Heh - yep. I used that command to figure out syntax errors. Back when the C64 was king, they sold books full of code that you could type in manually to "program" (manually copy, reallly) your own games. It took a long time and you almost always would get typo-realted errors. LOAD "$",8,1 was a life-saver. My other favorite: LOAD "*",8,1 - saved me from ever having to remember the actual file name to boot games. The good 'ol days.
@lplozada wow! .. didnt know you could actually program your own games back in the day with code books. thats pretty amazing. C64 had great games ... blue max, jumpman jr, load runner, buck rogers ... id play those games as a kid for hours and hours on end. Plus copying games from one 4 1/4 to another was pretty easy as well :).
@alcoholsavedme Oh, yeah - those books provided many hours of work for a kid in desperate need for a new game to play. It was a helluva feat for a 9 year old kid to get all of that code put in correctly. The code seemed endless, but when you look back, you realize that the few pages you typed were nothing by today's standards. I remember those games, too, btw. Blue Max was a favorite, for sure! So was Stealth, Congo Bongo and Ghostbusers. I agree about the joys of easy copies back then!
@lplozada Syntax Error. Yes, I had C-64 and remember that Load command. There was a magazine called "RUN". I never had the cassette deck. just the external 5 1/4" disk drive. The percussion on the "Music Machine" cartridge sucked. didn't sound like percussion. The I/O port was where you could plug something in like an Air Interface and hooked up a shortwave radio and decoded the morse code if you were a Ham/Shortwave listener.
I used to play "Temple Of Apshai" and "Summer Games".
My first computer was a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A with 16 RAM. A week after I bought it at full price, they announced they were getting out of the market and put it on clearance for less thatn $100. Son of a butch.
@BlueIsa7 It's not the real commodore, it's jerks with a bad website and a bad attitude. As for this new C64, well, it's a $200 computer marked up to $600. Not worth it.
To those who mock the 64KB of random access memory: RAM was very expensive in the early 1980s. Sure, prices were regularly decreasing, but it still took up a large amount of the manufacturing cost.
@hanrinch Ah how time moves on. My mobile has the same processor speed (800mhz) as a machine i used to use for everything a while back, which i find nuts!
well clock speed aint really everything. some processor that run smartphone may rate 800mhz~1.5ghz but in real time performance they aint even close to a pentium mmx 233mhz in term of floating point and integer performance.
I really have become very fond of Bach invention number 13 thanks to these old commercials (it had become kind of like the C64's anthem.. and you could find it in a lot of the software made for the system as well..) In fact I used to call it the commodore 64 theme music and no one knew what the heck I was talking about.. lol
I find it funny that the NEW commodore 64 by Commodore USA is priced the same as it's original version nearly 30 years ago. $595 USD, talk about irony.
me too Ive still got mine commodore 128D but the audio isnt working anymore, its very low im not sure if thats sound chip on the motherboard, but the video works fine,
Every kid will say their era is the best but it is all relative and, man, when i was a kid there was nothing better .. the kids with Atari , tandy, even apples computers came to my house to play cause their's was second rate compared to this
the other cool thing was there seemed to be such radical diversity in games
This was a great time to be a kid and I still have a copy of Bruce Lee and Castles of Dr Creep ... that green Sumo still ticks me off !
Ive still got my c64, with a working c64 monitor and 1541 disk drive and c64 printer with games on flobbys.
These are the days when you would stay up half the night playing around with this machine with no cell phone and other stuff like this around etc. These are the old school days when games were all about adventures etc.
Not to mention I use the c64 monitor for my sega master system and the sega joypads would stick in the c64 aswell.
i got a c64 2 day and well i have no connecter no adapter and nether does radio shack so Ebay confused me im not a big cregs list fan so im srewed ill have to ask the person who gave it to me
I still want a c64 even though the fact that it is older then me... I dont know I think i would have alot of fun with it. *keeps fingers crossed and hopes to find one at a garage sale*
@Furetgarcon You could be able to find one on ebay? I think you're right, you also learn a lot, the 64 has perhaps the sharpest design of any home computer in history.
Click my name to view COMMODORE 64 SAMPLES PACK: SFX SOUND EXPANDER IN 'C'. If you click the link below it you are also taken to a special selection of SID sounds and effects taken from famous games and applications.
Thanks. I've been trying to figure this out for a long time. I remember playing it in piano lessons back in the day. It's hard to find a missing tune online. You ask something like "You know what song goes like this ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ding dong diga diga dum...." It just doesn't work...
