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Wile Coyote
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Registered: Mar 2004
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How many years does the C64 have remaining?
With activity down, combined with appearances of sceneres releasing old stuff created years back, I wonder how much the C64 scene can continue?
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11351 |
Quote:Not like DTV or so. Rather like the minimig I think.
yuck, minimig is a horrible rendition of a "clone", it's in no way better than DTV =P |
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uneksija
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 45 |
Millions after millions of C64s were made. You can still buy a 100% working Sixtyfour for very cheap from Ebay. Of course more and more C64s will stop working in the future, and it will become more difficult to find a good setup to enjoy demos etc. But it is far from too difficult so far to get a 100% working C64 I think, and I'm yet not very worried of the future. I'm sure there will be working C64s when we are all just dust (altough less of them). |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
Quote: Replying to "How many years does the C64 have remaining?"
not a whole lot if ppl keep on nagging about everything continuously...
the scene is full of nagging since the beginnings. |
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Mermaid
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 338 |
Oswald: No it isn't!!!!!!1!
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
ahaha :D |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
Haha, this is one funny thread! ;-D TDJ is having half a wank and GPZ pinpoints the exact death of everything! 8)
Yago's point of asking "how many years acoustic guitar has left" is completely valid though. As we all know it was to be killed by the electric guitar! 8) You could just as well ask how many years the radio (it was going to be made extinct by MTV, remember?), the newspaper (same thing - Internet!) or even freaking Vinyl (vinyl sales have risen a shitload last year, it might even outlive the CD!) have remaining!
The c64 has long reached absolute cult status. Anything that reaches cult status will NEVER EVER TRULY DIE!
Jesus, I know a guy, born in 1974, who's into old American cars bigtime. And _ALL_ of them were built almost two decades before he was even BORN!
And he's by far not the only one, there are hundreds of thousands of old car lovers out there! The same is already happening for Computers. And yes, these car guys also still drive these cars and work on them! ;-)
And ALL of these cars sold WAY less units than the c64!
The c64 will not die with us 30+ oldskool sceners. There will be new ones (besides Knoeki and his ilk! >;-), and there probably already are quite a few, we just haven't met them yet! ;-)
Guys, if I've learned something from past events and proclamations it is this: The c64 scene will NOT die when you quit it! And you will NOT be the last one to "switch off the lights", as much as each of us wants to be that very one! ;-) All the 80s oldskoolers returning who are so baffled there still is a scene today should teach us all a lesson!
Oh, and JC: "It died a couple of minutes back in the 90s, but since getting back it has done all fine. Now everything is stable and sound. All values are normal." - You're not talking about when your house burned down with all your stuff, are you? 8)
WEC: I'd say that this year's Breakpoint alone has seen atleast 4 c64-demos that would qualify as a "Megademo" (whatever THAT really is, never understood the concept - just like I never understood why 64k and 4k PC demos are called "Intros"! 8)
And as for Meet Crest: Yes, it does exist, a concept exists (which is HILARIOUSLY outdated by now!) and some parts of it have already been "raided" for Krestage 1&2... There's a few nice ones left though, also worldfirsts! 8) But beware, it's very much original 90s Crest style! ;-)
One day I will be able to motivate xbow (and myself) to finish it... Who is, btw, very vocal on german forums like c64forum.de, WEC! 8)
I don't know if that was the reason WEC started this thread, but just IN CASE it wasn't: HAPPY BIRTHDAY C64!!!!! He's 25 today, a quarter of a millenium! 8) |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
Quote: I predict the downfall of the C64 scene sometime within the next 2 weeks, when the majority of sceners will die from heart attacks after heated discussions about copyright and the use of reference material. Possibly.
Yes, this means I will survive you all!
I have no heart, you see. |
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Wile Coyote
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Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 646 |
*off topic*
And as for Meet Crest: Yes, it does exist, a concept exists (which is HILARIOUSLY outdated by now!)
Concepts are easy - Making them become reality is another matter (I should knowm I've been on that C64 road for 10+ years now - and yes 'Zeros & Ones' will one day become reality. With each passing year it gets better and better. In some ways, what with some of the parts looking old, the demo feels like a history lesson in C64 graphics, starting with Bitmap(MC) and progessing through many formats until it reachings the present time, where the power of a PC makes a small but necessary appearance. I guess we'll see more of Meet Krest in Krestage 4 :P
*topic on*
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_V_
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Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 124 |
> Original question: I don't know, but I do know that I am going to quit as soon as my c64 (or 1541, whichever comes first) breaks down. It's something I promised myself back when I began pixeling/composing for demos and stuff. Little did I know that 13 years from that point, they're both still proverbially purring like kittens.
They're going to outlast me, mark my words ;).
> Meet Crest: I remember sending a postcard to Xbow to get a copy of Meet Crest. Still keeping my fingers crossed... not that I have much of a choice, since I can't seem to un-cross them anymore :)! |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
V: do like the rest, buy more C64's so you always have a supply! |
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