Posted by: JaBZ
Remember the commodore 64? - 09/07/2004 07:09
check this out lol!
Remember the commodore 64?
Posted by: ninti
Re: Remember the commodore 64? - 09/07/2004 19:00
Does it only play midi files? 
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: Remember the commodore 64? - 09/07/2004 19:04
Please tell me (lie if you must) that I am not the only person that saw "eVIC", saw it was 20GB and thought that they should have named it "VIC-20"...
Posted by: genixia
Re: Remember the commodore 64? - 09/07/2004 19:15
Commodore 64 played midi files? Not as far as I can remember - it had an awe-inspiring sound chip capable of playing an incredible 3 notes simultaneously. One of the tone generators doubled as the pseudo-random number generator, so if the sound chip went FUBAR then games got somewhat predictable.
Hmm, they're releasing the C64 in a joystick this year. Might have to take a trip down Nostalgia Lane and pick one up to play Paradroid again.
Hmm, they're releasing the C64 in a joystick this year. Might have to take a trip down Nostalgia Lane and pick one up to play Paradroid again.
Posted by: ninti
Re: Remember the commodore 64? - 09/07/2004 23:25
Sorry, you are right, they were not quite midi files, though similiar in some respects.
If you want to play old Commodore games, emulators are the way to go. I have almost all of the games I loved on the Commodore for the emulator, and play them on occasion with good success. And you know what, some of them are still pretty damn fun.
If you want to play old Commodore games, emulators are the way to go. I have almost all of the games I loved on the Commodore for the emulator, and play them on occasion with good success. And you know what, some of them are still pretty damn fun.
Posted by: JaBZ
Re: Remember the commodore 64? - 09/07/2004 23:52
I actually have a commodore 64 with hardddrive in pristene condition, although haven't run it for 12 years..
crazy people like this are still keeping it alive lol
crazy people like this are still keeping it alive lol
Posted by: hybrid8
Re: Remember the commodore 64? - 10/07/2004 16:10
You're likely thinking of SID music files. SID was the Audio chip in the C64. Damn good sound for the time. There was a large community of amateur composers and cover artists producing songs in the SID-Player format. But the awe-ispiring music came from some very talented composers really showing off the machine with more advanced music software/programming and later track editors: Rob Hubbard, Chris Hülsbeck, Ben Daglish, David Whittaker and a bunch of others. I still remember the first time I heard a sampled sound on my C64. The first time I sampled a sound myself, and the first time I ever heard a composed piece using sampled instruments.
Nostalgia. Then of course came the Amiga which took a very long time to be bested...
And to get things back on topic (sort-of) the Amiga's most popular image format was IFF-ILBM (Interchange File Format - Interleaved Bitmap). And IFF was passed around as a format idea when PNG was first being developed - not adopted.
Bruno
Nostalgia. Then of course came the Amiga which took a very long time to be bested...
And to get things back on topic (sort-of) the Amiga's most popular image format was IFF-ILBM (Interchange File Format - Interleaved Bitmap). And IFF was passed around as a format idea when PNG was first being developed - not adopted.
Bruno