$595 are you kidding me i had one when i was like 7 8 or maybe 9 i had no idea people were spending so much on them,I bought a 96 model commodore executive for $400 today(4 door australian car with the 3.8 buick engine) how does that make sense.i had a atari 2600 before that aswell i wonder what they cost.
@bobby1829387 $199 probably around $260 odd aus$,i wish i kept them all ive been trying to track down a commodore 64 for a few days now and have heard nothing, although i know where i can get a C64 for $150 but im way to cheap for that ha ha
it would take millions(or may be billion) number of commodore 64 to compete to a single core 2 duo e8xxx series. and may be trillions of commodore64 to beat a core i7 860/920. not to mention core i7 x965/975/980
@hanrinch Exactly so considering the amazing programs like GEOS they made with such amazingly small memory and speed constraints shows programmers were geniuses back then.
i think the main reason why modern os consuming amount of memory is because of background task, driver plus&play. windows firewall, and explorer windows menager. but most importantly, the gui interface. like video game, the system will preloading texture and color pixel before the window/tab appear. the higher resolution/color the more memory will be consume. like aero in vista/win7/os-x/lunix. as the interface become more complicate i dont think optimization is possible as it progress further
right. but the land moon operation is much easier than predicting billion user's behavior as the computer only need to locate the landing spot and calculate the time/duration and obit rotations. far easier than multi media and complex instrution set multi data transfer........
@hanrinch Yes, it's important to note the year in which this product was made. 1982. That's 2010 - 1982 = 28 years ago. Core i7's weren't around then, friend. ;)
true. even today's watch is far more powerful then commodore64. not to mention a cell phone/mp3 player/ipod are act like ten of thousand commodore 64 at the same time. if i'm not wrong, consider a core 2 e6300 is 20 million times more powerful performance than what commodore can provide. an i7 would be billion times more. just can imagining how progressive we are in this 3 decades.
@hanrinch Right, but my point was that it seems a useless observation to say that a modern computer is much more powerful. You might as well go to a video about ancient history and comment "There weren't computers back then! My core i7 is much better than that abacus!"
@hanrinch That's absurd. If you had lived in ancient time, you wouldn't know the difference. In a few centuries, if we're still around, technology will be much better than it is today. So you should be ungrateful that you live today and not in the future.
people term to look up for the progressive life. that is what to be a human. of cause i would be live disgraceful if i see the future but i dont have that ability to foreseeing what future would like. hell! i even doubting if we can survive the further feud crisis and even nuclear war .
@hanrinch Yes, but people in the past couldn't see the future either. So they wouldn't know about core i7's then, and they'd feel just as grateful for their time period as you do for yours.
they didnt foresee the future as we cant today. however the "future" is develop by the people in the past. wish to have better life. they wouldn't know what will happen today as we wont know what would happen tomorrow. but we hope something is happen to be good. if there's a choice the ancient people maybe reconsider their life style/technology and quickly adapt what is good to them. i think you wont disagree.
@Caleb9849 Exactly. At the rate technology is increasing, what we're using/doing right now will be passe/obsolete within less than 5yrs. Global tech and information exchange is moving at an unprecedented pace. Whether that's good or bad remains to be seen. Who knows? We could wind up imploding as a species. I'm 38. Right up until my 30s, technology and life in general unfolded in a lockstep fashion. Ppl could acclimate to change b/c it was predictable. Not anymore. I'd hate being a kid right now
@ritter89 Yeah. Along the same lines, a part of me sometimes wishes I lived in ancient times where none of these ridiculously rapid advances were tossing everybody around...I feel like life would be so much simpler. Despite the fact that I am a computer geek.
@anzwertree I asked mine the same question and it said, "'What' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
@VintageJunior Touche? That's how answers[dot]com spells it. And Google doesn't correct it either, neither does Wikipedia. What is the proper spelling?
I had a C64 in 6th grade in 1995. The school I went to had em and were finally getting rid of them, so I took one. I just wanted to play the old games on it.
Six hundred 1982 dollars? That's like 1300 or so 2010 dollars! And did "twice the price" mean something else in 1982? Because I hear that and my mind automatically thinks "Twice as much money".
