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My 64 article Commodore 64, aka C=64, 64, the 64, one of the biggest happenings in the computer-world until today, my first big love!!! How many computers can brag about having a life and a lot of active users more than 18 years after it was first released??? Not many, but the C64 have survived since 1982. It still have a lot of users, private and businesses that uses the machine on a daily basis. Myself I`ve had the 64 set up for more than 12 years now, but it is more than 16 years since I first got to know this little pal... he has followed me ever since... It is quite unbelivable for most people what you can realy do with a 64, I got mine set up for Internet, and trough EUnets shellaccount I can use it for surfing on Internet, to send and recive emails and newsgroups, and I can do it on my television, not some tiny 14` monitor that you have to stick your nose into to see what stands there! Yes, the 64 is truly and awesome machine, and you can even by hardware addons and have 16mb ram, at least 33.600 baud, and atleast 20mhz, maybe even more, but I ain`t that into the hardware market so I realy wouldn`t know, but I`ll add some links here, so you can see for yourself. My aim on the c64 hasn`t always been to learn programming, in the beginning, when I first entered the socalled "64 scene" 10+ years ago (1989), my aim was mainly to get games for free via the people I got contact with. At the most I had 150 contacts all over the world that I "swapped" with. They sendt me the newest games/demos they had, and I did the same for them... the first year I recived more than a 1000 disks in the mail, and I still have most of them stored somewhere... well, you get tired of gaming you know, so I searched for other areas to explore, got more and more interested in demos and tools, and using the 64 almost daily in this period, I finally managed to learn some assembler coding, thanx to the help from Andreas/Shape (earlier k.a awa) who somehow managed to teach me how the interupt was working :-). Since then I have programmed some tiny demos, and some usefull tools (atleast for me). I always based my programs on my own needs, and made programs that did what I wanted them to. My biggest project must be the 80column text reader and converter wich, by the use of tables, could read and display more than 20 different formats, including htm (wich was working atleast 87,64%). I`ll be adding a list of all my programs on this side soon, and in the near future I`ll add all the programs themselves, and maybe a few other that I find useful. Ok, we have come to the little list of groups I`ve been in. I have no list of this, and I might not remember it all correct. The first group I joined was called FLUID, noone ever heard of them because no wares were released... I realy got tricked into this group, and I drag a few with me... didn`t do us much good.. After that I got tricked by the same guy (called himself hawk and the champ, ripped from some old famous Norwegians sceners) into a group called OZONE. There already was an OZONE from before, (hey BIZ KID) and THEY released some warez... (maybe that's where the name came from???). Well after a while I Joined the Norwegian crew called MIGS DESIGNS. Atleast some wares was released here, I have 4 or 5 demos atleast from this group... we even released some issues of our mag EURONEWS. My friend Tom Roger was the leader of the group, and I think he`s stuck on the Amiga now... Well, after that I joined my first big crew: EPIC. It was my great pal TG-ACME who convinsed Crossfire to let me in. I think the time in EPIC is one of the best I`ve had, decent flow of warez (maybe not so high quality on everything but...) and great pals to be in group with. Lots of bad things have been said about xfire, but he always was my pal! Hello there Kim!!! Then EPIC died, and out of the ashes came Motiv8 wich lasted a while, since splitted up and most members joined FAIRLIGHT and I myself joined the group I`m in today: TRIAD! This has always been my secret dream, and Taper helped me realise it :-) Thanx dude! Great group, but we`re all so lazy... god damn lazy... atleast myself... but I say as Arnold S. 'We`ll be back'!!! INTO YEAR 2000 WITH TRIAD! Greets too all TRIADERS! Hi Jerry! Hey, do you have any questions or comments about the above text??? Send me a mail to me on ibanez.triad@eunet.no and I`ll see if I can help, or point you in a direction that can. If you wanne ask about 64 emulators you have to try someone else, because i think emulators are a dirty thing!!! I mean, a Skoda doesn`t become a Jaguar just because you replace the front of it... if you didn`t understand that, let me put it this way: an emulator WILL never be able to simulate the feeling nor the addiction with the real thing! You can`t beat the feeling!!!
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