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Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
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Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:42:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Scott Sanburn writes:
James & All,

Ah, the C64.  I hear C64, and I still think "Stay a while.  Stay forever!" :)

James "C64's did something other than play cracked games?" Brown

Heh. I still have my C64, somewhere. I wonder if it still works? I wonder if
the 5-1/4 floppies still work. I am pretty sure the cartridges do. My Atari
2600 still does.

Now I just a PC emulator so I can download all my C-64 and Atari games on a
few CD's. ; )

(Yes, I know they are out there, I have a few of the Activision collections,
and you can get them for Playstation, among others)

We have a bunch of old Namco classics on our N64. I *still* love DigDug...
but I'm not any good at it any more.

but I can top that. There is an active hobby around ROM emulators... you can
download an emulator that will turn your high end PC into an emulation of
arcade hardware, then get a downloaded ROM (which the legality of is not
quite clear) and then put your PC inside an arcade case complete with all
the true to life controllers buttons, etc. etc.

I stumbled across it while reading Megatokyo.



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(...) Hee-hee! I used c64s in high school typing class...I've got a C128 in mothballs somewhere, and my prize computer collectable: A Tandy 1000, the original laptop computer, complete with Lucid spreadsheet cartridge and thermal printer! (My family (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
James & All, (...) Heh. I still have my C64, somewhere. I wonder if it still works? I wonder if the 5-1/4 floppies still work. I am pretty sure the cartridges do. My Atari 2600 still does. Now I just a PC emulator so I can download all my C-64 and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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