Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 22:02
I look at photos of Jablanac. It looks exactly the same almost 40 years later! No Wendy's.or 7-11s? 🤣
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 21:54
There is so much lost in translation here. I never said or even remotely implied that the c64 wasn't great. Not once. I played many games on my c64c. A bit of programming. But mostly games. But the commie wasn't my first computer. I bougjt 1 after I got my first pc. Does that sound like someone that …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 21:39
I could be older then you. I was in Yugoslavia in 1986. I was done with high school.
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 21:27
Of people that owned c64s or even computers the numbers weten't high. Whether in Europe or the US. That was the jist of what I was saying. Where in Croatia are you? Well, You're wrong! Never before (and after), one PC had such dominance in numbers over all the others! Kutina I can't understand why …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 21:03
Of people that owned c64s or even computers the numbers weten't high. Whether in Europe or the US. That was the jist of what I was saying. Where in Croatia are you?
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 06:21
What made Spiderman ( or the Xmen for that matter) so popular is beyond me. I think it might be that through the character Marvel (or Stan Lee specifically) could pander to a younger demographic. Yeah. Those jingles, other then CA, the Hulk leading the pack, were pretty nauseating. The CA is shit …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 03:07
Ok yes 67-69. Yeah that is 1 hip tune. It has that 60s sound. You half expect Anne Margret to come out dancing.
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-10, 03:04
Different production. Those were from the 60s? I had thought 70s. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0p-dSCqtEw&pp=ygUcbWFydmVsIHN1cGVyIGhlcm9lcyBtYXJhdGhvbg%3D%3D I am not familiar with the first jingle. Suffer through that, and you get to hear Captain America's song: When Captain America throws his …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-09, 23:31
There were Marvel cartoons in the 1960s. These were panels taken from stories that were.more or less comtemporaneous, but were animated sligjtly. Real hack jobs. I watched a few in 77/78. I believe I have 2 or 3 on super8 reals in my attic. I found them in a store in Florida when on vacation. I …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-08, 04:03
Don't rack your brain over it. I just wanted some kind of numbers. 3.4% really isn't a lot. I would like to say that's kind of representative of c64s in the US. Not many people at all. Similar to the percentage of people who actually read comic books growing up. Instead og getting their intro to …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-08, 00:36
So I'd like to ask, what percentage of homes in each European country had them? Relatively few in England/Wales/Scottland/Ireland I reckon. They had so many native brewed systems.
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-11-07, 01:02
Jo22 wrote on 2023-10-25, 00:34: while the other is about a C64 running for 25 years in a car repair shop. http://www.merkur.de/multimedia/commodore-64- … zr-6796875.html No way to treat a lady/yer baby. Do love that green screen though.
old Canons
Posted on 2023-10-12, 03:56
Anyone got one? Strangely I have a few old extremely rare models in my collection. But the 8088/80286 based truly IBM compatible variery, not evem positive of the naming, have evaded me. And it sucks! I really need to add one of them to my collection. Please help me.
Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->
Posted on 2023-10-11, 22:20
true but for newer systems i really like freepascal and lazarus - i have that on a couple of W7 and Linux builds, makes it easy to port code across - not that i do so very often admittedly The point is it's convenient to run 32 bit development tools on newer hardware. Whenever possible. More …
Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->
Posted on 2023-10-11, 00:55
You can get Delphi 7 online somewhere. Archive.org, Wimworld, the usual places. I think archive has Delphi Studio whatever that is exactly. It takes a bit of fiddlimg, but 7 will install on Windoze 10, and even run to whatever degree. It's always nice when you can run spmething old on newish …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-10, 02:34
I recommend you call it quits and not read the prior pages 😀
Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->
Posted on 2023-10-09, 21:07
Not everyone hates EMACS!!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
soldering/desoldering methods
Posted on 2023-10-07, 23:53
Thia video is pretty good, especially for begimners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kkzIV5yTPQ Lord knows I feel like a beginner as it's been a long time since I soldered anything. But I find myself getting a little queezy by the use of soldering wicks. For chips you don't want to possibly destroy …
Re: A Kick-Ass Dual 3.8GHz NetBurst Xeon Build
Posted on 2023-10-07, 04:43
I have a quad 2011 serverboard I need ro stuff into a case. I bought x4 6-heatpipe coolers. It's good to see someone else.using them with xeons. I felt lime I was breaking all the rules!
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-07, 04:39
The past has always fascinated me in one way or another. I don't want to go back though. Things often sucked really hard. When I was about 9 years old I had a stint where I took in every silent movie I could. I started reading about the Norse myths around that time. I've always been kind of a …
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