Thrall to the Wire of Self-Excited Circuit.
Real nerdy Toast.
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The Commodore 64 was my first computer. Witness the power.
- CPU 1.023 MHz
- Graphics VIC-II graphics
- Sound SID Chip
- 64kb of RAM
Thing can't even run an average Jpeg file.
It had a bulky disk drive that used the 200mm Floppy disk with a numbing 80 kb of space. It's amazing how we even managed to load them with like 20 programs on each side. ( We were shocked to learn we can flip these and insert them.) Damn those games were small. And some of them would take 20-30 minutes to load.
My Father got this cause our school had them and figured we'd use it to learn. But I had a guy who's older brother was a geek and he would copy games for us. Good old piracy. This computer was more like a console.
The one thing that's nostalgic to me are the tunes. Graphics were so limited and even though the sound processor was low quality, that never stopped people from making things that sounded nice. Up to this day I listen to chip tracks. I Don't see them as video game music, just a technology that was able to be ran with games on that era, as today's games use recorded music.
People still make stuff on this machine pushing it past it's abilities.
I remember our school having an old Mac with Oregon Trail first. Not long after this, first a Commodore 64 and then original NES, etc. Other kids were getting SEGA or an Amiga... Skipped a SNES, then it was Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. Had an Xbox 360 at one point. Various Gameboys, from the original to the DS. Regret not keeping all that stuff now, of course. Thank goodness for Steam and emulators. I've been looking what is out there and a lot of it can still be found and played.
I go back all the way to the Atari 2600, and games such as:
Truly ancient.
Thrall to the Wire of Self-Excited Circuit.
I remember our school having an old Mac with Oregon Trail first. Not long after this, first a Commodore 64 and then original NES, etc. Other kids were getting SEGA or an Amiga... Skipped a SNES, then it was Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. Had an Xbox 360 at one point. Various Gameboys, from the original to the DS. Regret not keeping all that stuff now, of course. Thank goodness for Steam and emulators. I've been looking what is out there and a lot of it can still be found and played.
I go back all the way to the Atari 2600, and games such as:Truly ancient.
How did you skip the SNES ? Are you a human being ? Was it poverty ? What ? In high school it was first prize for a raffle, whoever sold the most wins. The guy who won it sold it to me for cheap. Happy days.
Fucking Street Fighter II coming home. That system made dreams come true. I paid 100 bucks for that game took a month.
The Amiga is sick. Friend had one with a music program and it blew my mind watching it play back as the line moved across the notes, and it was sick sounding. Somewhere between a chiptune and midi. I can't find the song so I tried to remake it with music generator on the PS1. Still have it, sounds cheap. In highschool I took a graphics communicating course, and the Amiga was mine, I did a 400 frame animation with it, plus it had the software "Morph Plus" the same software Michael Jackson used to make the Black or White 5 million dollar music video. He paid way too much.
I was looking at the Atari 2600 and I was like nah... Too sad. Had that when I was 4. We had Pitfall, even ET which we couldn't figure out.
In the 80's the Atari 2600 tried to make a comeback lol. Friend got it and people don't believe me, but there is such a game as Pitfall II, and for an Atari game it was pretty bomb. It actually had music while playing and it have more level to it instead of just side scrolling, and I mean underground caves and swimming etc.
Jack Black in a Pitfall ad.
