Commodore® 64, Close Up of an Computer Legend.

[SummersideFaeri]

sweet memories!...wow flashback!...lol

[chipwaver]

@SummersideFaeri Hey! the same with me everytime look at those oldies... ;)

[Vebinz]

Ah the good old days of PETSCII.

Why can't we have ASCII fonts opn today's keyboards?

Instead I can't even put a damned ? on a Windows file name.

[dsbiehl]

10 for n=0 to 15:poke 646,n:print chr$(18);

"Color";n;:next n

RUN

Ah, the good old days!

[mickyd110011]

the commodore 64 is back from the dead!

[RatHouseProductions]

i like the part when he said -

[JoshHartNow]

What I don't get about the Commodore 64 is, the keyboard`is kind of the main part.

[giant000]

Commodore 64 for ever........................

[Bongwyre2112]

I have a commie 128 as my 1st computer. I still miss it.

[dcmretro]

I still have my original C64-C and...I STILL PLAY IT! The C64 is like a fine wine...it only gets better with time! :-)

[NexussVI]

Beautifull machine.

[chipwaver]

PLEASE SHOW ALL COMMENTS, else the comments and answers may be mixed up and most unreadable...

...find it at bottom of this page!

[Malasawas]

The old stuff is never forgotten... COMM 64, always in my mind, but even more in my heart!

[chipwaver]

@Malasawas Agree.... ;-)

[jjovereats]

@chipwaver I am European (British) and I own a C64. Randomly browsing through videos made me decide on retro computing as subject of the year. I will have my C64C when Christmas comes. I will be writing a demo for the C-64C when I'm twenty. Excuse any typing mistakes, I'm eating my breakfast.

[maiki60fps]

Unfortunately the design celebrated in this video belongs to VIC 20.... you should have used C64C instead - the real face of Commodore 64

[chipwaver]

@maiki60fps @maiki60fps it's true. But it really got super famous along with C64. At least here in Europe the users and future owners declined the new C64C Design, they bought the old designed C64 as long as stocks did last... and even till today no one really thinks about the C64C as someone mentions the C64 they all (we all) have got the image of this wonderful old (VIC) Design! It's such a unique and loved Design, only the Mac 128k can compete with this rank!

[3ytc]

@maiki60fps "you should have used C64C instead - the real face of Commodore 64"

Are you crazy? This IS the real face of the Commodore 64, the one that started it all. The C64C is nowhere as famous as the original one, sorry for your luck.

[leknightcluber]

mos-technology

[twylo]

The first computer I owned, and still my favorite. You just never forget your first time.

[User846]

They are fun!:D i tried an emulator and some games like Q-Bert and i decided to buy one!

[FerralVideo]

My dad built a cooling box for my brother's C64 power brick due to the overheating problems. I still remember playing that thing.

[staticcharges]

I still sleep with my C64 bed sheets. Thanks for the video.

[beast6228]

I kid you not, over the last 20 years or so I collected over 25 c-64's...10 c-128's...a couple vic-20's and dozens of 1581's and 1541's..plus all kinds of aftermarket drives and expansion modules. Then last year, I had to move into a smaller house, so guess what happened? It all went into a dumpster. Half of the stuff was like new, even had original boxes and manuals. I thought about selling it on Ebay, but I knew I wouldn't get much and the shipping would be too high. It really sucked.

[geoffreyefloyd]

omg man you coudnt find a place for those...i would have taken em plus, you can find new ones or use a c64 emulator, i have emulators for everything...c64 nes, sega mega drive, snes ps ps2 xbox!

[HardWarUK]

You threw away $100's of profit - becase ion ebay they DO buy that sort of stuff and understand about the shipping!

[rollicker]

There has never been a computer since the 64 that has lasted for so long without serious upgrades...this machine, in its original, un-upgraded state, remained on the market for ten years. How many other computers can pull that off?

Simply the greatest computer of all time.

[surfitlive]

@rollicker

It was 12 years Actually!! 1982-1994

and it was probably 'discontinued' because Commodore was planning on filing for bankruptcy, even though the new A1200's came out a year before and people were lined up to buy them, Commodore was not keeping up with the demand. it was a travesty

I believe it would have sold longer with adjusted pricing &downsizing the drive BECAUSE it is Easy&great for young children to LEARN computers,programming, & Play on, compared to Game consoles or PCs!!

[uggla03]

i can still remember the smell of the powerpack overheating.

c64 a legend of a computer

[Gizmondo94]

One of the best selling computers of all time.

[gav1230]

no it was the best, not just one of the best

[chipwaver]

correct!

[jkeelsnc]

Hah, I still have a c64. :) Fun stuff. Commodore was something else. It is too bad the company did not make it and made a mess of its marketing.

[chipwaver]

that´s so damn true! My very last one was a CD32, it had so much multimedia potential long before the competitors, good programming could have keept alive that platform till end of the 90ies! And what happened...

[cmtegerson]

How i miss my old C64, wish i had mine back!

[rollicker]

Ebay brother. Ebay.

[blade004]

Wonderful Video! The Commodore machines such as the 64 & Amiga were THE best and nothing can ever take their place! The time of computing spirit and software innovation are well and truly gone other than in the Demo Scene where the spirit still lives on :)

[flipgangsta1]

I randomly found mine in the garage today :)

[joxter74]

Will always love them. Still got two of them :)

[rosemontag]

They don't make computers like that anymore.

[richardh754]

My C64 never had the coloured lines on it.

[chipwaver]

Have you had one with a silver-label ? If so it must have been on of the very first machines, from very first production-row, quite rare then, and even more nowadays!

[Dreamlgider]

Love it :)

Just a shame that the 65 never went in to production. Tho, the C64 is still KING ;)

[uggla03]

the same one i had anyone remember how hot the psu got

[chipwaver]

It really got hot, had to pause sometimes in summer, stopping it from melting! And used it to warm my feet in winter sometimes ;-) Funny but true.

[chipwaver]

Thanks for all your comments!

If have posted a NEW Version of that Video, with better image quality, it´s called "1982 Commodore 64 Close up of a Legend (final Version). I will probably delete that old Version that you are watching right now, take a look at the new version, have fun!

[uggla03]

i can still remeber the smell of it aswell with the heat brilliant

[chipwaver]

many of the former owners, also remember THAT SPECIAL SMELL, along with wonderful memories...

[render422]

I love Commodore 64 !!

[hanmaenen]

Simply the best!

[hanmaenen]

I stull have a very soft spot for the C64 and in its time it was much better than the pretentious trash IBM came up with in 1983, the PCjr, with deliberately built defects and shortcomings, so that you needed to buy a lot of very expensive upgrades. Yes, the C64 was one of the best in its era.

[AmnAbdulla9]

8 bit, now we're starting to move on to 32-bit and 64 bit but that computer waz amazing.

[averagemale]

C= 64... sweet 64... love that computer