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[Spectral Glider]

Not hooked up, but I still have all my original C64 stuff packed away: A circa '84 C-64, 1530 Datasette, 1571 disk drive, Okimate 20 printer, Epyx 500 xj joystick (the best joystick of the 8-bit era!), a whole bunch of games some with original boxes and instructions and all of my old commodore magazines.

 

[LamerDeluxe]

Nice! Sadly my parents sold ours when I was still quite young and I haven't tried one after that. Still have fond memories of it though. We only had a handful of games, hmm let me see if I remember some of them...
Armoured Assault was fun, top down view, you drove around with two tanks and tried to destroy each others fort.
Spectron was a space invaders clone, quite okay.
Ninja was fun too, a platformer, it's hard to compare it to something else but I had fun with it.
And Sasa! It was awesome! You were flying around with some kind of jetpack guy and moved yourself by shooting a heavy weapon which recoil moved you in the opposite direction. Very original.
I remember Tetra too, it was cool, hard to describe though but I remember it being a bit scary when I was young, cobra snakes and skulls were chasing you.
Fun times anyway. My first computer.

I had all of those games as well, they were a lot of fun. I have a couple of them now, still sealed. I think it's possible to download them and transfer them to tape as well.

I programmed a lot on that machine, an extensive drawing program with a menu system, pattern filling and printer support, and a detection for when your hand accidently rested on the drawing tablet. I also made a 3D animation program, you could build wireframe 3D objects and animate them. Unfortunately I gave all my software away when I sold that computer Most of the things I programmed on the VIC-20 are gone as well. (oh yeah, I made an Amiga workbench-like OS desktop for the SVI-328, that worked with the tablet as well).

 

[SmokyDave]

Real men used a paperclip to reset their C64. I could find the right pins without looking after a while.

 

[LamerDeluxe]

Real men used a paperclip to reset their C64. I could find the right pins without looking after a while.

A friend of mine just stuck a coin into the expansion slot of his VIC-20 to reset it, this also created a short circuit (the pins were something like GND, +5v, RESET), but it seemed to work. I have a modded memory expansion for my VIC that can switch memory blocks to cartridge memory, load the cartridges from a floppy, write protect the cartridge (against copy protection schemes) and press its reset button to boot the game

 

[Gaz Pwnage]

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