Interesting to look back on how far computers (not to mention advertisements) have come anyway. :)
I wonder then what ran them out of business? After about 1986 or so they weren't advertised much. My elementary school I attended at the time seemed to favor the 64 as they had a lab full of them, and educational games, and one Apple 2E nd no PCs at all in the lab anyway.
there not out of buissiness, i heard online that they are bringing out a new computer called the commadore G, soon. I WANT TO SAVE UP ALL MY MONEY TO BUY ONE!
@kingryan30 Really? What is this computer supposed to have? I.E what kind of operating system, and what other programs, and what have they been doing all these years? As I said in my posts before my elementary school computer lab had all these machines from 1985 to1987, and no PCs and one Apple. After I left the school I never heard any moreabout these computers and just thought the company had vanished off the face of the earth.
@kingryan30 It will be interesting to see what this new computer/operating system will be like. I can't imagine what the company has done all these years.
Interesting, what company was this/ I ws just thinking about this earlier, and there were very few places I remember seeing these machine. At one school and at my cousin's house, and the one my cousin had didn't work. Anyone remember a game called Word Wizard? It talked, and had a cave.
why is it that commodore could make a product while its competitors couldnt match it at twice the price ? they may well have been using alien technology. have you heard of roswell people . according to general ramsey one of the first on the scene of the crash was a lieutenant james commodore
Heh, when they said, "What nobody else can give you at twice the price", did they mean the competition is twice as expensive as the Commodore or that the Commodore is twice as expensive?
My =commodore*64= with =1541=disk drive and =c64monitor= and =c64printer= still work. Now you can emulator old consoles like Sega Master System and Computers like Commodore*64 using emulators. Vice emulates the c64,c128,PET,Vic-II computers. Oh and Mame32 emulates arcade cabinet games. My Atari 2600 still works to, so does my SMSystem. I'm on a dell 8200 nowadays, its getting old, but it does the job with some gaming etc :)
The Commodore 64 turns 30 this week! (Geeze... I feel old.)
My first computer.
MrSkyguy23 3 weeks ago
My first computer.
TheRetirednavy92 3 weeks ago
I had a C64 and was a total nut for it, but I secretly coveted my friends' Apple 2e. I confess!!!!!!
Vidinotes 3 months ago
wow 600 bucks back then.....thats like 6000 today...man i was a spoiled little bastard my pops was right XDD.
VajinalBloodFart 4 months ago
my Amiga 500 is like a zen monk.
always stays relax whenever a virus arives and goes into a Guru meditation.
no big deal.
ImmortalUniverse 4 months ago
But the Apple II had the most software.
corbindavenport 4 months ago
@corbindavenport Not even close to being true.
OutlawTomFantastic 2 months ago
but will is run crysis?
64jamesbond 4 months ago
I like the idea that they needed to check three computers to be sure that a price:RAM ratio was the same each time.
thengoto20 5 months ago
LOAD "$",8 return
alcoholsavedme 6 months ago
@alcoholsavedme
Heh - yep. I used that command to figure out syntax errors. Back when the C64 was king, they sold books full of code that you could type in manually to "program" (manually copy, reallly) your own games. It took a long time and you almost always would get typo-realted errors. LOAD "$",8,1 was a life-saver. My other favorite: LOAD "*",8,1 - saved me from ever having to remember the actual file name to boot games. The good 'ol days.
lplozada 4 months ago
@lplozada wow! .. didnt know you could actually program your own games back in the day with code books. thats pretty amazing. C64 had great games ... blue max, jumpman jr, load runner, buck rogers ... id play those games as a kid for hours and hours on end. Plus copying games from one 4 1/4 to another was pretty easy as well :).
alcoholsavedme 4 months ago
@alcoholsavedme Oh, yeah - those books provided many hours of work for a kid in desperate need for a new game to play. It was a helluva feat for a 9 year old kid to get all of that code put in correctly. The code seemed endless, but when you look back, you realize that the few pages you typed were nothing by today's standards. I remember those games, too, btw. Blue Max was a favorite, for sure! So was Stealth, Congo Bongo and Ghostbusers. I agree about the joys of easy copies back then!
lplozada 4 months ago
@lplozada Syntax Error. Yes, I had C-64 and remember that Load command. There was a magazine called "RUN". I never had the cassette deck. just the external 5 1/4" disk drive. The percussion on the "Music Machine" cartridge sucked. didn't sound like percussion. The I/O port was where you could plug something in like an Air Interface and hooked up a shortwave radio and decoded the morse code if you were a Ham/Shortwave listener.
