Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be....

 

My first computer... spent MANY MANY a night playing Manic Miner

 

the price

 

Yeah, that price is what gets me. Nowadays that would cost like $500. Gotta love that capitalism.

 

Laminate Finish...

Quality...

 

Oh, yes. None of that fake carbon fiber stick-on vinyl here. That stuff is such a fingerprint magnet. This gear gives you wood.

Er........ maybe I should rephrase that last part.

 

It has even a vintage tape machine... what more to wish

My first was a C4 with rubber keys, but I don`t recall any games for it ?!?
Cool games came with the C64... countless hours spent in front of a monitor

Te funny thing is that in a few decades we will probably remember the today`s DAWs as a joke

 

A blast from the past : the zx81 was my first one...
Well, you never forget your 1st one!

 

My fathers and mine first computer 1983-84. Hey it had 1KB which we had expanded with a additional modul to 16KB. But we had to fix it with Velcro-strip so that does not causes loose connection. :D

 

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Dont get it twisted. That price is just for the 'tray'! -- about £100 in today's money. That's an expensive tray but I suppose it stopped your lap from burning

 

C64 here. I wouldn't be who I am today without it. When I was ~12yo I wrote my first lines of code in Basic that resulted in an awesome sound from the SID chip. Epiphany!

 

the C64 never had rubber keys...

Do you mean the ZX spectrum 48K?

 

no, I mean the Commodore C4

very similar to this one, but the case was white:

 

Bullshit. There's no way NI Massive will fit in 16K-byte. What about the libraries, ffs?

 

Nostalgia! My cousin got a Spectrum and I was fascinated playing with him (Manic Miner, what an addiction). Then I asked my parents a computer, I went with my father to a store (there were Spectrum, C64, Amstrad and MSX) and I fell in love with a C64 running "The way of the exploding fist". Sampled voices! (well, hits and screams).

Then I heard the Ocean loaders and I was even more impressed. I have them in mp3 lol. SID, what a sound chip, 3 voices, etc

Years later I bought an Amiga 500 and the sound was even better. The first modules songs, 4 voices. I don't remember the sound of the Amiga sound chip, woman name I think. It included a text to speech engine which was easy to use with AmigaBasic even for non English text using phonemes. My friends didn't believe it.

 

That fore You have included in the package, the tape machine

 

I remember this time when buying a 16 kb RAM extension was more than enough and a 64 kb pack was just overkill...

 

Yes ... came to level 57 and then loose life
Later, when we found how to POKE game for infinite life that was a Christmas

 

Ha, I recently played Manic Miner right the way through on a C64 emulator. Great memories.

 

I remember buying a cartridge for my C64 to copy games (it was like a memory dump). It came with a full featured graphic OS using windows (windows OS with joystick, not joking). Until one day C64 game coders discovered an anti-piracy measure: to use sound chip SID registers to store important data.