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- Cracking open the commodore 64
- For many of us, the first computer we can remember having was the Commodore 64. For me the Commodore 64 replaced an Intellivision console and I was intrigued by the ability to not only play games but to also connect to an online community via a 300 baud modem. The...
- Tags: Cracking open, commodore 64, off topic, geekend
- Image galleries 2008-02-13
- Dinosaur sightings: The commodore 64
- For many of us in the baby-boom generation, the first computer we can remember having in our homes was the famous Commodore 64. In the early 1980s, this was a very successful home personal computer. It was the first computer I had that not only played games but also had...
- Tags: Commodore 64, personal computer, dinosaur sightings, off topic, geekend, Shareware, TechRepublic Inc., PC, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Mark Kaelin
- Image galleries 2008-01-28
- Photos: commodore 64's 25th birthday party
- Silicon Valley's royalty turned out in force Monday to celebrate one of its conquering heroes. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, commodore 64, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-12
- Commodore Screensaver (exe)
- Change your computer screen to realistic visage of the best selling personal computer in the late 20th Century. The Commodore 64 is still used today by many computer hobbyists. Commodore screensaver contains many amazing screens of differrent colors and situations. You can choose between Boot ROM screen, GEOS etc., or...
- Tags: Screensaver, Computer, Commodore 64, Commodore Screensaver, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-06-04
- Admiration for Aging Emulation
- Everybody welcome HutchTechAn old blog ally of TechRepublic has returned as the newest member of the Geekend--hail to the HutchTech! Look for fellow TR members to join up in the next week or so as more voices are added to the Geekend choir. Oh, and
- Tags: The Trivia Geek, Vic20, HUTCHTECH, GEEKend, Amstrad, C64
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Old enough to want to and fool enough to try
- Old enough to want to and fool enough to tryblog rootAnother geeky activity my Dad won't understandSo it begins. Like the The Trivia Geek, I have been resisting the urge to blog. Consequently, I don't really have a plan of action for what will be written in this, my first...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Blogging, Games, Mark W. Kaelin, spreadsheet, Christmas-shopping, Commodore 64, Dad, blog
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
- commodore 64 (Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from 1980-1983)
- commodore 64Yes this was the system to have in its day and I still have mine intact with printer and floppy drive
- Tags: scamper, commodore 64, hardware, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
Additional Resources
- T-shirt: "I adore my (Commodore) 64"
- The Commodore 64--the best-selling personal computer ever made, and defining hacker gadget of the early 1980s--turns 25 this month, and you can celebrate the event with this deliciously retro t-shirt from ThinkGeek. If that isn't enough to quench your nostalgic thirst for C-64 goodness, here's a few...
- Tags: PC, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Picodore 64: The commodore 64 notebook
- Some insane genius has homebrewed a Commodore 64 mini-notebook -- and he plays Pitfall on it! Thanks to the inevitable advances in Moore's Law, you can now cheaply and easily cram what was once the world's most popular personal computer into a case the size of a...
- Tags: Notebook, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Video: commodore 64 commercial from 1983
- Courtesy of Neatorama, this is a Youtube capture of a vintage 1983 television commercial for the fondly remembered Commodore 64 home computer. Check out the bundled peripherals and software in this "family pack"--you'll never complain about your "measley" 4GB USB flash drive again. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Picodore 64 - The commodore 64 notebook
- What a wacko!I suppose it wouldn't take too much to embed the microcode of the 6510 into a FPGA and then take the video driver (can't remember what chip they used for that) and drop that in as well. But why? I've even written C64 assembly code when I was...
- Tags: Xwindowsjunkie, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- The Commodore returns--as a gaming PC!
- From Engadget via BoingBoing: The makers of the original ultimate home computer--the iconic 1980s Commodore 64--have come out of hiding to enter the gaming PC market. To quote the Engadget entry: "The company appears to have decided to bring things back a little closer to its roots, prepping a new...
- Tags: Game, PC, Engadget, Gamer, Games, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Video: commodore 64 commercial from 1983
- I LIKE THE WAY IT STARTS--The music is very catchy.It's hard to believe that computers were faster then.Look at him go!
- Tags: BALTHOR, hardware, video
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Holden Commodore Screensaver (zip)
- The Holden Commodore is an automobile produced by the Holden division of General Motors (GM) in Australia. A durable and elegant vehicle is the Commodore. The perfect auto for that long drive, or a quick stop at the local milk bar. Enhance your desktop with this Holden Commordore screensaver, mate....
- Tags: Holden Commodore, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-12-20
- Inside the Commodore Pet 2001 vintage computer
- The Commodore PET 2001 was the first fully integrated computer from Commodore. It was based on the same architecture as the MOS/Commodore KIM-1 but provided a keyboard ("chicklet style"), tape drive and monitor all housed in a space-age case.Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you inside...
- Tags: Commodore, computer, Erik, image, keyboard, monitor, photograph, tape drive, Web, Web site, Webmaster
- Image galleries 2006-07-14
- Let's have a poll for the greatest Video game of the 80s...
- And then we can announce the result under the heading of 'Greatest Arcade Game of the 80s"...I'll start it off, as there was clearly no-contest.BEAM RIDER on the late-but-great Commodore 64.
- Tags: Games, Old Mycroft, video game, game, video
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Xpilot
- XPilot is a multi-player 2D space game. Some features are borrowed from classics like the Atari coin-ups Asteroids and Gravitar, and the home-computer games Thrust (Commodore 64) and Gravity Force (Commodore Amiga), but XPilot has many new aspects too. Highlights include: True client/server based game; optimal speed for every player....
- Tags: Xpilot, Games, Servers, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-03-21
- T-shirt: "I adore my (Commodore) 64"
- Damn, that thing is ugly!Dookie Brown! I love computers, not shirts. Really retro!RE: T-shirt:It was a great computer. I used it in 1982 with a 300 baud modem connected to compuserv talking to a guy in Canada for the 1st time and I've been in the IT business ever since....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, paul.prichard@..., T-shirt
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Video: William Shatner hawking the Commodore VIC-20
- Our good friends at SFSignal have busted out the wayback machine and unearthed this old TV commercial of William Shatner pitching the Commodore VIC-20. Extra credit for mentioning Gorf as a selling point, and for there actually being a time you could buy a decent PC for under $300....
- Tags: Era, Video, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Desktops, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre
- I missed it!!I felt super bad about missing this event, but it was on the other side of the country, and didn't have the means to travel there. But WOW!! I would have given ANYTHING to have gone!! I know it sounds ultra geeky, but that would...
- Tags: Notebooks, yooper@...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
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