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Title: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Ghastly on August 27, 2010, 03:17:42 PM
The first computer I ever owned was a Commodore 64 - purchased in ecstasy in 1984 when SubLogic realeased a version of "Flight Simulator II" for it since there was absolutely no way I afford one of the IBM PC's I was assembling and repairing at work. I spent countless hours at the helm of the beige box, Atari controller in hand :joystick: , flying between Boston and Block Island - all without ever coming out of the basement. 

Looks like later this fall, I'll be able to take to the virtual skies with my trusty companion once again !!!!   :airplane:

http://www.zdnet.com/photos/commodore-64-is-back-photos/460686?tag=nl.e589

Ain't nostalgia grand?  :cheers:

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Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: usvi on August 27, 2010, 03:21:32 PM
I loved the realism of the graphics!  :D

(http://www.volny.cz/havlikjosef/galery/FSII%20for%20C64_Capitol_1.gif)
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Tigger29 on August 27, 2010, 03:32:31 PM
I miss crop-dusting.. why MS ever did away with that is beyond me...
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on August 27, 2010, 06:30:19 PM
I loved the realism of the graphics!  :D

(http://www.volny.cz/havlikjosef/galery/FSII%20for%20C64_Capitol_1.gif)

Remember the feeling in your belly that gave you? NOTHING will create that to you today. And that's a fact.
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: MutleyBR on August 27, 2010, 07:02:53 PM
You made me miss the Apple II and Nibble magazine, and those peeks and  pokes in Basic ....   :) :aok
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Ack-Ack on August 27, 2010, 08:59:30 PM
Basically a laptop without a monitor incased in a Commodore 64 keyboard?  A little pricey.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: fbWldcat on August 27, 2010, 09:56:46 PM
I loved the realism of the graphics!  :D

(http://www.volny.cz/havlikjosef/galery/FSII%20for%20C64_Capitol_1.gif)

Dude, turn the frickin' graphics up!  :rofl

Ole' timey
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Tigger29 on August 28, 2010, 01:21:07 AM
Actually this is the screenshot usvi took before he photoshopped it:

(http://www.lca.ympsa.com/fs.gif)
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: zack1234 on August 29, 2010, 04:30:32 AM
I feel old :old:

Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: BrownBaron on August 29, 2010, 04:48:29 AM
Actually this is the screenshot usvi took before he photoshopped it:

(http://www.lca.ympsa.com/fs.gif)

Wow, pony stalling at D200 in fronta you and he isnt even in your sights? Noob.
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: 007Rusty on August 30, 2010, 08:56:05 PM
                             :rofl :rofl :rofl

Wow, pony stalling at D200 in fronta you and he isnt even in your sights? Noob.
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Vulcan on August 31, 2010, 03:07:55 AM
I feel old :old:



You're old if you played this (which pre-dated sublogic flight sim....)

(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/988207492-00.gif)
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: VonMessa on August 31, 2010, 05:15:38 AM
 :rock
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on August 31, 2010, 11:05:18 AM
I wonder if it's going to be Commodore 64Gb this time
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Tigger29 on September 01, 2010, 09:38:34 PM
I wonder if it's going to be Commodore 64Gb this time

I was thinking Commodore 64bit.

Neat looking systems, but I have a feeling they'll cost WAY too much.
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on September 02, 2010, 12:37:52 AM
I was thinking Commodore 64bit.

Neat looking systems, but I have a feeling they'll cost WAY too much.

Prices range from 490USD to 1200. Here's the kicker though: They run Ubuntu 10.04. I mean, what are they thinking?
Title: Re: Yeah baby! - Aces High on a Commodore 64 !!!
Post by: Ghastly on September 02, 2010, 05:54:46 AM
Prices range from 490USD to 1200. Here's the kicker though: They run Ubuntu 10.04. I mean, what are they thinking?

Actually, I was asking that before you mentioned Ubuntu.  On the other hand, they are targeting an oddball niche market, so why not Ubuntu?

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