Commodore 64 a day, in May, from Ebay… yeay! – DAY 25 & 26

Posted on May 26, 2012 by

Day 25 and the brilliant, probably the best as I remember, helicopter sim for the #C64 – Super Huey UH-1X
Day 26 and Beach Head II graces the screen.
Bit of a popular videogaming war theme going on? some things never change :)

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Commodore 64 a day, in May, from Ebay… yeay! – DAY 23 & 24

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Day 23 bought a very interesting item: A C2N cassette deck made by Dragon who, as you probably know, made their own systems around the same time as the #C64, so I thought that was an interesting find.

Day 24 and another arcade classic: Operation Wolf – wonder if this works with the light gun? That would be cool!

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Commodore 64 a day, in May, from Ebay… yeay! – DAY 21 & 22

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Day 21 and a wonderful retro game in the form of… a wonderful retro game! Scalextric was awesome… will the game live up to the name? I hope so!
Day 22 and a little bit of hardware to transfer C64 disk roms from the PC to a 5.25″ floppy, should be interesting to try out.

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Commodore 64 game-play weekend…

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

Decided to test out a few of my recent Commodore 64 acquisitions.

Had some great fun this weekend loading up these beauties, spent more time playing on the ’64 than the Xbox :)

Here’s a few pics of the highlights:-

 

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Commodore 64 a day, in May, from Ebay… yeay! – DAY 19 & 20

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

Day 19 inside your PC is a Little Computer Person, or that’s what David Crane would have you believe in 1985.
Day 20 another shooter: Bulldog, this time from our old friends Gremlin Graphics. In a vain attempt to copy ‘Starforce’ from the arcade, it doesn’t do too bad.

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Commodore 64 a day, in May, from Ebay… yeay! – DAY 17 & 18

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

Couple of awesome shooters to report on today.
*Day 17* and the arcade classic *Space Harrier* flies in to my C2N.
*Day 18* twists your melon with the excellent, yet slightly psychotic, *Lazer Zone* from the zany brain of Jeff Minter.

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Commodore 64 a day, in May, from Ebay… yeay! – DAY 15 & 16

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Day 15 hatched the wonderful Chuckie Egg and
Day 16 revved up with the awesome ‘life before Gran Tourismo’, otherwise known as Test Drive

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How times change…

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Nowadays Software Houses can spend megabucks on just designing the flashy cover of the next mass-market-fed game. Back in the day ya average bedroom programmer had a bit of card and a box of crayons :)

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I found heaven…

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

My posty delivered a nice fat chunk of retro heaven today, a whole bunch of ZX81 tapes from a single ebay win.

Despite my love of all things retro, I still think the ‘ol ’81 is my favourite. They say you never forget your first, and I will always treat her with that sort of respect :)

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What could you do with 1K?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Seriously, you script kiddies never had it so good :)

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