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- r2builder, on 12/25/2007, -2/+8610 PRINT "MERRY CHRISTMAS";
20 GOTO 10
RUN - mvanhorn, on 12/25/2007, -2/+77dugg for "hi-res graphics"
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -0/+36I gave up my 64 back in the day and moved on to an Amiga 500, then to a PC. Awhile into my career of software development, I became disallusioned with writing code. It stopped being fun and interesting. One day surfing around on Ebay, I saw a Commodore 128 and bought it. Its sitting in the computer room, and will always have a place in there. You sometimes have to stop, and go back to the things that made who you are. It may be useless to the average person, but that machine really helped define who I am today. It wont be going out into a trash heap. On topic, that machine was bought for me during the Christmas of '86 if I recall. Boy it felt like I was reliving my youth when it came in the mail. Note to you younger folks.. dont toss those things you love as time goes on. You WILL miss them. Merry Christmas!
- Bidofthis, on 12/26/2007, -0/+27According to the BLS inflation calculator, a Commodore 64 bought in 1982 for $595 would cost $1,295.91 in 2007
- iammzac, on 12/25/2007, -0/+20Only $595!
- Jumile, on 12/26/2007, -0/+15Oh man... I was 10 when this was released. It changed my life, and some of its games are still my all-time favourites. I still have my C64C that I saved up for out of my own pocket money - took me over a year. Happy days!
- Dokument, on 12/25/2007, -5/+17aww. thats no NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR!!
- sspooner, on 12/26/2007, -0/+12Not quite, notice the semicolon at the end of the print.
- Dylson, on 12/25/2007, -3/+14Ah, this brings back memories. Even though I was born in 89.
o_O - popltree2, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1064k of memory?!? Sign me up!
- fozzie, on 12/26/2007, -0/+9I know I have that sitting around on a 5 1/4 here somewhere... Oh yeah! on the back of my notched with a hole punch Lode Runner!!
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -1/+10This one is a lot more impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiul1Xu9wbg - inactive, on 12/25/2007, -1/+9Sure that's pretty cool. Brings back memories. Merry Christmas everyone!
- TrevorBradley, on 12/26/2007, -1/+9Oh Sweet Jeebus. I have not seen that since I was 10. I'm 33 now.
Digg has unlocked secret parts of my brain. - CaviMike, on 12/26/2007, -3/+11You got a little bit on your chin.
- Nudar, on 12/26/2007, -1/+8LOAD "*",8,1 RETURN
- anesthesia, on 12/25/2007, -0/+7man that snowman during the jingle-bells section is the creepiest snowman i've ever seen
- SpyDerMann, on 12/26/2007, -0/+6well, it's more or less the price of a laptop.
- smacksaw, on 12/26/2007, -0/+6I think that's the first c64 demo I've ever seen that wasn't SID techno and was done by a European demo group.
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -1/+6This is what got me started in computers. Love the memories. I was 12 when this was out. Straight out of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
- Corrosionx, on 12/26/2007, -0/+520 years ago today (I was 7), I received a Commodore 64 for Christmas.
Memories.... - alexkorova, on 12/26/2007, -0/+5I still have my C64 and my favourite C64 game - International Karate +. I wonder if it still works, was quite some years ago I last tested it.
- nixfu, on 12/26/2007, -0/+5
God...I am so old.. I remember watching this over and over on my C-64.. I think I remember having it play as background at one of our family holiday parties over and over. - epilonious, on 12/26/2007, -1/+5But it had twice as much memory as the apple II!!
- ekai, on 12/25/2007, -4/+86502 + SID ftw!
- Nougat, on 12/26/2007, -1/+5I just read recently that the C64 had the best graphics of its time, by a longshot.
- toaday, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4WOW. . . I remember that program! I drove my parents nuts with it. Ohhh, the memories
- nathanchase, on 05/06/2009, -0/+4I sought out a Commodore 64 emulator for the express purpose of playing this demo on my PC. It used to be a tradition to have this demo playing in the background in my room during Christmas's back around 1986-1990. Great Memories!
- murki, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4I ran into her on computer camp.
-"Was that in 84?"
Not sure, I had my commodore 64, had to score... - Sniperclops, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3I remember having this on my C64
- allaboutdatiki, on 12/25/2007, -2/+5twisted mashup coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
- Cimlite, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3Amiga version was a lot better, but it was available on the C64 as well (and the Atari ST).
- LoveWidescreen, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3Ah, the memories of that glorious computer come flooding back! I still have this Christmas demo for my C64 emulator. You can have it when you pry it out of my cold, dead SID chip. ;)
- Awspire, on 12/26/2007, -1/+4Ahh yes, that brings back the mems. Sitting at my Tandy MC-10, as a wee little one, typing in line after line of code from a book my parents bought me at the mall to make games.
- crapmatic, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3If this Christmas program was indeed on the Gazette disc I wonder how many people spent 2 hours entering the machine code with all the checksums, only to find out it didn't work. Been there, done that.
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2And people complain about the PS3 price?
What does $595 in 1982 dollars amount to adjusted for inflation? - alphaterminus, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2The Euro demo scene used the SID to its full potential, and the sound was a beautiful thing to behold.
- epilonious, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Can't sleep, Commodore Frosty will eat me?
- LoveYouSomeEric, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2last place I expected a Datarock reference. awesome.
- Error601, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Ah, the old Bach's Invention #13 at the end. Brings back memories.
- SaxxonPike, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Despite the age of the machine, the C64 demoscene still lives on. Some good demos:
Deus Ex Machina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiul1Xu9wbg
Projections: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_d0ojvDwLQ - inactive, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2there's a few guys at work all into video games and computers and what not. So the other day a conversation of some sort got started and I said, Ya! I had that game on the c64, it ruled!, all I got was a, whats a c64? sigh...
- brada33928, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2C64 forever~~~~!!!!!
- AriaStar, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2What cost $595 in 1982 would cost $1272.61 in 2006. Inflation for this year is about 4.5% more.
- asaone, on 12/26/2007, -0/+2Around the same time period I had a TRS/80 Model III, yep the trash 80 with 16k ram and a cassette drive for storage. It used the CP/M operating system and I learned to program with Microsoft Basic.
- JettaMan, on 12/26/2007, -1/+2I read all about Commodore in the book "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore". Weird company. Lots of screwballs.
- andywebb95, on 12/29/2007, -0/+1Emulators are nice and goodness they are convenient.
But they still don't beat the original hardware - mc4_a, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1Me too...me too...
- Dr.Fade, on 12/30/2007, -0/+1Happy New Year to everyone. Hunt the wumpus.
- spazm, on 12/25/2007, -1/+26510 + SID(6581). The 6510 was a modified 6502 with an additional general purpose i/o port
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