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grennouille
Registered: Jul 2008
Posts: 222 |
Just for curiosity
I wonder ... How do your families/friends consider your c64 love?
Personnaly I have 3 children and a girlfriend who see me like I'm an E.T. sometimes... My youngest son who is 5 years old sometime enjoys playing some of the 64 games but it don't take very long before he goes back to is Nintendo DS...
Sometimes, when a new flashy demo comes out here, I play it in Vice Full screen with speakers up and ask my girlfriend "Look ! Look ! Awesome what a 1mhz 64k computer can do! These coders are awesome! Don't you think? She replies : Of course.. Of course...
Do the people you love see you like an E.T. sometimes too?
Just curious and jobs boring so... |
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ready.
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 441 |
Regarding my home Commodore setup:
my wife has been "devoted" to Bomberman64 and accepts some SID music (only calm and melodic stuff). She likes me being creave on the demo side, even if I learnt I cannot always code. Our 1-year daughter has always been attrated by demos running on the screen. Actually sometimes I load a demo and let her watch it just for entertainment and distraction when she cries too much.
regarding my work setup:
my colleagues and boss are amazed that I built my own stuff for work purposes and that I am actually using it with profit, proving how handy a C64 can be.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
Quote:That and since they can do much more with their cell phone than the c64 can produce, it's easy to dismiss it.
pah, they cant even do smooth scrolling on their damned mobile =P |
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Carrion
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 317 |
My family doesn't like either the SIDs or Demos but they accept my hobby. My son prefers to play Little Big Planet on PS3 rather than Gianna Sisters on real machine, but I can live with that too.
I have some friends who know what I do (scene wise) and even if they do not understand the technical details I try to explain to them but they admire a lot my passion behind all this demoscene hype!
And it gives me a lot of strengths and makes me wanna share with them some small succesess I have on demoscene.
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NecroPolo
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 231 |
Quote: Quote:That and since they can do much more with their cell phone than the c64 can produce, it's easy to dismiss it.
pah, they cant even do smooth scrolling on their damned mobile =P
Haha, very true :D |
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Shadow
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 355 |
Sceners with girlfriends and kids? WTF? Am I the only one keeping up the anti-social-nerd-coder stereotype nowadays? ;) |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 424 |
I'd like to see a version of this thread written by family and friends instead... :) |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1646 |
My daughter does not enjoy playing games on C64 that much either. She prefers Atari2600 instead. ;) |
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Carrion
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 317 |
few months ago when i bought a new C64 (yes i haven't c64 for 12 years or so) i started Eternal (my last game i did in 1994) and my son (7) said that these old games were so boring ... I have another son (2) and a lot of hopes that he is 8 bit ready ;) |
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rattus
Account closed
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 14 |
Hi
My wife thinks my c64 demo/music/stuff is a harmless bad.... I make her watch and listen stuff every now and then and she seems to like a few of the releases....
My son loves everything that is COOL... We quite share the same opinion, but he can't ofcourse realize how cool a slow vector-show is... even with textures etc... Boy is 4 years old.
My older daughter thinks everything with a good music is good. A good tune is a tune wort dancing with... So she dances.... A good beat, a good melody... or just a good tune... and she dances and dances.... She is 1,5 years old...
My younger daughter is now almost 4 months old... She likes "Artillery 85% Version" by Shape.... We haven't tried very many demos yet...
One thing that kids really like is the arpeggio of sid songs... And pulse-modulation is even more better... Try it with your kids :)
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
my nephew (now 9 years old) got his c64 from me some months ago, and he is working on programming his own game now :=) |
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