I used to play "Temple Of Apshai" and "Summer Games".
kd4adv 3 months ago
595$ WHAT!? XD
SuperFluffyCarrot 6 months ago
Funny isn't it. I would probably need a few thousand C64's just to come close the processing power of my iPod touch!
Matty112uk 7 months ago
My first computer was a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A with 16 RAM. A week after I bought it at full price, they announced they were getting out of the market and put it on clearance for less thatn $100. Son of a butch.
tryithere 7 months ago 2
One question they didn't ask....Who wrote the selection program?
tryithere 7 months ago
I wonder what would happen if you ran Windows 7 on this.
leafyutube 7 months ago
@leafyutube You would need 6,945 five-inch floppy disks just to store the Windows 7 installer package.
Ash243x 7 months ago
@leafyutube You couldn't even run a window screen on this.
tryithere 7 months ago
@BlueIsa7 It's not the real commodore, it's jerks with a bad website and a bad attitude. As for this new C64, well, it's a $200 computer marked up to $600. Not worth it.
doritostheking 8 months ago
Garbage In, Garbage Out - obviously those computers were pre-programmed by Commodore engineers
alexlok 8 months ago
To those who mock the 64KB of random access memory: RAM was very expensive in the early 1980s. Sure, prices were regularly decreasing, but it still took up a large amount of the manufacturing cost.
MattTheSaiyan 8 months ago
So is the 64 b/c it's 64 bit? So powerful.
ocmarts 8 months ago
@ocmarts Actually 64k - of RAM
chootastic 8 months ago
@chootastic my attempt at irony failed
ocmarts 7 months ago
@ocmarts oh bugger.. sorry
chootastic 7 months ago
64k is only as big as l1 cache in the processor(pentium m, core 2 duo, core i7/i5/i3) today....
hanrinch 6 months ago
@hanrinch Ah how time moves on. My mobile has the same processor speed (800mhz) as a machine i used to use for everything a while back, which i find nuts!
chootastic 6 months ago
well clock speed aint really everything. some processor that run smartphone may rate 800mhz~1.5ghz but in real time performance they aint even close to a pentium mmx 233mhz in term of floating point and integer performance.
hanrinch 6 months ago
Boy Commodore 64 now we have already the inter net
hilarioph 9 months ago
GTA IV and Mafia 2 :DDDD
DomiQee 9 months ago 2
I really have become very fond of Bach invention number 13 thanks to these old commercials (it had become kind of like the C64's anthem.. and you could find it in a lot of the software made for the system as well..) In fact I used to call it the commodore 64 theme music and no one knew what the heck I was talking about.. lol
orangie84 9 months ago
DO Y O U W A N T T O P L A Y A G A M E ?
EDSMusicSC 9 months ago 18
I find it funny that the NEW commodore 64 by Commodore USA is priced the same as it's original version nearly 30 years ago. $595 USD, talk about irony.
MarcSola7 9 months ago
But even then, in 1982, the main Question was: WILL IT BLEND???
fanjapanischermusik 9 months ago
It belongs in a museum.
southport97 10 months ago
64k memory for 595$
if the price relationships and capacitiesratios would remain the same today, a computer would cost $ 8,192,000 with 500GB: D
dragonflyer91 10 months ago
@dragonflyer91 They're talking about RAM memory.
PompousPreacher 2 months ago
When I asked my computer if I should buy a Commodore 64 it replied "your days are numbered".
fjccommish 10 months ago
They didn't ask an Atari 800?
1xWertzui 10 months ago
Apple would NEVER recommend Commodore 64 compared to their awesome computers
MACK100001 10 months ago
twice the price???
MrGerry111 10 months ago
over 500$ ! - damn, I got one, anyone want it for 400$ ? :)
mephiozo 10 months ago
Gosub was not a function in Commie-64 Basic, fyi.
adlorin 11 months ago
This was before Facebook.
mccarrpo 1 year ago 2
me too Ive still got mine commodore 128D but the audio isnt working anymore, its very low im not sure if thats sound chip on the motherboard, but the video works fine,
xxbox6191 1 year ago
64k for almost $600 damn
hecatomb 1 year ago 2
GOTO wasn't the only thing to do you could als GOSUB!
prodos8 1 year ago
how much were those computers?
apodo360 1 year ago
wow i bought my 144GB computer for like $300
Goldenfury12 1 year ago
@Goldenfury12 and you also have no clue.
azazael09 11 months ago
@azazael09 wow your going to reply back to a comment i posted 2 months ago.
