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Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Indigo Imac on July 29, 2001, 07:30:28 AM
Anyone here old enough?

I had a ZX Spectrum 48k and added a 128k a few years on.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: jp6666 on July 29, 2001, 07:32:05 AM
ya i had a commodor 64 but i was extremely young !
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: videoholic on July 29, 2001, 07:39:30 AM
I had a C-64.  I had a TI-99-4a before that.  Had to save on a tape drive because the disc drives were super expensive.  Had to buy this huge expansion box for it.  Bought the C-64 because I could finally save on disc.

Everyone remember EPYX Summer Games?
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 29, 2001, 08:02:41 AM
Indigo Imac, eh?

I speak for myself and nO-One. Welcome to the board. We could use a few Mac fans.
:)
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Samwise on July 29, 2001, 08:19:46 AM
I\'ve had a C64 and later an Amiga 500. Damn that machine kicked a$$.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: RichG on July 29, 2001, 08:27:54 AM
THE AMSTRAD WAS MILES BETTER THAN EITHER

Yeah though I remember them. I had the 3rd competitor, the Amstrad. A load better. Better graphics, better sound for the same games.

I latter got an Amiga 500.

Welcome to the board.
Title: Living in clip
Post by: Indigo Imac on July 29, 2001, 08:29:56 AM
Glad to see that there is another Mac User on the board!!!
Title: Re: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Lavan on July 29, 2001, 08:53:12 AM
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Originally posted by Indigo Imac
Anyone here old enough?

I had a ZX Spectrum 48k and added a 128k a few years on.


I had a ZX Spectrum 48k - it ROCKED! I used to subscribe to Your Sinclair when I lived in England - they used to have some of the best game demos with each issue.
Title: Re: Living in clip
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 29, 2001, 10:06:57 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Indigo Imac
Glad to see that there is another Mac User on the board!!!

I\'ve got the Graphite Imac.;)

nO-One and I are the resident Mac fanatics.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Zolar on July 29, 2001, 10:57:18 AM
I remember the Epyx Summer Games, Winter Games, but my favorite Epyx game was Impossible Mission.  I also loved Broderbund\'s Spelunker.  I had a ****load of games for my Commodore64!
Title: Re: Re: Living in clip
Post by: Indigo Imac on July 29, 2001, 12:37:09 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Living-In-Clip

I\'ve got the Graphite Imac.;)

nO-One and I are the resident Mac fanatics.


I am a big Mac Fan, I had a 5400/180 Power Mac before my Indigo iMac.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Indigo Imac on July 29, 2001, 12:39:46 PM
Quote
Originally posted by RichGUK
THE AMSTRAD WAS MILES BETTER THAN EITHER


Welcome to the board.


Thanks, as a Newbie to a large Messageboard I am surprised how friendly everyone is!
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Knotter8 on July 29, 2001, 01:14:25 PM
He ! I would throw away my pentium for a new Apple G4 anytime,
now Maya runs on OS X. I worked with apples a few times in my
trainee months, it was relaxed.

But to return to the topic, I remember my dad\'s IBM XT. I played
castle, test drive by accollade and california summer games.
The bmx track racing and halfpipe skateboarding rocked.
A friend of mine had MSX 1 or 2. It rocked too.

Knotter8:)
Title: Re: Re: Living in clip
Post by: nO-One on July 29, 2001, 02:48:22 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Living-In-Clip

I\'ve got the Graphite Imac.;)

nO-One and I are the resident Mac fanatics.


I love all computers

But since we\'re sharing our macs I\'ll tell you what we have



That\'s just the Macs (yes me and my family are big on computers)

And we\'ll be getting 2 Dual 800 QuickSilver PowerMacs (WooHoo)
Title: Re: Re: Re: Living in clip
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 29, 2001, 03:34:56 PM
I had the C64 with all the trimmings.. Tape deck. Disk Drive etc.
 Cost HEAPS though.

we sold it for about 50 bucks for the lot.

Good old C64 i loved it heaps.

I also had a atari.. Although i never really played it.
Title: Re: Living in clip
Post by: videoholic on July 29, 2001, 04:34:37 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Indigo Imac
Glad to see that there is another Mac User on the board!!!


My work computer is a Mac.  A Titanium G-4 with 512 Meg of ram and a 30 gig hard drive.

I still like my PC better though.  Software is just too freaking expensive for the Mac.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: CygnusXI on July 30, 2001, 03:45:42 AM
I had a Timex Sinclair 2068.

Then a C-64 when I was a Sophmore in High School (1984). I still have it:)
Title: Re: Re: Anyone remember the Com***ore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: StAnZo on July 30, 2001, 07:42:01 AM
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Originally posted by Lavan


I had a ZX Spectrum 48k - it ROCKED! I used to subscribe to Your Sinclair when I lived in England - they used to have some of the best game demos with each issue.


hehehe.. i used to love YS. i was one of those who typed in most of there machine code proggies.
that\'s a blast from the past.

