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Are you keeping up with the commodore?

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When it comes to computers, the average person usually believes that “newer is better”. After all, you can get more memory, a faster processor, and a larger hard disk, merely by waiting a few months. Old hardware is usually shunned as being of little value. In contrast, the elementary education sector has consistently found traditional educational methods to be superior to the newest, latest, and greatest methods. Some of the most knowledgeable and capable children are produced by the schools that use seemingly antiquated techniques.

So what happens when the world of technology collides with the world of education? Why, the Commodore 64 makes a comeback!
added on the 2006-10-19 22:33:27 by _-_-__ _-_-__
Was it ever gone? :-)
added on the 2006-10-19 22:39:03 by sparcus sparcus
Yeah well uh :)
added on the 2006-10-19 23:22:01 by _-_-__ _-_-__
I've never had one mind you
added on the 2006-10-19 23:22:11 by _-_-__ _-_-__
me neither
was using Amstrad CPC at that time...
added on the 2006-10-20 00:07:05 by EviL EviL
Those folks that like C64 games never saw demos. I can't play C64 games as they SUCK BIG TIME.

There. I've said it.
added on the 2006-10-20 02:53:02 by xernobyl xernobyl
But I LOVE the MUSIC.
added on the 2006-10-20 02:53:20 by xernobyl xernobyl
i cannot abandon my c64, its filled with some sort of extraterrestrial love <3
...and i am addicted to archon 2 player mode since ages, i just can not stop it
added on the 2006-10-20 06:24:21 by funkyou78 funkyou78
What proportion of kids nowadays know that it's easy to program for a computer versus the proportion back then? I remember the computer coming with a full basic manual, and for home computers like the c64, you had to interact with basic at least once a day, if just to load a game.
added on the 2006-10-20 06:28:53 by _-_-__ _-_-__
What "traditional educational methods" might that be? And in WinXP you have to interact with complex kernal processes if you just want to start Notepad :)
added on the 2006-10-20 10:27:06 by El Topo El Topo
I still have 2 C64's...
added on the 2006-10-20 10:30:06 by Gargaj Gargaj
thanks _-_ , thats a really great article.
added on the 2006-10-20 13:14:52 by auld auld
The commodore is keeping up with me.
added on the 2006-10-20 19:44:53 by noouch noouch
I want one
added on the 2006-10-20 23:29:42 by Heulanith Heulanith
Thanks to that and a discussion on OSNews I found a link to the Commodore DTV (A C64 in a joystick... but the later European versions have all the ports AND 2 MB flash memory AND a 256 color mode. The screen is apparently broken, but anyway)
added on the 2006-10-21 06:40:23 by crusader crusader
Crusader: you mean This DTV?
Yeah, that one. Eh, I'd be more shocked if I found out about it before you guys...
added on the 2006-10-21 22:06:25 by crusader crusader
Just be sure when you get yours not to let it sit for 6 months unmodded, like, oh... these 2...
in mother russia, the commodore keeps up with you!
added on the 2006-10-22 05:18:46 by Gaia Gaia
I can tell you that kids really doesnt complain about the hardware, gfx or sound. My sister's little kids love to play c64 games.
added on the 2006-10-22 08:39:17 by Oswald Oswald
I still have Atari 800 xe... And It still alive!
added on the 2006-10-22 09:22:06 by elan elan
I killed my DTV by accident by being impatient while resoldering the SMD resistors and pulling before the joint had heated enough to melt, ripping the circuit traces right off the board :(
added on the 2006-10-22 21:45:45 by noouch noouch
ouch...

I was going to buy a C64 DTV. But it's a wast of money. Now I'm gonna buy an 1 chip MSX

By my calculations it can handle a SNES.
added on the 2006-10-22 22:26:01 by xernobyl xernobyl
I was recently performing a C64-tribute-song" on stage which I wrote some years ago. It was of course written on "When I'm sixty-four" and was accompanied live by a real C64, which was at the same time showing some things on the screen fitting to the song text.

Just my way up keeping up...
added on the 2006-11-01 22:05:27 by Blueberry Blueberry

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