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Mr. Mouse
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 235 |
C64 Divine Love
Just what the hell is it exactly that forces me to burn the midnight lamp on c64 related activities scores of years after the 'downfall' of that computer. In my heart I know and there are no doubts. The outside world doesn't understand. They fail to grasp. Even I cannot explain it to them. It is of course the scene, for a big part, but even before I joined the scene, I was attracted to it. Lured to it. I tried to get away from it, sold my VIC20 to buy an MSX, only to sell the MSX to get an MSX2 and still I didn't feel right. I sold the MSX2 to buy the C64, as I spent more time on somebody else's C64 than on my own MSX2. At times, I had to cut my bond with the C64 to get passed my exams, or just to attempt to get away from The Bond and sold it, and I took those decisions on my own. Only to buy another one some weeks, or months later. I just couldn't get or stay away. It is insane, right? Here I am 28 years later and I still spent time on that Commodore technology. WTF?! |
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 493 |
Please stop babbling and do some demos instead. |
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Mr. Mouse
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 235 |
There is a time for work and a time for reflection, Sander. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11182 |
sander wins :=) |
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ready.
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 441 |
actually I think one of the good reasons to learn how the c64 works nowadays is that it is simple enough to learn the basics of electronics and low level programming.
I noticed that many people who are very well trained in the IT field on the high level, have much difficult in understanding for example how an IRQ works.
I use a C64 at my work place on daily basis to simualte the behaviour of a physical sistem (internal combustion engine). Other colleagues of mine use more modern stuff like Nation Instruments PXI controller. They program in LABView, I program in assembler. But I can tell you that the C64 does its job really well. |
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Zaz
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 33 |
What Sander said. |
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NecroPolo
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 231 |
Quoting SanderPlease stop babbling and do some demos instead.
There is nothing more to add :)
If you feel the inspiration, turn the wheel and do new stuff. |
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SIDWAVE
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
We love C64 because:
In our accelerating reality, where a new pc is outdated 3 months after you bought it, and where your education is outdated before you complete it - we can go back to something basic, something that works, and of which we have full control, and which he have preserved a child's love for, because of the place in time when we got it.
Things come and go. Yo-yo, rubiks cube, tamagotchi, whatever fashionable toy there has been, and come back from time to time.
C64 endures, because its possible to create stuff with it, and nomatter what level of user you are, beginner, intermediate, or the hardest badass expert: you can still create something new with it.
8 bit sample playback, mp3, animated demo in nufli..
There is still cycles to find the best way to use, the soundchip is not even 50% exploited yet, where the videochip is.
By keeping a connection to something in your life, you have a stable foundation that you can always go back to.
In this modern world, where you change jobs and partner, like you change your shirts, to keep up with the endless race to survive in a too fast to keep track on reality - the C64 is your homebase. Its where you have control, and can count on new experiences in the future, always.
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5034 |
I think we love the c64 because we are nostalgic nerds that just cant grow up and leave childhood. |
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Fredrik
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 204 |
Oswald, I could not have said it better myself :)
10/10
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Intensity
Account closed
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 337 |
The C64 is my Sex Toy! :P |
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