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First Commodore 64 LAN Party
Leif_Bloomquist writes "The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."
Is New Zealand a terrorist country or something? I got this:
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Please try the following:
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* Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 403.
* Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled About Security, Limiting Access by IP Address, IP Address Access Restrictions, and About Custom Error Messages.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
I urgently await Jumpman deathmatches!
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Were there any girls there?
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I have one of those rrnet ethernet devices for the C64. They are great fun. I tried to make a post to a phpBB and it took me about 40 minutes to navigate to the thread I wanted to post in, then it crashed. O sweet glory.
btw, http://www.c64web.com/ is hosted on a c64.
First Lan Party!
Vista must be pretty bad if people are switching to C64.
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I did a lot of cool stuff on the 64 way, WAY back, using Forth (remember that language?).
Some computers will never die. No matter how old. LONG LIVE COMMODORE!!!!
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Junis will be able to download that porn.
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Is that site painfully slow because it's been Slashdotted or because it's running on a C64 ;) ?
More importantly, what happens when a C64 gets Slashdotted, does it start chewing up tapes or melt or anything?
I was just playing some team fortress 2, so please don't hate me for my lack of enthusiasm when looking at this game.
I came up with chess bowling a while ago for the Chess-board gaming system, but nobody cared. 10 pawns, one orange, pure fun! I think Call of Duty 4 distracted the gamers from caring about my bowling idea.
If you missed the Univac party, this is your next chance.
Table-ized A.I.
C64 certainly never will die, not as long as people enjoy playing those old games. But the hardware will wear out eventually, and nobody's making any more, so it's off to emulation land. Or do true blue C64 hackers sneer at emulators?
Networked C64? Cool, wake me up when you get a Beowulf cluster of these!
You just got troll'd!
Will someone please tell these people to go get a life! Maybe the "Evil" Capt. Kirk can go do that.
Was that the one that started fistfights with everyone in sight and screwed women left and right without any intention of calling them the next day?
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
64 Commodores ought to be enough for anyone.
Was this site designed on a C64?
Sheesh, I think I melted the W3 validator with it...
I can say that I have actually done this before, back in the 80's. Not using Ethernet, as I don't think there were any Ethernet hardwares available at the time for the Commodore .. but I've done it. Wired several Commodores together, and played multiplayer games.
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My friend Toni created the Shredz64 project, which brings Guitar Hero style games to the C64: http://www.toniwestbrook.com/shredz64
And also, to make the controls work, a PS2 to C64 adapter, which coincidentally just started shipping today: http://www.toniwestbrook.com/psx64
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
As for the C-64: I have several of 'em, and as soon as it becomes crystal clear which Ethernet card is the dominant (we're close) I'll be picking up one. I have networked weird stuff into my network already (Sony NEWS, Netwinder, old DOS PC/packet driver etc.) why not add one of my C-64s.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
* so I take it that no one could cough up the highest Crysis framerate figure? (yes, I know, I KNOW! ...but it seems to be all-to-common for LAN-goers to brag on framerates these days).
* Finally! I can bring my machine-du-jour and not have everyone stare at it funny because it's not a Windows box! (I always brought either a Linux box or a Mac).
* How d'ya taunt on chat in the thing? "'LOAD * 8,1' this, n00b!" doesn't quite have a ring to it, y'know?
* How many LED's and uber-liquid-cooling heatsink rigs can you jam into a C-64 case, anyway?
* Well, rebooting would still be just as common...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
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Hate to be a spoilsport, but we had an operational C64 LAN back in 1983. I worked for RTC, an early computer firm (long since gone), and one of the products we developed was the "Multi Link", a LAN adapter that networked C64s in a star topology. It was originally designed for use in educational settings, but needless to say, as a bunch of early hackers we quickly got some games running multi-player.
We also used to access the Internet using a c64, but that's a story for another time.
