Tag: COMMODORE-64

As someone who has used Windows as my primary operating system for years, I got very comfortable with modding various parts of the user interface. One of the things that was most fun to change is the startup image - my favorite was a very official looking FBI splash screen that made it look like you were logging onto a government computer. Since switching to the Mac platform, I've been surprised ...

I have a confession to make: though I am an unabashed iPhone lover, nothing will ever top the infatuation I had with the Commodore 64. The C64 was my family's first computer, and it was soon to become my computer. Harry McCracken over at the Technologizer blog latches onto a recent story about a Commodore 64 emulator (reputedly a very good one) that was rejected for entry into Apple's iPhone App ...

Sure, there are plenty of Twitter clients for Windows, OS X, Linux, the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and pretty much any other modern operating system. But what if you've got a soft spot for 25 year old computers? No problem. BREADBOX64 is a twitter client for Commodore 64 and 128 computers. No, seriously. The results aren't pretty. In fact, they're kind of ugly. But BREADBOX64 let's you view your ...

Ahh, the good old Commodore-64. Many of us here at Download Squad count the C-64 as one of their first computers. While the Apple IIc was arguably more important, nobody would dispute the fact that the C-64 had what kids want: games, and lots of them. It was also pretty cool that the operating system was also a BASIC interpreter. How many young programmers learned GOTO and LOOP commands in those ...