World of Commodore 2011 December 3rd In Toronto 142
Leif_Bloomquist writes "The Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) is pleased to announce the World of Commodore 2011. TPUG would like to invite everyone to join us for a weekend of all things Commodore. There will be information about and displays of a variety of Commodore computers, demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment, screenings of Commodore related videos, vendors selling the latest hardware and software available for Commodore computers as well as classic hardware, accessories, applications, games and much more."
Re:First Post (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, the smart ones will just take that money and build their own box, and have something capable of running the latest games.
Re:First Post IN THE FUTURE TENSE OF THE THOUGHT ! (Score:4, Informative)
The Commodore PET 2001 article [wikipedia.org] which mentions its chiclet keyboard, pictured here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PET_Keyboard.svg [wikipedia.org]
The "killer poke" for the Commodore PET later models:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke#The_Commodore_PET [wikipedia.org]
I was born before the IBM 360 was introduced, sonny boy.
Re:First Post (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Don't forget to Canadianize your C64 (Score:2, Informative)
That should be 53280 and 53281 :)
Re:First Post (Score:4, Informative)
If you really, really, really need a retro keyboard you would be better off buying a non-functional Commodore 64 from ebay for about $20 or less with $15 shipping then purchasing a Keyrah board from amigakit.com for about $35 and turning the thing into a USB keyboard. Total cost: $70.00. Plug it into an existing machine and load one of the free C64 emulators (Frodo, Vice, etc.) and enjoy.
Re:Don't forget to Canadianize your C64 (Score:4, Informative)
The fact that I still know exactly what that does, and what colors those poke values represent, almost brings a tear to my eye, literally. I pretty much owe my entire current way to life to the C64. If there was ever a product that deserved to succeed and carry on but didn't....sigh.
Commercially, the C64 was a huge success worldwide. According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (and cited), the C64 is the best-selling single computer of all time. Here's a blog post with some heavy analysis of the numbers. [pagetable.com]