Any Commodore fans out there?

[Transistorized]

I have 4 that are 100% working. This time of the year I like to fire it up and play Christmas songs on it. But throughout the year, my wife and I will play Wheel of Fortune on it. The disk drives both still work, and so does the cassette drive but, I use a modern SD to IEC controller to store and load my games and software now.

 

[Just MV]

bonsoir, moi Fan Amiga 500 pour toujours

 

[Superduper]

I was gonna say yes, until I realized you aren’t speaking of the music group.

 

[Transistorized]

I was gonna say yes, until I realized you aren’t speaking of the music group.

My favorite song by them is Night Shift

 

[caution]

Hell yeah Ryan! I was a Commodore kid. My first one was a VIC-20 back in '82, then upgraded to a 64, but by the time I had enough saved for a disk drive (which cost as much or more than the 64 itself) I started seeing ads for the C128 and the Amiga, so I kept saving. I found a used A1000 for cheap and man, those were some good times. I loved that thing. I was stylin' with my Supra 2400 and genlock (I piped in the TV signal to be my desktop background, LOL) but the 1000 had some annoying limitations so I jumped to an A500 a couple years later. Maxtor 200 meg drive in a GVP enclosure, 4 meg ram expansion, and my beloved 16800bps USR dual standard modem. That was screamin' fast for 1992, hah. Those were the days...

 

[Brutus442]

I spent hours and hours on my 64 and then Amiga 500. I had Test Drive, Beach Head, Raid over Moscow, shhhh...Strip Poker...Impossible Mission
Beyond he sports games and Epyx Summer/ Winter Games....I latched on to Flight Simulator 2 and fell in love with simming. The C64 got me hooked!

To this day I still spend several hours flying online each week and I'll never tell my wife how much I've paid for my radio stack/ throttle quadrant and rudder/ yoke controls .

Nice to see a 64 up and running again
Load"*",8,1

 

[Transistorized]

For those who might not know, Commodore is back making computers again. Recently purchased and currently reselling memories

 

[Tinman]

I remember a goup of us playing wheel of fortune on one senior year in high school (during 1st period study, lol).

 

[Fatdog]

That's so cool! I never had a Commodore 64, but I did have the Atari 400. I thought I was big stuff back then.

 

[Hajidub]

Ohhhhhhhhh, different Commodore. Was going to say a founding member plays keyboard on weekends at a local, upscale cajun bar by my house.

 

[IDLookout]

I was lucky enough to be a Beta Tester for the C64U, and even got my name in the Acknowledgement Page in the really cool printed manual.

It was a fun experience, and i got to keep the test board as well. Waiting on my Blingboard keyboard to go with it in my clear case.

Of course, i ordered a Gold Founder's Edition C64U first day and have it set up along with my Pet 4016, Plus 4, Vic 20, multiple other C64s, C128, Amiga 500, etc... I have a problem LOL

 

[Transistorized]

I was lucky enough to be a Beta Tester for the C64U, and even got my name in the Acknowledgement Page in the really cool printed manual.

It was a fun experience, and i got to keep the test board as well. Waiting on my Blingboard keyboard to go with it in my clear case.

Of course, i ordered a Gold Founder's Edition C64U first day and have it set up along with my Pet 4016, Plus 4, Vic 20, multiple other C64s, C128, Amiga 500, etc... I have a problem LOL

That is very cool. Always nice to meet a fellow C64 enthusiast. I have managed to keep 4 working bread bins from the 83 to 84 era. One has the original box and is a earlier board design. I thought about getting the new C64 but since I have so many originals still working, I held off.

Congratualtions on getting the limited Gold founders edition. That certainly puts you in the elite group to own one. I am fully hoping that Commodore makes a successful comeback. My wife and I still smile playing games on my old computer. I havd had it since before high school. It has had to have multiple chips replaced on it throughout the years. Obvioulsy the PLA, a few memory chips and most recently TTL logic chip failed. I shipped it all the way to Ray Carlsen in Washington to sort it out every time. That guy is a genious.

 

[IDLookout]

That is very cool. Always nice to meet a fellow C64 enthusiast. I have managed to keep 4 working bread bins from the 83 to 84 era. One has the original box and is a earlier board design. I thought about getting the new C64 but since I have so many originals still working, I held off.

Congratualtions on getting the limited Gold founders edition. That certainly puts you in the elite group to own one. I am fully hoping that Commodore makes a successful comeback. My wife and I still smile playing games on my old computer. I havd had it since before high school. It has had to have multiple chips replaced on it throughout the years. Obvioulsy the PLA, a few memory chips and most recently TTL logic chip failed. I shipped it all the way to Ray Carlsen in Washington to sort it out every time. That guy is a genious.

Ray rocks!

I use one of his PSUs on my main Commodore 64.

A bit of a sad story: My C128 is the one i've had since high school, that i got some money for by selling my original C64 (Christmas, 1984). About 10 years ago, i asked the guy who i sold it to if he still had it. (I've lived in the same house i grew up in since 2003). He said that he would go look. Got back to me and said that he knew it was in a closet a year ago, but that his wife had thrown it away. Ugggggh. I was 1 year too late in asking.

 

[Transistorized]

Ray rocks!

I use one of his PSUs on my main Commodore 64.

He does for sure! Small world. I have his PSU as well along with the inline 5VDC over protection circuit. It's the best way to protect the RAM since the older OEM PS units are prone to failing. I cringe when I see people still using the original power bricks. The voltage regulators are known to fail and fry RAM.

The ePROM chips in all of my C64s he programmed for PLA's and they work flawlessly without any glitches. He has helped me out on a number of occasions. Great man for sure!

A bit of a sad story: My C128 is the one i've had since high school, that i got some money for by selling my original C64 (Christmas, 1984). About 10 years ago, i asked the guy who i sold it to if he still had it. (I've lived in the same house i grew up in since 2003). He said that he would go look. Got back to me and said that he knew it was in a closet a year ago, but that his wife had thrown it away. Ugggggh. I was 1 year too late in asking.

Man that sucks. I know what it means to have that feeling. There were many of those made obviously but only one with the memories and that was the actual computer you had back in the day. I have quite a few things like that in my home. Even cars. My 72 Olds Cutlass my father passed down to me when he passed away is like that. There are quite a few that survived but it's that specific car that I want because it's been in my life and in the family since I was 1 year old.

As far as your old C128, it still happens these days where things get thrown away. But I always give pause before I do because it is easy to not know if research isn't done. In the case of the Commodore computers, some of those chips on the boards are hitting $50 plus USD. Especially the SID and VIC chips.