Comments on: Happy Birthday, Commodore 64!

By: Nigel Hughes

Nigel Hughes — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:18:26 +0000

I loved those early years with Commodore 64; especially with a small screw driver tweeking the tape drive alignment as it read the data in. I used the White Lightening Packages - Forth what a dream. Kids today have it so easy!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:13:14 +0000

I started too with a C64, but I can´t remember me. How old I am

By: John Mclaine

John Mclaine — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:06:08 +0000

Ready
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By: Malcolm Cheyne

Malcolm Cheyne — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:24:16 +0000

Like Mike, I started with a "TrashCan", with Level I BASIC. Graduated to my own shop in 1982 selling the Australian Microbee (in competition to, and walked all over the C64 ) had it’s own BeeBasic but when Microbee started with CP/M on the "Bee" I went to CB80. Along came Turbo Pascal and I’ve been a member of the family ever since.

By: Mike Hoyt

Mike Hoyt — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:40:22 +0000

I got my first start in programming on a TRS-80 but it was the Commodore 64 that really hooked me. I had a blast in my teen years writing video games for Ahoy magazine. It’s hard to believe the 64 is 25 years old– I still have mine (and my Amiga).

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:37:07 +0000

I was a big fan of the C64, but I didn’t know you could get Pascal for it. My programming was limited to Commodore Basic, but that was when I cut my teeth on programming and knew what I wanted to do when I grew up.

By: Lawrence Johnstone

Lawrence Johnstone — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:00:18 +0000

I started out with Oxford Pascal on the C64 as well (line numbers so they could use the built-in BASIC editor! aaaugh!!!), and later graduated to Turbo Pascal — STILL on the C64 via the plug-in Z80 CPM card. That was sometime around 1984-1986.