what did you most dislike about the C64

hyperhack · Post by **hyperhack** » 01/09/2004 - 0:50

Yikes! Looks like i've started a war in C64 land!

Boz · Post by **Boz** » 01/09/2004 - 7:44

Kenz wrote:SID CHIP BUZZ!!

You won't believe how much time I've spent removing it from the tracks I've recorded for the BZ CD range ... !

I'll second that -- removing it from Martin Galway's tunes. ARGH!

beyond · Post by **beyond** » 01/09/2004 - 9:29

I would say that getting into re-aligning the tape head with my Azimuth-kit was a bad career move

... since then nothing worked really well with my tape-deck(s).

Loaders showing the status of possible CRC-errors while loading was my rescue, though.

Zzapback · Post by **Zzapback** » 01/09/2004 - 12:44

Vosla wrote:
Romeo Knight wrote:For me the worst thing was...
....the CP/M-Mode of my C128. I still don't know what it was good for....
Did anyone know?`

Err, I remember something about 80 columns instead of 40.

Shame about the money, my c128, that black on green screen wasn't half as interesting as the blue one.

Romeo Knight · Post by **Romeo Knight** » 01/09/2004 - 12:53

Zzapback wrote: Shame about the money, my c128, that black on green screen wasn't half as interesting as the blue one.

But it had.....<attention>....turtle graphics with Basic Version 7

!
Now that's something!:lol:

Feekzoid · Post by **Feekzoid** » 01/09/2004 - 15:24

The keyboard.

The disintegrating joysticks.

The Pre-fastloader loading times.

and... er... using the C64 without what would become its "OS" for me - the Action Replay!

Random $d418 sample playback volume (read: non existant on the 64c)

BASIC - the worst implementation thereof that I ever came across. Really pissed me off as I used to get "INPUT" magazine, and much later on they had lots of cool graphics program listings, but you couldnt use them, unless you had a SIMONS BASIC cartridge - which I couldnt afford, being 12 and all :(

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 02/09/2004 - 20:44

If I am able to recall it... those listings in INPUT64 (if it's what you were talking about) were written in INPUTBasic, not SimonsBasic. Would have been a terrible waste of money...

Well, programming the C64 was quite an adventure anyway.

Though programming was tough on the C64, I think it's still a better tool to learn about computers than a supadupa PC with WinXP or even Linux (though hardcore C64-fans among my friends evolved to hardcore Linux-freaks).

I'm so sorry I lost a couple of nice programs I had written: A simple paint program, an even more simple "composing"-tool and some very stupid (and most simple) shoot'em ups with very funny sprites. Could have been really funny (maybe embarrassing?) to see those proggies again...