23226 AC.03.BD.55.CC.44.02.C3.EF.C1.23.E2.0F
ETC...ETC...ETC

If you used to be a reader of YS then this is what most of the programes looked like..

Do you remember an issue where they did a b-side tune by dave wilson?
Reminder....

Hold my hand very tightly, very tightly, very tightly, Hold my hand very tightly oooowooohooohoohooo lol :0)

Ahh those were the days.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Anyone remember the Com***ore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Lavan on July 30, 2001, 08:55:49 AM
Quote
Originally posted by StAnZo


hehehe.. i used to love YS. i was one of those who typed in most of there machine code proggies.
that\'s a blast from the past.

23226 AC.03.BD.55.CC.44.02.C3.EF.C1.23.E2.0F
ETC...ETC...ETC

If you used to be a reader of YS then this is what most of the programes looked like..

Do you remember an issue where they did a b-side tune by dave wilson?
Reminder....

Hold my hand very tightly, very tightly, very tightly, Hold my hand very tightly oooowooohooohoohooo lol :0)

Ahh those were the days.


LMAO! Stanzo, man I thought I was the ONLY one here who used to read YS - what memories. POKES (those codes) ruled!! Did you have a subscription? I remember when you subscribed they gave you a choice of freebee games - I got Dragon Ninja (known as Bad Dudes on the NES in the States) with my first subscription. Shh!!et! I loved that machine, and I loved that mag - those guys were friggin\' hilarious. The demos/games were brilliant too - do you remember; Dustin, Vatman, and of course,

ADVANCED LAWNMOWER SIMULATOR[/i]

:)

A present for you, it will make you all teary-eyed with nostalgia;

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm

You can spend hours there. Enjoy.

:)
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: StAnZo on July 30, 2001, 10:43:57 AM
F**k me man, that links cool. nuff respect for the link man, that\'s just pure class. i was unaware
of such a site. i remember that quite a few of the editors and staff were totally barmey.
Yowzaa you can even download the tapes :0) this is serious stuff... i\'m off to speccy heaven. oh i wont be forgetting to hit ctrl-d nice one man.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: StAnZo on July 30, 2001, 10:52:49 AM
LMAO... Memoiries eh.. here\'s that tune that i\'d mentioned earlier.

http://ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourSinclair/Issue44/Tape/DaveyWilsonSings.mp3.zip

back in the day this was funny. does anybody remember this?
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Coredweller on July 30, 2001, 11:42:35 AM
All you lame Commodore users...

BOW BEFORE THE ONE TRUE GOD!!!

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftrident.mcs.kent.edu%2F%7Eclisowsk%2Fpics%2Fatari.gif&hash=7ef599e8e252c9dc9e90cb71b3928a3f9d7b8fc0)

:bounce: :laughing: :laughing: :D

I owned these cutting edge systems:

Sinclair ZX-81 (plus 16k ***ule, oh yeah)
Texas Instruments 99-4A
Mattel Aquarius... who remembers it?
Atari 800XL (now I have two of em)
Atari 600XL

I used to read Analog and Antic and all those Atari magazines religiously.  Typed in assembly language games in hex.  Hell I learned 6502 assembly language on my Ataris.  Ah those were the days.
Title: Thanks!
Post by: Indigo Imac on July 30, 2001, 02:29:15 PM
Thanks to any of you that have joined my Com***ore/Spectrum Forum!

I only launched it 8 weeks ago so hopefully we can get the place a bit more lively in the coming months, if any of you other nostalgic people would care to join I would be grateful!

http://www.loadedforum.uni.cc

Registration for a Free Global Account only takes around 3 minutes and then you post on any ezboard without having to ever register at one again.

Once again thanks.
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: StAnZo on July 31, 2001, 02:37:18 AM
Here\'s a link to a site about David \'Whistlin Rick\' Wilson (The guy who made that YS tune"

http://homepages.enterprise.net/cavan/ysac/rick.shtml

Note: This guy is now the head of PR at SCEE. Just goes to show what comes of people.

I found that rather interesting....Hold my hand very tightly very t..i...g....t....l......y.............
* Stanzo sings into the distance
Title: Anyone remember the Commodore or Spectrum computers?
Post by: Samwise on July 31, 2001, 10:50:10 AM
Commodore ruled Atari! :p
Title: Commodore V Spectrum Vote Now!
Post by: Indigo Imac on August 07, 2001, 01:00:34 PM
There is currently a poll going on!

Commodore V Spectrum - Defend your childhood computer by voting now!

http://pub73.ezboard.com/floadedspectrumtheforumfrm16.showMessage?topicID=7.topic

Cheers