Goldenfury12 11 months ago
@Goldenfury12 Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
azazael09 11 months ago
I still have it
s0012823 1 year ago
Every kid will say their era is the best but it is all relative and, man, when i was a kid there was nothing better .. the kids with Atari , tandy, even apples computers came to my house to play cause their's was second rate compared to this
the other cool thing was there seemed to be such radical diversity in games
This was a great time to be a kid and I still have a copy of Bruce Lee and Castles of Dr Creep ... that green Sumo still ticks me off !
RossJams 1 year ago 3
$595
csxtrainwreck 1 year ago
Ive still got my c64, with a working c64 monitor and 1541 disk drive and c64 printer with games on flobbys.
These are the days when you would stay up half the night playing around with this machine with no cell phone and other stuff like this around etc. These are the old school days when games were all about adventures etc.
Not to mention I use the c64 monitor for my sega master system and the sega joypads would stick in the c64 aswell.
Vox0707 1 year ago
@Vox0707 You sir is what I call a True classic gamer :)
Lionheart1188 1 year ago
They look so cool
Tommy12352 1 year ago
i got a c64 2 day and well i have no connecter no adapter and nether does radio shack so Ebay confused me im not a big cregs list fan so im srewed ill have to ask the person who gave it to me
TheDoopliss2 1 year ago
I still want a c64 even though the fact that it is older then me... I dont know I think i would have alot of fun with it. *keeps fingers crossed and hopes to find one at a garage sale*
Furetgarcon 1 year ago
@Furetgarcon You could be able to find one on ebay? I think you're right, you also learn a lot, the 64 has perhaps the sharpest design of any home computer in history.
vapourmile 1 year ago
@vapourmile Ya but i am an 16 year old computer geek whose parents find everyway to skip on my allowance.. .So i am broke! ebay is not an option.....
Furetgarcon 1 year ago
Is the price for that seriously $595.00!!!!! Pause at 0:29
BobertAdvance 1 year ago
@BobertAdvance YES!
VideoGamingDog 1 year ago
I can buy like 12 gigs of RAM and a 1.5 TB hard drive for that price.
tacticalteam 1 year ago
@tacticalteam so?
dustYCartridge 1 year ago
Ah 1982.... the year when computers were honest.
WilliamWillWillson 1 year ago
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OnlyGoodCommie 1 year ago
Anyone know the name of the song? I think it's from Bach but I can't figure it out.
captcrouton 1 year ago
@captcrouton 2-part invention #13
rubberdu 1 year ago
@rubberdu
Thanks. I've been trying to figure this out for a long time. I remember playing it in piano lessons back in the day. It's hard to find a missing tune online. You ask something like "You know what song goes like this ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ding dong diga diga dum...." It just doesn't work...
captcrouton 1 year ago
aaaaah yea RADIOCHAKE they make everything
ilovegameshad 1 year ago
600 euros por esa bazofia jajajaja y en sea epoca seria como ahora 1000 euros el que se lo compro en esa epoca me rio en su puta cara
eadomino2 1 year ago
Wow! I remembered this commercial. Its been 28 years already. Scary!
prmass1 1 year ago
more like they are innist LOL (MS Sam's in/on lisp)
traceyrmj2 1 year ago
$595 are you kidding me i had one when i was like 7 8 or maybe 9 i had no idea people were spending so much on them,I bought a 96 model commodore executive for $400 today(4 door australian car with the 3.8 buick engine) how does that make sense.i had a atari 2600 before that aswell i wonder what they cost.
560287144602817 1 year ago
560287144602817 lol When they were first released Atari 2600s cost $199 US
bobby1829387 1 year ago
@bobby1829387 $199 probably around $260 odd aus$,i wish i kept them all ive been trying to track down a commodore 64 for a few days now and have heard nothing, although i know where i can get a C64 for $150 but im way to cheap for that ha ha
560287144602817 1 year ago
@560287144602817 wish i could help you but we finally scrapped the ole 64 about a year ago
samauripizzacats101 1 year ago
Ah, yes -- but do three out of four dentists agree?
trumpetboyclassical 1 year ago
It's the 'im a mac and im a pc' ad's 25 years or so before they were introduced. Only less bullshitty, needlessly trendy and PUSSY-FIED!
madcapoperator 1 year ago
Wow, the competition sure has low self-esteem.
