The small notebook with numbers and titles were fixtures in the boys in my childhood, and we coiled

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The small notebook with numbers and titles were fixtures in the boys in my childhood, and we coiled eager to get the tape unit counts to reach the magic number where the notebook promised that the next untried game was waiting hover for us.
Confused? So you're probably not a man of 30 to 45 years and has a special place in your heart for the little bread box-shaped machine, which for a generation was the icon of the personal computer era.
I was not even one of those who were lucky enough to own a Commodore 64 It was, after all, poor eighties. But several of my classmates had one, and even before the headsets on Xbox and Guilds in World of Warcraft computer game was a social hover activity.
However, I have to give a shout-out to Amstrad 464, which was actually the home computer, I spent the most time in the company of. And now we are in the nostalgic corner, be sure to also Rolf Ask Clausen story about Sinclair computers and especially the ZX Spectrum.
But it was the Commodore 64, which became synonymous with personal computers was to pay, and although there were improvements in terms of real monitors, disk drives hover and a more compact design, so it broke box of 1982 that could be connected to the TV 'one that is most clearly, bathed in nostalgia generous hover light.
30 years, grateful for a long time, as anyone who has been to 10, 20 or 25 years of school anniversary can attest to. And like her the unattainable goddess of B-class over the years has been completely human with wrinkles, children and a job at the municipality, then the joy of recognition probably fade quickly in the glow of the violet blue startup screen, if today I turned on a Commodore 64th
If I lost the list of number hover codes and game titles I would have no idea where the programs on the tape began and ended, and how many times I had to step back and forth before the nostalgia would lose to the harsh reality.
The screen resolution would hardly be able to keep up with the cheapest mobile phone on the market today. Not even a smartphone, but a 'dumbphone'. In the 1980s, one could find in several hover magazines closely written pages of BASIC code that you could enter. A kind of open source.
We sat many afternoons and typed away, only to get thrown hover one SYNTAX ERROR back in your face, and then we could spend hours trying to find out if the error was our typo or a misprint hover in the magazine. Thank the gods for IDEs, debuggers and SourceForge.
We pirated hover completely without remorse. In the 1980s, I can not remember seeing the original of a single program for the Commodore 64, it was a regular feature at lunch to exchange copies hover of the first band and later disks.
And so we continued right up to the internet hover age. We created Napster and got the record industry to threaten to sue the whole world well into hell. We regret this. It was easy and it was as I said poor eighties.
Commodore 64 turns 30 years old, and it is an eternity for a computer, but the memories of playing Boulder Dash, Barbarian hover or Pitstop still stands as a golden age of computer games. Angry Birds would not have had a leg to the ground then. How will we at least want to remember it.
Fortunately, many of the games have been remade and can be played online or downloaded as apps for the tablet. We may think that they have lost something in the translation and not quite feel like they did back then, but of course it's because the new machines can not deliver the same satisfaction as the crisp sound from C64'eren and a real joystick. hover
Jesper Stein Sandal is a journalist at Version2, but are also role playing, gamer, sci-fi bookworm, zombie survivalist, cupboard Trekkie and disillusioned hover Star Wars fan. He blogs about geek culture from movies to Coke. Follow@@Admin sandal
I remember the amstrad cpc464 purchased I actually first because it looked coolest, but I chose to return it within the right of withdrawal on the advice of a friend of mine who had mastered it with "free" games that were more games 64'eren so if one were to exchange with friends so was the machine should have been. I got mine in 1984, the first game I tried was among other things, hover Moon Buggy, HERO, Blue Max and Paperboy. It lacked constant cassettes and floppy disks for storage, so if you could skore some old Abba tape from his mother which could be reused for the game, so it was good. The disks could be cut with scissors so they got double hover capacity so they could be turned and then you would not buy the expensive disks which were double-sided. Yes piracy was unfortunately quite normal then.
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