My first personally owned computer wasn't a C64, it was a Commodore Pet. That doesn't make me *that* much older than the C64 crowd, does it?
The Pet was also the first computer I ever used that booted itself when I turned on the power. My reward for turning on the the switch was a HELLO? prompt. All other computers I used at work before the Pet required me to enter a bootstrap program in binary before they would start the OS.
In Pet Basic one could do wonderfully fun things, especially with the character graphics. My kids loved the games I wrote. I don't recall ever buying any software for the Pet. Wrote it all myself. It was great fun.
For some strange reason, the Commodore Pet is always forgotten when people write about the pioneering PC days.
Wasn't that the regular captain Kirk?
...reads off the chart.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
call me when you have a WoW port for Altair 8800s, m'kay?
Get back to me when I can play the original pong on a lan.
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I stayed with Blue & Black Trim ever since.
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There's rumors of a new Commodore OS in terminal Beta.
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How far can you strip Linux so it qualifies as "running" (crawling) on a Commodore?
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Maybe someone can run a browser through Acid3. I'm sure it will score beter than IE.
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Bush decided instead to Stay the Course.
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Now Linux communities will FORK 1 kernal to 1000 distros.
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Was to restore this Tandy.
My God, let it die already. How long can it possibly be interesting to continue to use these?
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TalkingTeacher on C64 taught me to read. It is awesome to hear that people are still using them and making games for them. Now I am going to have to go and dig mine out of the garage.
About this http://lng.sourceforge.net/ much.
Unfortunately, it seems like it's been abandoned since 2004.
The U.S. really needs an English to Wisdom dictionary.
Hopefully we can do the same with the Sinclair Spectrum soon - I've almost completed the prototype ethernet card for the Spectrum. The prototype is working - I've had it connect to IRC, but there are some things to finish on the library and the board's CPLD.
Picture is here: http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Image:Itlives.jpg
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I guess that explains why I never could find any good LAN parties when I lived in Cincinnati, they are "20 years behind the times" after all, and just now getting Commodore 64s. Maybe in another couple decades there will be some 21st century style LAN parties in Cincy while the rest of us are gaming with our brain implants...
...migrate it's electrons quite neatly when under stress. I noticed this several times when I stressed the VIC chip on a C64 (using a simple poke 53280,i flashing program ; yes, even BASIC can make processors suffer ;)
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A C64 lan party is a bit like doing a quarter-mile drag race with "big wheel" plastic trikes... funny for the first 30 seconds and then really stupid and boring for the next half hour until it's finally done.
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Legend has it that Mark Twain once said "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." That seems about right.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
That proves that 64KB really ought to be enough for anyone.
Meanwhile, over at the Atari 800 convention down the hall, Atari enthusiasts were having a party celebrating the release of the first product for the left cartridge slot: a tiny feather slot duster that folds up and fits in your wallet.
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The commodore will never last.
How fortunate you filtered at -1 or you would have missed it!
On 4 July, I exited I-71/75N at Exit 186 and was a bit disgusted to see their sign, as I figured that it had nothing to do with Commodore 64 computers and that someone had ripped off the old logo. I must say that I'm quite relieved to see that I wasn't only wrong, but that there still exists some semblance of a C64 community- and in Greater Cincinnati. Good work, guys.
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Yesss and I can't wait to play WOW on my Vic 20. See whats old becomes new again
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It's always a fun morning when you discover an interesting news story by being Slashdotted. I am hosting the ECCC picture that was linked to earlier in this thread. Like others, I question the definition of "LAN party." I pictures I took were at the Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention of 2006 while I was there promoting my new (at the time) book Commodork, and there were definitely LAN connections running to and from some of the sixty-fours there. As for letting go of this old hardware ... why? There are so many new neat gadgets coming out for the old beige box that it's hard not to remain interested in them. The new wave of drives using SD cards, including the 1541-III and the 1541 Ultimate, are expanding the machine's abilities and convenience even further.