Old ways can still be the best ways
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-18-old-ways-can-still-be-the-best-ways
Why I Love: YoYo Games’ Mike Dailly explains how tech from the 1988 Commodore 64 shooter Armalyte is still used today
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A Love Letter to the #commodore 64
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-love-letter-to-the-commodore-64-bbef869e480?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3Dad, if you don’t stop talking about things from the 1900’s, people are going to think YOU are from the 1900’s!It’s been nine years since my daugter said the above to me at six years old, and I’ve nearly forgiven her by now. I still love her, but this story isn’t about her. No, this story is about my first love, the Commodore 64 — a home computer from the 80’s, which is still the best selling computer of all time. More PC’s have been sold since, of course, but no single model of any computer has sold as many units as the Commodore 64 did back in the day.So why do I love this crappy old computer, you may ask? Why is it that I get a special look in my eyes when I think of its glittery blue startup screen, and why is it that I shiver when I hear its characteristic SID music? The answer is simple (...)
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C64 Mini : Commodore 64 fait son grand retour le 29 mars
▻http://www.tomshardware.fr/articles/commodore-64-c64-mini-console-retrogaming,1-66657.html#xtor=RSS-100►http://media.bestofmicro.com/D/L/746985/gallery/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9VL0IvNzE1MTg3L29yaWdpbmFsL
Le bon vieux temps…
►http://media.bestofmicro.com/D/L/746985/gallery/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9VL0IvNzE1MTg3L29yaWdpbmFsL
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VR will soon have its Commodore 64 moment - Schell
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-04-vr-will-soon-have-its-commodore-64-moment-schellDesigner behind I Expect You To Die compares VR to home computers from ’78 but expects huge growth in the near future
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At last ! The answer to why the #Commodore 64 has two spaces in its “?SYNTAX ERROR” message:
▻http://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/335r5k/heres_a_thing_thats_been_bugging_me_for_over_25/cqhw0p4 -
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►http://10print.orgThis book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture.
10 PRINT’s content is also available as a PDF (50 MB), provided under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
