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Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight

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|03Quoting message from |11Dennis Katsonis |03to |11Mortar M.
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DK>   Re: Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight
DK>   By: Mortar M. to Dennis Katsonis on Sat Apr 11 2026 01:41 pm
DK>
 >   Re: Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight
 >   By: Dennis Katsonis to marika on Fri Apr 10 2026 22:44:14
 >
 >  > To be frank, C64 basic wasn't that great, even back then.
 >
 > Agreed.  Considering the number of Commodore micros already in the wild, yo
 > think they'd have improved the BASIC for the VIC and 64, as these were inte
 > for non-computer savvy people.
 >
 >  > My first computer was a VZ 200, which predated the C64 (I think it was s
 >  > as a V-Tech 200 in the US.
 >
 > I vaguely remember reading about this in magazines, but never actually seen
 > one.  After looking it up online, I can see why.  It was only around for tw
 > year and had low specs.  No way could it have competed with the likes of th
 > C=64 or even the Atari 400.  However, it did not pre-date the 64.  The VZ-2
 > came out in '83, while the 64 came out a year earlier.
DK>
DK> I got the VZ200 in 1991, quite a bit after it release.  My parents got it
DK> garage sale cheap (buying a new computer was a bit much back then, just fo
DK> to use).  It was a bit dissapointing as I wanted the Atari 1040STE, but as
DK> had just been introduced to BASIC at school, it was fun to try BASIC at ho
DK> and draw graphics and make basic games.
DK>
DK> Dick Smith started an electronics store called, Dick Smith Electronics, an
DK> VZ 200 was their rebrand, sold with his face on it.
DK>
DK> A little later that year, they got a Vic 20 at a garage sale, which had be
DK> graphics, but lacked the drawing commands.  A little later, the C64 came,
DK> second hand.  You could do sprites, but again, no graphics.  Not without
DK> entering some other machine code subroutines.
DK>
DK> I suppose they had to get it out quick, and once it was out, you can't pat
DK> it.
DK> --- SBBSecho 3.10-Win32
DK>  * Origin: MS & RD BBS bbsweb.mozysswamp.org (3:633/384)

I am 45.  My gradnfather got me a Timex Sinclair when I was 2, CoCo2 when I
turned 5 (really cut my teeth on that one), then his hand-me-down Amstrad
PC1512DD when I was in the fourth grade, and then in 192 started as an
apprentice at our local computer store and learned to build machines and built
my 486DX-33.  I never stopped working in the field since I started in 1992,
and I started BBSing back on the CoCo2.  I never knew anyone with a Commodore
when I was growing up, so I'm enjoying living an alternate-reality childhood
with the C64U.  I'm trying to spark an interest in computers with my nephews
and nieces (they are much younger than 5 still), they already love allmy
vintage electronics I bring, and it's fun to play with these things with them.

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