Post by: Paddy on July 14, 2003, 03:31:55 PM
For those of you with C-64's in the basement, or a nostalgic bent. Hmmm...new software for our VIC-20?? Nooooo ....
Post by: Highmac on July 15, 2003, 06:50:47 AM
Post by: beacher on July 15, 2003, 02:00:14 PM
" Have to admit, there ARE some benefits to advancing technologies. . .
Post by: chrisharjo on July 15, 2003, 10:27:35 PM
The C64 was my first computer, I bought it in 1983 while in college. I got turned down by Apple, with a $500.00 down payment, to get a Apple II using their plan to pay it off. 
I guess they didn't like the fact I was in college. I got the C64 from the toys are us store, I didn't use a Apple until 1999, I got a used Mac classic from a Goodwill auction to play with and liked the machine. I have been getting them from Goodwill or friends or on eBay since then, I have not bought a new one since then. I guess things would have been different if I had got that machine when I started to work for my college alma mater building research systems using computers and various electronic equipment, I might have used apple computers, this was in the early 1990's. I used over a million dollars in research money buying equipment back then, I wonder how much I would have spent on Apple products back then. Thats why I am looking into getting back into research and use the Mac as the primary computer. Here is a site for C64 upgrades if you are interested:http://cmdrkey.com/
Post by: kelly on July 17, 2003, 08:55:07 AM
http://new.lowendmac.com/lab/03/0717.html
Post by: ejc on July 19, 2003, 04:33:50 PM
I still have my ST 1040 with 19" B/W screen. Pin-sharp. Nothing equals it for clarity. Anybody else here used Calamus? Wonderful DTP prog. Still being upgraded. Now available for Windows also - for thise who have not yet seen the light.
Excellent word processors are still (as far as I know) available.
My Atari laser printer responds much faster than printers with other systems.
Sad that Atari's marketing was so poor. However tgere is still a core of users in Germany, many of whom use Calamus on a Mac via an emulator (MagiCMac).
As others will know, the OS is on a chip. Very fast start-up
The desktop is similar to the Mac, but I employ a prog. to give me direct access to whichever app. I want to use. Who really needs a desktop? All I want is a start-up screen that asks:
Work with words?
Work with numbers?
Work with graphics?
Work with the Internet?
or,
Choose a file.
AND
A pin-sharp B/W large screen!!!
Nearly all of my work is B/W - and I suspect that, power users aside (whom I suspect comprise the majority of contributors to sites like this - excellent though they are) the world of PC users is like me - the silent majority - who are dragged, kicking and screaming - helplessly into the maze of bloat that constitutes today's PC market.
Sorry, I have ranted like this in the past. It's a topic close to my heart.
Peace
euc
Post by: gunug on July 21, 2003, 09:35:14 AM
The way I read the article about Tulip they're probably not really talking about reproducing C64's as such. Tulip is probably going to issue orders to the hobbiest market that they're violating Tulip's copyright and maybe issue "official" software to emulate on some platforms (I wouldn't expect the MAC to be "the" platform but you never know). They might skip the real PC market entirely and do something for the XBOX or something!There has been a continual hobby level interest in emulating the C64 on a PC or whatever and running games on the emulated system. I have some of that software and instructions on how to mount a C64 floppy onto a PC serial port (they were serial as opposed to parallel devices); unfortunately I don't have a working floppy drive to do this with as they are extremely fragile devices. Music buffs even bought up all the available supply of SID chips (C64 Sound Chips) that they could find and developed a little programmable MIDI box to play back those wonderful C64 sound files (I always think they sound like a cross between disco and circus music).