Anybody Still Use Your Commodore 64?

[skb12172]

Do you use it for games? Some other purpose? What are your favorite games to still play. What are your other favorite uses for this venerable old dinosaur? Fire Away!

[Rich Jordan]

I saw one run over in the street last week (truth, next to a squashed LinkSys WRT54G, sadly); probably fell out of a trash can.

Apple ][ Forever!

[Fill]

I bought one for my dad a couple years ago, for nostalgia. He still plays Jumpman and Rat Race from time to time.

[Greg]

Never had a C64, we had an Apple IIe instead.

My favorite C64 game is/was Lords of Conquest. I played it at a friend's house. I play it online (someone re-wrote it as a java applet) from time to time.

[moose42]

Nah when I get a hankering for old school gaming I fire up Dos-Box.

I'm really not that much of an old tech user, aside from my Ibm Model M keyboard made in 1986 and my Rotary phone I really don't care for old tech too much.

[442nd Dinochrome]

Nah when I get a hankering for old school gaming I fire up Dos-Box.

I'm really not that much of an old tech user, aside from my Ibm Model M keyboard made in 1986 and my Rotary phone I really don't care for old tech too much.

Ditto. My main interest in "old tech" are the vacuum-tube HF communications receivers that festoon my house. And, the flintlock rifles on my wall.

I used a Commodore 64 as a word-processor back in 1985 coupled with a dot-matrix printer.
The software was in a plug-in cartridge. 48 characters per line!

Using a current-generation E-Machine right now.

[SoupOrMan]

I can't bring myself to dig everything out of storage for my C64. Otherwise I'd probably be playing Airborne Ranger right about now.

[sam]

Sold my C64 back in the '90s. I even had and used the "Fast Load" cartridge. Cassette and a floppy drive, too.

I had three games in heavy rotation:

- F-15 Strike Eagle
- Silent Service (a great way to kill beers, while waiting for action)
- Dr. J. vs. Larry Bird: One-on-One

*sigh* good times.

[moose42]

Ooh! I remember - Dr. J. vs. Larry Bird: One-on-One that was fun. You could break the glass and the janitor would come out to sweep up the glass. While he was sleeping he would curse with @#$%&@!! characters. I think.

There was some D&D style game I played on the C64, what was it... It was kinda like Nethack with a GUI.

Here you go. 500 C64 games on the PC.

[HTRN]

I still use the C128. Makes a fantastic paperweight.


HTRN