Dear retro-freaks,
today I learned, that there is still an active scene, that is coding software and demos for the Commodore 64. Here are some examples:
Fake News (C64 Edition)
This program's release date is June, 11th 2017 and I discovered it through a tweet of the Commodore 64 news feed.
To be able to run this program, I had to install a great emulator called Vice emulator. It runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machines.
Here are some screenshots of Fake News:
And here is the download link, if you want to run the program by yourself:
Galza-26: Fake News (C64 Edition) [2017]
At the same page I discovered many other cool demos. The top rated demo is from 2014 and is called:
Uncensored
Here is the download link:
Uncensored [2014]
If you don't want to run the demo in an emulator, you can just watch this youtube video:
My Computer History
My first personal computer was the VIC-20 from Commodore with a Datasette. When I later switched to the C-64, I also bought myself a 1541 floppy disk drive, which was fed with 5 1/4'' floppy-discs.
But the best thing I'd bought, had been an Ascom Acoustic Coupler. With this small box, I was able to surf the first mailboxes in the pre-internet era. And I instantly felt, that this is the future.
What was your first computer?
Did you own a Commodore, a TI-99/4A, an Amstrad CPC 464 or a Sinclair ZX81?
Please tell me in the comments!
I hope, you enjoyed this small flashback to the early homecomputer age!
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