HYAAALP 1 year ago
I liked the commodore 64 until windows and macintosh came out
puppyrootbeer 1 year ago
Well no s*** any Radio Shack computer would pick C64.
Deokishisu 1 year ago
Where is the mouse? Syntax error? Syntax error? Syntax error? Syntax error? This computer will self-destruct in 30 seconds.
hellbilly34a 1 year ago
it would take millions(or may be billion) number of commodore 64 to compete to a single core 2 duo e8xxx series. and may be trillions of commodore64 to beat a core i7 860/920. not to mention core i7 x965/975/980
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch Exactly so considering the amazing programs like GEOS they made with such amazingly small memory and speed constraints shows programmers were geniuses back then.
blacbraun 1 year ago
i think the main reason why modern os consuming amount of memory is because of background task, driver plus&play. windows firewall, and explorer windows menager. but most importantly, the gui interface. like video game, the system will preloading texture and color pixel before the window/tab appear. the higher resolution/color the more memory will be consume. like aero in vista/win7/os-x/lunix. as the interface become more complicate i dont think optimization is possible as it progress further
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch Maybe, but the Commodor 64 was still essentially the same type of computer that helped put a man on the moon.
MegaVolcano 1 year ago
right. but the land moon operation is much easier than predicting billion user's behavior as the computer only need to locate the landing spot and calculate the time/duration and obit rotations. far easier than multi media and complex instrution set multi data transfer........
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch You got me there.
MegaVolcano 1 year ago
@hanrinch Yes, it's important to note the year in which this product was made. 1982. That's 2010 - 1982 = 28 years ago. Core i7's weren't around then, friend. ;)
Caleb9849 1 year ago
true. even today's watch is far more powerful then commodore64. not to mention a cell phone/mp3 player/ipod are act like ten of thousand commodore 64 at the same time. if i'm not wrong, consider a core 2 e6300 is 20 million times more powerful performance than what commodore can provide. an i7 would be billion times more. just can imagining how progressive we are in this 3 decades.
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch Right, but my point was that it seems a useless observation to say that a modern computer is much more powerful. You might as well go to a video about ancient history and comment "There weren't computers back then! My core i7 is much better than that abacus!"
Caleb9849 1 year ago
that is why we should be grateful that we live today but not in ancient time.
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch That's absurd. If you had lived in ancient time, you wouldn't know the difference. In a few centuries, if we're still around, technology will be much better than it is today. So you should be ungrateful that you live today and not in the future.
Caleb9849 1 year ago
people term to look up for the progressive life. that is what to be a human. of cause i would be live disgraceful if i see the future but i dont have that ability to foreseeing what future would like. hell! i even doubting if we can survive the further feud crisis and even nuclear war .
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch Yes, but people in the past couldn't see the future either. So they wouldn't know about core i7's then, and they'd feel just as grateful for their time period as you do for yours.
Caleb9849 1 year ago
they didnt foresee the future as we cant today. however the "future" is develop by the people in the past. wish to have better life. they wouldn't know what will happen today as we wont know what would happen tomorrow. but we hope something is happen to be good. if there's a choice the ancient people maybe reconsider their life style/technology and quickly adapt what is good to them. i think you wont disagree.
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch I don't disagree because I have no idea what you are trying to say
Caleb9849 1 year ago
@Caleb9849 Exactly. At the rate technology is increasing, what we're using/doing right now will be passe/obsolete within less than 5yrs. Global tech and information exchange is moving at an unprecedented pace. Whether that's good or bad remains to be seen. Who knows? We could wind up imploding as a species. I'm 38. Right up until my 30s, technology and life in general unfolded in a lockstep fashion. Ppl could acclimate to change b/c it was predictable. Not anymore. I'd hate being a kid right now
ritter89 1 year ago
@ritter89 Yeah. Along the same lines, a part of me sometimes wishes I lived in ancient times where none of these ridiculously rapid advances were tossing everybody around...I feel like life would be so much simpler. Despite the fact that I am a computer geek.
Caleb9849 1 year ago
Love that tune
Agurksmurf 1 year ago
I asked my PC what computer to buy and it said syntax error? Maybe my computer isn't as honest as the competition
anzwertree 1 year ago 55
@anzwertree I asked mine the same question and it said, "'What' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
almigi 1 year ago
Touche', Almigi. Touche'
anzwertree 1 year ago
@anzwertree That's not how you spell it.
