Windows 95 running on Commodre 64!!!

[Mini-Me]

Heh, heh, heh!!!
:D

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/1442/win95onc646ck.gif


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[beerbelly]

I'm starting to worry about you!

[Mini-Me]

Thanks!
:D

You did get the animation, right?
I just logged in here, and found that the picture was just a blue screen, which it should not be; there is supposed to be some typing text going on...


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[beerbelly]

Yes, I did notice the animation. That's coming from someone who actually typed on a Commodore 64! I was crap hot because I had a cassette drive!

Common now, I graduated to an Apple IIe. I'm advanced now.

[Mini-Me]

OK
:cool:

I thought maybe if it was just a blue-screen...
...but that was not the joke!!!
:p

Actually, I was(and still am) an Atari 8-bit user.
I had about three 800XL's during my formative years - wore them out!
I have recently copied all my old 5.25" floppies into PC image files, and use a freeware Atari emulator on an old Win98 box to play all my old games, etc...

Playing some of those old 8-bit games(be they Atari or C64) is a real blast-from-the-past, and it is entertaining that a game running on a 1.8MHz 8-bit CPU platform, with 64KB of RAM can still be amusing, and actually difficult to beat some of them!!!


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[beerbelly]

If you have, or know where to find "pitfall" from the ATARI 2600, I would love to play it again!

Or, you know how to get in touch with Mr. Whoopy and his "way back machine", just a thought.

[saphalline]

it is entertaining that a game running on a 1.8MHz 8-bit CPU platform, with 64KB of RAM can still be amusing, and actually difficult to beat some of them!!!Hey, as slow as that sounds today, it can still do math faster than I can! ;) Looking at all the versions of Windows in light of older systems really makes you think, though. I mean, really, how much processing power do you really need to draw a window!? :eek: It's getting out of hand these days, but we're so used to it (and we have so much excess processing power on average) that no one realizes the situation.

The average new modern CPU is roughly 20,000 times more powerful than the old 8088 @ 4.77 MHz, and they can do things that the 8088 couldn't even dream of accomplishing. What are we doing with all that power?

[Mini-Me]

To Beerbelly: YES I have Pitfall for the Atari, although, it is not the 2600 version; it is for the 800XL/130XE. I had a friend of mine come to me the other month, wanting to get his old 2600 console working - it had no PSU - I gave him one for free. It made me feel better, that someone was still using computer technology 20 years old...

To Saphalline: Yes, at 20,000 times more powerful, how come windows don't apear instantly? (rhetorical!)


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[Cavalier90]

It is frightening when you hear people say that the processing power in a modern day BMW 5 series is greater than that in the Appollo space missions. This really sets the benchmark for your thinking.

[Rick]

The average new modern CPU is roughly 20,000 times more powerful than the old 8088 @ 4.77 MHz, and they can do things that the 8088 couldn't even dream of accomplishing. What are we doing with all that power?


To start the list
Wasting about 1,000X with Bloated O/S :D
or should that 10,000X ?

I keep bumping my foot on the old PC Jr. that is under the counter here.
I should also put those 5 1/4 disks away .
They have been sitting on that shelf next to the IBM proprinter for too long ..
:)

[Suchy]

Speeking of Old OS's I got a copy of Windows 1.0, When I have some time I will play around with it and see I I can run it on P4 2.66 GHZ machine.

[jimmy5k]

i had a friend of mine install win 3.11 on a p4. MAN it loaded fast. so yeah, all your processing power is burned in the OS. i wonder how much of it got put to use organising how to do high memory and expanded/extended memory?

[neilt]

I LOVED my Commodore 64.....

[Mini-Me]

I've been playing some of my old Atari 8-bit games tonight, and it really is amazing, that they were able to squeeze all that fun into any game that can fit into 64KB of RAM - be it C64 or Atari.(both were 64KB machines when running binary games, but with their BASIC programming language enabled, they generally only provided around 32KB of space to work in)

Modern games: You would not even be able to execute the startup script in 64KB!!!!
:D

(something worth thinking about, although, 8-bit graphics are not like 32 or 64-bit graphics of today, which require much more RAM etc, then the likes of a 256 colour 640 x 480 screen!!!)


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