Charles Hawn
@charleshawn66
I have loved computers since my Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982. Then my #C64 that I got for Xmas in 1983, which I still use. #Commodore64 #Commodore #RetroComputing #retrogaming #retrogames
Is it the missile silo from the beginning of War Games from 1983. Officer would not launch missile so they removed the need for the 2 officers and gave it to WOPR.
I got both types of C64 PLA (longer one I think is called super PLA off the top of my head) and an SX-64 PLA from Adoreware on eBay at a good price. I bought these tools after watching 8-bit repair videos for 2 years. I had never solder before but told myself, "You can do this".
My 4 Havanese will swim with me in the pool (only one at a time for safety). When their hair is long before there grooming it takes forever for them to dry off.
I 100% agree with that. It became even better when they put a C128 and a 1571 disk drive into one case and called it the C18DCR. Here is one of my C128s and my C128DCR.
I watched The Sheep Detectives last night. It was a cute, good movie. I'd give it a C+ or maybe B. Have you seen it yet.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos was released 40 years ago today on July 11, 1986. It was written by Steve Meretzky. It is Infocom's 22nd game. The year is 1936. You are at your favorite bar when you are abducted by aliens. The game has 3 modes, Tame, Suggestive, or Lewd. #Infocom #Commodore #C64
Planetfall was released 43 years ago today on July 8, 1983. It was written by Steve Meretzky and is Infocom's 8th game. You are a 7th Class Ensign of the Stellar Patrol serving aboard the S.P.S. Feinstein. You are hoping that something exciting will happen. #Commodore64 #C64 #Infocom
I LOVE Infocom games with all the GREAT feelies. The 4 you picked are all good one! Here are some of my copies of those four games.
Happy 47th Birthday #Infocom. Thank you for 31 GREAT All text games (1980-1987) followed by 10 games that had some form of graphics in the game (1988-1989). It was a sad day when Activision ended you on May 5, 1989, when they fired all employees except for 5 who they moved to Activision HQ in CA.
The MOS 6502 was such a GREAT CPU and used in many games systems and home computers starting in the mid 70s through the 80s and early 90s.
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur was released 37 years ago today on June 6, 1989. Written by Bob Bates It was Infocom's 41st & last game. Activision who had acquired Infocom in a merger on February 12, 1986, fired all but five of the Infocom employees on May 5, 1989 & closed down the Infocom offices.
Thank you for your post. Here is what the SMALL town I was raised in dose to remember its veterans. My Grandfather served in during WWII and passed away in 1999. My uncle served in Vietnam, and he just passed away last month.
The Witness was released 43 years ago today on May 24, 1983. It was written by Stu Galley and was Infocom's 7th game. You are a police detective in 1938 in LA. A wealthy man has been murdered, and you have 12 hours to solve the murder. #Infocom #Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #InteractiveFiction
I just received my Sega Saturn CD version of Zork I from Japan. This is my 9th packaging type for Zork I. #Infocom
COOL!!! Those boxes look just like the size and shape of the 10 Infocom games that Mastertronic re-released in 1990-1991 only in the Great Britain under license from Activision.
Here is some Zork I that I added some background music so that people didn't have to hear just my voice.
Here are my 8 package versions of Zork I. I should be getting my 9th, Saga CD case from Japan today.
I've always said since the 80s and its still true today a that the human brain is better than and video card and my PC had a GeForce 4090 graphics card.
Charles I. Peddle (November 25, 1937 – December 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor.
Keegan you look great as always and your personal photographer has taken another great photo of you. The groomer van was here yesterday and gave my 2 girls haircuts, baths and did their nails. Here they are before and after.
Bil Herd wrote about how they had to add a 2nd CPU to the C128, an Z80 to get the C128 to go into and work in C64 mode. They did not add the Z80 just so they could include the CP/M OS with the C128, but as long as they had to add the Z80 CPU, they included CP/M to use it as a selling point.
The Commodore 128 is primarily known for having three operating modes—C128, C64, and CP/M. However, because the C128 and CP/M modes can operate in either 40-column or 80-column display, the machine is sometimes described as having five distinct, actionable configurations.
Columns not characters. The C64 with its one video chip, the VIC-II puts out 40 columns. The C128 has two video chips, the VIC-II puts out 40 columns (when in C64 mode and also C128 40 column mode) & a video chip called the VDC that puts out 80 columns. My C128DCR. 80 columns left CRT, 40 right CRT