VintageJunior 1 year ago
@VintageJunior not how you spell what?
anzwertree 1 year ago
@anzwertree You spell it touché. It's not important though.
VintageJunior 1 year ago
@VintageJunior Touche? That's how answers[dot]com spells it. And Google doesn't correct it either, neither does Wikipedia. What is the proper spelling?
anzwertree 1 year ago
@anzwertree ROFL!!!!
Gangularis 1 year ago
@anzwertree Recently asked the C64 what computer to buy and it also said syntax error.
SBS9067A 1 year ago 28
@SBS9067A That's because the game has moved on so much, it hasn't the memory to keep up!
the06bug 3 months ago
@the06bug Okay, why don't we try making a Commodore 256 to get the memory to keep up?
SBS9067A 3 months ago
@SBS9067A Let's boot up!
the06bug 3 months ago
Old school.
CossieSnesBasement 1 year ago
@DeLuXa2
Sorry, 1995 was 15 years ago, you missed the boat.
EmeraldWarrior420 1 year ago
I had a C64 in 6th grade in 1995. The school I went to had em and were finally getting rid of them, so I took one. I just wanted to play the old games on it.
EmeraldWarrior420 1 year ago
Six hundred 1982 dollars? That's like 1300 or so 2010 dollars! And did "twice the price" mean something else in 1982? Because I hear that and my mind automatically thinks "Twice as much money".
Interesting to look back on how far computers (not to mention advertisements) have come anyway. :)
raggedyanarchist 1 year ago
64kb lol
My ipod has over 16x the memory of that computer and it has 8gb
bowserking64 1 year ago
@bowserking64
Shame the apps fail to open and you need to restore it every other day...
P5BDeluxeWiFi 1 year ago
lulz
Thegamer5150 1 year ago
What the FUCK you were doing with a C64 in the late 90's?
MrYuppie 1 year ago
They asked the computers about the best computer... But forgot to make the same question to the real customer!
MrYuppie 1 year ago
This was my first computer.
Synthetrix 1 year ago
600 Bucks?
Tell you what - I give you a fiver IF I get a joystick and a shitload of games!
fenriz218 1 year ago
100 ?"COMMODORE"
200 GOTO 100
RUN
jahovahut 2 years ago
yes commodore BRAZIL YES =^.^=
fox270988 2 years ago
$595 !!!!
feverpitch82 2 years ago
Is this a famous song? or was it written for the commercial?
16mmDJ 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Lots of software can be downloaded from the 'net and used on the C64.
Paste this title into the bar: COMMODORE 64 DATA TRANSFER WITH C64TPC, STAR COMMANDER AND TAPSERV (MTAP / PTAP)
TheDustpile 2 years ago
Six hundred bucks! LOL
Faaabula 2 years ago
quite a rad commercial
KhyberBoy09 2 years ago
Nice commercial... I'd like to see the program they REALLY used to make the other computers choose...
10 PRINT " COMMODORE 64"
legofans452 2 years ago 2
20 getx$:if x$=""then20
rafal24pl 2 years ago
I made a little presentation using my MSSIAH, a homage to two '80s pop culture greats.
Paste title into the bar: QUINCY 64!
TheDustpile 2 years ago
I wonder then what ran them out of business? After about 1986 or so they weren't advertised much. My elementary school I attended at the time seemed to favor the 64 as they had a lab full of them, and educational games, and one Apple 2E nd no PCs at all in the lab anyway.
manyvideoinerests 2 years ago
there not out of buissiness, i heard online that they are bringing out a new computer called the commadore G, soon. I WANT TO SAVE UP ALL MY MONEY TO BUY ONE!
kingryan30 2 years ago
@kingryan30 Really? What is this computer supposed to have? I.E what kind of operating system, and what other programs, and what have they been doing all these years? As I said in my posts before my elementary school computer lab had all these machines from 1985 to1987, and no PCs and one Apple. After I left the school I never heard any moreabout these computers and just thought the company had vanished off the face of the earth.
manyvideoinerests 2 years ago
im not sure, i saw it in a video called "Play Value - Commodore 64"
kingryan30 2 years ago
@kingryan30 It will be interesting to see what this new computer/operating system will be like. I can't imagine what the company has done all these years.
manyvideoinerests 2 years ago
The whole Commodore G thing is just bullshit, it's nothing but a regular PC build by some company that bought the name Commodore for advertisment.
