out and bought myself a couple jump drives today for school, and I figured the GB thread is as good a place as any to ask....
What's a 'good' price for a 2GB jump drive/flashdisk/whateveryouwanttocallit? I figured I'd ask you guys before I open the package. lol.
http://canadacomputers.com/index.php...=pl&id=990.190
September 27th, 2007, 12:13 PM
Quoting #juan
okay cool. I got a two pack for $50. I tend to generally distrust Staples pricing, so I wasn't sure if it was reasonable or not. I've never had to buy one of these things, I've always seen them (smaller ones of course) as giveaways, so I wasn't sure if that price was decent for something I've seen as a freebie.
I just bought a 2 gig flash chip from Staples for $39.00. You shouldn't be paying much more than that.
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September 27th, 2007, 12:19 PM
Quoting karrie
Yeah you have to watch Staple's adds. They often have a tiny little note that tells you about a mail-in rebate..
okay cool. I got a two pack for $50. I tend to generally distrust Staples pricing, so I wasn't sure if it was reasonable or not. I've never had to buy one of these things, I've always seen them (smaller ones of course) as giveaways, so I wasn't sure if that price was decent for something I've seen as a freebie.
September 27th, 2007, 12:28 PM
Quoting #juan
well the major thing with this was a case of the 'too good to be true's. Staples had them listed at $119 for the two jump drives, on sale for $49. That's $70 bucks off. My brain kind of called bull___ on the whole thing. I figured I was either being ripped off, or JUST given a half decent price.
Yeah you have to watch Staple's adds. They often have a tiny little note that tells you about a mail-in rebate..
Chief Mogrifier
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September 27th, 2007, 12:38 PM
Quoting karrie
That is certainly a good price. Those things are phenomenal. I've had a good number of hard drives that were less than two gigs.
well the major thing with this was a case of the 'too good to be true's. Staples had them listed at $119 for the two jump drives, on sale for $49. That's $70 bucks off. My brain kind of called bull___ on the whole thing. I figured I was either being ripped off, or JUST given a half decent price.
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September 27th, 2007, 12:40 PM
Go to an actual computer store, 99% of the time you will get a better quality product and for a lot cheaper too.
Go to an actual computer store, 99% of the time you will get a better quality product and for a lot cheaper too.
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September 27th, 2007, 12:52 PM
I tend to avoid buying anything that comes with a "mail in rebate"... scams
I tend to avoid buying anything that comes with a "mail in rebate"... scams