Mindman111 2 years ago
@manyvideoinerests
i heard a cell phone company bought them out
brickman409 2 years ago
Interesting, what company was this/ I ws just thinking about this earlier, and there were very few places I remember seeing these machine. At one school and at my cousin's house, and the one my cousin had didn't work. Anyone remember a game called Word Wizard? It talked, and had a cave.
manyvideoinerests 2 years ago
Lol, the other companies are so honest. What are they saying, that they are not??
GBscottieUK 2 years ago
why is it that commodore could make a product while its competitors couldnt match it at twice the price ? they may well have been using alien technology. have you heard of roswell people . according to general ramsey one of the first on the scene of the crash was a lieutenant james commodore
bopkick5 2 years ago 2
A bit stupid...
They asked computers which one is the best?! Probably they will say the best is that computer which were you asked it.
But they pick commodore xD
A bit strange but cool
ComputerTutorialPro 2 years ago
how is this legal?? other companies have been sued for this!
rubber4532 2 years ago
LMAO! Pirates!!!
UL439 2 years ago
Heh, when they said, "What nobody else can give you at twice the price", did they mean the competition is twice as expensive as the Commodore or that the Commodore is twice as expensive?
andyjay729 2 years ago
twice as good XD
SarahKreuz31 2 years ago
My commodore64 and 1541 disk drive and the c64 13" crt and printer all still work, :) commodore made ther on hardware and it shows.
vox2007 2 years ago 2
Wow, apple are having a hard time, First Commodore, thenMicrosoft...something tells me sony is coming up next!
AaronMeaney9 2 years ago
i believe its tandy not radioshack
TechForThought 2 years ago
commercial makes me want to subscribe to Byte magazine.
PebbleBreeze 2 years ago
It was a breakthrough mostly for its price point. The Apple][ was highly upgradable but more expensive.
fawdown 2 years ago
It's a Two-Part Invention by Bach in A minor.
icompoze2 2 years ago 2
64k. Jeez thats not even enough to store 1 song!
blueblob4 2 years ago
Barely enough to save one .bat, friend.
azusaka110 2 years ago
enough memory to write a GREAT Basic program. Batch was for the losers of DOS.
nicolunacba 2 years ago
That's one huge batch file you're writing there.
DaVince21 2 years ago 4
@DaVince21 BASIC, my friend. And back then, GOTO wasn't the wrong thing to do - it was the only thing to do. Savage ways for savage times...
Sarnuial 1 year ago 27
@Sarnuial never heard of GOSUB, have you?
aseglkj 11 months ago
maybe because it's not a bad computer, but bad songs? =)
nerfur 2 years ago
Thats more than enough to store one song :). There was all kind of music made on that machine in less than 64k.
SkuldChan42 2 years ago 17
I had tons of music on 1 5.25" floppy. I had The Danger Zone on it, that kicked ass.
Commodore 64 = Best Computer ever!
kirbyyasha 2 years ago 8
64K holds plenty of music. Just not the kind you're used to.
rekcaHrepyH 2 years ago 24
♪bloop beep beep bloop -- bloop beep beep bloop♫ ♪blooooooooop beep beep bloooooooop♫
wingnut4427 2 years ago 3
The best (i think) commodore 64 emulator on pc: VICE
The best commodore plus/4 emulator on pc: YAPE
skoro1975 2 years ago
Very clever commercial. Bravo!
alphabeets 2 years ago
i always loved the theme music
daveheel 2 years ago
damn...still remember going to have dinner whilst waiting for The Hobbit to load from the tape cassette.
Check the price in the CM...64kb RAM no HD and almost a 1000$ in todays money...
Arioch44 3 years ago
What's the music?
I seems so known to me, but i dont know, what it is.
C242 3 years ago
This music is creepy, like the Exorcist.
xistntial 3 years ago
Jurassic Park
simplyok 3 years ago
My =commodore*64= with =1541=disk drive and =c64monitor= and =c64printer= still work. Now you can emulator old consoles like Sega Master System and Computers like Commodore*64 using emulators. Vice emulates the c64,c128,PET,Vic-II computers. Oh and Mame32 emulates arcade cabinet games. My Atari 2600 still works to, so does my SMSystem. I'm on a dell 8200 nowadays, its getting old, but it does the job with some gaming etc :)
vox2007 3 years ago
with eBay and a good deal (or a emulator if you're cheap), who says you can't get all 3?
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago